God, you’re devilish
...Hate is more potent than Love
as is darkness more awesome than light,
Silence’s more deafening than sound
Vice is more enticing than virtue
as is knowledge more enlightening than faith,
Passion ...
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Categories:
bedeviling, evil, hate, love,
Form: Free verse
Dictionary
...
The dictionary is bedeviling me,
Open at a whim,
To glance all the wonderful words within.
Caught in its spell,
The words jumble,
And tell,
All about the world without.
The...
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Categories:
bedeviling, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
Pequot River Land Trust
...Once,
or twice,
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal
A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted
sometimes hysterically clu...
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Categories:
bedeviling, blue, culture, environment, green,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Sacred Herstory
...As ancient matriarchal polytheism
of local, domestic economic circles
gave way to patriarchal elite empire-builders,
Transcendent monotheism not only overwhelmed
immanent herstoric polytheism
...
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Categories:
bedeviling, earth, health, integrity, peace,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Great Recycling Retransition
...Icons are funny things,
she thought.
Heaven feels like a warm light circle
when we are thriving
and more like a cold dark triangle
of weaponed tipping points
against me
and mine
competitive...
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Categories:
bedeviling, health, identity, integrity, psychological,
Form: Political Verse
The Orphers' Inferno
...Two true taboo nocturnal friends
Bedeviling the vernal places;
Un-men unto un-town's undead ends,
Under wrinks in mansworld's faces;
Take care me boys, wear Wolfrat clothes -
Make sure you're...
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Categories:
bedeviling, city, environment, friendship, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Galvanized With Steely Mettle
...Countless instances submitting poems
finds me racking
quite a hefty collection of rejections,
the responses lacking
disappointing voluminous vicious
venomous vitriolic backing
quite the contrar...
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Categories:
bedeviling, abuse, courage, discrimination, growth,
Form: Bio
Time and Tide Wait For No Man
...Or Woman, Or Child, Or...
The following elucidated
conjecture actually can
(reed best) be taken with a grain
of salt, and no re ban
nah nah split 'ope ya 'ere me
cloud and lea...
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Categories:
bedeviling, 11th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Deadened Frisson Explains
...Absent Motility Against Staid Inertia
impossible to describe listlessness
bedeviling this body electric aye attest
motivation to counter glumness
seizes motility temporarily
t...
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Categories:
bedeviling, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Lyric
Mean Mien Donald Trump
...Former CIA Director
John Brennan scathing headlines
Washington Post op-ed sharply
published critical accusations
muted excoriation slams
Commander in Chief
volcanic blatant pathological lying...
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Categories:
bedeviling, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
The Overwhelming Reassurance of Nothing
...The paths and patterns of flowers
are lost beneath the darkness of desperate rocks
By summers security
and winters threat
does the slavery of hands
make its peace
To be eagerly assaulted
b...
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Categories:
bedeviling, creation,
Form: Free verse
African Pride
...African Pride
Our people are not a folk who bow down their heads,
Hide their hands in between their laps,
Or turn their backs to their foes in the day of battle
We must in this light rise up and ...
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Categories:
bedeviling, africa,
Form: Verse
What Gets On My Nerves
...You want to know what annoyeth me? Let me count the ways!
I could weave a veritable tapestry of all my aggravations, mostly in
light and deep crimson hues which signify the violence in my Heart.
Eas...
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Categories:
bedeviling, anger, angst, how i
Form: Narrative
Tax Decoder Ring
...As we bring in spring the thing I mainly dread,
Is preparing overbearing taxes for the Feds.
If I had the power to empower anything,
I’d shower that power on a tax decoder ring.
This sure thing rin...
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Categories:
bedeviling, political, visionary, power,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Bedeviled
...So innocent was the little kitty,
Who came to my door that I took pity
On this helpless little thrown away.
I vowed he would see a better day.
Boxes of litter and bags of feed,
A covered box f...
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Categories:
bedeviling, funnycat,
Form: Quatrain
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