A Man, Most Newtonic
...Here's to the fellow we hold dear,
his blood, it was said, teutonic.
He holed up in County Lincolnshire
to escape the plague (bubonic).
'Twas there an apple fell on his head
and gave him a wo...
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Categories:
bubonic, science, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Jasprit Boom Boom Hurrah
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Camera zoom...Boom - Boom shakes the room
All eyes on the prize
Rise & lies of franchise
Moolah the crueler ruler
Sparking doom and gloom
Marking Test cricket’s demise
If ther...
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Categories:
bubonic, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Silent Killer
...Originally published in Out on a Limb, An Anthology for Friends June 2020
“There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which doe...
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Categories:
bubonic, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
My Fellow Poets
...Does not matter what they say..
Poetry is easy but it’s not poetry…
Hallmark cliché is not a poem I am afraid..
You can spot a poet.. By their words…
Spilt from lips with gusto and fervor!
Grote...
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Categories:
bubonic, appreciation, art, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Lost Forever
...Despite this monster inside me
Despite this creature I have become
Something more siren than human
Beckons to the benthic of woe
I must be crazy
This cannot be real
Then the words crawl into...
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Categories:
bubonic, anger,
Form: Free verse
Lips Curl At Your Fiddles
...(Piece is intended to be the most complex vocabulary gothic ever)
Grandiloquence,
mellifluous pulchritudinous,
gaiety of quintessential moistening serendipity,
bile deluge if you show the sangu...
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Categories:
bubonic, anger, beauty, conflict, dark,
Form: Free verse
Awakening Contemplatiions
...Awakening Contemplations
Perception of reality changing in a second
The Invention of congeniality as I wait for you to beckon
The Australian informality of “yeah whatever you reckon!”
The Nor...
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Categories:
bubonic, 12th grade, art, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Misinfo Storyline Today
...The first move is on ' its reported a 15 year old boy
Has died from the bubonic plauge (Black death)
In Mongolia, apparently two people had it in 2021
At A place named Khovd.) They also died
Repo...
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Categories:
bubonic, abuse, betrayal, character, corruption,
Form: Narrative
Bigger Better Bigger
...More is so much more
More than creation could have to offer
The better we can do
If we meddle and then we tamper
Make it better it will be BIGGER
THERE beneath the muscle mass
The egg yolk re...
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Categories:
bubonic, crazy, nature, technology,
Form: Free verse
Theories For the Way Some Understand
...I have a theory Gislane Maxwell was jailed
Another theory she worked with and for Epstien
One more theory andrew windsor is served trial Doc's
Another theory 56 million was the pre pandemic death ...
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Categories:
bubonic, addiction, analogy, assonance,
Form: Free verse
The Green and Fading Afternoon
...The green and fading afternoon
as starkness sets within, behind,
long shadows creep, with twilight soon.
The green and fading afternoon
releases brute bubonic moon.
The town folks dre...
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Categories:
bubonic, dark,
Form: Triolet
Supermarket Tabloid Blues
...You scream for my attention in the checkout aisle
With tales of infidelity and sordid guile.
You pique my curiosity with spicy clues.
Gives me those supermarket tabloid blues.
You document the ...
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Categories:
bubonic, allegory, parody,
Form: Lyric
Faithfully
...Appreciating yourself, when others turn away with scorn.
Each day, you must love you as the sun doth the morn!
Feed your body, and nourish your dreams.
Pay no mind to those who give you no heed....
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Categories:
bubonic, humor, pets,
Form: Couplet
Woe-Man
...Halt, halt,
Give Lust your hands, but NOT your hearts,
For when they hover around you,
You are an imminent carcass,
Loitering and flapping with the disposition of a butterfly and grasshop...
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Categories:
bubonic, black love, eve, evil,
Form: Burlesque
Which Would You Choose, Brave Soupers
...[This is an email I sent to our nephews Mother's Day; it ends with a hard question all of us might want to consider asking ourselves in this epidemic.]
'W. and I went to put flowers on Grandma's g...
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Categories:
bubonic, angst, appreciation, courage, death,
Form: Prose
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