Short Rhetorical Poems

Can
you love
me without
the pain that love
brings?...

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Babies beheaded?

Babies killed,

By phosphorous bombs?...

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if all the clocks stopped, what time would it be?...

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what if we were to 
hop from peak to peak using
stars as umbrella
...

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Once you said: you are a little devil.
So, look at me and tell: can
I make a deal with you?...

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Wouldn't
It be nice ...

If people spent
As much time talking
TO each other ...

As they
Do talking
ABOUT each other?...

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Ambivalence
Apparently vague
Contradicting, contrasting, confusing
Embedded rhetorical ambiguity
Alluring, enigmatic puzzle
Irony


-Nov., 10 20,19...

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Metaphorical and Rhetorical

Had lasted forever and was historical;
Is something else and metaphorical;
What a mess;
Had to guess;
Effectively written and metaphorical.

Jim Horn...

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Their flashy words so rhetorical
Nothing new, just all historical
Words pregnant with deceit
Costumes mailed, in receipt
Unmasked, see... most are identical

For Carolyn's "Election Humor Contest"...

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Little Bo Peep, taxed out of her sheep

How many does Big Oh need to keep?

Leading them about

With rhetorical shout

Over pomp and circumstance knee deep

Jun 26  2010  For Carolyn's "Follower" contest...

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Dick the dog dangles his balls for all to see.
I greet him on the way.
"How they hanging Dick?"
The question is rhetorical.
"Bark once if I smell immortal."
Dick pisses on my leg
while his owner speaks of Keats....

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Lost in deep blue.
Stuck in a mood.
Find the sunshine.
What to choose,
A frame of mind.
Open new views,
Just so much time.
Go in win or lose.
Move on with style.
Whatever ensues.
Endeavor to peruse.
Rhetorical Exercise....

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Knocking on my brain
In dead of night
A word--THE word
I sought.
But the light is out
And all is silent.
No pen in hand or
     pad on which to jot
A groggy, rhetorical question
"No, I shall not."
In the morning
I've forgotten....

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I 
it was midnight in a perfect world
as a child my mind swirled
with ideas as domestic troubles stirred  
from an early age, innocence unfurled 
how can a man learn to live happy in this world
as to which we were so randomly hurled?...

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How fickle the electoral wind!
only yesterday a sure winner
but now a picture of despair.

Experience means nothing,
rhetorical prowess is best,
more like elocution contest.

Lack of substance is alright,
just talk and you are made
or end up politically dead....

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Lost the path.
descending through a swirling fog.
Cliff hanging, rock hugging.

To fall now
would add six seconds of time
down to the end of it all,

but not to fall
only to grip and stay
on the edge of a rhetorical question

that would really be a path lost....

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The pedagogue, perched perilously atop his platform
Spouts slithering slander about a certain storm.
Rousing the rebels with rhetorical roars;
He warns the watchmen of worldwide wars.
He asks allegiance from his allies,
And creates chaos with his country's cries.
...

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his signature sound
in spoken-word poetry
rythmically chanted

rhetorical styles
unique form of expression
flow, theme to the ryhme

creative wordplays
freestyled live in the battle
lightly strike the crowds




~ a poem 'bout rap, which I do love too ;)...

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hate me, then

if we never stirred
or tried to mix
how can you say
we will never blend

how can a baker 
denounce a dessert
as not being cookie 
ready if she turns 
her oven off to him

how does an egg hatch
in the midst 
of rhetorical questions?

connie pachecho

4/8/17...

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.

         Melodramatic 
           Rhetorical 
            mistakes 

           Eyne hear
            ears see
          hands taste
         tongues think
          hearts speak 

           Reprehend 
“never query the veracity 
           of a poet's 
                pen”...

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H.F.

My German girl leaves me yesterday.
My heart cries more and more with rhetorical promises.
It makes me a tiger with sparrow’s bound; I knee in front of her;
My tears split with poetical senses
Such as the last drops hammering over the floor
And all underneath me disappears under my weight....

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question

If a question is old and historical
Can it still really be rheotorical?

This is what the whole Republican
campaign is turning into as well as
spinning wheels designed to confuse.
What do you think? Or is that a
really a rhetorical question....

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Poet Vehicles Used

Or is that second hand?

What’s yours? 
Chaucer trotted on a horse
John Betjeman via choo choo trains
The knowledgeable Omar Khayyam by camel
Well my preferred transport a fast motorbike
Am I mad or are we all mad?


Poet vehicles not used in this piece:  Rhyme, rhetorical devices, and patience!...

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"How am I supposed to feel
About the things going on?
How am I supposed to feel
About you telling me who to love?
How am I supposed to feel
About the life of mine you control?
How am I supposed to feel
About the lie I live?"

"Well I think you should feel like..."

"SHUT UP! You dimwit those were all rhetorical question's!"...

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rhetorical questioning 
became the norm within 
this malfunctioning affair 
never truly wanting a 
genuine answer to be 
declared 
with a glaring stare 
spread across the eye's 
of resentment 
words foaming from 
the mouth filled with 
such disdain 
cultivated an atmosphere
of emotional hostility 
causing the death of love...

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