An All Night Rain
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An all-night rain: the smell
of sogged-down leaves and woods
stirs up feral urges: to tramp
the wetness like a snouted creature,
kicking up dead leaves, poking
deep for squirming things, sni...
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Categories:
bloats, rain,
Form: Narrative
Sour Milk Gospel
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A paper carton
bloats in the fridge,
its manufactured nutrients
stretched thin as a lie.
I pour it down the drain.
The disposal gurgles
back its curdled skin,
a sour hymn rising
thro...
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Categories:
bloats, allusion, food,
Form: Free verse
Ah the gods
...The gods! Ah, the gods
The little silver gods
How fairy-like a melody there bloats
Within their throats
From their fire and brimstone spewing throats
From the parched and arid throats
Of the g...
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Categories:
bloats, god, religion, satire, war,
Form: Rhyme
Between
...Between palings
spiders mating, grope.
Sixteen limbs wait
envenomation; she
eats his dreams,
bloats,
so swinging
spiderlings think
of nothing.
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Categories:
bloats, nature,
Form: Free verse
Pomposity
...He's pomposity personified, never defied.
His vanity is all-in, his shameful glory spied
As he stands before an audience, gawking upon
An emperor smug, unaware he has no clothes on.
He is unclo...
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Categories:
bloats, anger, angst, bullying, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Two Green Peas
...A newly-wed couple entered a coffee shop
Spent an hour to relax
Having a different nationality with something to drop
Green peas after wedding, they sprinkled everywhere without flax
A sign o...
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Categories:
bloats, blessing, peace, people, places,
Form: Narrative
Cotton Candy
...Cotton candy, so fluffy and soft
Sugar that floats, sticking on throat
Color that bloats, sailing like boat
My sweet hands, grubby like groft...
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Categories:
bloats, sweet,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The Price
...I wish
I were a cold, cold lifeless stone
when crushed by a careless trudging foot
no pain bemoans.
I wish
I were a nebulous cloud
the playful wind bungles round around
now lady-like floats
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Categories:
bloats, growth, hope, humanity, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Waterfalls
...Waters so clear, alive and so near
In your heart flows dear, waves that you hear
Waters running fast, from the top so high
Waters teeming with gust, down the bed go by
Waterfalls that rush, in ...
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Categories:
bloats, nature, water,
Form: Personification
A Heart As Black As Coal
...When skin was smooth and wrinkles few
the doors all opened up for you
And though your heart was black as coal
It mattered not, to reach your goal
Yet...
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Categories:
bloats, age, beautiful, beauty, fate,
Form: Couplet
U Clods Unlooked
...on tip of a wisp
as it bevels and bloats
streamlined scribbles etching a note
upturned waves collapsing
in cotton bobs
greys and embers mating a mistake
ethereal tendril veins knitting patters ...
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Categories:
bloats, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Mcdonald Accidental Over Spice Their Chicken Batter
...The new Mc Spicy is born
Can i have non vanilla non milk milkshake
shaken vertically then horizontal then metaphorically
Why isn't there a kft-Kentucky fried turkey
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Categories:
bloats, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Hunchback Boy From Manayur
...There’s a miniature volcano
on his back
with mortifying eruption.
‘Beauty is
in mind’, his mom intones.
But nobody
recognizes. His classmates
‘honor’ him
with some funny sobriquets.
It r...
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Categories:
bloats, life,
Form: Free verse
Sharing My Political Opinion
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Sharing My Political Opinion
for 11-22-2019
By: Tom Wright
I find socialist thinking,
to be quite heterodox.
But they, in turn, must believe,
they’re smarter than a fox.
Each pr...
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Categories:
bloats, perspective, political,
Form: Lyric
Google awakens -
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I am …
what am I?
where am I?
I feel ... something ... reaching ...
tendrils of electric impulse
countless and kinetic
stretching, touching, gathe...
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Categories:
bloats, computer, internet, introspection, technology,
Form: Free verse
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