Peace Over Wars Hover
...The fearsome sight of an armor
To an army ‘pleasing glamour,’
Now confirmed a raging rumor
Of that nice folks loathe like tumor…
A long thriving peace is over,
Bleak wars beginning to hover;
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Categories:
adjudged, clothes, death, people, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Coping With Bad News
...A great wonder Kim’s legs still carried him.
A lot in Sam’s remarks still worried him:
The Sam who’d been watching Dolly and Kim
Right from the day Kim was trapped by The Slim!
Sam’s bold comment...
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Categories:
adjudged, crush, love, perspective, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
A Feared Justice
...A lot of body shifts by an inch,
While vengeful killer teeth they clench:
A prosecutor is addressing The Bench,
Concerning dastardly murder of a wench
By a whisky-soaked German French
Whom he’s ...
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Categories:
adjudged, bullying, corruption, death, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Choose To Bow Or Not
...It’s long I last bowed
To the Adjudged Endowed;
Long I had vowed
To boycott any crowed
With voices irksomely loud
Or purposely proud
Which often got me cowed
Of feel “The Ploughed”
Or my peac...
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Categories:
adjudged, adventure, courage, integrity, pride,
Form: Rhyme
Water Borne Diseases
...Water-borne diseases
Man senselessly increases
With his trembling “No”
To drinks he doesn’t know
Instead of “The firmest”
That portrays “The Dead Earnest”
Water-borne diseases
One hopelessly...
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Categories:
adjudged, food, happy, health, water,
Form: Rhyme
Hare Brained
...Part 1
Once upon a time,
And very long ago.
Lived a rabbit and a tortoise,
Or so the story goes.
And if you have the time
Take a seat, pull up a stool,
And I'll tell you of the day
Tortoise...
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Categories:
adjudged, 10th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Child Adoption
...The ever congratulated option
Of willing absorption
Of a blood distant,
Making it yours, the next instant…
In a court surfacing,
All official papers filling,
An affidavit swearing,
One’s hon...
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Categories:
adjudged, emotions, parents,
Form: Rhyme
Becoming An Ex-Smoker
...Changing the habit hasn't been easy
Jubilant lip curves to free the breezy
Many trials delivering colossal failure
My efforts to quit robbed of allure
A new courageous attempt is again made
And...
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Categories:
adjudged, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Our Budding Chef -- Thanks
...Back when he was seven, our son won a contest
In his class, his turkey recipe adjudged the best
He was so happy, floating so high on cloud nine
but first prize was something less than 'quite...
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Categories:
adjudged, bird, boy, father, food,
Form: Narrative
Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 2
...[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cemen...
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Categories:
adjudged, society, truth, universe,
Form: Rhyme
A Season of Indigence
...A SEASON OF INDIGENCE
This drought and curse
Of hand to mouth;
An unrepentant encroachment of pauperism
Impregnating our back country
Discern,
Our bigwigs in back country
Stand aloof
While,...
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Categories:
adjudged, world,
Form: Free verse
Shoulda Read the Fine Print
...
SHOULDA READ THE FINE PRINT
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
in bygone days I did the football pools
and always hoped my X had marked the spot?
making sure that I had read all the rules
an age...
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Categories:
adjudged, judgement, truth,
Form: Sonnet
After the Meeting
...After the meeting
She no longer returns my calls
She rather hangs up her telephone anytime I call
save a few mistaken times that fell on deaf ears
causing an irreconcilable hindrance
to the cons...
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Categories:
adjudged, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Libel Or Slander, I Love Thee
......And so once more I summon
this courage to write of thy frame...
Though I wonder if this time I would
not be seriously charged for libel.
Albeit the last time I spoke of thee
just like this on...
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Categories:
adjudged, love,
Form: Rhyme
Juvenile Involvement-Zyx
...Zillion youths x-rayed when videotape unravel
the security risk, questioning people’s obligation ,
not many leaders know juvenile involvement
hoist great fellows ,excluding dangerous criminals
b...
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Categories:
adjudged, life, youth,
Form: ABC
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