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Arbitrarily Poems - Poems about Arbitrarily

like a breath of fresh air

...like a breath of fresh air...

and all things considered,
broadcast on national public radio
Frequency: 90.9WHYY-FM,
I (a liberal democrat)
counted myself as an avid fan
particularly listening...
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Categories: arbitrarily, absence, adventure, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOutlaw Band of Clatter

...The youth have teeth like tigers or tight ropes
Abundant mess of forest hair,    d u r e s s
They charge the strings with their electric hopes
And bloody drum with battered sticks possess

(Refr...
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Categories: arbitrarily, age, music,
Form: Lyric



Arbitrarily Betrothed

...Arbitrarily Betrothed

Aloft and betrothed, I flutter through some olden transgression. Lo! The attunement to the wise! Sickular gold shan’t be care’d for ailment any longer!
O’! How the gold glit...
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Categories: arbitrarily, sunshine,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEmotional Shrapnel

...Continuous cathartic resonance of black bashful veil,
imposing the darkest recess and its tangled tantrums amassed,
phases exist without problematic manifest intrusion illusory but for a while,
th...
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Categories: arbitrarily, anxiety, august, change, courage,
Form: Free verse

Diagnosed with NON contagious, yet incurable case of logorrhea

...Diagnosed with NON contagious, yet incurable case of logorrhea...,

yielded following resultant fiction,
which arbitrarily selected thread
first popped into my head
considered one among many pos...
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Categories: arbitrarily, absence, america, confusion, humorous,
Form: Free verse



Every January first of the new year

...Every January first of the new year...

finds me (a doggone muttering *****sapien)
to give pause for reminiscences
and to take stock (sh lock and barrel)
about mein kampf in general
and previou...
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Categories: arbitrarily, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse

his December 17th 2024

...This December 17th, 2024...

alternately titled: a literary retrospective when holiday times living hand to mouth in Penn Valley fraught with slim pickings and yours truly felt utterly miserable th...
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Categories: arbitrarily, absence, america, angst, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation

...Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation

Otherwise titled deep into my fiftieth year of passive aggressive rebellious puberty.

Yes, I chickened out getting a haircut yesterday August twen...
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Categories: arbitrarily, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice

...Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice

Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted   
to post poem acknowledging
the second of February,
where eponymous ground...
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Categories: arbitrarily, adventure, america, animal, celebration,
Form: Rhyme

Nope! I haint gonna crack'n on the heat just yet

...Nope! I haint gonna crack'n on the heat... just yet
until the cowed chickens come home to roost!

Sunlight streaming thru window
body electric of mine doth whet
begets hardiness to acclimate
ag...
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Categories: arbitrarily, adventure, america, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Rhyme

A Foregone Conclusion

...Life has surely broken me.
I’ve flunked out at Everything.
Why consider equally
When Options just desert Me?

Too grimed up, I cannot see
A single reason surfacing,
Hiding Places changing,
Co...
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Categories: arbitrarily, depression, divorce, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberShould We Be Proud

...How can we take pride in a country
that is sliding into dissolution and chaos?
We praise ourselves for ending slavery.
yet racial prejudice is still much with us.
We pay slave wages and refuse to...
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Categories: arbitrarily, anger, discrimination, political, sad,
Form: Free verse

A Psalm To Solemnize Pure Tin Forefathers Mothers

...A psalm to solemnize pure tin forefathers/mothers...

Who didst unknowingly, unquestionably, 
and unwittingly script vitality
and the prologue to Thanksgiving,
(which theme poem initially writte...
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Categories: arbitrarily, adventure, africa, age, america,
Form: Rhyme

Artistic Night Sky

...As dark canvas unfurls bit by bit
Randomly gulping down acrylic paints of dusk
To satisfy his own thirst, not for long, to sprawl
Into a magical cosmos - flapping his d...
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Categories: arbitrarily, night, sky,
Form: Acrostic

Negligent Grooming Habits Unbridled

...Negligent grooming habits unbridled

Apathy toward mine personal hygiene
i.e. relinquishing attention
linkedin with bare toiletries,
cuz I rarely spruced myself up
nor never maple leave
to cea...
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Categories: arbitrarily, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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