Two Straight Madelines
...curlicues perhaps
the Catholic nun
wouldn’t let me engage
in penmanship shape
“shape up, sit straight!!”
yet the ancients
would whirligig
with their featherings
fill up the ...
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Categories:
bor, religion, writing,
Form: Free verse
Impossible
...I want to live in a world where newspapers and all media are filled with true people, true stories of kindness and happiness rather than hypocrisy.
Where the earth soil is not a stage where the scr...
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Categories:
bor, change, earth,
Form: Free verse
Sign On a Barn Door
...The sign on the barn door
Says 'Not a Good Neigh-bor'
I speak, of course,
of a dam ~ hoarse
______________________
a 'dam' is a female parent
horse, (of course)...
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Categories:
bor, horse, humorous, voice,
Form: Epigram
Miklos Radnoti Translation of the Holocaust Poem Letter To My Wife
...Letter to My Wife
by Miklos Radnoti
translated by Michael R. Burch
A poem written during the Holocaust in Lager Heidenau, in the mountains above Zagubica, August-September, 1944
Deep down in ...
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Categories:
bor, death, heartbreak, holocaust, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Miklos Radnoti Translations of Holocaust Poems
...Postcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain ridges, rebounds, ...
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Categories:
bor, death, grave, holocaust, horror,
Form: Free verse
Knife Crime Britain
...Wallet ?
Check
Phone ?
Check
Key's ?
Check
Knife ?
Check
Death Wish ????????
CHECK
See you Later ?
Maybe you will ?
Maybe you won't ?
Whole life ahead
Barely a teenager ...
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Categories:
bor, death,
Form: Free verse
Deborah
...De bor' ah is her Congo name,
To mispronounce it such a shame,
For few would read and say it right,
I asked: a sweet smile brought to light!
My travels though suggested in,
But butterflies? To t...
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Categories:
bor, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
Judge Dread
...in the year 2070 there lived a man from another fantasy
his name was Judge Dread & what was going on inside his head
he lived in the village of Shaun in Sweden with his family
he always supported ...
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Categories:
bor, anxiety, art,
Form: Free verse
Festiva Being Gently Used
...- a terrible homage to e.e. cummings
she being gently
-used; and you
know a bit loose i was
careless with her and (having
never changed her oil tested
her gas felt of her car bor aytor
an...
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Categories:
bor, car, metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Incumbent
...THE INCUMBENT
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I am sick and tired of hearing the same old line
My elected representative says every things fine
He just does not represent the people I know
He’s been there...
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Categories:
bor, corruption, culture, introspection, irony,
Form: Rhyme
If I Could Talk To the Aussies
...I have a couple of internet Friends in Australia
We like to joke around some, so I wrote them this,
To the tune of "Talk To The Animals" (Dr. Dolittle)
If I could talk to the Aussies
just imagine ...
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Categories:
bor, humorous, international,
Form: Light Verse
Amateur Hour
...alth(ough) you
fore(go) the
quid (pro) (quo) &
free th(row) a bouteille de
bor(deaux),
it is most certainly jonathan (doe)
with whom you be(stow) the
(crow) that swoops o’er the
(plateau) in the same...
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Categories:
bor, life,
Form: Free verse
Leaves and Shields
...Oft'times I see my friends all 'round
Lke leaves of Autumn, floating down
And softly drifting, side-to-side
A passive dance, on zephryn tide
Then when the ground is covered o'er
A million leav...
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Categories:
bor, death, faith, friendship, day,
Form: Quatrain
They Have Taken Their First Steps In My Heart
...The pain first took hold of my wrists
In the heart within my heart
My sweet children
Took their first steps.
Rain drips on the windows
There is that which comes
From far away
With hands in han...
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Categories:
bor, inspirational, love, nostalgia, social,
Form: Haiku