HAPPINESS IN A JAR
...As I try to wish away, all the sadness that I feel;
As if a night sky's falling star, could grant me something real...
If only one small wish, of what's eluded me all this life thus far;
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Categories:
bulky, fear, feelings, sad,
Form: Rhyme
We are taking big brother down'
...Ha ha..I laugh.' For you will find 'you will be outmatched.)
By just the Aussies; mind.' Hoody and Topher Antic and
Rennick, Larter, Bos,i Hobart, Brighthope Nickolic its systemic.' Clair
Woodly a...
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Categories:
bulky, appreciation, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
DAYLIGHT SPRING TIME COMES AGAIN
...Tonight, the dark sky again
only slept a short while;
no longer eager to cheat
its sun’s awakening joy
over the horizon’s realm;
Bulky white yawning clouds
hovered over the night-shaded
grou...
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Categories:
bulky, allegory, analogy, appreciation, extended
Form: Qasida
Clothes Call
...Does that old clothespin feel the cold
Worry about its aged look
Sun dried, rain tinted, grayed
Does it think about the “clothing”
Children’s flapping diapers
Growing to blue jeans
The “old...
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Categories:
bulky, clothes, life, time,
Form: Free verse
Zelensky is wasting time with puppet at this juncture
...From "rare earth for aid" to blank check security guarantee, Zelensky recently made a series of blind concession to Trumpery, who trumpeted long and long for a "peace" deal with the invader. Everybod...
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Categories:
bulky, war,
Form: I do not know?
Saint Patrick's Day 2020
...I order a Guinness and a shot of Pappy Van Winkle.
My green paper Leprechaun hat is crushed
and lopsided on my head.
That shot of bourbon cost me more
then I used to earn for a day's work.
“...
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Categories:
bulky, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Asleep In The Meadows Of My Mind
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Asleep in the meadows of my mind
is a dewy summer scented with rain and flowers
and a cat purring at the edge of my heart
Smokey fragrances and bulky knit feels of love
stacked u...
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Categories:
bulky, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024
...February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024
I believed fortune cookie maxim
cryptic message couched
Apple Macbook Pro update process
alternately titled “markedly
a L...
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Categories:
bulky, absence, abuse, adventure, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Mr Sewerman
...Grunt grunt below the gutter
The man of the sewer works
With his big old rusty spanner
He twists the pipes, the nuts and bolts
That struggle to hold the metal that jolts
The rats and roaches s...
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Categories:
bulky, poems,
Form: Free verse
September Rhapsody
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Written: September 330, 2024 For Edward Ibeh Contest
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A brown ribbon-like road with a blue sky.
A jungle of green, with the sky peekin...
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Categories:
bulky, analogy, september,
Form: Rhyme
Never Dreaming
...As a child we watched George Jetson face-timing Mr. Spacely.
We knew this would never come to fruition.
Our stereo players took an entire end table.
Videotaping was not even a future dream.
Tap...
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Categories:
bulky, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Heart Of A Country Girl
...The man lost his wallet
He asked the lady for some change
To buy lunch with promise to pay
The lady gave him enough money
And went along to the market to sell the pig
Later, the man went to see...
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Categories:
bulky, caregiving, courage, life,
Form: Narrative
At the Metro
...At the Metro
Shifting the needle
To an intangible void
Emerging from the depths
Caterpillars running on rails and tracks
As too , mouse and rat
Critters, mere apparitions , ruin beds an...
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Categories:
bulky, anxiety, city, evil, health,
Form: Free verse
Dawn
...Dawn
To the most ardent hours beholding peace
Plodding through the wild night of unease
Finally meets the creases of spark
Shining through the bulky layers of dark...
The hour withholds the ...
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Categories:
bulky, art, encouraging, endurance, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Other States
...Michigan weather is what I know.
Here there is a lot of snow.
I think the wind from our lakes is great.
I don’t really go to other states.
I only know about fast food near me.
I don’t know about...
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Categories:
bulky, weather,
Form: Rhyme
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