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Premium Member why didn't Austin Butler start singing 'trouble' by Elvis Presley during the fight scene in Dune
it was therefore disappointing but what ain't hardcore science fiction climate fiction ecological lollocks hero's journey balloon juice Patrick Stewart on the baliset is the definition of rock and roll keep your expectations low going into the cinema keep them low on the film keep them low on the audience for there can be no greater relief leaving the theatre when you say to a friend, 'thank christ everyone...

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Categories: austin, anger, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member JASON, AUSTIN AND STEPHANIE
It’s been 10 years since I retired from teaching… but…every now and then…happily…some of those old memories soar… This week awakened by a letter…a photo… and a chance meeting at a grocery store. The letter was from Jason…an old student… in his letters…for me he always prays… We’ve been writing back-and-forth for years. His letter arrived today. The photo was of Stephanie… Her beautiful...

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Categories: austin, teacher,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Online Homework With Austin
Technology rage That's all my free time gone The teacher won't believe me ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Grandson and Grandad composition...

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Categories: austin, homework,
Form: Free verse
Boston To Austin
It’s all good, it will be The printer will print Will that settle the soul? For now anyway? It’s not about the TV Or the lack of furniture Or worry about money Or who likes you or not It’s about perspective How to understand what happens In the wide open space That is life, the future It’s what we can control the wisdom of age...

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Categories: austin, children, mother daughter, moving
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Daver Austin
ANIMAL COURT I relate this story from my room in the Quiet Vale Giggling Academy A reader might find my story hard to believe BUT! At one time in my life – As a matter of fact quite recently – I had just finished Dr. Doolittle’s great study ‘Talk to the Animals” And after several months of following Doolittle’s observations Found I could actually...

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Categories: austin, animal, humor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Daver Austin
BEING JOAN MIRO All the common fears and complaints of life may be put to canvas one...

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Categories: austin, art, people, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Daver Austin
THE ABSENT YEARS life becomes so sweet so precious life to the eye life in all its forms – the rock strewn stream bubbles life even those worn-round pebbles a silver fish drowned soaked to death in my shower strange how sad i felt after watching it struggle after offering nothing like mixed emotions when i tangle spider’s web the tiny worker tiny artist full of life and i so...

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Categories: austin, death,
Form: Free verse
Three Words
when you love someone you should never hesitate to tell them unafraid of hearing it back love isn’t based on reciprocation but what is given say it confidently say it loud but don’t hold it in love is a strong feeling holding it in can destroy you but for what? because your scared? be brave in the game of love because you could pass...

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Categories: austin, best friend, boyfriend, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What's Under the Tree Should Be From Austin Macauley
There they go down the street Even before they had anything to eat During this tradition that has no admission People have a wide-eyed appeal Since this party is truly the real deal When marchers march, dancers dance, and balloons fly knowing they are there to introduce one special guy. It is Santa Claus of course...

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Categories: austin, boxing day , celebration, chanukah,
Form: Rhyme
Partial Solar Eclipse -- Austin 30 May 1984
There was a solar eclipse today. Only partial, but enough to make you want to look. It made me sad. I didn't have a piece of smoked glass or ultra-dark Ray Bans, and certainly not a solar scope. Looking up, I saw the sun flash through leaf-made pinholes waving in the breeze. Disappointed, I looked down,... and discovered a thousand crescent...

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Categories: austin, nature,
Form: Free verse
Round 1 New York Won
Round 1: New York won! By Brett Somers Written 10-13-2018 Like a ghost in the shadows New York People and places and vaporware faces New York Experience of magnitude To have everything in the world Yet what at all? Transient position Always moving New York Cool spots, cool spaces Beautiful faces New York Astounding architecture Money and merchandise A workers paradise New York Does one settle? In New York Rent is rising Always compromising Who’s your friend...

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Categories: austin, appreciation, art, city, money,
Form: Free verse
There Is a House In Austin
There is a town in Austin they call "the Roach Motel," for many a poor roach that entered there a sticky fate befell. Now roaches, you keep our of there whatever may entice, for any roach may enter once, but never enter twice. My father as a crawler, who crawled from dive to dive, but he steered clear of roach motels, and therefore did survive. Guests of...

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Categories: austin, allegory, insect, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Austin On Jeopardy
If you've recently watched Jeopardy, Austin's a mind blower With unbelievable knowledge and a delightful antics ogre Keeps all of us watching Big dollars he's notching But someone will end the reign of this brilliant all knower...

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Categories: austin, celebrity,
Form: Limerick
Austin Commute
It wasn't so bad this morning But I arrived an hour early If I'd left later— even a few minutes? Only the clock will tell After all It's only my first time...

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Categories: austin, jobs, work,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Streets of Austin
I live alone in this broken down house My dreams once lived here but they have faded Like the paint on the west side of the house To many years facing the music I kept to myself and stayed in the shadows The tears don’t twinkle in the dark You will find the door locked No one has been inside in...

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Categories: austin, anti bullying, art, beauty,
Form: Narrative

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