The rain beats
...Pitter patters foisted wetness on the roofs,
A cat meows noisily to the rain spoofs,
her sweet noise rhythmed the dog's delicious woofs,
The treasure they sang into ears is the proof,
They both h...
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Categories:
spoofs, cat, dance, dog, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Mandate
...Is it truth, is it fruit, unspoiled?
Filtered news under play kitchen hard boil?
Unproofed, (by the look of empty pews);
But filled with spoofs of slogan-bringers
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Categories:
spoofs, art,
Form: Rhyme
New Life Curriculum
...Dreams continue as he pursues and fits into those new life shoes/
Steams of old morose songs singing sad blues in dark venues/
Has his hold paddling multiple life canoes/
His eyes mold maddening v...
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Categories:
spoofs, addiction, angst, conflict, courage,
Form: Rhyme
I Could
...I could sit here and choose not to feel this sorrow.
I could ignore it forget it and move on tomorrow.
I could sit and bide my time til time is come and gone.
I could look at you in Innocense lik...
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Categories:
spoofs, depression, heartbreak, life, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Donkey Of Your Eye
...Donkey in the farm, strong hoofs romping
Wonky when you charm, long spoofs hooting
Donkey standing as you stare, shy when you dare
Teeth grinning as you glare, dry when you blare
Sweet and ge...
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Categories:
spoofs, animal, farm, funny,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Clerihew Hoffnung
...Humourist Gerrard Hoffnung
from Berlin to London so homespun
He created his musical cartoon
to give spoofs&jokes some room...
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Categories:
spoofs, music, people,
Form: Clerihew
Point the Finger At Your Chest
...
~POINT THE FINGER AT YOUR CHEST~
What have you done lately,
For your community?
Have you gone out and helped the poor?
Or are yo...
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Categories:
spoofs, encouraging, perspective, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Summer Storms
...There is a rumbling on the rafters,
a subtle pounding drum beat on the roof,
flashing in the skies, harlequin spoofs
a light show awesome and frightening ever afters,
the summer storms drift in...
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Categories:
spoofs, allusion, storm, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Cry With Me
...Come, feel my pain and cry with me;
witness my loss to wind and sea.
Maria washed away my dreams;
Her wails mocking the children's screams.
Puerto Rico struggled to cope
as a surge of ...
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Categories:
spoofs, angst, anxiety, feelings, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Way Out In the Mountains
...2/16/16
Experienced easy and hard times
During the days and nights as millons upon billions of stars shined
Way out in
The mountains
Inspiration was founded
While the sky was clouded
...
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Categories:
spoofs, poetry, rap, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Believe It Or Not
...Now I completely understand why Jesus called them fools
His Creation is far too grand for any such man-made rules
As on this show I saw last night, an electromagnetism atheist
Belief is no longer...
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Categories:
spoofs, creation, earth, god, ,
Form: Rhyme
Chalet On My Mind
...A wooden porch looks old like Grammy’s chair
That rocks us of fables, miming her voice;
While a neighbor spoofs wolf legends, beware!
Under the moonlight dim, sweet hours rejoice.
How e...
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Categories:
spoofs, house, memory,
Form: Quatrain
Without a Script
...Over the years I’ve seen more than my fair
share of movies
aimed at the Black audience.
I’ve seen the spoofs, the comedies,
the thrillers, the musicals, the mysteries,
the horrors, the...
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Categories:
spoofs, black african american, culture,
Form: Free verse
Maybe Baby
...series 5/5/3/3/5 Limerick
On precept Palin
Concepts are wailing
Concepts spoofs
Love is truth
Corporate failing
Amidst the wailing
Her ship keeps sailing
Precept’s truths...
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Categories:
spoofs, political
Form: Limerick
"our Amazing West"
...Doc Holliday truly amazing
Sick to death and two six guns blazing
Though his blasting appeared not to be phasing
The calmness of his gelding equine’s grazing
This be the glory, how the west was...
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Categories:
spoofs, fantasy
Form: Rhyme
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