Moonstone Melodies
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Let me conjure some mystical moonstone melodies
A symphony of sapphire strains and ruby rhapsodies
A harmony of hessonite hymns and pearlescent praises
A litany of lapis lazuli lullabies and...
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Categories:
carbuncle, song,
Form: Free verse
The Man
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The Man
Miracle Man
4/19/2024
An old geezer who had a thin truncal,
was cursed with a large neck carbuncle,
He wasn’t the same,
after bad news came,
of cannibals making a meal of ...
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Categories:
carbuncle, humorous, political,
Form: Limerick
My Uncle Carbuncle
...My Uncle Carbuncle lived all alone,
In a very small house made all of stone.
No one called him or ever came by,
Just a hermit by choice, My Oh My!
My Mother's Brother and a real sad sack,
Had ...
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Categories:
carbuncle, destiny, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Sorry Uncle Albert
...We are so sorry uncle Albert
we will all miss your crazy Thanksgiving talk.
I am so sorry uncle
I have done nothing all day
but drift away to Never-Never land.
Peter Pan sends his regards,
but ...
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Categories:
carbuncle, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Shred
...Why I Will Always Be Alone
emptiness craving amorosity loathing darkness vintage dreams ravenous/heart gong a silent beat, shivering the desire bed empty since you left. Sex boiling with poten...
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Categories:
carbuncle, allegory, allusion, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Answer On a Bed of Nails
...Should it be a poet's duty
To write solely about beauty?
A POET’S DUTY by BETH EVANS
ANSWER ON A BED OF NAILS
let me answer the quixotic brioche —
we all need a delicate pinch;
bra...
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Categories:
carbuncle, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Art G's Golden Years
...Remember that singer, Art Garfunkel
He developed a painful carbuncle
Got down on his knees
Said, 'Don't lance it, please'
The mere thought of blood makes me cry 'Uncle'
Of course, old Ar...
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Categories:
carbuncle, age, hair, pain, satire,
Form: Limerick
Autumn's Auburn Rustic Dust
...AUTUMN'S AUBURN RUSTIC DUST
When with closed eyes in Autumn's eves of gold,
She breathes in the blades of orange-yellow,
Looking for that 'something' called auburn rust,
Halting mid suntanned t...
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Categories:
carbuncle, autumn, joy,
Form: Rhyme
A Weird Woman
...she pips in fear for lateness like her peers,
hauteur cloaked with reticence,
her-boo-boo-vague, though walled around and palpable
official Narcissist disguised in rude affronts
Bravado o...
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Categories:
carbuncle, anger, animal, bullying, dog,
Form: Burlesque
The Crap Shoot Poetry Contest
...On the surface
you’re all sweetness and light
But ...
the truth is life isn't a game
and if I were to start digging
digging deeper than a gravediggers soiled shovel
I'd see thro...
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Categories:
carbuncle, bullying, poetry, slam,
Form: Free verse
A Weird Woman
...she pips in fear for lateness like her peers,
hauteur cloaked with reticence,
her-boo-boo-vague, though walled around and palpable
official Narcissist disguised in rude affronts
Bravado o...
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Categories:
carbuncle, beauty, betrayal, character, crazy,
Form: I do not know?
Crumpled Sheets
...A pleasant sleep eludes her bed of stars.
Her crumpled sheets in twisted heap aloof.
The restless mind of mirth responds afar —
In moonlight serenade she scales the roof.
Arouse his...
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Categories:
carbuncle, absence, longing, love,
Form: Sonnet
Diamond Made
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I’m carbon-based,
Resurrection cornerstone foundation laid
Diamond made
These obsidian eyes
sardius shine ...
agate Illuminating
my igneous bright coal face
With volcanic intens...
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Categories:
carbuncle, identity, spiritual, truth, visionary,
Form: Bio
Friend and Foe Frolick
...“Friend, friend, why do you hate me
I shower love to make you see
How much in your company I’d like to be.”
“Foe, on the contrary, no friendship debt to you do I owe
Look me in the eye and fri...
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Categories:
carbuncle, poems,
Form: Free verse
Carbuncle Unbidden and Unwelcome
...Wounds drained, opened, ingrained, rained, sprained, trained
In the midst of a family loss
Recriminations canned, fanned, planned, tanned
To fight the brute boss
Dressed up as justice cause
Di...
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Categories:
carbuncle, poems,
Form: Free verse
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