Short Wannabe Poems

Why don't I love thee?
Let me count your awful ways- 
Idle, cheating, bastard....

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"Don't play badly"
Say those who play well
To those for whom the difference is
Impossible to tell...

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Love
Can't wait heart ache

Spring
Better weather

Fall
A chill for all

Marie Antionette
Sliced cake and neck

Presidential wannabe
Mitchel Romney...

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Wannabe escape artist Ed's first trick 
took place in a tank of water 
Tied up with chains.
Wife swapped padlock key.

Also final trick....

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There once was an unusual tuna
Charlie dreamed of sailing to the luna
   Bought a huge water balloon
   But along came a typhoon
Farewell Charlie, wannabe Kahuna...

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amused I am
by the sieve 
of a mid-city wannabe drunk
through which but a single
narcissistic gutter-rat apparition
can pass --
Heini

Written: 4am 20 November 2020...

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Everything around me
Turns into poetry--
But badly written.
My brain foams
Like it was bitten
By a rabid dog
Or like an angry mob
That doesn’t know what it’s ranting about....

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fire spreads quickly
animals scurry to safety
red rose untouched 


Haiku Wannabe contest 

Trillinea O first attempt at this form. 
I could not find on the soup so I labeled
it as a Haiku....

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I hear the scream in every thought of every life on our world
Which is tearing its self appart
Few will hold it together so around by eachother we’re twirled
And I can’t stop it breaking my heart
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There once was a ninja named Dwight
who sneaked in my bedroom one night.
Bumping into my bed,
when he saw me, he said,
"I'd do better in here with some light!"

For the 'ALL YOURS (Jun 19)' Poetry Contest of Brian Strand...

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POETIC JUSTICE

There was an old man from Fontaine
Who walked with aid of a cane
One night he was mugged
By a wannabe thug
In the graveyard, the thug was lain


11 April 2018

For the contest sponsored by Viv Wigley...

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                      the person I want to be 

  is certainly not to become ~ some idealistic wannabe 

  but definitely one ~ that pursues a legitimate fantasy 

  hinted a ventriloquist to his puppet ~ lost in soliloquy 
...

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They've named a new dish of pasta and noodles
After my wannabe chef, makes dough by the oodles
They call it “la scotta”
To try it ya oughtta
Puts hair on your chest and makes you bug out your pupils!!!


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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I gaze into my sons' lives
  and see myself
One's a fitness trainer
  So was I at his stage
One's a finance man
  Ditto for me at 24
One's a soldier
  Now that's what I
  secretly yearned to be
My youngest son 
  is the 'real me' ~
  tho' he's no forever
    wannabe...

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Short, but full of lies
Your hate lies in those emerald eyes
That hateful glance
Wannabe stance
If you're a hater
Why do you wanna be her
Stole her friends
Wanted her relationship to end
She thought she was so perfect
So she tried to end it

End her
Destroy her
Be her...

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Vigilante wannabe
Intentions always good
Lost causes are his nemesis
Loyalty his strength
Abysmally annoying
Gauche socially to say the least
Egomaniac~ there’s one in every village



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on March 12, 2020...

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Receiving 
believing 
forgiven
 I want to be the same kind of father that God is

 forgetting
 provider
 and blessing 
protecting 

I want to be the same kind of father that God is
 
embracer
 heart fixer
 comforter engaged and laughter 

I want to be the same kind of father that God is...

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With no good reason or excuse
Billionaires waste wealth and let loose
While earth goes awry
They'll float on a fly by
So Bezos can seem to be Zeus


Author's comment: M I impressed? Not at all. It only goes to show what small minds they have. You couldn't pay me to go his rocket either--even if it is the best money can buy. What is wrong with these people?...

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undulating waves rise and fall, drenching
whirlwind twister destroys life . . .
flames blaze in the night
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June 8, 2013

Poetry/Kimo/tempest
Copyright Protected, ID 06-484-261-13
All Rights Reserved, 2013, Constance La France

Written for the Standard contest, Writer Wannabe
sponsor, Debbie Guzzi, HM, Judged06/11/2013...

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due to high demand I'm back 
and betta
thanks pandita
but u can't beata
you'll never be like me
you're just gonna have to wait and see
you're just a wannabe 
watching ma every move
creepin on me like a slalka

I be spittin bare bars on da street
you peasants cant handle da heat
standin dere wiv ma fresh creps
nike air max 95 
bet u wish u aint alive
I'm done
adios chicos...

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Not me I said
You aint never gonna get me to stay
Batting my eyelashes
Rolling my eyes
Huffing Puffing till you realize
That I’m not
Submissive or Subdued
Hey you over there
Get on up and dance to this beat
People pleaser
Wannabe
Sad isn’t it
That I’m not
Submissive or Subdued
Wifey Material
Spirit of light
But you will never get your knight
Until you become
SUBMISSIVE & SUBDUED...

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beneath a sea, plates of dispute spawn waves,
born with the intent to leave the shoreline
altered

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turbines of wind in pillage of fury, 
kill the helpless, but do not leave courage
altered

_
from brilliance of a firestorm's vengeance
don't be blinded by fear, hope must not be
altered




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Form-- Dixdeux O 
for Deb's Contest: Wannabe Haikuettes...

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When I try to blend in
They tell me to preserve my identity
Don’t try too hard; don’t be a wannabe

If I be myself, I stick out like a weed
Or am labeled a rebel

Who makes the rules and boundaries
Don’t see anybody with a blinding halo

Your guardians and nuances befuddle me
And I cannot kowtow to thee
You’re a conundrum to me, society

Written on:09/21/2016
Contest:What is society...

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I saw Thriplow in its merriment
Vintage cars borrowed from Cambridge
and an abundance of folk singers
with strobes of defiant daffodils
food for the feasties
Morris Dancers sermonising past practice
and mud galore for the land lugger

wannabe grandad Rockabilly singers
and Betty Boothroyds cottage on display
St Johns Ambulance eagerly waiting patrons
Dray horses carrying wagons
This was an  experience to enjoy...

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Well wannabe coat fans, you'll be sad to hear I've not been interviewed by a single newspaper (not got a clue what I'm talking about? - join the line)

Although a man I didn't know in the lift and I hadn't glanced at said "if this was a first date, it's gone terribly" and I said "it would make terrible television" then he said "yep, wouldn't make the cut" and he went on his way down a different corridor. 

#coatstories...

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