Short Rhetorical Poems

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Premium Member Rhetorical

Wouldn't
It be nice ...

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

As they
Do talking
ABOUT each other?


Juxtaposition

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


-Nov., 10 20,19
Form: Diamante

Metaphorical and Rhetorical

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

Premium Member Unbound

What might a poet say in just six lines?
It might be rhetorical
or metaphorical.
It might be satirical,
or confined by rhythm and rhyme~
or perhaps it's unbound like my passion for you!

Premium Member Pregnant With Deceit

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"
Form: Limerick


Premium Member Big Oh

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
Form: Limerick

Meta

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.

Premium Member Rhetorical Exercise

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.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Lazy Poet

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.

Premium Member The Recipe

A dash of rhyme there
Soupcons of metre here and there
Chiasmus crosses 
With alliteration in abundance
Hints of rhetorical questions?
Yes
Similes with style
A pinch of personification
Throw them all together
And what have you got?
Poetry soup!

Political Postmortem

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.
Form: Verse

On Helvellyn

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.

Leader of a Broken Country

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.

Rapper

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 ;)
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Hate Me, Then

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

Premium Member Bombastic Speach

.

         Melodramatic 
           Rhetorical 
            mistakes 

           Eyne hear
            ears see
          hands taste
         tongues think
          hearts speak 

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

My German Girl

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.

Horn Rheotorical Kiss Poem

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

Poet Vehicles Used

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!
© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

How To Feel About Your Life...

"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!"
© Jen H.  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Premium Member DEPICTIONS


insights
   intuition
unthinkable
yet
  certain

fluent
   rhetorical
illusion
silhouetted
   in
      palpable
         perception
contrasted
  plenitudes
     flickering

resonance
   suggested
in
  enhanced
if
  hesitant
   intricacies
cryptic
&
  intriguing 
imbued
    phenomena
art
Form: Verse

Rhetorical Questioning

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
age
Form: Lyric

Qrs

Quarrelsome Questions

    quickly quirky quips
    quash quandaries quietly
    quells querulous qualms

    Right Results

    rapid repartee
    repress rhetorical rants
    ribs rabble - rousers

    Sweet Success

    swiftly satires skill
    silences sophistries spin
    stuns subversive scorn

    8 / 4 / 2020.

What I Can Do

I can turn my rhythm into
stanzas
my lyrics will be In imagination,
I can turn my words to melody
my words will be in classical
opinions,
I can turn my ideas into
metaphor
my vision can be invisible,
I can turn my precious time 
to old one
my lines will be number,
I can turn my hooks into riddle
my sounds will be rhetorical.
Form: Sonnet

Hate Love

hate love

Broken heart,
Tears dripping,
Red eyes,
Wet handkerchief
Lost love

Rhetorical questions
Sweet sad memories
Broken promises
Can bare the pain
 love

Unfulfilled wishes
Cursing all day
Wishing 4 amnesia
I hate love

No reason to live
Lord take my breath away
She was my purpose
 life

Stephen mastel
2019

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