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Mayonnaise Days
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
| Enclosed Rhyme |
word play, imagery, truth, wisdom, word
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Thinking About You
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Jorge Oyola
| I do not know? |
word play, love, poems, poetry, song,
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Best-seller
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Maurice Rigoler
| Light Verse |
humor, word play,
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Light Aerobics
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Carol Connell
| Epitaph |
word play, death, flower, humorous, word
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Humankind
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Brandon Connor
| Lyric |
word play, allegory, humanity, life, riddle,
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Pull Ups
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PAT Adams
| Questionku |
funny, word play,
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Compounding Demons
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Brandon Connor
| Rhyme |
word play, break up, depression, divorce,
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13 PCS
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Maureen McGreavy
| Senryu |
word play, heart, mental illness, word
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Missing Muzzles
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Gregory R Barden
| Light Verse |
fun, light, word play,
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War of the Ants
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PAT Adams
| Limerick |
character, imagery, word play,
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Mind's not a Friend
by Brandon Connor
Is it a cage closing in around me?
Am I enraged or am I lonely?
Do I love you or do you loathe me?
Flies low the slow...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
word play, depression, divorce, love hurts,
Ocean
by Jenny Joy
Too deep
Too blue
Too vast
And True
The waves
The sun
The moon
And Tide
The Feet
The touch
The grip
And Told
Not to hurry
Not too safe
Not to leave
And NO...
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Categories:
word play, beach, care, deep, fear,
Mighty Mighty My
by Caren Krutsinger
My tribe. My people. My country. My perspective. My feelings. Myself.
My, oh, my, oh, my, oh, my.
Trying to eliminate the I and Me from my...
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Categories:
self, word play, words,
Mind of Mine
by Christen Foster
There are many thoughts in this mind of mine
some nuggets of gold to find and mine.
whenever and where ever I happen to make
the time....
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Categories:
word play, appreciation, fun, imagination, inspirational,
Verbs And Adjectives rule
by David O'Haolin Whalen
Always use a verb
Over a noun…better yet…
Use an adjective!
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Senryu |
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Categories:
poetry, wisdom, word play,
Mick Jagger
by Kevin Shaw
Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger has two rubber lips,
His body is made of elastic,
Swivel and swerve those ageing hips,
Replaced from recycled plastic.
KS 13/9/18
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Categories:
word play, fun, music, old, silly,
Lear and Columbus
by Kevin Shaw
Lear and Columbus
Captain Columbus went to sea,
In a beautiful pea green boat,
He went to discover Edward Lear,
and a nonsense book he wrote.
KS 13/9/18...
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word play, books, fun, nonsense, sea,
Darwin Wrote
by Kevin Shaw
Darwin Wrote
Darwin wrote a book one day
The Origin of the Species
Explaining how life evolved
You, me, Cats and Dogs
Elephants and Geeses
KS 13/9/18...
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Categories:
creation, humor, word play,
Six-Word Couplet Series
by Emile Pinet
Truism
Wit of wife
sharp as knife.
Observation
Easy to see
you love hyperbole.
Insult
You’re so fat
you're a habitat.
Emotional
I easily cry
when feelings intensify.
Scolding
You naughty boy
don't be coy.
Annoyance
A constant backache
keeps me...
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Couplet |
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Categories:
word play, 12th grade, imagery, imagination,
Rattling Rim Shot
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
So you took your best shot,
but sadly it rimmed out
Rocket swish arc reached for the brightest star ...
only to receive
a missed blastoff launch...
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Categories:
word play, lost love, metaphor, slam,
ICE FISHING
by Line Gauthier
ice
fishing
frozen bites
Submitted on September 12, 2018, for contest HAIKU 1-2-3 OR 3-2-1 sponsored by CHARLES MESSINA...
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Categories:
word play, fishing, nature, winter, word
The Last Laugh
by Carol Connell
For Chris Card, famous humorist, please show no grief.
He rests in a state of comic relief.
9/12/18
submitted for Funny Epitaph Poetry Contest sponsored by Jesse Rowe...
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Categories:
death, funny, word play,
Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay, J
by Caren Krutsinger
Jovial Joyful Jolly jubilant J.
Jabbery, jitterbugging joyful jay
Jeepers, J, jibing and jiving, jollifying,
French Jay, Joie de vivre, joy of living
Jupiter’s Juturna could not have been...
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word play,
For Whom The Bell Doesn't Toll
by Carol Connell
Joe Jingle pealed church bell with punctual skill
until the sad day he fell terribly ill
with a loathsome disease that sorely did linger.
Now alas and alack,...
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Epitaph |
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Categories:
word play, death, funny, humor, word
The Alphabet
by Maurice Rigoler
The alphabet’s essential
to anyone who likes to write,
but whoever named our letters
may not have got it right.
Take the letter U.
In ancient Roman script
U was written...
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word play,
The Dilettante Diaries: The Bumble Bee Big Blue Sky Boston Two Step on Love Street
by Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
The Dilettante Diaries: "The Bumble Bee Big Blue Sky Boston Two Step on Love Street"
She said, "Pffft Bumble Bees Rule,
No Bees, no World
Shy Little...
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Romanticism |
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word play, fantasy, humorous, imagery, muse,
Naming a Poem Type
by PAT Adams
Ricky was the first to sell piles of wood
He named them ricks, (stuck on himself somewhat)
Also as many whole limbs as he could
Limbs were...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
funny, word play,
Bits and Pieces of Fact
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
Braggadocios Colonel McBragg
caught a truth bomb
gag shrapnel frag
This sent his damaged, prideful heart
on a flatline drag
His coffin was dress uniform covered
by a neatly folded...
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Light Verse |
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Categories:
word play, funny, humorous, parody, word
BIRDWATCHING
by Line Gauthier
birdwatching
foul
eavesdropping
posted on September 7, 2018...
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Senryu |
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Categories:
bird, word play,
Double Clerihew
by Maurice Rigoler
Samuel F. B. Morse
was of course
the inventor of the code –
but this, I think, you node.
Guglielmo Marconi
died less than happi –
Morse died before he...
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Clerihew |
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Categories:
word play,