When the Hammer Falls
...
I hear the echo, sharp and clear,
The auctioneer draws bidders near.
“One... two...” — my heartbeat skips a beat,
My dreams laid bare beneath their feet.
The years I toiled, the nights I lost...
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Categories:
bidders, africa, anxiety, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Diaphanous Dichotomy
...A rainbow or counterflow … symmetry,
Time marks a question measured to wrangle,
Quantity taxes or pay quality.
First, the chick or egg, begs the novelty,
Harmony and anarchy vie tango,
...
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Categories:
bidders, celebration, confidence, destiny, dream,
Form: Villanelle
Dark Realms
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He came in dressed in black
and an ominous silence fell over the bidders
But there was no turning back
They had entered a vey dark realm
Then the bidding started
The bids got higher an...
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Categories:
bidders, sad,
Form: Free verse
The Wicked Witch of Soup Creek Bites the Dust
...Galloping hooves broke morn's peace in Soup Creek's Main Street
When Jimmy Smith rode in from Bar 20 his face white as a sheet
He stopped at Sheriff Koplins office and banged heavily on the doo...
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Categories:
bidders, america, death, humor, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Anticipatory Anxiety Fosters Catastrophization
...anticipatory anxiety fosters catastrophization...,
especially bombardment of online scare tactics
courtesy fiendish insidious loathsome sinister oafs
rubbing their hands at aggrieved party;
pun...
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Categories:
bidders, 12th grade, anger, computer,
Form: Rhyme
Over a Salmon
...What I had luckily caught
One exorbitantly bought,
Long after I had it brought:
A salmon by a crowd sought
And for it bitterly fought...
Many bidders voicing their thought
Nearly making it ...
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Categories:
bidders, animal, appreciation, conflict, courage,
Form: Rhyme
New Year Transpositions
...Most competitive amusing employment
in transacting tired
old school entertainments
support economic
and political services
to and from
highest corporate
commercial out-bidders.
Most coope...
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Categories:
bidders, change, culture, education, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Halloween 2021
...GOOD AFTERNOON
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
BOYS AND GIRLS.
WELCOME...
TO THE WORLD OF
TRANSHUMANISM.
I AM YOUR HOST
THE DAPPER RING MASTER.
AND THIS...
IS THE WORLD OF
TRANSHUMANISM
AND...
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Categories:
bidders, halloween,
Form: Free verse
If You Have Sold Out Our Country
...If you have sold out our country for money and honeytraps and power?
Your names will live on in infamy in the annuals of our nation's history.
Your names will live on forever in the annuals of worl...
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Categories:
bidders, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Rare Violin
...The Stradivarius
(A rare violin)
The Stradivarius lay still, waiting for a master's skill
The silent bow with deep yearnings,
for a master's touch upon its strings.
Across the case a price w...
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Categories:
bidders, appreciation, devotion, music, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Killing Fields
...His underbelly is soft but please don't push his buttons
He looks rather docile if you simply leave him alone
Feeds on leaves and fruit and won't kill if you're tame
And respect the elegant ...
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Categories:
bidders, animal,
Form: Free verse
Fool's Gold - The Price of War
...
The excavators are all out, digging deeper into my soul
Scavenging to find the last remains of gems, oil or gold
My life is put aside, as they only search things of worth
With all my resources...
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Categories:
bidders, angst, betrayal, conflict, corruption,
Form: Couplet
Drama On Social Media
...Drama on Social Media
With every passing day
and every passing hour
world comes closer,
globe contracts
with silvery lustre
of social media.
Some, call this media
a social monster,
oth...
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Categories:
bidders, humor, satire,
Form: Free verse
Viet Nam - 1967
...Watching the lushness pass below me
Rivers lazy, paddies verdant
Crater ringlets there to show me
Wanton murder too often fervent
Young men dying, futures slaughtered
An idiotic, absurd ende...
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Categories:
bidders, america, conflict, courage, war,
Form: Rhyme
Gold-Digger Sonnet
...Shall I compare a summer’s day to thee
in an effort to make lust seem profound,
you’re hot, wanted, and can make men sweaty,
but is it worth it when the sun goes down?
Paying so much to go out ...
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Categories:
bidders, love hurts, lust, men,
Form: Sonnet
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