THE TINY TRIAGE EXAM ROOMS
...I'M TRANSPORTED BY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION AMBULANCE I'M ALWAYS AFRAID SUFFERING SEVERE PANIC DISORDER I TRY AND FOCUS MY MIND HURT MY EYES ARE SWOLLEN PANTING PANIC ATTACKS AGAIN THE NURSES ARE KIND ...
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Categories:
casinos, allah,
Form: Naat
Bite Me, Lady Luck
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Doggone it, I used to make a killin' at casinos,
R o l l i n g sevens; killing em' all softly
The way The Rolling Stones kill it on the stage.
Brimming with confidence, I ma...
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Categories:
casinos, fun, humor, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Donald Mark and James Francis
...MARILYN HOLDING ON TO
MEMORIES THROUGH ASHES
REMEMERING THE LOST DONATE
BONE MARROW SHORE CLAIR MICHIGAN
MY PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU PLEASE
STOP THREATENING MY LIFE
I CAN'T IMAGINE AFTER ALL ...
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Categories:
casinos, allah,
Form: Lento
Accusation
...My vast steppe blessed with treasures untold,
A peaceful land where labor unfolds.
Seeing this nation's abundance and peace,
Enemies gathered, their threats unleashed.
If a person’s hea...
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Categories:
casinos, child, mother,
Form: Rhyme
division
...The division
Here in this landscape of bushes and crippled trees
the grotesque peace of daylight ghosts
grey boughs stretching upward appeal to a soundless god.
“Give us today a new life.” Ther...
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Categories:
casinos, absence, abuse, addiction,
Form: Free verse
This is Happy Land, The World's Playground, lyrics
..."Welcome to the playground"
'Ring around the roses. Ring around the roses.
Ring around the roses. Ring around the roses.'
Jack the ripper, he slept with a whore, and became deadly ill
While h...
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Categories:
casinos, birthday, conflict, culture, dark,
Form: Narrative
Highway Signs
...The big green ones are everywhere,
next exit in half-a-mile,
they seem almost reassuring,
all done up in the same style.
Then smaller ones bordered in blue,
with promises of food to eat,
the bi...
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Categories:
casinos, art, car, color, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Black Water Smack
...Throughout my life dad and I have done many things together
graduating from Crayola, fishing and wiffleball
to tune-ups, casinos and funerals.
After one particularly salty funeral:
Dad and I we...
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Categories:
casinos, flower, funeral, funny,
Form: Free verse
Yours truly embarks on wild goose chase after elusive pot of gold
...Yours truly embarks on wild goose chase after elusive pot of gold
alternately titled: incorrigible lottery dreamer
big plans to relocate self and spouse
to some tropical island paradise
by the ...
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Categories:
casinos, adventure, angel, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Is poetry soup on vacation in Vegas
...Today was a very odd day
every comment on my poems
were at least 3 and a half hours
away I only posted a few today
just to see where we were all
going as if poetry soup took all
of us on ...
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Categories:
casinos, allah,
Form: Quatern
At The Cemetery
...Writing is a gamble
we put in our words,
pull the slot
and read back our
cherries and lemons --
the object is to publish
our addiction
to connect with a reader
our casinos, the clan-...
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Categories:
casinos, career, desire, meaningful, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Pearl of the Orient
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Donning splendiferous landscapes stretching for miles,
A culture that aptly prides, in bold, welcoming smiles;
A thriving land of islands~ an archipelago evincing awe,
A resplendence of nature, ...
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Categories:
casinos, culture, nature, people, places,
Form: Rhyme
The Bomb
...This is the bomb! Wait until you
Here you will read hear about the
Tick of tock of tick the clock is
Gone lawn the mow now show
The glow a phone it groans.
Then moans
Time it is almost t...
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Categories:
casinos, angst, anxiety, color, death,
Form: Alliteration
Right Proud, Governor
...Governor JB Pritzker's rightly proud of his home state
The latest statistics all show we're doing great
While we lead the country in residents fleeing
That's not all that we should be ...
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Categories:
casinos, business, education, perspective, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Parting
...The partition
Here in this landscape of bushes and crippled trees
the grotesque peace of daylight ghosts
Grey boughs stretching upward appeal to
a soundless god.
“Give us today a new lif...
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Categories:
casinos, absence, blessing, courage,
Form: Light Verse
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