Short Doggerel Poems

Roses are red,
Purples are violet.
Grammars of standard
Your rhyme dictate why let?...

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If you insist
on doggerel verse,
show mercy then
and keep it terse.

Fifth Place, Laconic Verse I, Giorgio V....

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Poor Hello Kitty
Rests on a stoop
Her eyes droop
Bird poop
Now goop
In her hair
People, beware
Of birds in the air!...

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A-crostic 
M-akes 
Y-ou 

S-ee 
A-s 
Q-uote 
U-ses 
I-mpressive 
D-oggerel 
O-de 

Topic: Birthday of Amy Saquido (June 15) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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We suffer that lyrical curse,
The scribbling of unrefined verse.
'Tis Duggan's "Doggerelitis";
And teachers ironically fight us,
Like being beat up by your nurse....

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Doggerels, *raunchy rhyme*
Are what purists call crap.
But who has the time
To listen to those sap?
We Doggerelists,
Rhymers unstable,
Are going to persist,
Whenever able....

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There once was a poet named Swain 
Who had absolutely nothing to gain 
     He wrote doggerel all day 
     With nothing much to say 
The old fellow was a genuine pain.


SECOND PLACE WINNER
Written December 24, 2020
For Sencleri-Limoku Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand...

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Dogmatic deconstructionists
 declaim
  the Dogs of Doggerel
   during the
Dog Days of Delusion

Deluded destroyers
 deliver
  the Dogfights of Doggerel 
   during the 
Dog Dances of Derision 

Derisive decoys
 denounce
  the Doghouses of Doggerel 
   during the 
Dog Dreams of Deception...

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Quoth I unto the Rock:

"Hast thou seen an old, black clock
With the Coo-Coo bird abruptly missing?"

Quoth the Rock:

"Sorry, I have not seen the clock
That you have sought:

I've been watching the Lover's kissing!"

*This piece is meant to be absurd; doggerel, I suppose. Just something silly and (hopefully) fun :)...

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Nonce, twaffling and outgrabbish trolls,
pilgriffed and trumbled threen by doggerel.

All did amphigorous cleem to shwangle the shweeng,
and shming the shmengle without shmee.

Alas! Alack! Alloy! 
Jimble! Jingle! Twimble! Twoy! 
Jabberwocks and jumblies;
Trinkles and troys,
With toves and raths
In joves did cloy....

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. for public domain

I have not found true love can last,
amidst the troubles we've amassed,
beyond the life which we are cast,

yet in this world we find so busy,
and all the aches that make us dizzy,
like Thomas Mann's poor Little Lizzy,

we will not put our love to rest,
for not by being loved, but, loving,
we are always at our best....

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I did make a wasp gasp
with my splendiferous doggerel
that not even I sit well
with. & a note came from hell
penned in a tongue alien to me...
only the vile violet violinist
understood such oneiric idiocy...
& said it was emetic
& not truly good nor copacetic.
Even September agrees
such is the golden music
that easily delights the bees 
& can make a wasp gasp....

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Some Old, Short Ditties
(doggerel)

I.
Our sojourn on Earth
is of diminutive worth.
Our small time is spent
(and no more are we lent!)
long before we're ready.

II.
Drunkening wine of heady
illusion obliterates thought
and causes confusion.

III.
Fleeting is life!
Fruitless existence!
'Ere any purpose
is completed
life is done --
and we're defeated!
'...

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I'd like to spend some time with you,
my dark and smooth draftee.
At dusk, when all my work is through,
I know you'll wait for me.

You're full of body, fair on top,
a bubble-head they say.
Your scent of roasted malt and hop
a working-man's bouquet.

Although there's fire in your veins,
Your touch is always cool.
I hope this doggerel explains
why, Stout, I am your fool....

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A Balliol rhyme is a doggerel verse form with a distinctive meter. A quatrain, with a pair of couplets (rhyme scheme AABB), with four beats per line. Written by the poet who elaborates on their character, exploits, or predilections.

Once was a bird who had enjoyed
her timeless spend became annoyed
when my new Tom bravely demands
cat's pointed views hid claw commands....

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Few and far between doggerel delights
Google gets it with sesquipedalian surprise
Forgive and forget gift of the gab
The sweet spot isn't always wizardry with words
So vis-a-vis what's tried and true
Is sharing something that's unique to you
Cookie cutters have never moved mountains

Checked with rhyme zone and syllable counter
Alliterisen Poetry Contest
2nd May 2023
Sponsored by: Joseph May...

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This writer of crime and verse
now remembered for couplets so terse,
A poem to 'show and tell'
this clever jingle-type doggerel-
so amusing,if written well !


Tribute to E(dmund) C(lerihew) Bentley (1878-1956) inspired by John's latest contest.Edmund 
created this form in his 'Biography for Beginners(1905) and is also known for the milestone in 
the crime genre he created with his 'Trent's Last Case (1913)...

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The crow took a crowbar, a dog a doggerel rhythm
         Both played their great innings, hoho,  they had that freedom
                                     Crow’s wife a cold fish
                                       Dog was so wolfish
             He made lunch a rough fish and all gained subtle treedom.


                                                "lxlxlxlxlxlxl"
                                                 '...

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You may as well put the shovel down
If you think this vivisepulture will be my end
I survived the suffocation of a small town
And I'll be damned if this is how I descend

Just another obsequious sycophant 
And a supercilious, self-aggrandizing fraud
In this room there is but one elephant
And it will most certainly break down the façade

I will use the stone you try to bury me with
To build on top of your house a splendid monolith...

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It is our poetic verse
That releases the restraints
Opening our minds eye 
To flowing sincere thought  

It is the flowing of ink
That becomes our salve
Healing our wounds and scars
Allowing us to be unafraid again

It is the poet’s candid opus
The voice of the untainted spirit
Transferring our tedious passions
From internal, to pen, to parchment,

It is our steadfast sanctuary 
Where we hide in total exposure
Our poetry is the end of  todays voyage
For we who dare to wander...

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?Twenty-Twenty-Two skidoo
your year is through
we’ve had too much
of you.

Supply chain
Ukraine
Insane

And one needn’t be clairvoyant
to know despite vaccines bivalent
Covid is here to stay.
Mask-up.

Climate overheating
sea levels rising
yet Buffalo freezing
perhaps the Bills
will win Superbowl LVII
in MMXXIII

Twenty-Twenty-Two skidoo
your year is through
we’ve had too much
of you.

I classified this as free verse but there should be a category for doggerel...

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