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The Bird Box
...It’d been a long day at work So he sat in the sun Enjoying the beer he’d earned The day finally done Closing his eyes he relaxed When a persistent peep Interrupted his dreaming And he starte......
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Julie Draper
Categories:
substandard,
humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Inspection Took Place February 17th, 2023
...Inspection took place February 17th, 2023... At 1330 hours (indicated courtesy notification slipped under door less than twenty four hours) hence foretold ill fate by property (crooks and quad......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
substandard,
adventure, america, anger, anniversary,
Form:
Free verse
Substandard Life Under a Thunderous Cloud
...Hell has opened its mouth and spit forth Apollyon. A brutal beast wrapped in a cloak of deceit. A grandiose idealist with evil intention. A reaper of racism. A shameless rapist of intellectually ......
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Mary E.W. Stephenson
Categories:
substandard,
political,
Form:
Rhyme
Rebuild Your Border
...My heart goes weary; shrinking, I can't think right. My thoughts float sinking, It won't go filming delight. When all we build for all, Break into pieces and flew in dust. We wish but it ......
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Olabosoye Wemimo Olaoluwa
Categories:
substandard,
1st grade, art, caregiving,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonic Sonnet
...Sonorous, saporous symphonies: strong; soothingly spirited, sublime sweet songs. Satisfied sigh, sees salubrious springs; sharp, sizzling sunburn scream: saltwater stings. Searing sharp satiris......
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Jeff Kyser
Categories:
substandard,
sound,
Form:
Rhyme
Paying a High Price
...Russia's losses have been greater with their Ukrainian invasion Compared to nine years in Afghanistan, another miscalculation Many towns and cities in Ukraine are now being taken back As Ukrai......
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Tom Cunningham
Categories:
substandard,
conflict, murder, prison, war,
Form:
Rhyme
I Am Never Alone-
...I come through the birth canal alone but I have never really ever been alone I have knowledge man's knowledge it is substandard the words are finite I speak and spell them out but it's not quite I ha......
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James Edward Lee Sr.
Categories:
substandard,
analogy, faith, forgiveness, humanity,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Similar Sounds
...Sonorous, saporous symphonies: strong; Soothingly spiritual, sublime sweet songs. Seismically sensitive subsurface screens; Substandard systems severe shakes scarce seen. Searing sharp satiri......
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Jeff Kyser
Categories:
substandard,
sensual, silence, simple, surreal,
Form:
Alliteration
Substandard
..."One who meditates of death, has disguised his life as one. One who meditated of death, in order to disguise, knows life." - "Should I meditate of life then?" You probably will be 'living ......
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Anushka Dongre
Categories:
substandard,
dark, deep, imagery, philosophy,
Form:
Verse
On Writing Mediocre Poems
...The most gifted poets who ever wrote Occasionally penned gibberish and tripe Even Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Keats Sometimes were at a loss for words In exchange for a royal coin or a token Valu......
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L Milton Hankins
Categories:
substandard,
poems, poets, sorry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Substandard Tires
...Substandard Tires The customer rants and raves at me saying it’s all my fault And my colleague’s and my employer that he’s got no family He threatens all of us with court and is off to see the jud......
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Nick Armbrister Jimmy Boom Semtex
Categories:
substandard,
america, anger, betrayal, business,
Form:
Blank verse
Cycle of Life
... Cycle of Life By: Miracle Man 6/26/2020 It’s a human tendency to forget, for even the sharpest of minds. I forget things and oft regret, as days pass and life unwinds. I often ......
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Tom Wright
Categories:
substandard,
life,
Form:
Lyric
He Expected the Worst In Everyone
...He had a perpetual angry sneer A lip that curled and an attitude that said Back off Expressed dissatisfaction with you before you reached his eye level you could feel his disgust He expect......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
substandard,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Nations Damnable Blight
...Black slender man, bent twig on the branch of a slave’s family tree, Planted in white culture during infamous time of our history, From seed transported in the belly of those infernal slave ship......
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David Moore
Categories:
substandard,
anger, discrimination, evil, hate,
Form:
Didactic
Finding Marbles
...Strewn to the floor he collected his marbles and memories Had played for hours as a child with his friends in the flat Passed innumerable hours never bored always enthralled Abraded by wear ......
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©
Kai Michael Neumann
Categories:
substandard,
memory,
Form:
Free verse
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