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Satire is no Joke
I can take a joke
If you can take reality in reply.
I can laugh at myself for being wrong
If you can admit when I am right.
It is easy to hide behind a joke,
But "truth be told in jest,"
And I admire the role of satire
In pointing out the worst and best
But when its context has faded
And the honest purpose was never stated
You cannot blame the audience
For thinking its claims intended.
If you can take reality in reply.
I can laugh at myself for being wrong
If you can admit when I am right.
It is easy to hide behind a joke,
But "truth be told in jest,"
And I admire the role of satire
In pointing out the worst and best
But when its context has faded
And the honest purpose was never stated
You cannot blame the audience
For thinking its claims intended.
#satirical
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Natural Delights
Stunning out today
Let's randomly slay someone
Peace and love to you
Let's randomly slay someone
Peace and love to you
#senryu
#satirical
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Natural Delights
Stunning out today
Let's randomly slay someone
Peace and love to you
Let's randomly slay someone
Peace and love to you
#senryu
#satirical
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Beam Me Up Scotty
Blindsided by flying monkeys extorting your
mind with their self-made crack. Mooching
on fears with a nod and wink. Something strange
came my way unrestrained wearing a crown too
heavy for their head. Thinking Cream of Wheat
is Crème brûlée and I'm thanking a wizard
on the loose from the asylum. Spooning my
chowder with ibuprofen thanking from the
wrong end of a memory stick. "Beam me up,
Scotty."
mind with their self-made crack. Mooching
on fears with a nod and wink. Something strange
came my way unrestrained wearing a crown too
heavy for their head. Thinking Cream of Wheat
is Crème brûlée and I'm thanking a wizard
on the loose from the asylum. Spooning my
chowder with ibuprofen thanking from the
wrong end of a memory stick. "Beam me up,
Scotty."
#satirical
#WritingPoetry
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Beam Me Up Scotty
Blindsided by flying monkeys extorting your
mind with their self-made crack. Mooching
on fears with a nod and wink. Something strange
came my way unrestrained wearing a crown too
heavy for their head. Thinking Cream of Wheat
is Crème brûlée and I'm thanking a wizard
on the loose from the asylum. Spooning my
chowder with ibuprofen thanking from the
wrong end of a memory stick. "Beam me up,
Scotty."
mind with their self-made crack. Mooching
on fears with a nod and wink. Something strange
came my way unrestrained wearing a crown too
heavy for their head. Thinking Cream of Wheat
is Crème brûlée and I'm thanking a wizard
on the loose from the asylum. Spooning my
chowder with ibuprofen thanking from the
wrong end of a memory stick. "Beam me up,
Scotty."
#satirical
#WritingPoetry
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Drunk on Chance
I am drunk on the chance of my brief writes
as my pen chases its shade 'cross this page,
to a future as some bright leading light
Of fame as these writes write light to my nights
and I am hailed the greatest of an age
I am drunk on the chance of my brief writes...
as I believe I will reach greater heights
and take my rightful place on the world's stage
to a future of some bright leading light
and my blessed pen writes ' you have this right
and if need be...
as my pen chases its shade 'cross this page,
to a future as some bright leading light
Of fame as these writes write light to my nights
and I am hailed the greatest of an age
I am drunk on the chance of my brief writes...
as I believe I will reach greater heights
and take my rightful place on the world's stage
to a future of some bright leading light
and my blessed pen writes ' you have this right
and if need be...
#WritingPoetry
#villanelle
#satirical
#LifeAsAWriter
#PopCulture
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Drunk on Chance
I am drunk on the chance of my brief writes
as my pen chases its shade 'cross this page,
to a future as some bright leading light
Of fame as these writes write light to my nights
and I am hailed the greatest of an age
I am drunk on the chance of my brief writes...
as I believe I will reach greater heights
and take my rightful place on the world's stage
to a future of some bright leading light
and my blessed pen writes ' you have this right
and if need be...
as my pen chases its shade 'cross this page,
to a future as some bright leading light
Of fame as these writes write light to my nights
and I am hailed the greatest of an age
I am drunk on the chance of my brief writes...
as I believe I will reach greater heights
and take my rightful place on the world's stage
to a future of some bright leading light
and my blessed pen writes ' you have this right
and if need be...
