Cymbric Vale
...I believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts of the...
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Categories:
boning, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Stoning and Boning
...Looking in each other’s eyes
we’d have what I like to call,
completely competitive conversations.
Nether one of us conceding the point.
Back in the day,
this would go on until
one of us wo...
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Categories:
boning, adventure, black love, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
The Vine Maker
...He had seen chicken necks
twisted and broken in Chinese markets,
the plucked dismemberment
of flapping wings.
With help,
he could have strung his carcass up
like a hog on a hook.
He w...
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Categories:
boning, allegory,
Form: Blank verse
Kout Gogga Mogga
...we saw nothing
but elbows
and heard the fist pounding
the skin.
their long black and brown
leather coats hide what they
were doing
the cries of the men
on the ground
could be heard all the ...
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Categories:
boning, culture, guitar, music, slam,
Form: Ballad
Thomas Kinkaid
...quick figurative brush stroke drawn out character sketch
(serendipitous verisimilitude)
i stand in awe
(with mouth agape) at elegiac, fantastic,
and graphic idyllic Kinkade magic
leaving...
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Categories:
boning, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy
You Thought As I Yelled Moaned Someone Elses Name
...You think you can have me in control
Sorry bout ya, its not the way i roll
It has always been known
Im not the one you can own
You think you can tie me down
Ha! you're just a clown
You said tha...
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Categories:
boning, anger, conflict, for him,
Form: Epic
Boning Alone
...Boning Alone
Boning alone
I can see the organ grinding,
and I can hear the music;
I can see the pretty flowers,
and I can lust as well as you.
I can even want one too, but then
I someti...
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Categories:
boning, love, mystery, passion,
Form: Free verse
Self-Reliance
...The old man has a breeding pair of emus now,
to go with the pig, the chickens and the ducks,
three sheep, a goat (all edible), a dairy cow,
a livestock trailer and two rusty pickup trucks.
Quite ...
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Categories:
boning, life, people, social,
Form: Sonnet