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Premium Member We Speak the Same Shrugs
gorilla studies me
I study him
he smirks
so I do too
a mind melding
do we speak the same language?
no
but we speak the same shrugs and grunts...

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Categories: shrugs, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Autumn Shrugs
Autumn shrugs off summer 
like Alzheimer's shrugs off
wit, slowly and methodically;
purposeful and nonchalant. 
This dire deterioration
welcomes dank darkness,
chilling and finite, 
long-winded and overbreathed.
October winds shake and stir
the very foundations of our
civilizations, and rock the 
metaphorical boat of blissful
nesciance; eventually capsizing
the bleeding vessel, until its
veins run...

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Categories: shrugs, life
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oceans Rise - Fish Shrugs
The fish swam around
  curious what he found
A brand-new ranch house
  floating in Puget Sound

Nothing for him there
  so he just shrugged
Unlike the poor humans
  their home waterlogged...

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Categories: shrugs, fish, ocean,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



God Shrugs
"It's time to shut it down, my Lord,
the experiment has failed.
They just get crueler day by day
and thousands more are jailed.

And jail just makes them meaner,
their hearts are filled with hate.
They're cesspools filled with violence
and racism and rape.

Some fourteen million children
in America alone
go hungry each...

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Categories: shrugs, faith, father, people, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Shrugs
Mugs,
Aoathy feeds them drugs,
Shrugs. 

(1-6-1 syllables)....

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Categories: shrugs, conflict, drug, society,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry