Spouting Poems

Ha ha ha gotcha!

...Ha...ha...ha... gotcha!

The imagined intimated response
linkedin to a swindler's
imagined thought bubble
silently spouting you ain't nothing
but a pluperfect sucker...
rendered penniless suff...
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Categories: spouting, absence, abuse, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDon't Forget the Cream

...Lately folks, my mind has been somewhat dusty,
I "think" I heard of some new kind of disease.
Plus, my cognition has been somewhat rusty,
I keep forgetting where I put my keys!

I'm late!, I'm l...
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Categories: spouting, confusion, family,
Form: Rhyme


ENTITLED FAMILY

...It's always the ones
Who lives their lives
Talking on no responsibility
And not a care in the world
Not even helping with parents
They don't care but the
Minute a parent or loved one
Dies, the...
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Categories: spouting, anger, family,
Form: Free verse

Summer Nights

...I recount the nights of faint, distant glows —
the dimmed party lights of summer —
of silenced streaks of fleeing light, tassels of clouds
adorned in fleeting whites,
on the broad balcony of the ...
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Categories: spouting, night, summer,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Ancient Ones

...I felt the earth moving under my roots.
Very same feeling deep down as it was -
five thousand years ago when Flame Mountain
started murmuring and belching before.
It turned its anger on all of us...
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Categories: spouting, character, fire, mountains, myth,
Form: Free verse


The Tribe

...you opened your mind
and dropped your defences
you smiled at pretences
nodding blind, bending to the lies
you're connected to the tribe

you chatter and shout
mouthing simple phrases
spouting...
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Categories: spouting, age, conflict, corruption, crazy,
Form: Free verse

The Birdcage

...The heart is a tapestry loosely sewn together with thread, each string a different section of the brain. Connecting the family string to the feelings string, the likes to the dislikes. All the knots ...
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Categories: spouting, 9th grade, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberannoying bird speak

...Is that a bird?
My sister, who is on the phone, asks me.
I listen a bit harder.
Can you hear that? She asks. It’s a bird, right?
Uh-huh.
A bird I had not noticed until now
Spouting birdspeak th...
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Categories: spouting, bird,
Form: Free verse

Demonstrative dedication

...Easy to entrance the sycophants watch their helpless dance their back and forth swaying and swooning, in cunnilingual somniloquence.
Droning and drooling with flattering and fawning, turgently swell...
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Categories: spouting, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Texting and sexting as therapy

...
though many men,
(especially former Norwegian
bachelor farmers from Lake Woebegone, -
but one presently wedded
to another female for not quite
thirty orbitz around Mister sun) seek a booty cal...
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Categories: spouting, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFAKE NEWS FICTION

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Galvanizing, never scrutinized; each moment falsely tabulated;
Slanted, polarized polls, punishing spiteful pundits
Spouting, spinning lies in frantic unison squawking
Ridiculous versions of f...
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Categories: spouting, betrayal, corruption, political,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPractice What You Preach

...
There are many genuine , good and kind people in our world

Who’s  kindness, empathy and good deeds are apparent

Who give and help those in need without expectation

Their authentic , selfle...
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Categories: spouting, care, heart, perspective, truth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Whale of Words

...One Matthew McGregory Hale
Was thought to resemble a whale.
I don't mean so large,
Nor shaped like a barge,
But spouting out words like a gale....
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Categories: spouting, analogy, animal, funny, humor,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberThou Word He Has Not Hidden

...He opens his small round mouth and words spout
The problem is he inserts his foot and not trout
His spouting isn't funny at all
He is headed for a big fall
Donald, the nation is tired...
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Categories: spouting, political,
Form: Limerick

Premium Memberpurple bowl in the window

...purple bowl in the window


 he didn’t like city buses spouting black smoke,
 park benches overtaken by pigeons,
 or towns with straight, one-way streets.
 
 he didn’t care for departme...
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Categories: spouting, fruit, memory, purple,
Form: Free verse

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