Short Poetic License Poems

My muse
      is on a cruise...

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Poetic license 
Low  flight of fancy ditches
Poetic justice...

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not fit for news print
   words to set your heart on fire~
   poetic license 


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.
       “
     Do
    You
   Know
  Phrase
 POETIC
 LICENSE
 Now that
 I’ve used
 So much
 They call
   Me . A
     Poet
 Licentious....

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I
Healing words both yours, mine ... are understood and mis-understood

II
Poets: true artists or activists somehow know poetic license, justice, injustice...

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A poet in search of his muse
Tried to find her by choosing to booze;
Far from what he desired
The poor fellow expired--
So be careful which boozing you choose!

(August 20, 2018)...

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Walking on hailstones
I see you: a smile, a ‘Hi’
Dancing on diamonds


7 February 2021
Contest: Valentine’s Senryu
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin

[My own poetic license sees ‘Diamonds’ as two syllables.]...

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Poetry is fun
Every day words are my friends
Poetic license I take

Easy Poetry
Dances in my head today
Greatly amusing my muse

Ideas arrive
Rhymes come swiftly to my brain
Parading and dancing their truth...

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Grandpa Punjab was in quite a hurry
He'd run out of cardamom and curry --
   Poor guy tried every place
   Found only nutmeg and lace -- 
Told his wife that his memory was blurry




Poetic License:
  every =     3 syllables
  memory = 2 syllables...

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To have a poetic li-cense
There can be no charge-since
This kind of license can not be reprieved, nor received.
It is a license that can only be achieved.
This license is something you won't need to show.
A true poetic license like ours Has it own distinctive glow :)...

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Seems a Manchester man dropped trow
to test out a sofa, and how!
The fabric is swell;
it resisted poo well.
Good news too, it’s half price right now!

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Reported by employees at the Sofa Club in Manchester’s Arndale Centre. The disposition of the couch is poetic license…...

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I am the black poet with black book
The dark gold the black diamond
As hot as hot coal with out harm
The dark cloud with Clement weather
Cooking black words in the kitchen of
dark light and black pots
Driving Literature with bouncing rhymes
Like a black taxi driver with poetic license...

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Oft' 'tis said and I've thought it mighty strange

   That not a word seems to rhyme with 'orange'

      And though some I may displease

         With poetic license please

            A rhyme I coin - in DC I pray 'forchange'

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved...

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   Serious poets write fancy sonnets  
     Fear not, entertainers and comedians

   If the clown shoe or nose fits, don it
     The avant guarde says ~ Give us plebians



   __________________________
    Written in comedic pentameter
    sans recognizable rhythm
      Poetic License #54321 - Poof
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Hark! Hark! The pesky dog doth bark,

   And deposits indiscretions in the park!

      Perhaps doggie wouldn't be such a klutz,

         If masters would learn to mind their mutts!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) 2014 All Rights Reserved

Using a ton of poetic license, this write is based on an old nursery rhyme!...

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Poetic License Suspended

A string of poetic tales, about my life, my love and, my Lord...
Observations in scales, of mortal plight, once we chance, accord...
Imagination pales, and yet just might, share a glance, of more...
Propping powerful sails, from my short life, happenstance, galore!

by My Gull Wheels On
a.k.a. Michael Wilson...

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I landed in Poet's Court
Caught me speeding in my Sonnet
They judged it a rhyme crime
According to the officer's pentometer
I was doing 50 in a 25 word zone
I'm pleading for comma relief
Hoping to be released to free verse
Under supervision of course
Fortunately there's no sentencing in poetry
Maybe they'll just revoke my poetic license...

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Poetic license 
My memory has chose
To filter out factual events 
As to the dead
My conscious pays
A false connection 
I wished I had felt 
Instead of the gap
Growing up 
Was ever present 
If I have nothing good to say
Lest the dead in fractures lay
Of best intention 
Reproduction 
What could have been
If both parties 
Had more time...

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Significance, magnificence, noncoincidence
  elegance, eloquence, grandiloquence
effervescence, prepubescence, convalescence
  quintessence, fluorescence, omnipresence

What makes these kind of groupings pleasing
  It's not you, dear read, I am appeasing
Nor am I in any way illicit or licentious
  ~ As I take full advantage of poetic license...

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A Florida man tried to ride
On a gal was exceedingly wide.
He tickled her thighs,
And met his demise,
When that manatee rolled on her side.


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Actual headline: "Florida Man Arrested for Illegal Ride on Manatee"

Seems like a Florida Man limerick series might be in order...
(some poetic license may be taken :-)...

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Are you ready to be a poet or a bard?
A romantic or a bad ass?
A poetaster or a poet laureate?
A good girl or a bad guy?
Would you rather poeticize or take poetic license?
Would you like to be referred to as a romantic or a rogue?
To compose in verse or keep writing until you make your missive worse?
I choose all.
I am a writer.
This is what
We do…....

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knabstrup starstruck
                                     a galloping galaxy 

                                      polka dot ponies







*Knabstrup Horse - Knabstrupper, a Danish breed of spotted horse 
  often used in circuses for their striking coats.

*haiku form with poetic license

01/18/19

For Edward Ibeh's 
Polka Dots Poetry Contest...

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Heart season of speech....
the paranormal essence
sacred EQUINOX

 Explanation of meaning: Poetic License has to do with the poet's right to
speak/write his/her heart any time, for it's paranormal essence is always in season. 
The Sacred Heart in each of us is from where paranormal utterances come, being
our connection to our Creator. The Equinox- God's time of equal day or night!...

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Sweet things don't always cloy.  
The rainbow comes and goes 
and lovely is the rose.  
But few drinks bring me joy 

and the taste I favor, 
that Splenda in the glass,
that dance of bubbly gas.  
Ahhh...Diet Coke; savour.  


* Credit Wm Wordsworth's 'Intimations of Immortality' 
   and Andrea Dietrich's 'A Favorite Soda.'  
   Yes, I know; there's no Splenda in Diet Coke.  
   So, poetic license I invoke....

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What is that wonderful smell
when a rain shower passes
on a warm summer day?
Is it the fragrance of a new beginning,
quenching us with the exuberance
of youthful joy, a sweet wisp of hope
for the earth to embrace,
a cleansing, a freshness of favor,
a cause for the celebration of life?
I ask you then, 
if it is all of that,
why would anyone 
with any sense of poetic license
want to own an umbrella?...

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