The Pirates of Wales
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The Challenge ~ The Milford Haven Harbor shielded Wales
from pirates making merchant ships their prey.
Her ports have cradled many from the gales
and swaddled sailors as her pirates pla...
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Categories:
badgered, adventure,
Form: Sonnet
Feeling Irie Now
...My joy surrounds me with character
beauty essence I bow to the on lookers
I dance to the sweetest sound all over town
of lovely joyous Caribbean tunes melody
opens my eyes just one more time...
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Categories:
badgered, allah,
Form: Epyllion
Apothecary of Wordsmith Dreamscapes
...My sleep is disrupted, badgered
by incessant wordplay,
a thesaurus of woolgathering
in semi-conscious dreams.
I keep a voice recorder,
bedside, to record the tidbit morsels
Lest they're forgott...
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Categories:
badgered, dream, poetry, sleep, word
Form: Free verse
Slow Boat To China
...I was born in a landlocked getaway town
Where all the colors were black, gray, or brown.
Jobs at the steel mill were ratcheting down.
It was not in my future to stay.
So, I took a long walk off...
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Categories:
badgered, adventure, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Loved and Hated
...Those who love the badgered Greek,
His eternal comfort seek,
Had to him killers' plans leak
That they'd take him to some peak
And there his flesh pierce - A Beak,
The Torture to last a week
An...
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Categories:
badgered, allusion, bullying, death, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Badgered In Baltimore
...Badgered In Baltimore
Dear Blabby,
My bride of forty-five years has a cow whenever she suspects me of catting around. She calls me a little weasel and a snake i...
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Categories:
badgered, marriage, satire,
Form: Free verse
Ctrl-Alt-Delete - Wtf, Lmao
...When the program isn’t working like it should,
No rabbit’s foot, nor horseshoe’s gonna bring you any luck.
When the techie’s not around to make things good
Ya gotta figure out a way to get yoursel...
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Categories:
badgered, allegory, marriage, technology,
Form: Lyric
Oppressed, Suppressed
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We all know 'America' is classed as the land of the free
But any country can only be so, if it includes you and thee
Just like life is, irrespective of your circumstances, they be
For no...
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Categories:
badgered, abuse, age, angst, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
The Seat of Justice
...It's hard, stationary,
transfixed in place
weather-worn,
badgered by reactive innuendo
a sculpted image of someone's admiration
some hardened forgotten
deluded memory
recorded in a c...
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Categories:
badgered, america, future, identity, judgement,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Brassy Barry's Bumbling Bull
...Brassy Barry’s boastful bumbling Brana Bull
Badgered Billy’s bashful buffoonish Baboon
Into baking a boisterous Blackberry Bisque
Beyond bunking, Barry’s brave babysitter
boldly bellowed br...
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Categories:
badgered, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Alliteration
It - a Love Poem For the Romantically Un-Inclined
...There was never any controlling it?
No dodging it. Unloading it?
It stuck us both together and held us tightly in its grip
We tried our han...
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Categories:
badgered, emotions, feelings, funny love,
Form: Free verse
His Absence Haunts
...How can it be he is no longer here?
How can it be I do not hear that voice
His presence haunts me from his battered chair
Though I have money and no needs to bare
I feel the grief, the aff...
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Categories:
badgered, death, god, grief,
Form: Villanelle
My Grief,My Love
...How can it be he is no longer here?
How can it be I do not hear that voice
His presence haunts me from his battered chair
Though I have money and no needs to bare
I feel the grief, the aff...
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Categories:
badgered, africa, angst, death, grief,
Form: Villanelle
Poet-On-Demand
...I used to be a poet-on-demand.
Their curious faces looked at none but me.
When I did write, the poems turned to sand.
I would imagine stories swift and grand
and points of view, me, you, them, ...
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Categories:
badgered, art, confusion, fear, poets,
Form: Villanelle
Drama Queen
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She wanted a big production wedding,
badgered her fiancee into going along
with the bad idea
Get the marriage started off wrong
Money that needed to be saved, not squandered
on some...
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Categories:
badgered, allusion, conflict, identity, perspective,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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