Soup Creek Limericks-Updated
...Another showdown in Soup Creek, I s'pose
Someone's got a wedgie in her pantyhose
It's another outcast
who likes to lambast
A bad attitude she chose to expose
Folks in the Creek asked w...
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Categories:
bartend, community, conflict,
Form: Limerick
Alarming Speed
...3/20/22
Going at an alarming speed
Taxes and parking fees
Across uncharted seas
I'm in the presence of sharks and trees
Keeping any B.S. far from me
Among constant conflict and chaos, I've ...
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Categories:
bartend, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Gambler
...The steely-eyed hombre stepped down from the stage that sultry afternoon.
He looked about with disdain, then swaggered to the Cripple Creek Saloon.
His hat lay low upon his brow and swung low was a...
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Categories:
bartend, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Black Cloaked Man
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In one ghost whisper of a town,
the mourning sunset had bloodshot eyes
A tombstone place that was
long shadow
past it’s boomtown prime
Withering eureka hope fills the short cu...
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Categories:
bartend, allegory, death, symbolism, violence,
Form: Epic
Comfort In a Cookie
...I swear there’s no heaven
I’m just twenty seven
Two toddlers, never married
Two fathers, my life far too harried
I bartend and wait tables
My life doesn’t resemble storybook fables
I live...
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Categories:
bartend, addiction, children, drink, fear,
Form: Narrative
Jeremiah Slade
...He rode in to Santa Fe one summer day on a broken-down, sweaty nag.
All he owned was the clothes on his back and the Bible in his saddle bag.
He wore a suit of black, an old slouch hat, both so dusty...
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Categories:
bartend, humorous, religion,
Form: Rhyme