Time Has Nothing to Do but Dance
...A crow struts into a bar,
it's a crow, not a native American.
There's a hot wind blowing through town
Texas Rangers are drinking on the job.
A young beauty is busy
capturing boys' hearts
on her...
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Categories:
adobe, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Thinking About Bread -Manna -1971
...
On one old album cover from my early high school days,
four young men pose casually in the center doorway
of a weathered beige adobe-looking building
with some cracks in its walls.
From left to...
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Categories:
adobe, music,
Form: Ekphrasis
Putin non gmo gluten free cheese on the ritz as a celiac to follow
...Putin non gmo gluten free cheese on the ritz as a celiac to follow
Initially written March 18th, 2023
and revised exactly two years later
tweaking the poem here and there
courtesy adding or sub...
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Categories:
adobe, absence, adventure, analogy, birth,
Form: Free verse
AH ALICIA HILTON DANITA DELMONT STRIPPERS MARTHA BRAE WITCH JAMAICAN BREACH
...SEVERE STALKING FROM LEFT OVER STRIPPERS FROM PETER CLUB IN TAMPA ALI IA HILTON TALISA SHAW DANITA DELMONT AGENT KIWANI BUGGS FROM MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND STABLE OF JHORES HE SHARE WITH PETER GARGANO I...
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Categories:
adobe, allah,
Form: Naat
Coco Tabletop and Grill
...walk the urban sprawl,
where skyscrapers pierce the sky
cities bleeding_assoc.
carnival lights bloodshot dreams that flee,
like squirrels unconfined biting frost of winter,
within the tumul...
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Categories:
adobe, environment, extended metaphor, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Dark Choice
...Last night, Dark Choice came to Samuel in a dream. Others have described Dark Choice as the Devil elegantly clothed. He is both mysterious and alluring. Samuel felt his peaceful slumber being threate...
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Categories:
adobe, angst, character, conflict, courage,
Form: Prose
Finger Painting
...Before he could draw his mind
da Vinci made cathedrals with his fingers.
We once built an adobe hut
in New Mexico,
I was surprised how alike it was
to a poem taking shape.
When it was done,...
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Categories:
adobe, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
adobe, beauty, bird, peace,
Form: Haiku
The Tragedy of Reginald King, Part Ii
...II.
Now Reg was good at pressing flesh,
always had a gift for the gab,
in twenty minutes the locals
treated him like the best friend they had.
He bought some drinks, but not too much,
did not...
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Categories:
adobe, history, lost, love, myth,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Advised To Face Africa
...I intend touring around the globe
For something I just wish to now probe:
Not how many guys wear clothes like robe
Nor how many would build with adobe;
Rather, whether it is now in vogue
To put ...
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Categories:
adobe, africa, america, evil, people,
Form: Rhyme
St Milt's Culinary Mission
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The Mission in Milton Creek, I’ve acquisitioned
Converted into the town’s culinary mecca
Aptly designed and scenicall...
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Categories:
adobe, appreciation, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
U R My Holy Soley U R--My Spokenword-
...You R my holy
You’re my Glory
You R my story
My solely, Hallelujah
Once thought myself lowly
Unholy
But Jesus in my life He role He,
Bestow me, uphold me
He’s mine Ghetto homi...
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Categories:
adobe, analogy, devotion, encouraging, god,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Not His People, Part I
...When Enrique came too, his head aching,
and his memory scrambled royally,
he found himself firmly tied to a chair,
his eyes were bleary, it was hard to see.
Something…a man, was standing before...
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Categories:
adobe, america, conflict, corruption, courage,
Form: Narrative
Description of Gods Eyes
...I’d not thought of it before
But could swear “Two” not “Four”
Or aren’t we His planned image,
Later with Sinners’ Damage?
Please tell others: “Dazzling Bright!”
Shone that way Met Moses’ sight!
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Categories:
adobe, appreciation, celebration, god, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Terra Incognita
...So strange this land, old and yet young.
Where is this place of tall green trees,
and grey-haired men in unknown tongue?
they must have traveled summer's breeze.
Adobe brick quonset "chalets"
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Categories:
adobe, 12th grade, america, creation,
Form: Rhyme
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