Dewfresh Morn
...Damp sound of squelching grass
beneath my feet
ushers bright dew soaked morn
on wild green plot
of tangled twigs, stalks, leafs
where young lambs bleat
and blather without rein
in frisky...
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Categories:
blather, appreciation, blue, color, imagination,
Form: Other
Impossible mission for systematization to be wrung out of entropy
...Impossible mission for systematization to be wrung out of entropy
Which lame excuse I exclaimed,
when my dear old mom asked
rather told me in her scolding voice
to tidy up my bedroom,
cuz this...
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Categories:
blather, 7th grade, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
One Too Many
...
‘You’ve had one too many’
Declared old Paddy’s wife
She always spoiled his evenings
With her ‘trouble’ and her ‘strife’
‘I’m absolutely sober’
He replied with much aplomb
‘I’ve only h...
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Categories:
blather, humor, humorous, husband, ireland,
Form: Limerick
The Lingering
...follow the poolside shadows
Venus of Delphi
daughter of bitter waves
peek through the peephole
of my glaucous thorax
open your byzantine eyes and
spurn your locomotor ataxia
one glance at ou...
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Categories:
blather, imagery, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Blither-Blather and Red Yuck, and Pray Like Your Hair's on Fire, 'Coz It Is
...
when accused of blither-blather
seek shelter in the moment, rather
than plunge right in confrontationally
into a bottomless pit of calumny
remember to count to ten aga...
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Categories:
blather, anger, fate, fear, prayer,
Form: Couplet
Modern Cults, Part II
...You see the ones who claim women
are always victims evermore,
while at the same time claiming that
they’re always strong, to be adored,
push women to act more like men,
that strength must mean t...
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Categories:
blather, corruption, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Serious Sibling Subluxation
...Serious sibling subluxation...
rapprochement somewhat salvaged dislocation
Truth be told about following poem
mostly written quite some years ago,
and revisions made to recreate
and revise ...
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Categories:
blather, absence, age, angel, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Rain Babble
...Often
the rain has something to say to me,
but this rainy day
it is hyperactively neurotic.
Each of my shoes are waterlogged
by a squelching sky-fall.
Then again there is the soggy dribble
w...
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Categories:
blather, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Memorial Day May 29th, 2023
...silently wailing analogy to Moby Dick
regarding how yesterdays
prurient laced introductions
to rhyme in retrospect embarrassingly blows.
Herewith to enliven anecdote ever further,
I inject ...
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Categories:
blather, absence, america, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse
Dream State Yields Deep Sleep Personifications
...Dream state yields deep sleep personifications
Upon lying supine - eye shutter lids
into the land of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,
where the sandman beckons and bids
dead to the webbed wide world,
...
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Categories:
blather, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
I Wonder Far But Wander Near- a Rant'N'Rhyme
...I wonder far but wander near and wish to know if there is treasure here. Would it be buried underneath the sand or way off in a different land? Perhaps it is simply already in your hand. If it only m...
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Categories:
blather, dog, dream, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Spider and the Flea-Nursery Rhyme
..."Marry me," the spider said to the flea.
Don't you find it cute to live on my web?
No, I will never forget your blather.
On your bedside, my brother in your deb.
You asked for a sna...
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Categories:
blather, analogy, appreciation, beauty, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Seeking Redemption Beyond the Horizon
...Seeking Redemption Beyond The Horizon
While my mind ventures to unravel the origins of human enmities
Craves to stumble upon a most sagacious and diplomatic solution,
...
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Categories:
blather, allegory, corruption, courage,
Form: Rhyme
No Such Things As Hate Speech, Part I
...You hear dumb people screaming it
all over the networks today,
latest excuse for censorship,
“Hate speech! Hate Speech!” they always say.
They’ve even pushed some governments
to think that it’s ...
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Categories:
blather, evil, freedom, political, rights,
Form: Rhyme
Tell It Like It Is
...Once referred to as meaningless blather
Much of communication these days falters
In fact, putting the truth in a precarious bind,
We obfuscate, equivocate; often, lying at altars.
M...
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Categories:
blather, spoken word, truth, words,
Form: Pantoum
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