Tragicomedy Poems


graduating from room 101

...i once stood
within my own shipwreck
blaming cruel seas

years past
flotsam and jetsam
built a driftwood home

when storms came
that ramshackle shelter
self-destructed
while i
cursed foul...
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Categories: tragicomedy, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIn the Land of Sheep

...There was a land, and on this land lived sheep.
Like all good sheep, they had their rules to keep.
They lived on farms in their own different flocks,
sleeping, socializing, and taking walks
to fi...
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Categories: tragicomedy, analogy,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberCraving

...We boast of grand aim to share our utmost
Yet, we are lost in our selfishness’ post…
Craving for more, we yearn for much grant
Never contented, we grumble and rant.

Such is tragicomedy ...
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Categories: tragicomedy, character, christian, faith, perspective,
Form: Quatrain

Roman a Clef Tragicomedy

...Roman à clef tragicomedy...
overlaid with façade of fiction = Mein Kampf

in summer re:
typed out during winter of my discontent,
when yours truly no spring chicken
stirred ruse to expatiate po...
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Categories: tragicomedy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Our Friendship Story

...Our friendship is our pride, 
Boundless love story, 
Extraordinary rhapsody, 
Metaphorically not satirically, 
Chronological not nostalgically..
Our costumes consume cost...
This is not fancifu...
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Categories: tragicomedy, friendship, friendship love,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberGround To Pieces

...‘Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces’
                                                        				John Ruskin, 1853



they had crushed the bevelled mirror of his life into a tho...
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Categories: tragicomedy, change,
Form: Free verse

Roman a Clef Tragicomedy

...Roman à clef tragicomedy...
overlaid with façade of fiction = Mein Kampf

No need for yours truly to dig deep,
(albeit bonafide figuratively)
by Dickens thru mine Uriah Heep,
a gnarled mass cre...
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Categories: tragicomedy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

A Good Show

...Sitting in the audience
behind my eyes
content with my popcorn
i watch myself and
my all fellow actors
perform our epic drama
I’m not sure what to call it
tragicomedy perhaps
here on the worl...
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Categories: tragicomedy, appreciation, fun, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPreparing Love's Ways and Means

...So, love is good for you?
Not too traumatic?

In a foreplay
Win-Win kind of way,
yes.

Now what?

Maybe some music and stretching?

How about another dance?

Sacred MotherEarth,
you wea...
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Categories: tragicomedy, caregiving, earth, education, health,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberSame Ol' Song and Dance

...As I look back across more musical times
of rhythmic reflections,
ceremonies and commemorations
of each dawn and dusk eremitic liturgy,
if that is not an oxymoron
of sound and sight,
song and d...
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Categories: tragicomedy, community, dance, humanity, humor,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberHer Never Ending Creation Story

...WINTER

We all have heard The Greatest Creation Story Ever Told,
and it is
as title so boldly baldy states.

Yet, within and without,
before yet also after,
this History of Earth's CoRedempti...
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Categories: tragicomedy, beauty, culture, dance, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Don'T Be Cold

...Don't be cold
If I died
would you care?
If I hung myself
In a fit of despair
would you shed a tear?
Would you miss me, dear?
Would you be relieved?
The end of evil me
had came
all my words ...
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Categories: tragicomedy, deep, true love,
Form: Rhyme

West and Central Asia

...West has supported us
sinserely and honestly 
planting seeds of democracy
and sustainable society
in our crude land,   
but hearts of our people
still attached very strong 
to old illusions, 
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Categories: tragicomedy, political,
Form: Verse

Misernomics

...the talking heads are also comics
these economic geniuses after years
are spouting praises of Misernomics
quick study concluded we're in arrears

and need to decapitalize life today
don't spend...
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Categories: tragicomedy, business, education, health, people,
Form: Quatrain
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