Becoming, a translation from Rabindranath Tagore, part one
...Becoming, a translation from Rabindranath Tagore,
Still, halfhearted I see, for a blossoming may
I am an audacity, yet underneath in serenity, oddity
I shall be someday, grandiose, someone
I shal...
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Categories:
backend, baby, giving,
Form: Free verse
Trash of Charon
...It’s quite a sight
To be rescued by a garbage truck
Before anyone or anything else with luck
Rises
So early this morning
After the big snow
Schools closed business delayed
Road uncut by an...
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Categories:
backend, environment, february, forgiveness, god,
Form: Free verse
Backend of March
...Bird-song returns.
The lingering dead sweep their ghost
under a softening earth.
A Carolina Wren jabs and hops
in a small ring of pale sunlight
ready to fight a hawk
if one may dare.
In the ...
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Categories:
backend, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Kissing Seventh Cousins-
...Relish jealous
Constant fetish
Backend catching
Missing subject
Constant breakup
Faithless what's up
Distant cousin
Dirty dozen
10/24/20
Written words by James Edward Lee ...
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Categories:
backend, analogy, character, devotion, engagement,
Form: Footle
Backend of March
...Bird-song returns from the lingering dead.
A Carolina Wren jabs and hops
inside a miniscule ring of pale sunlight.
In the back of a cold season
the wind dresses a scarecrow
with spiny ...
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Categories:
backend, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Never Going To Stop the Devil's At the Door Part 2
...Knock knock guess who’s back for more,
thought you’d seen the last of me oh you shouldn’t be so sure,
Knock knock guess what’s now in store,
you only won the battle we’re still at damning war
B...
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Categories:
backend, anger,
Form: Rhyme
You Can Hide But You Can'T Run
...A man on crutches in camouflage
Stole my wallet while in my garage
“You can hide but can't run
Coz you'll fall on your bum
End up in jail with a backend barrage”...
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Categories:
backend, funny,
Form: Limerick
The County Fair - Palindrome
...At the county fair when the time keeper went toot.
Little Natan riding a ewe bolted out of the shoot
Keeping his weight level was quite a fight
Mo...
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Categories:
backend, boy, fun,
Form: Free verse
Blessed
...Sometimes I pity myself when life doesnt go my way, or blame my mental health for things left undone that day, I pity myself for things that have happened, because I fail to see all the blessings on ...
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Categories:
backend, blessing, endurance, fear, mental
Form: Rhyme
The Four Stages
...Life is a playground, the fun never ends.
Not a care in the world, just run around with your friends.
Doodling on the walls
Playing house with your dolls.
Chasing boys around with cooties
But on...
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Categories:
backend, age, granddaughter, identity, life,
Form: I do not know?
A Deadly Weapon
...Sometimes I fart like an AK-47
People run for cover in fear
With panic on their distorted faces
They can tell my end is near
Not from a fear of death they run
It's the indescribable odour
Something ...
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Categories:
backend, funny, natural disasters,
Form: Quatrain
The Newspaper's Portrait of Life and Human Existence
...The slimy backend of the American Dream
Coming to a screeching halt on an anonymous highway
The AC Press horrendously portrays the days events
Why do people read this discharge?
Isnt the same reason...
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Categories:
backend, business, people, political,
Form: Free verse
I Hate Hoodrats
...I hate hoodrats,
To me they are no match.
I hate them with the passion.
I always prayed in the hood,
As a child, that when I got
Grown I would go buck wild
Beating anyone their backend mass,
B...
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Categories:
backend, black african american, education,
Form: Rhyme