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Put Bernie Sanders in her Tea

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      Odds bodkins, said Elissa Slotkin
      How will the Democrats ever win ~

         Nominate A.O.C.
         Put Bernie in her tea ~

      Pray Trump-hatred will never wear thin
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Categories: bodkins, political, prayer, success,
Form: Limerick

Blood Waves

...Heated by sun and rock
a mottled snake licks the morning air.
Last night, stones were its eyes,
a blood-chill had frozen the flavor
            and flicker
of tongue and taste.

The daylight i...

Categories: bodkins, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Odds Bodkins

...Odds Bodkins
   stupid saying
    donkey braying ~
  or someone praying 

  'Tis not for me 
    to judge my fellow
  All I know's ~
    'Tis a mighty bellow...

Categories: bodkins, cry, judgement, words,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Mockingbird

...A deceiving tomcat howl.
We are scolded,?
poked with cattle-prods of sound.?
Phonetic bodkins bedevil,?
nails our ears to a demented aria.?
?
Bird of a thousand jeers,?
improbable impressionis...

Categories: bodkins, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Lifts and Lorries

...We cowboys on this side of the pond
  Get out of bed with boots and spurs on
To ride our bucking bronco golden stallions
  As you mount your nags on the weak side of the ocean

Yes, we snicker a...

Categories: bodkins, irony, language, words,
Form: Rhyme

Cats and Summer

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like twins they indeed do become

warm, sleepy, peaceful bodkins

in God's universe, love and the sun



8/3/2019
8pm PST
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Categories: bodkins, cat, golf, summer,
Form: Haiku

Recuperating

...Ods bodkins, fellow slobkins
Let's go find Anthony Hopkins,  
  Who's recuperating from a case 
  of the dreaded dropkins,
And is now meeting secretly
  with Cy Kotikins....

Categories: bodkins, psychological, silly, word play,
Form: Light Verse

The Hyperprosexia of the Solipsist

...Eureka! I think I have found the meaning!
Thank God! Because it's so late in the evening

Criminy! I just forgot what I was thinking
Odds and Bodkins! If I only had an inkling

Holy Cow! What a...

Categories: bodkins, blessing, desire, dream, endurance,
Form: Rhyme

Cygnus Olor

...Chaste and more graceful
Than the white canvassed Dhow:
Reclines sweet Nefertiti 
Upon a Blue Nile breeze.
Fabled entity more whiter
Than the purest white snow
That thickly blankets
And folds ...

Categories: bodkins, nature,
Form: Rhyme