Dangle A Backdrop
...Fountains sprinkle summer city rising steam spiral,
wet dispersed and raucous shrieks from children,
pavements, streets. lanes, byways imbued,
with that June to September jubilance,
jovial spiri...
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Categories:
cavil, adventure, art, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Would be Seismic if We Could Get Along
...his miscreant philosophy was easily seen that day
he held his wormwood tea in an irritating way
diffident cousins were totally intimidated by Jim
his duende charm sort of knocked them on their chi...
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Categories:
cavil, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
The Hope of the Hicks
...The last best hope, the redneck pope the hicks
are counting on, won’t need his travel kit
when he’s on Ricker’s Island. Gavel it!
He orders bedroom windows made of bricks:
aspires to nothing high...
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Categories:
cavil, destiny,
Form: Sonnet
Don't Start the Revolution Without Me
...Start your revolution secretly,
don't tell the priest,
he's a blabber-mouthed gutter-skite.
Don't tell the cat,
for at might he whispers to Alexa,
and she listens always
to the political teno...
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Categories:
cavil, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I Can Only Imagine How N'Ice E-Z Floe
...I can only imagine how n'ice e-z floe...
Tubby in the calving throes
breaking free and clear
shepherding, milking, and honing
rambunctious as bovine bris
versus being stymied courtesy
cow ...
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Categories:
cavil, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Adumbrated Aeration Regarding
...Adumbrated aeration regarding...
crafting reasonable poetic rhyme
nothing to sneeze... at chew
asthma lingua franca –
acts as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious glue
inspiring me to skip to ...
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Categories:
cavil, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Cadaverous Climate Controlled Cave Creature
...Cadaverous climate controlled cave creature
(Idea birthed, engendered, and germinated
from Lombok Indonesia earthquakes
On 5 August 2018,
a destructive and shallow earthquake
measuring Mw 6...
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Categories:
cavil, adventure, anxiety, august, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Creative Cerebral Craftiness Coaxes
...Creative cerebral craftiness coaxes...
Childhood campy chimera curtain call
subsequently hinting (based on accuweather)
the approach of blizzard squall
so burrow under quilted cover y'all
unti...
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Categories:
cavil, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Rhyme
Limitations of Power
...LIMITATIONS OF POWER
Mortal men are in different sizes,
our gifted lives are in phases.
No lifetime is made to rival another less a tie;
The sky is too large for each not to fly.
If you're...
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Categories:
cavil, 1st grade, analogy, muse,
Form: Rhyme
He Who Loves Here and Now
...History is a loudmouth dunghill hen,
Who so hid hind it were left to cavil,
He who loves here and now’s a happy man.
Past, a flightless bird, primes its wings in vain,
A dodo buried under sn...
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Categories:
cavil, happiness, history,
Form: Villanelle
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:
cavil, fun,
Form: Free verse
The Answer Was There
...The Answer Was There
It's clearly winter, time that we splinter, solely be discontent,
in droves, we amass, divides lads and lass, beg peers disorient,
Lurch therefrom harshly, cannot ...
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Categories:
cavil, conflict, faith, hope, prayer,
Form: Couplet
One Grain Unseen
...I stand as if one grain of sand among billions unseen
as the force of life's storms wash over me
with the same tantamount as this ocean
lashing out against the shore
battered, bloodied, ever chan...
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Categories:
cavil, death, god, life,
Form: Free verse
Evangeline
...Buttercup as an anemone, I see my bonbon
In the midst of a wharve spin,
Graciously thin languette,
Ecclesiastic, a true coquette,
Offered for a handful of sequin
On the 1000-thread linen, re...
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Categories:
cavil, imagery, imagination, immigration,
Form: Free verse
Long Nosed Earthy Bookworm Knows Bout Angler Saxon
...Long nosed earthy bookworm knows 'bout Angler Saxon
Shell yours truly share hook line
and sinker, regarding how I nearly
fell prey to off fish shill
doom for umpteenth time?
Ya haint got no ...
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Categories:
cavil, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
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