Critics
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Seagulls,
Carping, such dulls,
A peaceful smiling lulls....
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Categories:
carping, appreciation, giggle, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Message To The Blackman
...If slavery was a choice, as some have agreed, then what are we?
If watching your father and mother endure rape or murder was a choice,
Then why do we sit on idle hands, while Trump eradicates our p...
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Categories:
carping, africa, black love, history,
Form: Free verse
Learn to share, O Bleeding Hearts
...A serpentine row of pillars of stone
Winding through farms, woods and much weeded track
Like suture marks upon earth's bordered skin,
And white-washed, each proclaiming its number in black.
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Categories:
carping, peace, tree,
Form: Narrative
Silence Is Golden
...A lady who lived in Korea
Had terrible verbal diarrhea
Her hubby called Bill
Said, “Keep your tongue still,
Quit carping and bending my ear”
Bill’s desperate for a lil’ peace
But...
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Categories:
carping, humorous, peace,
Form: Limerick
The Picture
...The picture
She bends over the lace making table
Fingers swollen knuckles hard and round
Silent conversation hands to cotton, cotton to hand
Weaving and wefting
Curling and carping
Each lazy ...
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Categories:
carping, halloween, humorous, october, scary,
Form: Free verse
Mocking Dance of the Dead
...Written: September 19, 2023
Mocking The Dead Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Silent One
"Do not be afraid of death. Death transforms to something wider. Death is where it all...
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Categories:
carping, analogy, bereavement, death, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
General Failures In Australia
...Nonsense feeders, just useless
Impeders, slow and lazy in a walk
To cake, sluggish decievers wasting
Space; even though theres plenty of
It they still waste it we're sure of it
Coulden't they b...
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Categories:
carping, absence, abuse, character, courage,
Form: Verse
It's 'Oh Fish Eel' - 'Fish N Chips' For Andrea
...It CAN be ‘fish n chips’ stop carping on, there’s no plaice for rudeness!
It's so sad to see a person out of their depths and just floundering
Why is it that some people alw...
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Categories:
carping, conflict, fish, food, poetry,
Form: Monoku
Derivatives With Limits
...Working over Birk’s Works and other tunes my saxophonist admires—
Cheesecake, Blackbird—for the theoretical, applied mathematics
inside an abstract, audial harmonization of the Big Bang and The Fal...
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Categories:
carping, cancer, funny, god, hero,
Form: Free verse
Changing Our Attitude
...A foggy morning with dreary overtones
Can cause the spirit to spiral downward
Eliciting slow-moving, guttural groans
A foggy morning with dreary overtones,
It makes us feel like decre...
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Categories:
carping, caregiving, character, cheer up,
Form: Triolet
The Secret
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The Secret
Miracle Man
6-8-2022
I buried a secret in an unmarked grave,
this secret was birthed many years ago.
I’ve lived my life as this secret’s slave,
knowing no other living pe...
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Categories:
carping, self,
Form: Quatrain
Her Inner Dialogue
...An inner voice narrated her life;
It began to chronicle every happenstance,
each ordinary event
as if there were indeed a story unfolding
toward a nagging judgement of her being.
It chastised, p...
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Categories:
carping, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Anchors Aweigh
...Anchors Aweigh...
destination unknown
for this Earthling
stardate: February 26th, 2022
At sea since time immemorial
I relish being alone
upon oceanic expanse
yours truly doth bemoan
me ga...
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Categories:
carping, 6th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme
Perfume
...mystical sunday morning of a smile
an inward lightly scented
point of view
elusive wisps of crisp air
jazz brushing across the wet, warm sun/sky
of bluish, outstretched
blue
uncluttered by...
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Categories:
carping, blue,
Form: Free verse
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:
carping, fun,
Form: Free verse
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