WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE
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Knowing what you know now about life…
from the knowledge you’ve acquired every time you win…and every time you lose…
If you could, this moment, determine how to live the rest of your years…
whic...
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Categories:
alphabetically, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep
...Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep...
versus being alive
predicated victory videre licet lunatic
if Trump trumped Kamala Harris
and stole 2024 presidential election,
(whereat Musk brib...
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Categories:
alphabetically, absence, america, angst, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
sarikha
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love …
a crutch for you
but you wear it like a Prada suit
matching handbag, of course, to keep
your toys in …
(mostly men … alphabetically)
six-inch Blahnik stilettos for crushing
egos wit...
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Categories:
alphabetically, analogy, passion, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Critterature: The Dread Letter U
...If you've been keeping up,
Those who've read me will see
I've been writing 'bout animals
Alphabetically.
They've all behaved well,
Made their entrance on cue,
'til at last I arrived at the drea...
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Categories:
alphabetically, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Ferocious Oflaherty Wild Atlantic Way
...Why this is my tale
Of my family tree and roots
The what and where
My Gaelic Celtic
Surname origins came
Straight out of my Liverpool home
Retracing my heritage right back to
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Categories:
alphabetically, history, ireland,
Form: Free verse
Attributes of God Alphabetically
...AWESOME describes God's works
BEAUTIFUL to look upon His face
COMPASSIONATE is Jehovah's overall
DEPENDABLE always to the human race
ETERNAL in the heaven our God reigns
FAITHFUL to all His chil...
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Categories:
alphabetically, character, god, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Precisely
...(PoetrySoup Format)
Perfect,
always aligned alphabetically
(even the space between you and me)
is proper
and positioned,
Precisely
Clearly,
clothing is optional...
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Categories:
alphabetically, love, truth,
Form: Rhyme
From My Bookshelves
...Spiritual dragons – the ones that kill
reside and wait impatiently for seeking fingers.
Hobbits eat breakfast mushrooms
in a leather-bound shire.
Small books on overly large religions.
Poets and...
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Categories:
alphabetically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Paper Doll
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Pressed on perforated lines by a lonely playmate
Affiance instant, folding fingers christen simulate
Phantasm button nose, rosebud lips, locks flaxen
Escapist...
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Categories:
alphabetically, april, business, childhood, dark,
Form: Acrostic
Jinxed Jesting Jejune Junior Jobber
...Jinxed jesting jejune junior jobber...
just jabbering gibberish (A - J)
Again, another awkward ambitious
arduous attempt at alphabetically
arranging atrociously ambiguously
absolutely asinine ...
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Categories:
alphabetically, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
Merlot
...To savor this glass I don't need to go
To see the French vineyards within Bordeaux
Or walk the wine cellars of a chateau.
It won't require to see where the grapes grow
Or squeeze their juices be...
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Categories:
alphabetically, happiness, peace, wine,
Form: Monorhyme
Happy Mother's Day 2022
...I remember my mom having a collection of hats she stored under her bed.
For any occasion that could arise…she had a hat to set atop her head.
Moms of today are different…often they go out with th...
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Categories:
alphabetically, mothers day,
Form: Rhyme
A Small Bookshop
...Ranks of glossy printed editions
squeezed into a concertina of space.
The acrylic smell of new books
is cordite to my nose.
Then in softer contrast,
the musky ambiance of the old and well-thum...
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Categories:
alphabetically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Judgment Day
...When Gabriel blows his heavenly trumpet
And awakens me from a sound slumbering
When all of our life scrolls are opened up
And the roll is called with loud thundering,
I’m so thrilled that my name...
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Categories:
alphabetically, day, judgement,
Form: Light Verse
Methacton High School Graduating Class Mcmlxxvii
...diploma acquired magna cum laude – double entendre
Xlv years elapsed since
I (former long haired pencil necked geek)
bid alma mater adieu,
the quietest kid, who never said boo
nobody discerned...
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Categories:
alphabetically, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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