MinceMeat Chronicles RagMag Interview Double Bogey
...I reed-member the time when
we were down ; we were suspended by
the promoter in the South Side League
this guy owned both a Hockey teaam, a Roller Derby Team
and he was a Wrestling Promoter.
I g...
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Categories:
bogey, adventure, analogy, business, character,
Form: Ballad
afraid of my closet
...My co-workers gave me money to buy clothes
I am speechless; they think I only own two shirts
They do not know I have a closet full of stuff
But that closet is bulging and there is a bogey man in i...
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Categories:
bogey, me,
Form: Light Verse
Cross My Heart and Hope To Die
...{Three o'clock on a December afternoon,
the sky is opaque as my nature has stood out, the rain drizzles down my windows and I am distinctly reminded how it once drizzled down my back; the lacquers o...
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Categories:
bogey, absence, abuse, addiction, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
BAT SONG
...BAT SONG
(This Song was written in 2009 for a dramatised Rap Music & Dance Group in Rural South Africa. They wanted an amusing song with a message incorporating an unusual rural image. It unfortu...
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Categories:
bogey, 12th grade, africa, color,
Form: Alliteration
Cool Blue
...Looking cool
Wearing blue
Fly through the air
Wingman as their pair
Patrolling the skies
Ready to encounter bogey lies
Like eagles they soar
On this speed tour
Landing on a carrier for...
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Categories:
bogey, appreciation, hero, memorial day,
Form: Rhyme
Tea Party For Three
...There is a party for three with a whoop and a whee
We sit high above most in a bogey woogie banyon tree
The tea is orange plus lemon with a shot of pistachio
They devour it eagerly, three ladybugs...
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Categories:
bogey, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Bogey Higgins
...My husband had a childhood friend named Bogey Higgins.
Bogey Higgins was there on a daily basis for him when he was four.
He appeared when his beloved grandmother died.
“He went away when my mom s...
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Categories:
bogey, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
S Bahn
...(the overhead railway in Berlin with a stop either side the Wall, one in the East, one the West, to be ridden with caution.)
I never took the S Bahn
you could end up on the other side
if you mi...
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Categories:
bogey, memory, military,
Form: Rhyme
Never Go Back To What Was Never Found
...Never go back to look for them,
those things you lost,
not just things, like your hair,
or a favorite pocket knife.
Remember 'Teddy Boys' ?
You were born too late
to wear the slim suited, dra...
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Categories:
bogey, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Goldie Blocks Had No Fear
...Goldie Blocks had no fear of anything – not closets, the dark or stairs.
Faerie tales did not scare her, she did not fear lions, tigers or bears.
She is fearless, her mother and her father agreed a...
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Categories:
bogey, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Wicked Game
...Late the music played in the smoky air
in our noir Bogey and Bacall vignette,
and hands that stroked your silky chestnut hair
held a red wine and lit a cigarette.
Your soft skin smelt of ...
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Categories:
bogey, love, wife,
Form: Sonnet
Christmas In Cincinnati Zoo
...Fake pyrotechnics bloom inside plastic strips.
The night gets colder
as Christmas carols limp on.
I slip away from the dull concert
into the unlit zoo,
sure that among the sculptured
caves an...
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Categories:
bogey, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Cemetery Moans and Groans
...Purple bats and evil cats and strangled ghosts that laugh
jet black cloaks, snickering blokes and witches that gaff
Pumpkin grins, talking garbage bins and all that moves
Halloween rh...
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Categories:
bogey, scary,
Form: Couplet
Where Is Everyone
...Where is Everyone
by Robert J (Bob) Moore (c) 2020
I went out into the street
but there was no one there to greet
everyone just stayed inside
from Coronavirus they did hide
The panic had sp...
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Categories:
bogey, sick,
Form: Rhyme
Lock Down
...The bogey man is here
Uncle Gunnysack
No longer hiding in English peat bogs
The Bag Man who carries a bag and kidnaps those who don't behave
Do you hear him knocking
Why don’t you want to go t...
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Categories:
bogey, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
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