Short Repute Poems

Fashions may flow,
repute may ebb
but style survives
in discerning eyes...

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William Collins in poetic mode
wrote some verse in an ode
Also rakish  by repute
& melodic balance non did dispute...

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Phenomenal stature

Colossal in repute

Magnificent grandeur

Aerial flight the route

To view the Grand Canyon...

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Sir Thomas  Lawrence grew up in a pub
prolific paintings meant he never needed a sub
Favourite of the English ruling class
but a legendary repute never came to pass...

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A poet from France Stephane Mallarme
was always cool and so calm
by repute the foremost Symbolist
but his Livre* publication he missed.

*Mallarme never saw published his experimental style  Livre(book)...

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A poet from France Stephane Mallarme
was always cool and so calm
by repute the foremost Symbolist
but his Livre* publication he missed.

*Mallarme never saw published his experimental style  Livre(book)...

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He could weep and be sad,
Evn his own sometimes thought him mad;
Turned over tables,took issue with friends,
Oft-times mixing with the ill-repute-
Wise as a serpent,innocent as a dove,
Speaking th truth with  heart of love....

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He could weep and be sad,
Even  his own sometimes thought him mad;
Turned over tables,took issue with friends,
Oft-times mixing with the ill-repute-
Wise as a serpent,innocent as a dove,
Speaking the truth with a heart of love....

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Santa went to “The Light” by the river
A new place on his list to deliver,
Then was tempted with samples of fruit
By the belles in this house of repute.

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Christmas Chastushka Contest
Sponsored by Andrea Dietrich
          Placed 3rd
© 22nd December 2020...

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reprehensible 
         his unwanted advances ~
man of bad repute 

uncouth behavior 
          sexual harassment ~
cat-calling women 

brings shame upon self 
          needs attitude adjustment ~ 
simply obnoxious...

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One night,  this  fellow named Newt
Decided  to visit a prostitute
But she stole all his cash
 and gave him a rash
Then his wife gave him the boot

It was the worst morning after for Newt
after he  went to that  house of ill repute
When he pissed  it did  burn
A hard lesson learned
Of that there is no dispute...

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We are not given the choice during our lifetime
Our path is already mapped out for each individual
As hard as we try to change our path
It is quite difficult or impossible to become
Someone else, it is engrained in our soul
A character of ill repute or a leader of a great nation
Where do each of us fit in?...

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There was a poet of certain repute 

Every day wrote poems that were acute 

Some people liked him so much 

His gift said was hard to match 

But always they gave his poems the boot!*






© Demetrios Trifiatis
     23 February 2016 

* My muse wishes me to let her relax for a while!
   I reluctantly, agreed!...

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A fearful, jagged place
Yet wondrous to the eye.
A place for hardy mountaineers,
The Black Cuillins of Skye.

No place for the timid
Imposing in their might,
But to stand and look upon
There's ne'er a grander sight.

Interlopers amid rolling hills
A ridge of fierce repute,
Standing aloof, magnificent
They challenge rope, and boot....

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BYE ERN

There once was a man from Bavaria
Whose actions could not be scarier
In the woods where he lurked
And at night where he worked
It was designated as a no-go area

But at heart he was a secretive guy 
Of ill repute, but couldn’t see why
All those songs that were sung
About him being well hung
From a tree in the woods so high



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The blackness chases me; relentless in its pursuit...
 Like a falling wall of guilt, I could not repute...
 Anxiety grips me at every turn...
 I'm in an endless cave with a dark lantern...
 It's like looking up from an empty grave...
 Like being terrified, but acting brave...
 I have thrown away all I had...
 There's no returning fate; it's ironclad......

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The path to eternity
weaves and turns
As choices deceive
and judgment burns

Its labyrinth changing
and mirror lined
Voices in transit
new order unrhymed

Pursuit often folly
refusal is death
The push is internal
escaping your breath

Beginnings unending 
the past in refute
Each moment unfolding
—beyond all repute

(Dreamsleep: October, 2022)...

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Grandeur gloriousness reveal Renaissance God glory
Laurels tributes elevations treasured honored glory Always 
Omni acclaimed exhortations based hommage ovations
Renowned  p l a n d i t  repute raves glory God Always
Yahweh confident placed in almighty God glory always 

12/13/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2023©...

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Oh pagan mistress, your sins weighed heavy
Your conspicuous makeup masks your unsightliness
If only your admirers knew of your sins against man
They would have, long ago, cast you into the streets
Harlot, bide your time, bide your time o' woman of ill repute
Soon, your patrons will see you for who you really are
Then, the weeping and gnashing of your teeth will be...

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Through the shallows,
Through the depths,
The muck and the mire,
With trembling limbs
I succor the dying,

Strip the layers naked...
A conceit of consciousness
In psychic awareness,
I repute the repudiated
Caught in a self made web
Of hubris, malevolent envy.

Wrath projected...as a
Boomerang, must return.
Ashes back to ashes is
The only transformation
Derived in sustained purgatory.

© Connie Marcum Wong...

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Echoing cooridors 
Through the halls of the insane 
She sits in a robe of white
On a broken chair of refrain

Her mouth of murmur
A hesitant laugh indeed
A friend she calls dark shadow
nowhere to be seen

Lying in a bed of ill-repute 
Subdued of clutched leather
Her pills forced downward
As she screams bloody murder

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From the broken window
Outside along the way
A single flower flutter
A season she'll never see...

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The main stream's notice, coveting's resound,
nor look for options seemingly profound,
evil is as ~ evil does,  be still around,
the same as nurturance choice concern when found!

I carry on as briskly, not refute
the day be won, my victory astute,
as knowing not, some consequence dilute,
do gather strength, from "faith", without repute?

This win, or lose ~ disfigures not MY group,
that I still hold in bearing ~ not by loot!...

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If more good deeds than bad one's

Weren't to go unchecked and
rather celibrated a hole lot more

Then maybe just the holy unwashed infamous wouldn't then be venerated 
half as much as they currently are

When famous those of ill repute
become then have we all indeed
not fallen victum of the virus

We live in dread and fear of being 
infected with being taught neither
nor to spread yet unbeknownst to
us we pass it on regardless...

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romance of a Roma waggon
tinkering around the world
dreams of blissful freedom
no possessions nothing to lose
bells and whistles violin music
horses with intricate saddles
gallivanting on free reins
crackling camp fires

before you unsettle
look around you
scapegoating and othering
xenophobic attacks
even a tramp under a bridge
has less ill repute
at least a German born hobo

last caveat
visit the museum
at Auschwitz Birkenau


27th August 2021...

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when you grin widely 
in the glare of publicity,

     no hint of your disdain 
     the public must see,

when morsels you give 
to mortals in dire need

     hoping to win their votes 
     and disguise your greed;



your reputation anchored 
on ill-repute does attest

      to the myth of the truth 
      of your being falsely honest

in your all-too-obvious 
self-serving generosity,

      as you grin widely 
      in the glare of publicity!...

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