Yours Truly a Tried and True Philly Buster Ii
...poetically, and zealously
oozing, gushing, bubbling over
with faux snobbish suave re:
pulse sieve literary fatuous
haughtiness, and ludicrous narcissistic pre
ning all the while chuckling to me
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Categories:
alee, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Silent Legion
...The Silent Legion
Tucked into closets both near and away,
Amidst cedar planks, now alee of the fray,
Rest class A’s once borne on frames
Straight and young.
A legion of aging uniforms hold f...
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Categories:
alee, character, inspirational, tribute, veterans
Form: Free verse
Tripping Point: An Opioid Odyssey
...Tripping Point: An Opioid Odyssey
There are lines we cannot see, hardly know exist
Until we cross them. Then, as if by trip wire,
The temptress snare catapults us into a world
Of primeval dark...
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Categories:
alee, addiction,
Form: Free verse
No Inflated Cheekiness For This Logophile
...I comport myself with quiet pridefulness,
plus intellectual whimsy
aware that "FAKE" pretentiousness,
could be mistaken foreign egotistical vitae
furthering, feathering and figuratively
undermin...
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Categories:
alee, america, change, father, grave,
Form: Free verse
Cecil County Maryland
...(Land that doth marry mother lode
of sublime earthen land and sea).
Age of exploration
ushered cruel fate
against “red” men living
in bliss by agents
patch of eden north
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Categories:
alee, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Messy Bessie
...Bessie, out hiking, had to pee,
She glanced about, choosing a tree;
To her distress
She made a mess:
Windward, she’d squatted, not alee....
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Categories:
alee, humor,
Form: Limerick
Her Beauty Dwells
...Her beauty dwells unfettered by
Disguise, pretense or scheme
But heaven-sent as dove in flight
Majestic and serene
She shows without, what glows within
Through purpose not misplaced
The warmt...
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Categories:
alee, love,
Form: Rhyme
Waiting Her Out
...Two doves atop a bare dead tree with uninterrupted view
Huddled close on a Summer's day with naught to do but coo
Birds stop by on top most branches chirp go their way and back
It's storm cloud...
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Categories:
alee, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Staysail
...Looking aloft
Envisioned dream
Dawn at Sea
Tides crash abeam
Seas mystery
Attempts to bend
Ready bow
Sails to mend
Backstay about
Apparent wind
A close reach
Clew torn within
Naviga...
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Categories:
alee,
Form: I do not know?