Short Exaggerations Poems

ludicrous
    exaggerations
satirically
posed
       to
         recognise
a
likeness
&
a trace
  the 
      essence
unseen
 within...

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Distinguished author
A virtuoso I am
I’m superior
Within all of the fine arts
But now I exaggerate

Russell Sivey

Entrant into Susan Burch's "Ridiculous Self Exaggerations" contest

1/31/2012...

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It hangs right down below my knees,
And ladies beg, ‘ Let’s try it, please.’

They’ve never handled such a whopper
As that, my super massive chopper.

Ridiculous exaggerations about the size of my axe, of course!
For Susan’s contest

Hope no one's offended by this......

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One
day I 
thought I would
boil some eggs so
I put them on the
stove on high heat, being
the impatient lass I am.
I got distracted in the yard.
The eggs blew up and the pan almost
melted. That’s why my husband is the cook!


For Susan Burch's Contest "Ridiculous Self Exaggerations"...

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In a caricature of life and all its ambitions,

he licked his salted paws and went into the funhouse.

There, he found new definitions and parameters

in the concave and convex exaggerations.





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Date: 28/08/2017...

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I muddle through the day
like an old tire being
dragged out of a muddy pond.

Words and days come and go -
an expression fumbles 
out of my mouth.
Just another day of tediousness 
and exaggerations.

I would ask you to come
with me but I know
you'd never go back
to Idaho -
days upon days of snow
buckling the power lines
and rooftops.

I muddle through......

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For heavens sake
What is it now
It’s running late
Just take a bow

The show has ended
I’m worn slap out
You both pretended
I ceased to shout

But now I’m tired
Of your tattle tongue
So much transpired
Accusations sprung

Far fetched tales
Exaggerations
A fishy smell
Is operating

So tell me, dear
What in the world
Has brought you here
With your lip curled...

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2020 Presidential Election

Candidates
Rallies tonight
Express their views
But is it news?
No mercy, insult each other
Forget we are all soul brothers
A country is at stake, they forget
Ego, arrogance, untruths, false
promises, lies, exaggerations,allegations
All want to be President of this Great Nation
What about us..what about us..just who to trust?

June 12, 2019
2:30 pm PST
...

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Before I thought roses,
gift wrappers, and high-
heels which were red
symbolized love,
until when I met you.

I found your love to be raw
and real; it had no romantic exaggerations
or emotional icings. You loved me
as I was, even after I removed the mask
that hid the real me.

There was no more red in my mind
to define love;
I saw everything as it was in our
love. I saw our love in black and white.......

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EPISTLE TO BILLY SHAKESPEARE


An epistle to Billy Shakespeare:
Dear erstwhile bard of Avon,
Greetings to you from 
The bamboozled, browsing
Bibliographies, bound 
by the bloodlust, ]
Passions so flawed, 
Exaggerations,
Literary inventions,
to contradictions,
Legions of legends,
Perennial prose,
constellations, creations
Tragic heroes 
and drama queens.
Dear Billy Shakespeare,
Thanks so much not,

Signed,
Long suffering teens!!!!...

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Hand-me-down myths,
  like ancient monoliths,
    clan's fondest memories
      by nostalgia embellished;

larger-than-life sagas,
  truer-than-truth legends,
    hyperbolic narrations
      of happy exaggerations;

that's ancestral history,
  coloring one's genealogy,
    seeping, coursing down
      bloodlines, tribal milestones,


its gravitational whirl stirs
  generations'  imagination,
      east, west, north, south
         through word of mouth!...

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