Best Lower Jaw Poems

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Mad Molly Shaw wasn’t mad anymore
But sometimes a name kinda lingers
She entered the bar...

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In a canoe casting with a weighted rubber worm
Felt something aggressive thing hit my hook
Up it came through the water’s surface
And shot up more than three feet in the air.

After some displays of acrobatic leaps and drives,
I finally got him at the side of my...

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Dr. Ronald is a well known sadist.
     He hardly laughs to say the least.
          He read  poem by Hinshaw
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To Eat A Peach

Spring is here.
The delicate tree blossoms replace
     the delicate white lights of Winter.
From the petals fruit will grow.

Pears, plums, apricots, cherries,
       nectarines...
Peaches.

I set the unripe soft rose and yellow
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We lingered too the passenger like
awaiting the snake that runs on dike
We sat, hands tied to lower jaw like
Mom waiting for her dour child to spike
For hopefully the rain which  pours like
Husks husked, bowl tilted by girl old tyke

Alas! Drought came and left fields...

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*Inspired by Cheryl Hoffman’s “The Skin We’re In”  — Go read it!

On a turkey it's called a wattle
on a moose, "the bell," (not “the bottle”)
Those batlike things?
(too small - see wings)
dewlaps*, odd appendages we coddle

We're prisoners of the skin we’re in
some have it thick,...

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At Customs

Delayed fatigued grumpy and miserable there was I
yet another queue at Oliver Tambo on arrival another

Check scan body search and
mind games in my baggage

Damascus had been an unusual holiday destination
had firmly attached a couple of splinters just a bit of

Shrapnel trauma displacement
on the movie...

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I come up behind you
      from the shadows,
laying my left claw
across your stomach,
    the very tips
        barely breaking the skin
and you gasp
    as I slide 
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I hear that after she tried to break me
she herself broke down.
A friend of a friend said he distinctly heard 
her main-spring go.

They say she broke
in the London underground.
while waiting for the West Ham tube train.
One of her many prodding elbows
sprang a leak,
a sharp knee...

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Leatherback, murray river, matama
Hawksbill, common musk and spiny soft shell.
Loggerhead, Atlantic green, alligator snapping
Turtles are we, in every country we dwell.

The largest sea turtle reaches eight hundred pounds.
A leatherback whose love for jellyfish abounds.
Alligator snapping is one fourth of leatherback’s weight
Uses pink fleshy flap of...

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Everything is an issue with my friend
I hope she is a girl as she is known to claim
She thinks she is Marilyn Monroe so
Think on my pretty
In fact there is but one good eye
Like a lighthouse beam beckoning
About the middle of the head
Large with yellow,...

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The bane of a cold sore inside my mouth

Sent my smooching life south,
whereby I felt like poor Georgie Porgie,
pudding and pie,
who kissed the girls and made them cry.

The medical term for cold sores,
Herpes Labialis, refers
to the Herpes virus Type 1 (HSV-1)
that most often causes these...

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Beneath the coat of icing, buried wrinkles squeak;
My teeth at misleading mirror - hotly clatter,
While an uprooted tooth on lower jaw – bewails.
I swear, this corroded mirror, I will batter.


Rhyming scheme: ABCB  / 12 syllables in each line 

Oct. 8, 2020 
Rithimus Divisa 9...

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The night
has a bluish tint tonight
from the exceptionally
      brilliant
           full moon,
sky,
       cloudless
with a slightly brisk breeze
    coming from 
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auditioning what I've never said before 
imagining what I've never saw beyond my shore 
my definition of making ends meet 
once you've seen the obscene lift your lower jaw off my scene 
the statue in me craved for some UV 
can you ban the tan...

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