Holding On
...I have a wife, a son and two granddaughters,
I have nightmares.
A 'having' cannot be held onto,
a Keep, a Fast, a Hold, all are synonyms
for a fortress....
my aspirations crumble like ancient wa...
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Categories:
burgle, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Praying Mantis
...
Blurry eye balls - up to it close.
Right there
clinging
on the screen door swinging.
Mantis, a big bug come to mind-prey,
or are you praying to come inside?
A plus size Insectivore
at my...
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Categories:
burgle, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Tale of the Door
...I am a door; I open and close.
I go hither, I depart to enter.
One world is an umbrella for another.
I slam, I click quietly, secretly,
if you see me on one side
you'll find me on some other far...
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Categories:
burgle, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Money Gives You Power
...There are people, with lots of money
who want more and more
and will deceive and lie, to have their way
There are people, with not much money
who want more and more
and will burgle and rob, to...
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Categories:
burgle, depression, discrimination, humanity, money,
Form: Rhyme
The Money Go Around
...The rich want, more money and power
so they deceive and lie, to have their way
The poor want, more food and health
so they burgle and rob, to have their way...
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Categories:
burgle, business, humanity, jobs, money,
Form: Rhyme
A Shining
...A full-gorged moon opens its illumined glare.
Ghost lights flood the dens, burrows and nests
of all creatures,
a limpid dementia swirls blood-red clouds
in predatory eyes.
it enters be...
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Categories:
burgle, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Retribution
...In sandy Egypt lived three men
In ancient days when pharaohs reigned
The kingdom of the pyramids,
Osiris and that Isis’ den,
Whom everyone worships and heeds,
Or at least doing so they feigned,
...
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Categories:
burgle, sin,
Form: Rhyme
4 30 Am When Sheep Leap and Lay In a Heap
...It's 4:30am and I can't sleep,
the sheep leap and lay in a heap,
told me they're tired and got shut eye,
even my own mind has shunned I,
lets just freestyle this rhyme and see where it goes,
it ...
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Categories:
burgle, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Toiling Hard For Eating Raw
...Everywhere we were, we were in the mood of seeking eyrie
At times, life’s roses and prickles prerequisite no banana
The forest accommodates amazing trees and flowers pulpit
In the sun, the minds a...
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Categories:
burgle, analogy, work,
Form: ABC
Poverty
...Poverty is not a slogan
It is a reality in our organ
Though for time immemorial it had begun
it is not to be treated as bygone
When in situational Poverty
There will be absence of property
Ma...
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Categories:
burgle, angel, , memorial,
Form: Pastoral
Leaves On Leave
...Sometimes trees’ green fingers
Stand still like reposing harbingers
Of hope and despair; they meditate
On our ignorance of them who medicate
Us when diseases burgle into our souls
Taking us unawares ...
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Categories:
burgle, tree,
Form: Alliteration