More Than Ink
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I Adamantly Refuse to Care or Show Concern,
After All
I Served Sincerely and Genuinely, Now I Sever
Hoaxed Mundane Emotions that No Longer Appeal to My Growth
Flippantly Burning Icy Bridges
T...
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Categories:
bantering, betrayal, poetry,
Form: Free verse
as the tide goes
...The long fun bantering conversations
Eye to eye
Lazer beams
Side by side
In the crowd
Walking into the evening glow
Over the glasses of umerock and namachuu
The smooth and calm sway of the tra...
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Categories:
bantering, dream, eve, fear, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep
...Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep...
versus being alive
predicated victory videre licet lunatic
if Trump trumped Kamala Harris
and stole 2024 presidential election,
(whereat Musk brib...
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Categories:
bantering, absence, america, angst, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
I Did Not Care
...She is cross eyed someone argued.
I ignored this, for I did not care.
And she slashes her sword the wrong direction.
Up and down in the air.
She wears her captain hat crooked.
It is always fal...
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Categories:
bantering, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Desperate Hope - II
...This intrusion on my psyche tosses
a faint desire for up-smelling roses.
My shrink says this urge imposes losses
that the former countereffect poses.
I'm unable to muster the streng...
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Categories:
bantering, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Sonnet
Witches Stirring the Soup's Brew
...Three busy witches stood stirring a stew
Cauldron filled with freaky things for a brew
Each Halloween they made
soup in their escapade
Adding ingredients to a brown roux
Jan, of cou...
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Categories:
bantering, halloween, humor,
Form: Limerick
Gloriously Luxuriating In Eternal Sleep
...Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep
Forlorn; bereft of golden
(slippered) opportunities I weep;
Three score and four years
replete with mailer daemons,
hence mindset adrip
with self denou...
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Categories:
bantering, age, angel, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Reach For the Sky
...I watched as the lights flashed and golems of flame entered this serene green temple heave our hands closed our eyes we began to vomit flies we comported hand got onto the backs of horses for we were...
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Categories:
bantering, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Mocking Dance of the Dead
...Written: September 19, 2023
Mocking The Dead Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Silent One
"Do not be afraid of death. Death transforms to something wider. Death is where it all...
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Categories:
bantering, analogy, bereavement, death, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
They're Cute At This Age
...subtitled: The Bolder Boys (rivals of The Golden Girls)
written for a word bank contest - twenty really weird ones
Two graying seniors with appalling chimera
bantering back and forth - mental ...
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Categories:
bantering, 11th grade, old, retirement,
Form: Quatrain
Skin
...skin
a lonesome word set above all others
provoking one to strain beyond the epithet
curious to discover the oracular journey
of a single utterance…
skin
will this bard’s quill paint ...
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Categories:
bantering, inspiration, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Chinese Translations I
...Chinese Poets: English Translations
These are modern English translations of poems by some of the greatest Chinese poets of all time, including Du Fu, Huang O, Li Bai, Li Ching-jau, Li Qingzhao, P...
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Categories:
bantering, children, heaven, moon, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Trixie Is the Main Conspirator
...titters and whispers of the evening
elusive to my conscious mind
bantering and laughter
they make fun of my nightly death
Trixie is the main conspirator
I am out of body, floating
Dare eac...
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Categories:
bantering, muse, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Fly On the Wall
...Rep. Kevin McCarthy is powwowing
with Pro-Trump, QAnon-loving kook, Greene.
The big contentious meeting!
So is he taming Jezebel as we speak?
Nop...
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Categories:
bantering, perspective, political,
Form: Political Verse
Tautogram Form Letter B
...Babbling bantering behind bashful backs
Bolstering bizarre behavior between brawling brothers
Before bogus betrayals bragging both bravo
Benevolent beguile beginning bequeath
Borrowed broker b...
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Categories:
bantering, poetry,
Form: Tautogram
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