'bout the inch uv learn
....
"'twuz this close"
certainly
y'all indulgerz uv
mine write
with telepathy knowz
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Categories:
bullwhip, adventure, angst, extended metaphor,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
A Frenchmens Hell Nothing More
...A Frenchmen’s Hell Nothing More
David J Walker
No father
Please I pled
It was only a dream
Nothing more
About mesquit trees
Turning themselves into mustang ponies
Nothing mo...
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Categories:
bullwhip, allegory, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Admitted
...Admitted?
There they go again at it like there’s no tomorrow
Maybe they know something we don’t
Listen to her shriek and scream while they
And I hear their bed collapse as he jumps from the ward...
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Categories:
bullwhip, desire, satire, sexy,
Form: Verse
Bullwhip Bob
...Bullwhip Bob settled in the cafe
and ordered fried spuds and beef.
A railroad man in Bingham’s Town,
he came here each noon to eat.
He’d gotten his name not for his job,
but because each and e...
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Categories:
bullwhip, conflict, courage, fear, hero,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
A Date With My Lady Luck
...She meets me
in a Coliseum
wearing an iron bra
and the chastity belt.
Blindfolded and veiled,
She carries a bullwhip
in one hand and
a spiked mace in the other;
"Do you feel lucky ton...
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Categories:
bullwhip, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Punishment
...Your anger is like
the sinewy arm
that cracks the bullwhip
of your words,
tearing deep strips
from the soft flesh
of my heart.
You can't hear
me crying,
can you?...
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Categories:
bullwhip, abuse, anger,
Form: Free verse
Stone of St Croix Island
...Carefree in leisure time, one blasé tourist,
almost happy, I once had collected a complicated stone;
after the sunny hours had ended and last opportunity
for keepsakes began.
In my hand the stone h...
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Categories:
bullwhip, africa, dream, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Natural Selection
...Hail the swaying stalks
Bowed so fiercely to razor
breeze
Watch that young one stand
See the will-o-wisp rise!
From clover fields of hay
An idea, a spark
There is no fear
There is no pain
The bullw...
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Categories:
bullwhip, science
Form: Free verse
Land's End
...
"Land's End"
All at once & with such Very Great Flair ~
So's no-one would notice what'd really taken Place~
SeaWolf & his Wench grabbed a wild Notion from thin Sea Air~
That with which they...
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Categories:
bullwhip, adventure, sea, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Slamming Dakarai Cobb Part 1
...Soupers quiet down, quiet down, dakarai cobb is in for a shock.
I'm gonna smash this clown, so let me metamorphose into the Poetic Warlock.
Soupers put your hands in the air, and chant my name to t...
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Categories:
bullwhip, dedication, fantasy, slamme, me,
Form: Rhyme
The Whipping
...One of many dark moments in America's History, home of the brave and the free.
A.W. Nutter
“Let the bullwhip sing”
“Stifling freedoms ring”
My sweat soaked shirt
Was quickly torn away
F...
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Categories:
bullwhip, angst, history
Form: Rhyme
Super Villain
...Superman was blown to bits out the midnight sky!
Unmasked so he could look me in my cold dark eye.
Pale horse arrives from a raging storm, standing above his lifeless form.
Enraged and completely ...
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Categories:
bullwhip, death, fantasy, funnyme,
Form: Acrostic