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Best Satire Poems

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Premium Member View From the Prism of 'Ism'
socialism  communism  fascism   despotism
  buddhism  catholicism  hinduism  zoroastrianism  
territorialism  colonialism   imperialism  ...

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Categories: satire, society, truth, word
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Cyber Real
Has the convenience of technology 
inoculated us from reality?
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
I pray the code my soul to keep?
Does your universe live within 4G
Or...

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Categories: computer, culture, identity, satire,
Form: Rhyme
My Torment
A fleeting still small voice tries to warn me
A sudden overwhelming desire to run
The tell tale taste of metallic flakes
Means my nightmare has begun

Everything around...

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Categories: satire, angst, confusion, depression, health,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member My Butt Crack
My butt crack 
Is quite a split 
It supports the rest of me 
when I sit 
you thought I was gonna say something else didn't...

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© Eric Nolan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: funny, happiness, life, satire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mirror, Lie To Me
I stare at my mirror
So shocked by what I see
There is a strange woman
Staring right back at me

I must’ve been abducted
This must be a crazy...

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Categories: me, pain, satire, time,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Halloween On the Dark Side of Town
It's a nightmare down on Elm Street. Satan's waiting here at home.
Where's that little Freddy Krueger with his nails of sharpened chrome?
And that dearest Michael...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: holiday, satire,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Maria Down Under
There’s endless miles of golden sandy beaches
Sparkling aqua waters as far as the eye can see
Gods and Goddesses frolic au naturel down under
Here’s where Heaven...

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Categories: beach, lust, satire, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I, the Clone
I, The Clone

     So that I would not live alone,
     My parents thought I should be a...

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Categories: humorous, me, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Quo Vadis Poetry, a Damsel In Distress-W
Captive damsel of creative-writing programs,   
Personalized, eulogized job of small groups,  
The frenetic activities handy to very few,  
Poetry now belongs...

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Categories: satire,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Night Before Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas' ...
          And with finances dead,
      ...

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Categories: christmas, funny, humorous, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Robots
Smooth paper lay up on the desk.
My thoughts were odd, but not grotesque.
Will robots take what I did write,
extracting words by dark of night?

The robot...

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Categories: poetry, satire, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 12-31-23: A Number's Existential Crisis
'Twas the twilight of the year 
     a twinkling tiara.
December 31st, digits dancing dunes 
     in the...

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Categories: satire, celebration, hilarious, holiday, humor,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Trill of the Lithium-Laced Lyrist

Law, English, business, and so on—
    alas, are tiresome!
All the professors here go on 
    with a prime axiom....

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Categories: humor, rap, satire, student,
Form: Bio
My Slutty Aunt's Wedding
I shook my head
Knew the day’d be messy
Some poor sap
Was marrying my Aunt Bessie

She’d slept with half of Brooklyn
Flaunting her exploits all through town
The mayor,...

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Categories: satire, wedding, wedding,
Form: Rhyme
Footle..Visit To the Dentist.
The fear
In here ..
                  The chair
  ...

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© Sean Kelly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: satire
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs