Short Insist Poems

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Premium Member CLERHEW whitman

Walt Whitman junior,so sensual
with poems&essays so influential
Transcendental writer&realist
with verse libre did insist
Form: Clerihew


Dinner Guest By Phone

Mister Galloway,
unknown caller of the day,
with your late hour political question,
why do you insist on disrupting digestion?
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member CLERIHEW ecphrasis VIII

Vincent van Gogh colourist
often with  yellowed orange did insist
In manic depressive mood swings
this painting* was his last fling
art
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Member Clerihew Poynter

Edward John Poynter a classicist
a successor to Leighton some insist
As President of the R& A
&teacher had some  influence in his day
Form: Clerihew

Spoiled Grapes

Those who never take advice,
insist on preaching high

To offer wine that never aged
—from empty barrels dry

(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)


Trump Again

Trump lost his power to veto
Which Democrats think is, "Neat-o!"
Trump's lawyers insist
A slap on the wrist
Won't daunt a common mosquito!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member King Arthur

Did King Arthur really exist?
Indeed, the legend does persist.  
Scholars of the medieval sphere,
as well as his wife Guenevere,
vehemently insist.
Form: Bio

What Choice??

You insist that I only choose one
Finite human or god in the sun
Man has long pondered this
But as to my wish
I'll face death and have ALL the fun!!
© Jim David  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Encounter

I once met a girl in a downtown pub
who claimed we had met at a vegetarian club.
But I must insist, indeed implore,
that I had never seen herbivore.
© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Love

That love will find a way, insist, that happiness appears, the bliss, just like the first, a tender kiss, and God is love i say........Don
Form: Rhyme

Things Men Say

Why Men don't stay Silent
   to hear the inner voices ...?
   Why they insist on speaking
   what they improperly say
   without cognize  what they say..!?
Form: Epigram

The Black Woman Said To the White Man

The black woman said to the white man:
don't even think a harassment began.
He answers:- No way, I didn't even insist.
- Oh, so you are also a bloody racist!
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Next Life

What will my soul ask to bear?
What shoes will I ask to fill?

What boundaries will be placed on me,
What liberties will I insist to see?

I and soul are one!
Form: Tanka

Gemini ( Male.)

All my friends say they can not abide
these two people I have deep inside
Let the first one insist,
feel the other resist
while I wait for their war to subside.
Form: Limerick

Am Not Crazy Just Lazy

some say this
but i  insist
that i lay round
some time on the ground
nuthin wrong with me
loves to feel free
some time a little dazy
AM  NOT CRAZY
JUST LAZY

Philosophy 101

A thinker of deep philosophical thoughts
Pondered what's best:  To be or be not.
    “For some would insist
     That to exist 
Is often more trouble than not.”
Form: Limerick

On Speaker

My dark fantasies are growing bleaker,
Blithely flogging this attention seeker,
Why am I so pissed?
This bore must insist,
To take all his phone calls on speaker.
© Luke Irwin  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Night

Lots to write~ the subject, Night!
Night reveals and covers…
illuminates, and draws shades.
Some insist on dark for intimacy…
while I prefer to navigate by stars.

Premium Member Satisfaction

Satisfaction

Can Be A Strategy
Or A Perspective.

All Inclusive.

It Can Be Either
Or Neither Or
Both.

Whatever You
Insist.

-Gray Squirrel

02-25-2025

God Always Does Exist

God Always Does Exist

In our lives God always does exist,
Especially when praying will persist;
Are dedicated;
Consummated,
And know that He is sure to insist.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Abyss

Skulls on the wall of this dark abyss
Forever looking for the end 
Suffocate diminished air
O' endless pit of doom
Why do you insist 
Upon making 
Me suffer?
Please help
Me!
Form: Nonet

Bible Study Buddy

Bible Study Buddy

When the Bible we  will start to study;
Always best when you have a buddy;
Help  then assist;
And we do insist;
Not being with one can be cruddy.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Encrypt

a wheel within a wheel i see, return retrace eternity, the faces in the mist agree, that i should yet insist, logic doth encrypt, a life of adversity Don Johnson
Form: Ballad

Premium Member Current Affairs Explained

We spend so much time on current affairs
Even though we have no influence there
   So, why do we persist
   Here's why, if you insist
We've found an excuse to yell, curse and swear
Form: Limerick

Premium Member The Late Jean

In our office, do you remember our Jean?
She's insist to be late was obscene
Once delayed for a booking,
She had crossed without looking,
Now a bridge marks where she had once been.
Form: Limerick

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