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Shylock Poems - Poems about Shylock

The Strasbourg Dancing Sickness
... Is dance a metaphor for sex? You’d think so if you knew my ex (at least the barflies all believe she’s hoarding something up her sleeve). But what makes people want to dance? An aural frenzy? ......

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Categories: shylock, dance,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member rerun
...(a poem in Senryus) Let’s rerun the play, take up strings, so the puppets can start fresh their dance. Summon the old ghosts— Shakespeare’s doomed heroes —pronounce them reborn. Recall t......

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Categories: shylock, addiction, analogy, anxiety, celebrity,
Form: Free verse



I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks
...I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks..., (a poor excuse for legs), and get me the latest sophisticated prosthetics advancements, whereat integration of cultured stem cells into custom made......

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Categories: shylock, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
February 29th, 2024
...February 29th, 2024 Alternately titled: 111th leap year since 1582 the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader (i.e. essentially paterfamilias among Roman Catholic flock) timely maneuvered around ......

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Categories: shylock, 12th grade, age, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks
...Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks... studious sexagenarian skinny scruffy scribe My utmost humblest apology for inducing the following cerebral calisthenics upon your cranium, but ......

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Categories: shylock, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Brotherhood and Bigotry
...Why do we fight, just cause we don't agree? Seems like we have enough to waste of time and energy. They made Shylock antagonist but really he was more right than he was Jew for we all have ......

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Categories: shylock, 12th grade, black african
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Refining Consciousness
...Human life is one of His sublime creations. Blessed life is entangled in the clutches of relations. Diametric elements often co-exist. Dragon bees and sweet honey exist at one hive. The seven sin......

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Categories: shylock, character,
Form: Free verse
Silent Parthenon Moments In Glowing Vibes In Prayer Bids
...Why An Imam with a mobile is the last thing you will want For today, Has many reasons, many more to come in days to come! As your palm is already junk in a once hopeful Palmetto Room ......

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Categories: shylock, absence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shark-Thropists
...*Image of Philanthropist by Pixabay. Shark-Thropists Loan Shark treacherous jeopardous sponging laundering doctoring endowments championships extortioner shylock fundraising equ......

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Categories: shylock, blessing, dark, poverty, success,
Form: Diamante
A Borrower Softens His Voice
...It is a business truth And transformer of lenders into Ruth Who have been infamous Shylock Or a hesitant safe with lock ... A borrower to soften his voice And watch its magic By far more hel......

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Categories: shylock, business, change, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
Before the Firing Squad
... “Before The Firing Squad” the firing squad came dressed in faux smiles the intervention cake was spoon fed, like honey, by mother superior to the lesser bee, ......

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Categories: shylock, muse, psychological, symbolism,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Mister Sunshine
...He’s a broken leg performer with a crooked second act. Went from Brooklyn to Las Vegas with his sarcasm intact. Does a Smith and Wesson stand-up, voice as sweet as antifreeze. Tells you how he los......

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Categories: shylock, allegory, sunshine,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Antonio
... How could you get yourself in such a predicament, Antonio? So many times before, you had to bail out your friend Bassanio. He has shown himself to be profligatory and irresponsible. This......

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Categories: shylock, business, money,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Concert
...Pay Shylock his pound of flesh, give Richard his horse, let Juliet love anew. Let go of the ghost - Shakespeare’s doomed heroes - pronounce them all dead. Fight no more battles, release s......

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Categories: shylock, 11th grade, allegory, literature,
Form: Senryu
Human Rights Watch and Yemen
...oh human rights watch aren't you tired of watching the roasted Yemeni children is conscious haunting an illiterate Emirati pilot got his finger on the trigger next to him a Saudi shyloc......

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Categories: shylock, child abuse, conflict, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse

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