Trump verses and other mild curses
...All for the price of a dozen eggs,
America stands on shaky legs.
Globally, the claim is heard ~
"The US ~ laughingstock of the world,"
as daily, we star in our very own theater of ...
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Categories:
carting, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Devotion Poem Our Dance
...Devotion Poem - Our Dance (For Jim)
You are the first and last poems
God wrote for me.
You are the sparkler
I found flaming sun yellow between
The sprigs of early g...
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Categories:
carting, dance, destiny, feelings, husband,
Form: Free verse
Fine Dining On Air France
...We’re monopolized by the Saran-wrapped food,
the plastic cutlery,
absorbed by the clutter of the food tray.
Numbed by hours of jiggling,
the carting of torpid bodies through interminable distan...
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Categories:
carting, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Adding Contempt
...I was carting horse manure in a trailer that’s on loan.
I’m driving on the back roads ‘cause I know that I am prone,
to be courting a disaster if I take a major road,
with no brake lights or blink...
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Categories:
carting, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Time and Motion
...In a job where time and motion had an impact that was nil,
I was introduced to modern trends that mentioned soon I will,
but I could buck the system if I chose, by opening up me ‘gob’
although it ...
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Categories:
carting, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Poeter's Framework
...Taking into account; the Poeter's quip
Shant it be unfurled to reveal thine
Penned and newly coined path of authorship
Paying out the Poeter’s plumb line
Veering from the course
Plotting new...
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Categories:
carting, imagery, imagination, language, life,
Form: Rhyme
Clear Felling
...I can hear the dozers in the distance,
droning across another mountain top.
Someone needs one hundred ton of wood-chips,
so dozer droning never seems to stop.
I can hear the chainsaw in the dis...
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Categories:
carting, abuse, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Broken Heart Lane
...As the gossiping canary sat on the wharf
Watching the west ham going forth
“Off to mingle”
Thackray said who was single
“With the white lilies”
Forgetting about the wolves who were very chil...
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Categories:
carting, appreciation, fantasy, flower, football,
Form: Rhyme
Sinking Feeling Springs Eternal
...Sinking feeling springs eternal...
courtesy sucker punched by vehicular travails
Truckload of banshees muffled
as more'n yours truly wails
he feels wheely tired
as one after another
significa...
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Categories:
carting, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Fine Dining On Air France
...We are monopolized
by the Saran-wrapped food,
the plastic cutlery;
absorbed by the clutter
of the crowded food tray.
Numbed by hours of jiggling,
the carting of torpid bodies
through intermi...
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Categories:
carting, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Funeral Calls
...Within the sketch of a house top my hair laid.
In bewilderment on the street I saw a disarrayed
feet for the clarion's call.
Not in honour of a man in metallic monster for life
restore or death g...
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Categories:
carting, abuse, anti bullying, character,
Form: Blank verse
Uppity Darkie
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Light minded people say I’m an uppity darkie
They color me bad,
with a black face, felt pen Sharpie
Vanilla voices downright don’t like
the audio sounds of this mouthy darkie
They ...
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Categories:
carting, allusion, prejudice, racism, truth,
Form: Bio
Voice
...Present, but not independent,
Of societal flows, expectations,
Not understanding sisterhood,
Out with reachability and love.
Together with a voice each,
But screeching sometimes,
In a s...
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Categories:
carting, community, culture, identity, people,
Form: Blank verse
Linda
...Linda with the crippled fist.
Knarl to her smile.
Walking with the slightest limp.
Cap held on in style.
Moving like an Engineer.
Cane to shrug her on.
Spectacles of smiling eyes.
Pain as go...
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Categories:
carting, character, giving, hero, humanity,
Form: Quatrain
And Still I Drive - Part Two
...Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here that a Roundhea...
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Categories:
carting, travel,
Form: Rhyme
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