Short Rate Poems

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Premium Member Incarceration Rate

If continued, the present rate of incarceration
will have one out of every fifteen persons
spending some time of their lives in a prison.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Second Rate Valentine

I thought we had a love that was great.
Valentine, we broke up as of late.
I did realize
you are not a prize.
In reality, you’re second rate.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member First-Rate Present

Thinking new present
Recalling past emotions
Meaningless to soul
Without touching a fiber
Envisage better future












7-4-2016
Form: Tanka

Values At Top Rate

--Your Persona, Captures Elegance,
                           Your Heart, Values At Top Rate,
                          Your Soul, Priceless, GODS LOve--
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Frustrated, First-Rate

~ Frustration, first-rate ~

 Plan-free poem penning produces
     enthusiastic 
        endorsement

 Carefully-crafted couplets
      ~ collapse


Premium Member First Rate Finnish Firetrap

It was a first rate Finnish firetrap
Anyone who stayed was a big sap
I would have to be dead
To lie in that bed
Place not safe enough to take a quick crap
Form: Limerick

Heart Rate, Pulse Rate, Blood Pressure

Heart Rate, Pulse Rate, Blood Pressure

My heart rate, my 
pulse rate, my 
blood pressure admit
now and then of
a little gossip about 
local trollops.

The Going Rate

I searched and searched and found a sweet gal
I was so happy my heart did swell,
she told me she liked me
but sex we'll have to see...
First, she wants five hundred through PayPal.
© George Aul  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

The Banking Rate

The banking rate 
is like a young lady
one day low and promising
next day
the value rises with several per cent
and a question 
at the dance floor 
by the river will be  
can I get a loan?
Form:

At Any Rate

At any rate, it's going to be epic  
Its going to be amazingly bold
Awesomely cool
Just plain right legendary
It'll be twisted
It'll be renounced
It'll be (for lack of a better word)
Flumongous!
fun
Form:

Premium Member At Any Rate Not For Contest

At any rate I sure moved fast Hope my diarrhoea doesn’t last It’s coming out quick its in a rush I’ve a burning feeling in my tush Excuse me I just have to run For it is pouring out my bum 01/19/18
Form: Rhyme

What Im Feeling Rate Now

I feel like the sky is turn black on me, 
feel like that there's s war about to
begin. I need to see that one thing is
those stare and the moon that I see
at your trailer tat one night. i love you
so much, your the one for me.
Form: ABC

Premium Member Mates Rate

There’s a man that comes from Margate
Who has a massive passion for cake
He grew very large
Bigger than a barge
Now as a boat he charges full freight.

If you’re a friend, you can go mates rate
But only if you come with some cake
A sponge cake will do
A gateaux or two 
And to Timbuktu he’ll contemplate.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member At Any Rate, It Will Be Fast Moving

At any rate,  reading a novel 
a slow-moving French drama 
doesn't grab my interest.
Indulge me,
by the time I get to the middle 
it will be fast moving.
Will they end up together?
It will be, if it is meant to be.



2/9/2018

 Poetry Contest:'AT ANY RATE, IT WILL BE FAST MOVING'
Sponsored by:	Julia Ward
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Mr Rate of Increase of Speed and Mr Rate of Change in Velocity

Mr Rate of Increase of Speed and Mr Rate of Change in Velocity.

Mr Rate of Increase of Speed and 
Mr Rate of Change in Velocity took advantage of
Mr Machine for 
Increasing the Speed and 
Energy of 
Charged Particles for 
being too agreeable. They have 
too much expression of 
acceptance in them and 
too much applaud of 
praise type in 
them.

Premium Member Second Rate

It's what they always do
It's what they've always done
It's what they always say
It's what they've always said

No matter what I do
No matter what I say
No matter what I've done 
No matter what I've said

They judge me by themselves, they judge themselves by me

Whatever words I say, whatever acts I do, it will always be second rate

Because for me she got pregnant with you.

Premium Member First-Rate Poetry

Are your thoughts still leading for poetry? Do they leave the audience wanting more? Or born thugs who hide them as a mystery. Are your thoughts still leading for poetry? Scare daylights out of them in memory. Roaring a chainsaw as they reach your door. Are your thoughts still leading for poetry? Do they leave the audience wanting more?
Written: March 10, 2023
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Triolet

Oh No, At Any Rate I Will Be Fast Moving

At any rate, it will be fast moving, 
especialy faster than a flower blooming , 
At 12 I  can rhyme faster than metro booming,
 Saw somone , thought it was my friend , but it waas just my poetry words at the end, i talked to them they said they are fine but then i got arrested for a fast talking fine , but to get out i have to pay a dime . But too bad i only have 1 nickel and 4 pennies of mine .
© Oreo Wings  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member blind date is second rate

in my current manic state
I do not hesitate
to throw away my fate
walking off is my date

not a potential mate
identify source of hate
to silliness I equate
that guy was second rate

pretty sure you can commiserate
for your last blind date
was not totally great
book writers collaborate

publisher may have to wait
send a teaser as bait
this guy was named Nate
Not my ideal blind date
Form: Monorhyme

At Any Rate

A-t any rate, you are safe, 
B-ecause of the Almighty; 
I-t's the Lord's protection, 
G-od gives sure security.
A-t any rate, remain firm, 
I-n spite of what's happening; 
L-et your heart be brave, faith can control everything.

F-ocus at any rate, 
E-ither eye won't turn blind; 
R-ugged wind turns calm, 
R-apture you can find.
E-arly twenty-fourth of July, the Lord God is great; 
R-each the finish line, run fast at any rate.
Form: Acrostic

The Going Rate

Obama makes a speech and earns
Four hundred thousand bucks.
Of course he is entitled but
The whole world sighs and clucks.

I frankly don’t think anyone
Deserves that kind of dough
But obviously that’s the rate
For people in the know.

It saddens me a little bit
For such a fee seems greedy,
Especially for someone who
Once championed the needy.

Ideally he should give his talk,
Accepting what they pay,
Then find a worthy charity
And give it all away.
Form: Rhyme

Love At Any Rate

Love at Any Rate

Love at
any rate
Can make you
Feel low
Down
And dirty
Shame
What happens
Next a neuron
Fired or quit
Working right
Then and there
Went the neighborhood
Where Sarah Belle ummm...
Lived but for
Got
Why
Memory
Jogging
Or refreshed this
Time
Is up
And running
Up and running
Up and
Run for your life
Went on
About its business
Casual
Tea is empty
Ness that dragon
Loch and cay
Puff like magic
And it's gone
At any rate
it came along.

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