straight face
straight face
tight laced
betrayed
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
POTD July 15, 2025
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Categories:
straight out, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Senryu
Be Straight With Me
I can handle the truth if you give me a chance
Your trying to control the situation in advance
You're telling me everything but what I want to hear
Being honest is one way you show you're sincere
Don't beat around the bush and be straight forward
I know seeing my reaction can be quite awkward
Knowing how you really
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Categories:
straight out, words,
Form: Rhyme
Setting the Record Straight
What killed the Cat was not ‘Curiosity’
~ ‘Twas the ferocity of the Rat
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Categories:
straight out, animal, death, history, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Mixed Drink Sets Raccoon Straight
Hawaii is the place, raccoon decided, loving the idea of course
He sold his farm, plow, tractor, combine, goats, pigs and horse
Ran to Hawaii to sit on a pink beach and enjoy the sand
He said to his mixed drink, I have found the promised land!
The mixed drink began laughing and could not stop.
You have not seen
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Categories:
straight out, animal,
Form: Rhyme
The Chaos In My Heart
What if you are an emerald empath
With the ability to feel cries or laughs
That are like energy with a spiritual path
That give insight unique to mental maths
You may be of one fuchsia faith or maybe not
But the soul is being bathed by another heart
A two spirited person not evil nor innocent
Feelings like a
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Categories:
straight out, america, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
The Straight Path
No matter how much you may ever lead yourself astray.
I will always be right beside you, leading you back to the way.
No matter how you curve throughout life, know I am the way.
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Categories:
straight out, god, islamic, life, philosophy,
Form: Sijo
straight talkin' whiskered man one stop 33
straight talkin’ whiskered man
one stop 33
i walked into the bar room
just to hear the sound
pulled way back on the wooden stool
and set my body down
spilled vodka in my orange juice
‘twas flavor for my soul
an’ a
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Categories:
straight out, christian, depression, meaningful, memory,
Form: Free verse
Words Straight up
I want conversations
with writers and poets
The wise the wacky
the dark and the stoic
I need to drink your words
I fear my disease is chronic
The name of my affliction
I think it’s wordaholic
Writers and poets
Dig down to the deep
Some are more honest
Others have secrets to keep
Some can herd cats
or people like sheep
If you tell
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Categories:
straight out, how i feel, language,
Form: Quatrain
Setting Ogden Nash Straight
Ogden Nash penned these two lines
‘How odd of God
to choose the Jews’
My reply across the times
‘God would
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Categories:
straight out, god, jewish, poets,
Form: Couplet
From the ravine to a straight road
Ravine: Oh road , you're on the straight and narrow
Your path is so very shallow
And the beings that pass by oh so mellow
Everyone's a jolly good fellow
Road: Dear ravine with your twists murky and deep
The
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Categories:
straight out, allegory, allusion, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Bent is Strong, Straight is Weak
In nature, being adroit and straight is rare,
It's curves and bends that fill the air.
See rivers that twist,
Trees bent to resist,
For strength lies in being bent, not straight.
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Categories:
straight out, beauty, introspection, nature,
Form: Limerick
Going Straight For Good
Never to vices
I put my best foot forward
Since I got married.
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Categories:
straight out, dedication, engagement, marriage, perspective,
Form: Senryu
Setting the Record Straight
Every single Arab death in Gaza
is attributable to HAMAS
Aided and abetted by Iran
Russia, and Mahmoud Abbas
First Hamas butchers, rapes, and kidnaps
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Categories:
straight out, abuse, jewish, murder, truth,
Form: Rhyme
I'm Just a Straight Man
My words written, by others, not truly understood
But if you had ever lived my life then surely would
Imagination put aside I didn’t imagine all the pain
On a better day all the happiness I’ve ever gained
Witnessed the changes for better, or for the worse
There’re so many things out there I would reverse
Growing up cursed myself as
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Categories:
straight out, appreciation,
Form: Couplet
Writing Straight with Crooked Lines
Would that my poet's heart could fly,
but an artist's anchor is his eye.
I still see the magic in mere flesh,
so a humble fate is mine...
Your form shall be revered, my dear;
I pray you never need to fear,
the passions flowing deep within me
as we struggle down the line...
From fruits of base attraction,
sweetest sensual transaction-
God may grant
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Categories:
straight out, children, love, parents, passion,
Form: Free verse
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