Avon by the Sea
...I didn't pull my weight
The boss was really sore
He said "you're second rate
and I won't take it anymore."
He continued raving
On how I was misbehaving
Said my job was not worth saving
An...
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Categories:
asbury, america, friend, ocean, places,
Form: Lyric
Warrior
...Duty sits on her right shoulder
Honor sits proudly on her left
She has honed herself a warrior
to never cry or become bereft
Her mighty sword fells the enemy,
one after one till they are done
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Categories:
asbury, adventure, women,
Form: Rhyme
I Found My Heart In San Francisco
...I have a great appreciation for the song,
"I left my heart in San Francisco"*, and I have
a great understanding of why one would leave
his/her heart in such a beautiful and most
enchanting city. ...
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Categories:
asbury, christian, feelings, god, love,
Form: Narrative
The Phoenix
...She nested upon
her self-made pyre
preparing for
another genesis
in blaze hues of love
and together they were
a combustible fire
She, the creature
exquisitely
forged by fire
eternally
ex...
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Categories:
asbury, animal, bird, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
I Am Made of Moments
...I am from spaghetti
from tomato pie and pigs feet dipped in sause
I am from mt Italian neighborhood
(treeless city streets.
I am from my grandfather's house
who I never met
I am from yell...
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Categories:
asbury, city, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Can You Please Wait a Second
...Can You Please Wait A Second...?
In steed of ye
mounting your stock
key high horse,
perhaps named Rock
Key, and head off...lock
stock and barrel,
who knows where,
now ...
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Categories:
asbury, assonance, character, endurance, light,
Form: Free verse
Speak To Me In the 60's
...Want you please speak to me in the 60's
In far out psychedelic rhymes
Take a ride beside the blacklight
On the Velvet Underground
Wake me up with the Strawberry Alarm Clock
Serving incense a...
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Categories:
asbury, innocence, love,
Form: Free verse
Asbury As Buried
...Below the wavy whispers in the melancholy sea
Sinks the timeless place where ships were once sailing fast and free
In the empty broken buildings glass and garbage thrown about
No one look...
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Categories:
asbury, loss, nostalgia, places,
Form: Rhyme