the invisible threshhold
...the invisible threshold
i shall not hide
i shall not die
in fervors demeanors
mis-contraception
dedicate that grammar
under sheets i halt breads
nervous
nervous is samsara
the apprehension...
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Categories:
backstrokes, america,
Form: Free verse
Soupe Du Jour
...A cockroach did some backstrokes in Clyde's soup
He was quite alarmed and thrown for a loop
The waiter said no sweat
Sir, there's no need to fret
He won't co...
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Categories:
backstrokes, food, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Lost
...Let the games begin, may the best swimmer win, so is the tale at inception.
Unlike Michael Phelps, we are no geniuses at backstrokes.
It's a miracle, out of millions of possible combinations, we ev...
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Categories:
backstrokes, abuse, bullying, child abuse,
Form: Blank verse
The Bipolar Bear
...In Central Park, a polar bear
Would swim and swim and swim;
At least twelve hours every day
Was not enough for him.
His name was Gus and at the zoo,
A therapist was sought
To see if this obsession
C...
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Categories:
backstrokes, animal, urban,
Form: Rhyme
Spring
...distant hill
a river carrying
the spring
waters of spring
father backstrokes
into healthiness
spring drizzle
the bipinnate leaves
fold into shyness
spring day
spots of rosiness
in the bud
spr...
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Categories:
backstrokes, spring,
Form: Haiku
Canvas of Life
...The panels faded o'er time earlier creativity constrains
Yet the material value of past visions maintains
Canvas now tinted with darker hues; youthful vigor restrains
But each, underlying tone, burni...
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Categories:
backstrokes, allegory,
Form: Rhyme