Fishin’ for Time
...In the pure bright wake, I went fishing’ for calm and all I caught was tumblin’ time.
The hours were soppin’wet with pond scum and the seconds kept getting’ away as soon as I thought I had them hoo...
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Categories:
bugbear, emotions, extended metaphor, fishing,
Form: Personification
The Person I Used To Be
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The person I used to be hides in the shadow,
awaiting an unexpected moment to expose
secrets best left forgotten.
Perhaps a shot or two of Macnaughton™
will quiet the desire of the demon
th...
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Categories:
bugbear, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
If I can keep her lips to kiss
...How I peer at piano's lifeless plate,
And crave, covet to be that plucky piece
Which, silken soft her fingers gets to kiss,
Now dancing sprightly, now at gentle gait,
Whilst my lips starve, a...
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Categories:
bugbear, jealousy, kiss,
Form: Sonnet
EarWorm
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Mind Bound to form,
expressioning itself in expose,
Borne of fatal attraction and Hell,
candied fermentation fomented
from randeed runon s...
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Categories:
bugbear, art, body,
Form: Other
The Journey of My Pen
...Long years back writing just was a job,
To my boss— a bugbear, my pet lob,
It then turned to hobby—
To numb noise my Dolby,
My life’s passion by now consigned FOB
Of an unpaid cabby,
A do-not-s...
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Categories:
bugbear, humor, husband, journey, writing,
Form: Limerick
Summer My Bugbear
...Summer, my bugbear,
Swarms of bugs hum there,
Bare in bed twosome to dare,
One said to its mate,
Ah they seem on date,
And all ready to do that,
Why not we play that?
But it pays still to ...
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Categories:
bugbear, animal, humor,
Form: Tanka
Oh--That Dear Old Bugbear
...Oh! That Dear Old Bugbear
That nasty old Hobgoblin of English 16th century
lore replete with its ugly, mischievous behavior.
At once, frightful and always exciting one’s fears,
whilst creati...
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Categories:
bugbear, allegory, angst, anxiety, dark,
Form: Couplet
Beware the Bugbear
...I've heard a very nasty tale
I'm told it's likely true
that if you are a naughty child
The Bugbear might eat you!
The Bugbear- what is that? you say
it sounds harmless enough...
But names can...
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Categories:
bugbear, childhood, fantasy, humor, myth,
Form: Rhyme
When I Am Gone
...When I am gone, and from this world have flown,
I would admonish you to not forget
That I have loved and cherished you, my own,
And even after death shall love you yet.
But I’ve no wish to burd...
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Categories:
bugbear, absence, death, grief, missing
Form: Sonnet
I Do Not Know the Secret
...I Do Not Know The Secret...,
Asper Art Of Writing Acclaimed Poem...
Not purposeful intent,
when tasking self (Das Scribe)
a nondescript member of
*****sapiens village people tribe
metaphorica...
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Categories:
bugbear, america, creation, dedication, judgement,
Form: Prose Poetry
Discover Ring Visa Vis My Fanbase
...As long term aspiring
gurgling (stream of consciousness)
paperback writer, there doth appear
an imponderable quandary
most likely experienced
by fellow neophyte authors,
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Categories:
bugbear, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
bugbear, confusion, dark, giving, mystery,
Form: Haiku