Vocabulary Poems - Poems about Vocabulary

I could use common vocabulary, but to be honest I never liked it; The dictionary or the library, a scavenger hunt I’ll gladly commit; Buried within a myriad of books, or a placement on some forgotten list; Oh, the poetry that a word unhooks! Without that piece it’s so easily missed; Recalibrating an old phrase with flare, rearranged letters liven up the line; Describing the...

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(Piece is intended to be the most complex vocabulary gothic ever) Grandiloquence, mellifluous pulchritudinous, gaiety of quintessential moistening serendipity, bile deluge if you show the sanguinary breath, crimson waterfall sizzling on lava rock hellscape. Yclept necrophelia maestra, macabre tableau, dips douse abyssal incarnate, now choreographs and composes cannibalistic magnum opus, symphonies of squealing cacophony, phantasmagoric vile orchestra pulsate slay, hue garnet lachrymose veins heterogeneous idiosyncrasies. Erebus unleashed a...

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When I can’t write, I feel a knot in my chest. A building pressure tight like a bullet proof vest and an itching in my hands that just will not rest. It’s not a lack of paper and pen, I’ll scratch poems onto the walls. Type them on my phone as I walk through the...

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Flowers are the divine vocabulary That God uses to compose heaven's literature Of Eternal beauty. © Demetrios Trifiatis 08 September 2023...

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I love vocabulary games, and these odd words came up in English words games, recently: Bute ( I know "Butte" but not BUTE) & "abseil," "landau," and even "Bourne" (identity?). A poem about a simpler word, FLIERS. When we say FLY, Buzzing by and by Which is it? Plane or insect? But when we use "Fliers" The letters reveal secrets: "liFe,"...

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My vocabulary is scooting up like a weed in a as-fault jungle I mean, it's so incredulous how many unhackneyed words I've cognized lately... So I'm going to give me a standing ovulation and throw it up for me, mice elf, and aye ~ ...

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V anishes from my memory when writing O asis metaphors to fill some lost forlorn soul C achinnating reclusive in their space A ccomplishable feat: who knows? B amboozlement as if a magical potion served L iterature that becomes a leader A bundant, adorable, and accurate vocabulary R esides within a Merriam-Webster dictionary Y ...

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Let me read you like a book, Allow me to understand the hardest phrases in your vocabulary, Taking all the time to smile, laugh and cry like you did, And when am done,allow me to be a part of the next chapter....

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I feel like an antiquity some relic from the past crumbling at the edges eroded over time aging has arrived There are fissures in my proud steel plated armor once invincible reality is bringing with it a heavy blow it creeps upon you like a stealth thief in the night now you berate yourself for being caught unaware new words slip into your vocabulary things like “possible stroke” a...

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One by one, the second graders Marched up to the mic, Masked and costumed, though no two Were dressed at all alike. For each wore something – shirt or hat Or giant oaktag sign To illustrate the word that he Or she had to define. Class by class they stated names And proudly said their word, Then used it in a sentence Until everyone was heard. Their...

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Boss is always right! Yes, we do keep this in mind. But when we fight, we are always right! And that is the moment we need perfect words to impress and to win …no, we can’t afford to lose…for it becomes a matter of do or die! Gear up, lets prepare to rant and fight! Yah!...

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Vocabulary is Vital to all language Voiced or when written down Verbosity can be Very annoying in Various settings in Verbose conversations 5-6-2021 Pleiades V Poetry Contest Sponsor: Kim Merryman...

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Perception David J Walker Imagination has no boundary With additional vocabulary Darkness is nothing without light Believing only what we can see Only what we perceive to be real Creating a world from scraps of How we think we feel About the unseen and uncertain Reality of a different world That can only be explained Where not everything is named But...

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new terms on your terms~ the luxury ignorance earns ***...

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There are a few things one says with a blink “In the blink of an eye,” comes to mind, don’t you think? It means it’s done quickly, for except if one’s dead The blink of an eye is an instant, it’s said Unless you have happened to have had a stroke Then blinking takes longer, and that is no joke But...

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