Best Awl Poems
The AwlLawrence Strauss, based on The Nazarene by Sholem Asch
The Rabbi saw in the hand of a man an awl,
Such as a driver would use to pierce an animal’s skin,
And not let the wound be healed,
But whenever the creature refused to move
The driver would stab...
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Categories:
awl, abuse, animal, faith, farm,
Form:
Free verse
Murphy's AwlLike Adam in the Garden
Before he’d lost his rib…
Pinocchio in springtime
Who yet had learned to fib…
Perfection’s just a symptom
Of dreams we wish would be.
What can go wrong is costly.
What goes right is never free.
Keep calm and return fire.
You know the rdill....
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Categories:
awl, allegory,
Form:
Burlesque
To Awl the Chix Who Help Me and All the Dudes I Do Not Care AboutBACKBIRD BYE BYE
The morning dew was blue that morn
Purple was the lawn
The clouds threatened an angry sky
As the sun watched the moon finally die
The birds flew backwards instead of ahead
While the waves of the sea were made of lead
A tree arose and began to walk...
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Categories:
awl, angst, blue,
Form:
Quatrain