True Story
...Walking in the front door with my sisters in tow, the phone on the sideboard in the dining room started ringing incessantly. Upon answering the phone, a very determent voice accosted my ear with, ‘Y...
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Categories:
accosted, death, grief, parents, satire,
Form: Other
To a future Lover
...I am watching 3 inches off of the floor,
The man outside waits at my door
I know the screams from within the box
Howl and call upon your order upon the rocks
But I know you can hold your tongue ...
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Categories:
accosted, desire, solitude, youth,
Form: Sestina
I’m being accosted by five lines in search of a poet
...I’m being accosted by five lines in search of a poet.
They’re gonna request I turn them into a limerick, I just know it.
But I fear that their end rhymes are totally wrong,
and that three of the l...
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Categories:
accosted, allusion, humorous, nonsense, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Missed In The Chocolate Room Wonka Tribute
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Cocoa tacos and cacao pizza,
fudge fries for sweet crème dipping;
I missed one! Forgive my amnesia;
A jello slide right into gumballs,
just be careful how you ride down;
Children are accos...
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Categories:
accosted, children, chocolate, dream, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Buddha and the serial killer
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“Who is
Wandering
Over There?
Stop at once”
He accosted
Buddha.
He was a seri...
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Categories:
accosted, devotion,
Form: Concrete
Crimson Lips
...The lights come on at night, and I find myself in the library with others. Each one is doing their objective, and I see you sitting in the dark corner of a room, looking out the window. I wondered if...
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Categories:
accosted, anxiety, appreciation, emotions, friendship,
Form: Prose
In Sickness
...When you were in the hospital, dear
My heart was filled with a dreadful fear.
I begged God to spare your pretty life
And went home with worry for my wife.
The strain on both my body and mind
W...
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Categories:
accosted, care, emotions, fear, god,
Form: Couplet
My Son Asked Siri to Play Mr Tangerine Man
...It happened around 10:05am and then
Somebody was parked in my driveway
I accosted the man
He opened the driver's window
Before I could speak he pinched my cheek.
"Cheers." He drove away
B...
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Categories:
accosted, chocolate, music,
Form: Free verse
Mugged
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Present, wrapped on sight
Leaning bows look forward, close (clothed)
Familiar, sents
It's breeze of wheeze, squeeze
utter grip center, maw, ...
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Categories:
accosted, art,
Form: Other
Do You Not Feel the Fear Here
...Carrie thought the forest had an ominous feel.
The shadows frightened her; she expected to be accosted.
Her cousin Sheila was humming a tune, skipping, chatting.
Don’t you feel the fear here? Carr...
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Categories:
accosted, nature,
Form: Free verse
My Knees-
..."I was walking in my sin in the past I was covered up to my knees in manure. it stunk but it didn't last God made the fragrance sweet aromatic. He challenged me to be all that I am. More than I am so...
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Categories:
accosted, analogy, appreciation, devotion, god,
Form: Narrative
City Life
...For six years I lived the big city LIFE
If you asked, I would give you ADVICE
Asphalt jungle covers the TURF
Mile after mile of heartache and HURT
Violent crimes are hard to AVERT
Many good peop...
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Categories:
accosted, america, city, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Pranker and the Prankee
...THE PRANKER AND THE PRANKEE
Pranking might be a game to a pranker
But an unpremeditated shocker.
The prank might become costly
Cos when you presumed it'll be funny,
the fun becomes a life bre...
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Categories:
accosted, 1st grade, hilarious,
Form: Rhyme
Access: Denied
...So have I a stony heart fit in course
Incarcerated imprisoned by my sins
blinded in mine heart skips a beat fragile and tall
Sin Access denied
Been rebirth again
Now do soar, fly...
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Categories:
accosted, analogy, anxiety, betrayal, caregiving,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Field Day Shoe Fit For Mother Goose
...A field day shoe fit for Mother Goose
Fruitless effort squeezing figurative juice
Pandora called triggering
helter skelter to get loose
necessitating Bullwinkle J. Moose
to usher at yours t...
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Categories:
accosted, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Rhyme
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