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Premium Member A Donnybrook
Love is all around us, need to know where to look
There are many different kinds listed in the love book
There's love of a child
Or a...

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Categories: donnybrook, love,
Form: Limerick



Donnybrook
UNSUPPORTED CODE DONNYBROOK
Egregious Nonplus:
A hopeless cause.
Comfortless, lachrymose
A mutinous repause.
Recalcitrant – All love is now absent
From grinding flagitious jaws.
Treasonous laws!
Justice? Just because.
We are allies of chaos.
This...

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Categories: donnybrook, deep,
Form: Free verse
Hockey Games
 
Everybody loves it when the team scores a goal.
This is what all hockey fans extol.
The lights start flashing and the siren sounds.
Cheering is heard...

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Categories: donnybrook, sports, hockey,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Garden Ramblings
I

one Fine-
morning    when the garden was misty-
ethereal the beauty
birds mellifluous

brouhaha   loud    and donnybrook

a   gang came
fluttering...

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Categories: donnybrook, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Mrs. Quincy's Twin Vietnamese Spotted Ponies
"Der aint nothin wrong with dat,"
said Haile Brown.

Mrs. Quincy's twin Vietnamese spotted ponies
had been shot
both dead
for trespassing on L. Ron Clark's property.

"They scared my sheep.
Chased...

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© Ken Bender  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: donnybrook, social
Form: Narrative



Presidential Inauguration 2017 - Poetic Screed - Part2
diametrically opposing forces miscarriage 
   and abort, cancel and retry to upend Vanity Fair 
   where trump defiantly makes an en...

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Categories: donnybrook, abuse, america, bullying, change,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member I Loved You, John Wayne
I loved you John Wayne!
		I wished you were my father
		or maybe an older brother 
		who’d tutor me to be tough
		when manners weren’t enough
		and toughness was...

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© Bill Keen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: donnybrook, assonance, humorous, , western,
Form: Light Verse
Abattoir
Life the abattoir of emotions,
     create the corps that is the heart.
What donnybrook takes the tole?
Empathy, the vicarious plight,
  ...

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© Judy Riley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: donnybrook, depression
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Orville C Cameron 1889-1914
Orville C. Cameron

1889-1914

Oh, such larks indeed.

Over at the State School pond,

Way back in the tuft of Eucalyptus shade,

We swam, we yelled, and we laughed.

We, the...

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Categories: donnybrook, earth,
Form: Epitaph
Chaos In the White House - Part 2
like some sorority or fraternity house 
   left the sanctified righteous West Wing 
with powder puffs sans canisters 
   of pepper...

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Categories: donnybrook, america, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Deep Sleep of Foreigner's Flagon
For twenty years,
Tears in-between,
Rain and rust
And gray-beard dust.

A flooded flagon,
Empty-dry. Laid aside.
A spook to his wolf,
savior to the squirrels.

A languid man snores
While robins lay eggs
In...

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Categories: donnybrook, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Fisticuffs At 42
A tussle
A fray
A skirmish
A soiree

A fracas
A fight
A scuffle
A blight

A scrap
A brawl
A melee
A free for all

A quarrel
A clash
A donnybrook
A birthday bash...

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Categories: donnybrook, father, funny, people,
Form: Quatrain
Chaos In the White House Jab Two
when Democrats outliers gnashed
teeth, and nonestablishmentarian outlaws 
pistol whipped and hashed 
tagged traitors who roared America 
went bankrupt at sold at fire sale price slashed

when...

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Categories: donnybrook, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Field Day Shoe Fit For Mother Goose
A field day shoe fit for Mother Goose
  
Fruitless effort squeezing figurative juice
Pandora called triggering 
helter skelter to get loose
necessitating Bullwinkle J. Moose
to usher...

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Categories: donnybrook, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Rhyme
No Better Will You Fare On the Other Side of the Delaware
If you go over to that craps table today,
chances are, with empty pockets you will walk away.
You will be sorry if you adamantly stay.
A few...

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Categories: donnybrook, games, loss,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things