The Preacher
...He preaches with a heavy hand
laid upon the Word of God.
No need to be seated on a throne.
He’s at eye level with his congregants.
if he avoided their gaze, as if
his eyes shielded the sun...
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Categories:
blathered, christian,
Form: Free verse
Last Night's Debate
...I stayed up to watch the debate,
Though for me it was on kinda late.
What I felt I did see,
Just between you and me,
Was a richly-deserved chief of state.
She was confident, cool and so smart
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Categories:
blathered, political,
Form: Limerick
The Heroes of Buzzard's Bend, Part II
......But Mains just shrugged, then said, “Let’s go.”
offered the wrists to his bandittos.
Two of them led the man away,
Diaz fumed more watching him go.
Denied the chance to see him beg,
denied ...
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Categories:
blathered, corruption, god, hero, history,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
You'Re Not Perfect the Way You Are, Part Ii
......I saw a person who blathered,
said, ‘I’m beyond morality,
good and evil are simply lies,
more people should be just like me.’
He passed it off as very smart,
and liked to quote Nietzsche a lo...
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Categories:
blathered, feelings, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Who Needs Words
...I’ve often wondered what to say
or how to speak when words would stray,
a gesture served to save the day
when simple words would slip away.
I’ve often floundered when I've spoke
or tried to te...
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Categories:
blathered, angst, anxiety,
Form: Couplet
Clone-God, Part Iii
......A flush of green-yellow liquid poured out
and disappeared into a large floor drain,
a fetal figure was slumped in the chamber,
and to Tom he couldn’t seem much more plain,
a human being like h...
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Categories:
blathered, faith, religion, science, science
Form: Epic
She Walked To School Headless
...She rolled her head down the hill
It picked up speed and lots of dirt and stuff
It began spitting out bugs and dust
Hey! Didn’t you need that for a math test?
Mrs. Peabody, a truly nosey neighb...
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Categories:
blathered, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Tells Tolls Tribute
...Tells Tolls Tribute
The veil of shadows is the bright rite of passage
it casts its rainbow when the final curtain falls
Dressed in lost...
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Categories:
blathered, death, life,
Form: Verse
Truth Stood Downcast In the Lie
...quatern
The truth stood downcast in the lie;
dismayed she left their home at once.
She'd blathered on about someone
who'd fill her life with what she wants.
Distraught he relinquished his ri...
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Categories:
blathered, green, home, husband, truth,
Form: Quatern
Brahms and Liszt
...Happy. Genial. Merry. Jolly
Blottoed, blasted, etched and blitzed
Mellow, foggy, hazy, squiffy
Tipsy. Tiddly. Brahms and Liszt
Dazed, zombied, tanked-up, trollied
Ganted, gubbed, guttered...
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Categories:
blathered, drink,
Form: List
Is Anyone There
...Surely your boredom has brought you here,
It is no longer a necessity, this blathered relationship we share
Your words are void of feeling—yes they make me want to scream,
Is anyone there?
Tru...
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Categories:
blathered, abuse, angst, anxiety, grief,
Form: Free verse
Critic's Pen Unsheathed
...Sword brashly drawn from scabbard
Gilded blade with a lucent polish lathered
Burnished to reflect the availing light on each side gathered
Conversely, deflecting the pious streams pharisaically blath...
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Categories:
blathered, allegory, education,
Form: Rhyme
Separation Into Component Parts ( Disintegration )
...Separation into Component Parts ( Disintegration )
Vortex of silence
Watching sun slide from crystalline edges
The quiet people do not question
The blended diaphanous to horizon smacking
is...
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Categories:
blathered, depressionsun, drug,
Form: Free verse