Just a John Denver Song
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I tried to write a song like John Denver would have done
Thought the way to do it was to emulate each one
Went to Colorado for a Rocky Mountain High
Found heaven near Shenandoah, but inspiration...
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Categories:
at wits end, inspiration, introspection, song,
Form: Lyric
Wits End
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When feeling
really desperate
almost at wits end
Wait ~ for you must realize
many folk are so much worse
than you will ever know
So positive thinking
remembering fol...
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Categories:
at wits end, anxiety, sad, sympathy,
Form: Free verse
Cul-De-Sac
...“Oh weary hermit, etch these words in stone ~
God is within, we never walk alone”
~ quote by poet
Dear God, give us our joy back;
our life’s reached a cul-de-sac,
with heart caug...
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Categories:
at wits end, faith, god, heart, hope,
Form: Jueju
Baneful Brickbats Begat Grievous Barrier
...Baneful brickbats begat grievous barrier
Tell tale indelible woe y'all
privy to learn yours truly harbors
traces of the masterful
impregnable prepubescent wall
still extant scads of decades si...
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Categories:
at wits end, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Sleep, the Lost Companion
...The desire so strong to have a great night’s sleep
The shortcomings are how one feels when the morning greets?
An old lost companion who resides in the thickness of night
That presence becomes m...
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Categories:
at wits end, sleep,
Form: Free verse
So Close and Still So Far
...Locating door D-75
Of a large colony on a drive,
At last close, ah D-74!
I must be right at destiny’s door.
But the next turns out B-68!!
What, lost at the very Pearly Gate?
So I felt midway th...
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Categories:
at wits end, humor,
Form: Sonnet
Overload
...Fire raged through heavy wooded terrain,
Blizzard hit the panhandle hard,
Bad windstorm slammed the western plains,
Mudslides hid hundreds of backyards.
Brutal sandstorm swept throu...
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Categories:
at wits end, america, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
The Buzzword Leader
...Why is it Return On Investments
when one’s only Interest is in Returns,
to achieve my end, when I see lethargy
I tag my team as lacking in Synergy.
In my mad pursuit masked as ...
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Categories:
at wits end, business, humor,
Form: Free verse
A Foreshadowing
...I've heard it all my life: Wahoo!
"Sticks and stones may break your bones
but words will never hurt you."
It’s all in the accents and tones.
"A toodlerump! Jonathan Blasterscripp!”
yelled a ...
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Categories:
at wits end, 11th grade, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Baneful Brickbats Begat Grievous Barrier
...Traces of the masterful
impregnable prepubescent wall
still extant scads of decades since
complex edifice erected to force tall
permanently leaving me unmoored,
marooned, and furloughed ready fo...
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Categories:
at wits end, analogy, discrimination, heartbreak, image,
Form: Free verse
Onerous Ordeal
...(strike while the iron's hot, else...
up prize cold hard steel Goldfinger
rewind: the following case in point).
Believe me you (stranger out there
along the information super highway),
perhaps...
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Categories:
at wits end, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Partiality
...I'm really feeling sad for folks
they're almost at wits end
Don't seem to care if Cops get shot
(that's those you won't defend)
Notice you aren't yelling loud
for christians, (just the rest)
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Categories:
at wits end, america, betrayal, conflict, environment,
Form: Narrative
Rattle the Chain
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Ta'likra
was a most stubborn slave
He loved to rattle the chain
It was a sound of pure defiance
that echoed across the lush plantation terrain
Son of Antuk
had a pygmy burning bush spiri...
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Categories:
at wits end, america, anger, black african
Form: Epic
Snoring Disaster
...When Cyris snored it shook the house piers,
Reducing his wife to constant tears,
At wits end she put a peg on his nose
To stop where the emanating air noise grows,
But unfortunately it blew off b...
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Categories:
at wits end, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Lonely
...Lonely, empty, void and feeling blue,
Like I just don't know what to do.
I have a large family, I've got many friends,
Yet it seems just like I am at wits end.
I am seeking and searching for tr...
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Categories:
at wits end, emotions, inspirational, lonely, sin,
Form: Rhyme
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