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The Bar on Beer Street and Gin Lane
...They gather where the signs hang crooked, under gaslight glare and broken clocks, where the barkeep’s eyes are twin shot glasses— fogged, but watching. Gin Lane rolls in on tired boots, her la......

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Categories: chalked, abuse, addiction, depression, drink,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Amorous Perspective - Magritte
...I see the wood from the trees is taken they bare no malice in their spent state just disappear leaving a lonely landscape I linger in the drafting of possibilities how protect......

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Categories: chalked, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Azure Vistas
... "Azure Vistas" Azure vistas presented themselves to me rolling inwards the clouds like tumbleweeds mercilessly bump fallen angels off the map like torrents of rain fal......

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Categories: chalked, muse, political, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Jingle Bells and Family Ties
... Written: December 11, 2024 For contest Sponsored by: Constance La France Quote: "Cheers to a fresh new year and a fabulous opportunity for us to flourish!" ......

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Categories: chalked, analogy, appreciation, new year,
Form: Monorhyme
BODY WORK
...Funny how independence Can blind lack of choice The feel of wheels Silencing the roaring voice Yellow, plain, drab But it got me to my destination Blaring the AM radio While I chalked my del......

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Categories: chalked, car, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member City Life Circa 1957
...City life, for kids, before the onslaught of helicopter parents and mandatory parental involvement in every aspect of growing up. We played baseball, no umpires, the bases pieces of cardboard, scrat......

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Categories: chalked, baseball, growing up,
Form: Prose
neither cleanliness nor godliness do I abide
...neither cleanliness nor godliness do I abide rather yours truly doth thrive on keeping the ethos, mythos, and pathos of Pigpen alive subjected to eternal abomination, brutalization, condemnatio......

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Categories: chalked, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Move on over ole Joe
...Move on over ole Joe... and let the youngbloods take the reins infusing our promised land with hope. You done good for America, serving as laudatory President from 2020 to the present Vice ......

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Categories: chalked, america, anger, anxiety, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Motherland
... "Motherland" The “Removed”, Charlestons across the keyboard, fingers have a personality and a mind of their own, don’t you agree? the stalwart mind converses wit......

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Categories: chalked, child abuse, dark, light,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Mid Week Memory
...CHILDHOOD GAMES bouncing a ball against a wall         conkers bashed as Autumn falls the swish of a skipping rope  hop skotch chalked in the dry nearby swings swung  high  five-stones on a......

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Categories: chalked, childhood, games,
Form: Rhyme
Still Rejected
...1/16/23 Still rejected I already did mention Much is in question In the end most won't get the message I'm tired of all this tension Too much focus on others skin complexions Never once ha......

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Categories: chalked, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Bricklayer
...His wheelbarrow wobbled Across the broken sidewalk Toward the job site Where the work was Some girls in yellow taxis rode by and whistled at his tanned arms. His brown boots got chalked ......

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Categories: chalked, break up, heartbroken, i
Form: Free verse
Skullscape
... This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... VERSE 1: Observing the notional landscape about death, Sometimes I begin to tear. Faraway men rotten six feet under, dead; What will I do when death angel app......

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Categories: chalked, death,
Form: Lyric
Routines
...he sat there in his room gently shaking his head as he chalked ducks on the floor which then he carefully fed over in the corner watching him with glee the asylum keeper counted from one to n......

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Categories: chalked, depression, humanity, life, mental
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Possessions
...briefly uttered epithets in chalked pictures a quest for forms to gladden & enchant a delicate response to entrance to save a dream a stimulating ......

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Categories: chalked, imagination, inspiration, word play,
Form: Other

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