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Trope Poems - Poems about Trope

Tandoori or Tangerine Tan shorts no5 final jive

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Still hope we can cope

With the nope

Don’t give a damn plan

From that Tandoori tan

Obscene Tangerine dope

Jackanory Mandarin Man


That trope..like to be Pope

Go out on a limb....
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Categories: trope, community, power,
Form: I do not know?

Tangerine or Tandoori Tan Man - full version

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Tandoori or Tangerine Tan?

Mister rich lister Blister

Sinister Mandarin Minister


Sin..Spin & Chagrin Talisman

Jaundice scrotum prejudice totem

Podium pandemonium
 
Needs Imodium....
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Categories: trope, education, political, society,
Form: Free verse



hern's trope

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           her tongue
      gently protruding
          past her lips
          whilst i waltz (in mine think)
            by hern

her tongue and her think
       in deep thought
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Categories: trope, analogy, muse,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberMeadow Muffins

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It sounds like a breakfast treat,
but be forewarned: it’s not to eat.
Your appetite may disagree;
so, go ahead, take a bite and see.
But my advice, if I were you,
is get some jam before you do...
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Categories: trope, food, humor,
Form: Light Verse

The lies they killed us with

...They starved our bodies of love 
Then complain how our bones shake in fear
They strip us of our dignity 
Then glare at us when we jave nothing to wear
They take our souls 
Then question when the...
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Categories: trope, discrimination, history, political, prejudice,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberA Song Without Music

...There’s a song without music I hum
While I wait for your call every night
And the lyrics that usually come
“You’re my everything, you’re the light”
But the rest I’ve forgotten, exept 
That toget...
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Categories: trope, bereavement, grief, love,
Form: Rhyme

Our life a horror movie they played to us in real life

...Our life a horror movie they played to us in real life

In horror films black people die first
We always make smart decisions 
And yet they still manage to find a way to erase us even in film
Th...
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Categories: trope, death, discrimination, horror, prejudice,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhat Sound Makes the Clock? - May 11

...A woman splayed upon a lofty beach—
the drunkard’s stumble-street-strut-jumble-key—
BUY NOW, AND GET THE SECOND [this/that] FREE!
—and what’s this cracked out weirdo got to preach? 

…”about the...
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Categories: trope, addiction, confusion, corruption, culture,
Form: Italian Sonnet

Premium MemberC S Lewis J R R Tolkien Elgar and Malverns distress

...Around the Hills of Malvern now..Desecration takes place.'
Let me inform all how.' Where Elgars body has rested long
And Tolkien and Lewis did ramble in song.'  all of these
Three historical giant...
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Categories: trope, beauty, character, education, england,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy earlier poem

...The poem before this (was not a easy write!) Yet in it I was
Being as genral as I cuuld..Covering as many realitys
As i could as I agonized over word placement.' Wishing
Not to offend any ' apart ...
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Categories: trope, appreciation,
Form: Narrative

Premium Memberle livre bleu

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“le livre bleu” 

Terabytes.
lonely poets, writers, 
musicians and artists play here,
they wear masks that cover
vermillion dripping smiles
over sharp little wolverine te...
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Categories: trope, muse,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Wordsmith - Apr 4, 5

...Yes! day and night, inside my roaring shop,
pounding my heavy hammer ceaselessly 
against the hardened anvil Poetry,
I ply tough steel into a pleasant shape.

Working words cleansed of cheap and...
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Categories: trope, creation, journey, language, metaphor,
Form: Italian Sonnet

The Walking Dead

...The Walking Dead

It’s said that at the crucifixion, certain events took place.
But nowhere in history do we find this case.

Eclipses, in the ancient world, were important events,
And often be...
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Categories: trope, bible, christian, jewish,
Form: Verse

Sonia Gandhi and a form an ode to an imagism diglossic seminary in nepotism

...So, I am hiding Occupied state
Or, else or, learning french occult eBay at
Non nuptial lady , a loner, an ex-positional urge
Inside the total nine after, even after a dirge
Alma mater in Houston,...
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Categories: trope, allegory,
Form: Name

Autumn Fall

...Gold leaf falling from the promising tree
Brisk breeze of an October fall.
The birds loud in their fallow,
With the changing season of tommorow.

The branches cling on for hope
But snap and cra...
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Categories: trope, feelings, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

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