Orphan 'Round
...*Image of Lyre Box Organ Grinder by Pixabay
Orphan 'Round
A chimp's bereft tambourine in its paws
jigged 'round a bunch of detaining gazes,
donning smiling countenances or jaws
t...
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Categories:
billfolds, animal, character, cheer up,
Form: Sonnet
Stereo Man - It Takes Two
...Stereo Man (It Takes Two?)
Stereo Man (It Takes Two?)
I’m a stereo man, and I carry two phones,
have two homes in two states (each sports car that awaits).
I’ve been m...
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Categories:
billfolds, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Green Lipstick
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Look at the politrick pretty boys
painting the green
on their flypaper sticky lips
Making plenty cold eureka noise
Pluto eyes winking barren Mars tomorrows
Uranus pocketbook sorrow ...
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Categories:
billfolds, corruption, imagery, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Fortune of Fools
...Some worship gods of gold as their goodness turns to greed
Like saviors made of silver keeping weak ones on their knees
Some appetites are angry like werewolves full of want
Sin is never satisfied...
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Categories:
billfolds, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Blank verse
I Try To Establish Understanding
...I try to establish strong mental footholds
In resemblance to fort knox physical strongholds
Through repentance I lost the spiritual blindfold
So every sentence I mock material billfolds
I seek ...
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Categories:
billfolds, faith, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Hopscotch In Harlem Part 2
...Frances
Twas the night before Thanksgiving
An’ all through the tenement
Mama was sleeping
When Big Dady came in again
And there in the night sweet Frances lost her innocence
Hopscotch in Ha...
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Categories:
billfolds, black african american, childhood,
Form: Dramatic Verse