Only One of Me
...fragments of memory cling to my skin
like wet cigarette smoke -
rumors of midnight rainstorms
in the flashes of a gaudy neon sign.
mangled wing unfurls like a twisted umbrella
on a desolate hi...
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Categories:
captious, dark, death, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
The Evil
...you are not simply the inapposite that breaks
you are the plague that destroys the rose
the captious instrument that causes loss...
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Categories:
captious, allegory, evil, extended metaphor,
Form: Epigram
La Madone Noire
...In my family, a convent in Lucerne, Switzerland loomed legend large.
It’s name is “La Madone Noire” (the Black Madonna) and according to my mom, it is a “finishing school” where captious girls, who...
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Categories:
captious, humor, kid, mom, parents,
Form: Free verse
Moon Shadow
...Mystical ghost of night
Of pale death’s milky glow
On sun’s life, contingent
Neon-gray you sketch black
Soothe the belligerent
Mystical ghost of night
How you shine subterfuge!
As the captio...
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Categories:
captious, moon,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Get, Set, Go
...Boss is always right! Yes, we do keep this in mind. But when we fight, we are always right! And that is the moment we need perfect words to impress and to win …no, we can’t afford to lose…for it bec...
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Categories:
captious, fun,
Form: Free verse
Life
...Life is summoned to be a sorrowful joy
Far above the twinkling stars
Near the wrinkling earth
Brighten by variety of life's and void
Giving its parts as a path
For roles of mans draft.
Life ...
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Categories:
captious, destiny, image, life,
Form: Rhyme
Total Surrender
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Total Surrender
By: Tom Wright
3/10/98
An ignominious life I had lived,
my surrender absolute.
I now find no place for cessation,
for Satan is so astute.
A captious person I will...
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Categories:
captious, life, scary,
Form: Lyric
The Solace of the Insufferable
...I have a lot of enemies
Who hate me through-and-through:
They dare to disagree with me
On what they ought to do.
They push their narrow ways on me,
And soon it may be you,
By claiming we must t...
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Categories:
captious, funny, humor, humorous, psychological,
Form: Light Verse
Let's Find Peace and Stop the Pain
...It’s just a terrible situation
being so harsh and critical-
A revealed capricious sensation
from those who are hypocritical.
Derogatory and unrespected
with a loving environme...
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Categories:
captious, hate,
Form: Rhyme
Old Man
...An unsociable, ill bred, unrefined man.
And his captious, callous, long-suffering, old spirit.
Cadaverous and frail amidst the morning walk of thier land.
Wheezing from the years of cylinder ember...
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Categories:
captious, brother, loss,
Form: Free verse
April Greetings From Lonely V-Boots
...(for: Those who go by New Tarzan)
We have heard many of those lofty tales;
Of her toying with our golden rule:
Of her flying strength across the roads,
When some fawning dogs of buses come ...
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Categories:
captious, parodyold, lonely, old,
Form: I do not know?
The Snowy Cliffs With Bouffant Boulders
...Even before the arrival of the first snows, so brilliantly candid,
we climbed mounts less dangerous than the Alps's;
and we proudly chalked it up to our experience.
Now the snowy cliffs with bouf...
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Categories:
captious, adventure, dedication, devotion, family,
Form: Ottava rima
The Godhead
...I see so constantly
the mother I wish not to be
a trainwreck citing meat too lean
malnourished and mis-wed by seventeen
I am the feet that swell and sore
under plum-bruised body and broken bac...
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Categories:
captious, faith, life, sad, words,
Form: I do not know?