Potter
...Sand from backyard,
Landed on potter’s table,
moulded to clay.
Thrown onto his wheel,
Shaped with his hand,
Caressed and tried,
To make something,
From nothing.
His hand, mind everything,
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Categories:
chiseler, creation,
Form: Free verse
Loosin' Stella, a Cowboy's Lament
...Dreamin' with my eyes on these Montana skies
Blue as the plaid in my plum good shirt
I got the mitten by a beauty queen smitten
By a flannel mouthed tenderfoot from the Wyoming dirt
I’m just a ...
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Categories:
chiseler, culture, emotions, feelings, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Pathological Condition
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Just as eating too much cake
will give you a bellyache,
genuine con is always real fake
An artful eye can chiseler tell
if Mona Lisa’s smile ain’t original
Forged truth ring alarm ...
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Categories:
chiseler, allusion, political, truth, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
A Nightmare
...I awoke from a dream I had been dreaming
With sweat that was popping from my head
I knew I had to shake it off
So I got up out of bed
I found a bottle of bourbon
Three gulps, then I wiped...
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Categories:
chiseler, career,
Form: Free verse