#WritingPoetry
#villanelle
#satirical
#LifeAsAWriter
#PopCulture
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2 Comments
Drunk on Chance
I am drunk on the chance of my brief writes
as my pen chases its shade 'cross this page,
to a future as some bright leading light
Of fame as these writes write light to my nights
and I am hailed the greatest of an age
I am drunk on the chance of my brief writes...
as I believe I will reach greater heights
and take my rightful place on the world's stage
to a future of some bright leading light
and my blessed pen writes ' you have this right
and if need be...
as my pen chases its shade 'cross this page,
to a future as some bright leading light
Of fame as these writes write light to my nights
and I am hailed the greatest of an age
I am drunk on the chance of my brief writes...
as I believe I will reach greater heights
and take my rightful place on the world's stage
to a future of some bright leading light
and my blessed pen writes ' you have this right
and if need be...
#WritingPoetry
#villanelle
#satirical
#LifeAsAWriter
#PopCulture
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2 Comments
Drunk on Chance
I am drunk on the chance of my brief writes
as my pen chases its shade 'cross this page,
to a future as some bright leading light
Of fame as these writes write light to my nights
and I am hailed the greatest of an age
I am drunk on the chance of my brief writes...
as I believe I will reach greater heights
and take my rightful place on the world's stage
to a future of some bright leading light
and my blessed pen writes ' you have this right
and if need be...
as my pen chases its shade 'cross this page,
to a future as some bright leading light
Of fame as these writes write light to my nights
and I am hailed the greatest of an age
I am drunk on the chance of my brief writes...
as I believe I will reach greater heights
and take my rightful place on the world's stage
to a future of some bright leading light
and my blessed pen writes ' you have this right
and if need be...
#WritingPoetry
#villanelle
#satirical
#LifeAsAWriter
#PopCulture
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2 Comments
Drunk on Chance
I am drunk on the chance of my brief writes
as my pen chases its shade 'cross this page,
to a future as some bright leading light
Of fame as these writes write light to my nights
and I am hailed the greatest of an age
I am drunk on the chance of my brief writes...
as I believe I will reach greater heights
and take my rightful place on the world's stage
to a future of some bright leading light
and my blessed pen writes ' you have this right
and if need be...
as my pen chases its shade 'cross this page,
to a future as some bright leading light
Of fame as these writes write light to my nights
and I am hailed the greatest of an age
I am drunk on the chance of my brief writes...
as I believe I will reach greater heights
and take my rightful place on the world's stage
to a future of some bright leading light
and my blessed pen writes ' you have this right
and if need be...
#WritingPoetry
#villanelle
#satirical
#LifeAsAWriter
#PopCulture
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The Miller's Tale ( Pushkin Sonnet )
Young housewives—dark thrills inspire them;
but, when pressed for action doth feign
virtue against a parish man,
while bedding a more nobler Cane.
Ye husbands! heed this chronicle!
When deceit doth snake full circle
seeking to utterly deceive,
truth can be too hard to believe.
The poor husband, an innocent,
reputable among town folk,
unwittingly becomes a joke
in the sinner's moral dissent!
The husband prays for a godsend;
The parishioner! He's a...
but, when pressed for action doth feign
virtue against a parish man,
while bedding a more nobler Cane.
Ye husbands! heed this chronicle!
When deceit doth snake full circle
seeking to utterly deceive,
truth can be too hard to believe.
The poor husband, an innocent,
reputable among town folk,
unwittingly becomes a joke
in the sinner's moral dissent!
The husband prays for a godsend;
The parishioner! He's a...
#secrets
#betrayal
#parody
#satirical
#sonnet
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The Miller's Tale ( Pushkin Sonnet )
Young housewives—dark thrills inspire them;
but, when pressed for action doth feign
virtue against a parish man,
while bedding a more nobler Cane.
Ye husbands! heed this chronicle!
When deceit doth snake full circle
seeking to utterly deceive,
truth can be too hard to believe.
The poor husband, an innocent,
reputable among town folk,
unwittingly becomes a joke
in the sinner's moral dissent!
The husband prays for a godsend;
The parishioner! He's a...
but, when pressed for action doth feign
virtue against a parish man,
while bedding a more nobler Cane.
Ye husbands! heed this chronicle!
When deceit doth snake full circle
seeking to utterly deceive,
truth can be too hard to believe.
The poor husband, an innocent,
reputable among town folk,
unwittingly becomes a joke
in the sinner's moral dissent!
The husband prays for a godsend;
The parishioner! He's a...
#secrets
#betrayal
#parody
#satirical
#sonnet
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22 Comments
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