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Highbrow Poems - Poems about Highbrow

drunk on fire
... Your seawater stirs in me where fire balances high on oil You clasp my candlefire, wick's motioning coil — A sweating kind of missing A burned open kissing The glass shared between us two ......

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Categories: highbrow, fantasy, fire, kiss, love,
Form: Couplet
Scarcity created by Those that Steal Our Abundance
...Abject poverty it is said, must actually be honed, Then cultivated and even forced bred, This necessarily includes paper money of course, since they print it for free, offset by our taxes a mea......

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Categories: highbrow, betrayal, community, society,
Form: Dramatic Verse



February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024
...February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024 I believed fortune cookie maxim cryptic message couched Apple Macbook Pro update process alternately titled “markedly a L......

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Categories: highbrow, absence, abuse, adventure, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dialogue of Doing
...Head: I'm the thinker, the planner, the seat of all-knowing Hand: Yeah? Well I'm the doer, the maker, the one who keeps showing Head: Books and theories, that's where wisdom lies Hand: Spare me ......

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Categories: highbrow, creation,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Heteroglossia
...Street Vendor (Shouting): Fresh fruit! Mango, papaya, all ripe and sweet! Executive (Dictating): To whom it may concern, regarding the recent... Teenager (Texting): OMG! Did u see the new meme? L......

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Categories: highbrow, voice, words,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Umbrella
... A useless piece of paraphernalia Is definitely the umbrella It only keeps us dry from the neck up Not too brilliant there fella I suppose there are people out there Think it's the ......

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Categories: highbrow, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Highbrow Schemes
...Bow to payment on a platter, now that karma is paid in full; Ciao, so it was cool to do it? Highbrow schemes are vulnerable; Overcome can hinder the mind, numb the frustration will grow; Dum......

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Categories: highbrow, emotions, feelings, introspection,
Form: Lento
Premium Member A Notch Below
...None of them have been me ‘til now; Not trying to come off highbrow; I’ll let you find out and say ciao; Have a pow wow, have a pow wow; They will all feel like my shadow as they sit putting ......

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Categories: highbrow, emotions, feelings,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Gateway
...Outside the sanctum, clenched teeth, tension, a sense of being spun slowly, in comical ocean drift Bobbed cork barely able to rein my orientation. Luckily, current flux of haphazar......

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Categories: highbrow, allusion, analogy, appreciation, art,
Form: Free verse
Above My Head
...Above my head, foliage, and feathers clatter as a hawk tangles with a squirrel. Above my head, Russian tanks pop their tops in boggling bubbles. Just above a bald patch, shaggy clouds squat to ......

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Categories: highbrow, poetry,
Form: Free verse
How Now
...The Chinese have a dog called, "Chow" It does not taste much like a cow The Italian, "Ciao" Is never highbrow Yet either one help bed a Frau!......

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Categories: highbrow, humor,
Form: Limerick
Toilet Humour Number 2
...A poetry club challenge of the month poem! Now some come here to sit and think And some come here to pooh and stink but i come here to scratch my balls and read the writing on the walls For ......

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Categories: highbrow, silly,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Its Attitude Stupid Not Altitude
... It’s Attitude Stupid, Not Altitude 1/30/2018 Tom Altitude is how high you fly, Attitude is your mindset upon returning. The attitude of one highbrow, Has the ability to cause chao......

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Categories: highbrow, change,
Form: Free verse
Hyphenated Hyperventilating
... Talking heads will give you their attached credentials with solemn aplomb And it’s plenty hyphen proof long They’ll make unlearned eyes gasp at their hyped expertise Get simpl......

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Categories: highbrow, humorous, parody, wisdom, words,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Bossy Cow
...Daisy was such a bossy old cow, one who desired to rule the herd. Her opinions were so highbrow the others dared not moo a word! Daisy would moo and moo all day whilst the others chewed their......

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Categories: highbrow, conflict, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

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