Waltz of the Dead
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Written 04/02/2025, for the Iron Maiden " Dance of Death" song, contest sponsored by Robert James L.
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Scary lie shrouded in opulence
I ponder over ...
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Categories:
cackled, dance, death,
Form: Free verse
DUSTY POET
...DUSTY POET
Dust before donkey doomed
a wicked whirlwind
grains of wisdom wrinkle
sand webs
dust devitalise land
here there everywhere nowhere
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Categories:
cackled, character, emotions, farm, feelings,
Form: Ballad
PALEO PAIR
...PALEO PAIR
Hands rapturously
slashing satori
Bang !
Light released filter down
bats brushed skin to
fly knowingly low
then water gushed
through cracks
snakes spiders scorpions
were our t...
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Categories:
cackled, age, allegory, birth, creation,
Form: Free verse
At The Cemetery
..." The blue jay is seen as a powerful spirit messenger."- Author unknown
It was a cold fall morning as the leaves swirled in the crisp windy air
I decided to walk in the cemetery and chose the p...
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Categories:
cackled, bird, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Malakar’s Calamity
...upon his tower dark and tall
malakar stood to doom them all
with lightning flashing, cape unfurled
he cackled, "Now I rule the world!"
he pulled the lever, struck a pose
but fate, unkind, had ...
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Categories:
cackled, funny, giggle, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
What the Highest Bidder Forgot to Consider
...The witch sees green. She sets sail from door to door.
Her wake fells trees. “What the highest bidder forgot
to consider” was the black and blue broom in her grasp.
—Poet (sponsor words i...
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Categories:
cackled, tree,
Form: Free verse
Bluejays
...Before the war
bluejays were just bluejays,
then the missiles arrived.
CNN displayed the mounting death count
until it too was obliterated.
Scorched bodies tumbled listlessly,
down deserted str...
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Categories:
cackled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Spellcaster
...A cabin sees a creature cool from night of crawl and hunt in all
of gravely stone and street in tone of light diffused by wane of moon
a toothless gum with tutting tongue clicks her way like bats ...
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Categories:
cackled, magic, moon, night, scary,
Form: Rhyme
A Letter To Salicious Crumb
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Dear Salacious Crumb, where did you go?
I saw what Luke did to the sail barge,
as Leia jumped off I witnessed the blow;
Echoes of your ceremonious laugh
lingered after that swift disappear...
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Categories:
cackled, humor, science fiction, space,
Form: Rhyme
doof-doof
...“22½ euros for a Martini,” Peter remarked, when he first scanned the menu.
“It’s not like we aren’t going to get them,” I said, “we’re not going to cheap our way to abstinence." The waiter came and ...
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Categories:
cackled, humor, mom, paris, student,
Form: Free verse
Rikhi the lollipop Lady
...It's was snowing like crazy
my woman and I were alone
somebody rung our number
calling me on the phone
my woman answered the call
started that Hello trip
gabbing bout the
weather
said it was ...
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Categories:
cackled, clothes, engagement, guitar, hip
Form: Bio
It made me twitch
...I didn't drink the brew
because it made me twitch,
and break out in hives,
every where I itched.
She cackled real loud, a
high shrilling pitch,
and hit the broom stick
with a switch, and flew
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Categories:
cackled, 1st grade,
Form: Light Verse
Chapter 152 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: pt 4 Almost Time for a Wedding
...April 3, 2051
Dolly speculated about home, "the kids."
And decided Skype contact before
The dawn of day. Next day early morning.
Dolly was thinking, "this turned out
Completely different tha...
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Categories:
cackled, absence, allusion,
Form: Prose
Three Bad Boys Get Their Lamb And Salvation
...Every so often the kids passed a pasture
Where a divine farmer kept his sheep
One night they crooked themselves in
While the farmer was fast asleep
They rolled with the grassy hillside
Onto th...
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Categories:
cackled, devotion, faith, farm, youth,
Form: Couplet
concocting a youth potion
...I shall do a dish and a dash and a ha ha ha
making myself young, so fiddly fah lah lah
so saying, the old witch gave a loud gaffaw
her cauldron boiled and bubbled next to her bra
I pretend to c...
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Categories:
cackled, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
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