What Oz has to Say about a Lie
...lazy lips in tangle with A I
breathing secrets
I wonder why
why not
organize your thoughts, o scatterbrain
don’t be
a brain full of hay
eventual outcome -
the crows will pick your brain
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Categories:
bucketed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Squishing and Squelching
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All night long
rain bucketed down
When going out this morn
Water ‘twas almost everywhere
Squishing
and
Squelching
As
Seagulls swam without a care
though not a fish in sigh...
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Categories:
bucketed, rain, water, weather,
Form: Rhyme
The Steel Jacketed Messenger of Death
...The steel jacketed messenger of death!.
Hell:! Professionally proxied in a tube
A shell comfortably seated in a cube
Doors never shut yet you need to knock
...With a finger and not necessarily yo...
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Categories:
bucketed, death,
Form: ABC
Divine Providence
...Ruminating over a golden era gone by and over possessiveness filled me with nostalgia
Ultimate luxury of vying for a car as well as owning a chauffeur driven one was
Sadly for the migrated rulers w...
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Categories:
bucketed, absence, car, care, death,
Form: Acrostic
Our Countryside Orange Fair
...Our countryside road was
Festooned with orange heaps
Escorting us to be the grand orange fair
The gypsy dancers in orange flares
Jingled tambourines with orange ribbons
The bloated sun...
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Categories:
bucketed, beauty, dance, farm, flower,
Form: Free verse
Southern Summers
...A two-story house stands silent,
no longer prideful of its bay window,
running water in the kitchen,
and a shower in the basement,
or of having erased memories
of shotgun houses with no heat
an...
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Categories:
bucketed, childhood, family, memory, summer,
Form: Narrative
A Friendly Exoneration
...Twinkly bunch with loaded school bags
Ambition injustice and itching their backs,
Cunning those faces in front of the gate
Heedful pupils well-chosen apparently late.
A fistful primary breezine...
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Categories:
bucketed, friendshiptime, together,
Form: Narrative