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Premium Member AKA 'Connie Mack'
Cornelius McGillicuddy Mack You can’t make up a name like that At baseball he took a loud whack (Managing the A’s to 3,731 wins) ~...

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Categories: aka, baseball, integrity,
Form: Clerihew
The Maiden’s Song aka The Bridal Morn translation
"The Maiden's Song" or "The Bridal Morn" is an ancient Middle English poem about a young girl, a bride, on the morning after her wedding day. The Maiden’s Song aka The Bridal Morn anonymous Medieval lyric loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch The maidens came to my mother’s bower. I had all I would, that hour. The bailey beareth...

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Categories: aka, bridal shower, girl, mother,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Interbrain Synchrony, aka Two Minds Meet
Monsieur, said she demure Madame, replied he lovely coiffure Garcon, said she ...

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Categories: aka, drink, food, international, language,
Form: Rhyme
AKA Turbo
Go away! Go away! I'm never letting you in! You're nothing but a walking, slimy, horny ball of sin You let drugs use you up 'til you're bouncing off the walls You're 21 years old! I'm 39 years old! You're killing me, Smalls! Go fvck with people of your own minuscule age You still have to play with baby witches...

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Categories: aka, boy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member old gooseberry aka the devil
old Gooseberry biding his time sending the reaper to collect the damned sitting on his throne unconcerned, unhurried choosing new minions for tomorrow’s soul collections...

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Categories: aka, dark,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Et tu, Hunter - aka Back to Bambi
To keep his mind off his father's woes Hunter became a Trumper Soon his left foot started drumming ~ It 'mis-heard' he was a...

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Categories: aka, animal, fantasy, father son,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member What is the truth, merely a reality one minute to the next aka snapping out of it
start writing-she said as if she knew about the contents of her head shave off pieces ...

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Categories: aka, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mirrin meaning cloudy or maybe I'm confused aka mirror
"As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner" Rumi I can get as close as I like You wouldn't, couldn't back away Though I'll become hazy Air from my lungs capable of obscuration But incapable of breathing life into you Closeness feeds on flaws An insatiable appetite in me Wishing to learn of when and why you'd...

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Categories: aka, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member WIND aka homer
Notus so wet & wild Eurus a dryer warm child Zephryus a sudden gale Boreas brutal outside the icy pale...

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Categories: aka, weather, wind,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Desperate Hope - III: AKA: Alas, Poor Yorick, I Knew Him:
"We've a choice, it's up on the board." ... "Be quick and write it down." "Do you have it?" "Yes!" ... "Well, let's be away from here, time's a-running." "There are too many eyes and too many else ... let's move on." "Here, by the clearing ... now give it here, let me have a look." "Just as I...

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Categories: aka, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Profundity, aka the Sixty-four Cent Question
A tongue can lick And a foot can kick ~ Whence cometh yon vapors...

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Categories: aka, deep, language, senses,
Form: Questionku
Premium Member The Corruption of Modern Times aka Colonization of the Sacred
("Before And After Science", 2023, original encaustic) The Corruption of Modern Times aka Colonization of the Sacred There are traditions Passed down in ear-whisper lineages And Dead Sea scrolls Dream journeys and alien visitations These are the timeless traditions of the soul And as such have remained safely outside of time In little pockets and distant hermitages Where souls can breathe and thrive. But the...

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Categories: aka, corruption, psychological, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Modern Times aka Confessions of a Consumer
Being bigger, better, faster, stronger These modern times, a far cry from Being saner, kinder, gentler, wiser, Are a cancerous race to satisfy the insatiable. With our advance into abundance We have lost touch With the old world Of tradition, balance, moderation, restraint. Instead we now have all that we dream, Each of us a Midas Able to grasp If not ever hold. Able to spoil and...

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Categories: aka, introspection, psychological, society,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dancing with the Devil aka The Universal Solvent
When the Devil shows his hospitality And tempts you with your own resentment Do you flee, fight or freeze, Or simply laugh and offer your hand In gratitude. (11/20/23) ...

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Categories: aka, appreciation, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member All Things Fall Apart - Aka Everything Is Nothing
("Eye of Newt", 2020, original encaustic) All Things Fall Apart (aka Everything is Nothing) All things fall apart because all things naturally self-destruct as entropy exerts its shadowy force. Order, or whatever we posit as non-chaos is thus fleeting held up by causes and conditions that are themselves fleeting. Thus the shadow of non-existence permeates all form, all thought, all notion of existence, as its true nature. All...

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Categories: aka, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Narrative

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