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The Tale of the Holiday Devil
...It’s not for the mere frail this cautionary tale of wicked yuletide fright Do come inside and sit hearthside on this dark and snowy night A chilling yarn from long before in the glor......Read More
Categories: cautionary tale, children, christmas, culture, dark,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member TWYLA THARP AND INTERSTATE 81
...TWYLA THARP AND INTERSTATE 81 I had been watching a documentary about a white-haired woman, a legendary master of creative processes whose intensity of focus was a cautionary tale of explosi......Read More
Categories: cautionary tale, memory, teacher,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Snowing Inside-Minneapolis 2022
...cigarette falling, snow- ing in- side the bronco, buck- ing ash two-digit scissors reach- ing like tongs passenger’s eyes pop driver retrieves, revels, masters the smoke; a joke ......Read More
Categories: cautionary tale, funny, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Cautionary Tale
...Great is the battle, small the victory when much that we had is lost to mankind - in this war of worlds its great casualty is the fallen consciousness in our mind. From arrowhead to smart......Read More
Categories: cautionary tale, perspective, world,
Form: Sonnet
All Unlucky Things Come In 4
...Lately i have been studiously going over and delving into John Lennon's back catalogue of work And what I learned and took from it from it is this It seems as if he really suffered for his ......Read More
Categories: cautionary tale, irony,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Cautionary Tale
...Ditsy blonde mother of Red Riding Hood Sent her little girl alone to the wood… Once upon a present time That would be a heinous crime, Mom and grandma for neglect would be sued. ......Read More
Categories: cautionary tale, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Breakwater Marquette, Michegan
...Technically, not a sea at all, Lake Superior churns up its share of sea storms. There is not a lot to do in Marquette, Michigan: Except for high school drivers to "buzz the gut", Or cruise past......Read More
Categories: cautionary tale, adventure, education, fate, growing
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Broken Valkyrie
... "The Broken Valkyrie" when the artificial sun replaced true Light, revolution was a forgotten Valkyrie, Liberty had been put to bed broken w......Read More
Categories: cautionary tale, dark, humanity, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Where there's Smoke
...Smoking is a dirty habit that I haven't done in 15 years or more (maybe here and there, on a whim, outside a bar, when the night and the neon glow and the delirious buzz beneath my skin imp......Read More
Categories: cautionary tale, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Finding My Strength
... Starry Eyed Then One Day Cast Aside There we were, standing still Then you break the silence This would be our last thrill You moved on without me Was I supposed to know That yo......Read More
Categories: cautionary tale, break up, sad love,
Form: Rhyme
Packed for Success
... I pack the backpack then empty it count again what I need, discard the unlikely, the unnecessary accessory. I pack the backpack shoulder it, adjust the straps remember to add a ......Read More
Categories: cautionary tale, poetry,
Form: Free verse
What I Need
... I pack the backpack then empty it count again what I need, discard the unlikely, the unnecessary accessory. I pack the backpack shoulder it, adjust the straps remember to add a useful thi......Read More
Categories: cautionary tale, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Reckoning with lifelong despair
...Which late afternoon/ early evening today adventuristic, edenic, and idyllic April 13th, 2021 pitch perfect weather serves as temporary tonic to balm away blues. Like a tumbleweed aimlessly ......Read More
Categories: cautionary tale, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Goldilocks Now
...But, my friend said, if Goldilocks was alive today her story would be different: we’re just so used to the fairy tale message, the simplified right and wrong of it. Women today are too afraid to ......Read More
Categories: cautionary tale, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
tears softer than shadows
...I stood there in the black of night My gaze cast towards the sky; O'glorious luna, so beautiful you were this Halloween I stood there paralyzed, enchanted My memories paint a cautionary tale;......Read More
Categories: cautionary tale, angst, beautiful, best friend,
Form: I do not know?

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