Funny Bone
...I wish I had a funny bone
One that was my very own and not cloned
And so I asked God one fine night
When the lights were off and it was all very quiet
God, damn the Adam whose rib got me saddened...
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Categories:
butchering, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Saved By His Creator, Part III
...“But we realized, decades on back,
how consciousness burns out machines,
we are not gods when we create,
there are hard limits to our dreams.
“And the same questions you have asked,
why create...
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Categories:
butchering, death, future, humanity, life,
Form: Narrative
Butterfly Venom
...Was it worth
Butchering the butterflies
We gave each other?
Were they not
Pretty enough?
Or were they just too fragile
For your unstable world?
Your world of
Mismatched jigsaw puzzl...
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Categories:
butchering, butterfly, color, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Martial Translation COQ AU VIN
...Martial Translations
Coq au vin (Cook or wine)
by Martial, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
Hosts always invite you to dinner, Phoebe,
but are you merely an éclair to ...
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Categories:
butchering, addiction, drink, food, house,
Form: Epigram
Evening Tears
...I slept in all day because of a sleepless night
I keep thinking of you in dismay and with might
I’m a lyric without instruments — an a cappella
Without drums, piano and guitar and I’m in awe
Beca...
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Categories:
butchering, angst, cry, emotions,
Form: Lyric
The World When I Was Young
...Why can't the world be like it was when I was young
No one cleaning up dog-due dung
Kids dying right and left of polio and measles
Mumps running rampant like scorpions and beetles
...
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Categories:
butchering, father son, health, mother
Form: Couplet
Anger Mgt
...I am an angry man
I considered butchering my mother
So that the government could offer me
Other accommodations away from her
Just because she asked me to clean
A pot in her house
She is s...
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Categories:
butchering, anger, emotions, funeral, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
My Mesolithic Find
...Upon this Pennine peak
in stretch of wilderness,
where ground is silver grey
of moorland millstone grit,
a glistening piece stands out.
I take close look and see
small flake of shiny brown.
Cu...
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Categories:
butchering, england, history,
Form: Free verse
Stay-At-Home Pig - Nursery Rhyme
...That little piggy who chose to beg off
going to market, stayed home with a cough.
He bragged he was a cut above
butchering, "when push comes to shove
I will always be king at the food troug...
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Categories:
butchering, 11th grade, parody,
Form: Limerick
Corona
...Saša Milivojev
CORONA
A bloodthirsty old woman you see,
a cockroach from the Satan’s
“Crisis Committee”,
For long she pillaged,
children she snatched and slayed
their blood s...
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Categories:
butchering, death, war,
Form: Epic
Work In Progress 8
...Bursap another example of my mom's butchering
Of the english language.She really was a funny woman.One time she told me "I used to be a good looking woman .Now I'm ugly as a mud fence.Never saw a mu...
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Categories:
butchering, 8th grade, business,
Form: Free verse
Forked Junction
...Lately a person begins to read between the lines
how a network of human beings devalue another's worth
battered and bruised internally exhausted at times
they make you invisible shying away fro...
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Categories:
butchering, abortion, anti bullying, culture,
Form: Free verse
Love Or Hate Minichu
...I love the koalas, and hate what the forest fires have done to them.
Adoring seals is easy, but the butchering of them makes me feel dim.
Seems to be a yin to every yang, have you noticed that my f...
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Categories:
butchering, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Taking Him Apart Bit By Bit
...Her blade was her tongue, sharper than any axe or hatchet
Her husband was the butchering block with slices stabs and punctures
Others saw it. He complained sometimes, but she had no ears.
Only a t...
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Categories:
butchering, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Irony
...I won’t hold my breath for the day you stop butchering us. We already have enough issues trying to breathe with you around. They said one should never bring a knife to a gunfight, can you ask them wh...
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Categories:
butchering, 12th grade, abuse, political,
Form: Free verse
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