Songs from the past can take you places
...Today I opened my social feed to find this post about a song release
It was a favorite of mine from 1994
And just like that I was transported once more ,to a place etched deep into my soul
It's S...
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Categories:
chucks, memory, music,
Form: Free verse
An Old Tree
...An Old Tree
Bails unlocking their way
From the soil of dystopia to the branches of sonnet.
Wind wavering and crossing mountains away
And I yet holding onto the branches un-cleft.
When clouds b...
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Categories:
chucks, imagery,
Form: Imagism
My addiction, depression, heartbreak, and guilt
...My addiction depression heartbreak and guilt are only a few struggles I face while at least up my chucks and take a deep breath I step into the real world where this all repeats itself I choose to pi...
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Categories:
chucks, addiction, betrayal, depression, drug,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Truth Will Set Me Free
...A scarlet daydreamer marbled in blue velvet
marooned in confidence mired in yucky mucky chucks
Twas a heist at gunpoint to honor those petted
I have brained the threshold and my mind turned to ...
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Categories:
chucks, music, perspective, poetry, song,
Form: Lyric
Nun-chucks
...I wish they'd pray for the candidates
(as much as a farmer prays for rain)
to steer the planet from spiritual drought.
Political hacks and media yes men
magnify their human frailties and flaws....
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Categories:
chucks, jesus, political,
Form: Free verse
gilded
...This happened last Fall, during Thanksgiving break.
Lisa and I were at the MET (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), with her family, at an exhibit of Art Deco sculpture. Lisa and I came out of a gall...
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Categories:
chucks, art, dad, daughter, fashion,
Form: Free verse
Six Outsmarts Me
...the child is six, and sharp
I knew this when he said “that looks like a DNA tester.”
What is a DNA tester? I asked.
“You know. You test blood, saliva and urine with it.”
I was impressed.
I had...
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Categories:
chucks, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Socks
...Conceived of wool and birthed Siamese
In grand factories by hands unheard.
My socks move into separate drawers
Like orphaned siblings.
Soon
Each of my six pairs are strangers
that move in per...
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Categories:
chucks, art, for her, kiss,
Form: Free verse
Advice From Professor Hoose Gooser
...We should do something Professor Hoose Gooser said.
Of course this was years ago, today this old coot is dead.
It is too late now said the new believers. We will be boiled alive.
You are all crazy...
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Categories:
chucks, children, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Baby's First Chore
...Mom and baby, in the rain;
Arms hold babe and dog on chain.
No umbrella – getting wet;
Not a one appears to fret.
Walk to corner – garbage pail
Plus a box to drop the mail.
Mama hands her tot...
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Categories:
chucks, baby, city,
Form: Rhyme
In the Mellow Marshes
...In the mellow marshes
where butter flies abound,
a lot of curious critters here
are running all around.
Some jitter bugs are here with us.
Their music drives us nuts.
The grass hoppers – kung...
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Categories:
chucks, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Woodchuck
...STUCK LIKE CHUCK
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck's luck was sucked and fukked up and struck by upchuck?
Upchucked struck, sucked and fukked luck like a stuck up duck with a stu...
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Categories:
chucks, 3rd grade, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
Chicken With a Gun
...Early morning wakens and as the cockerel starts to crow,
Mr fox starts his hunting
and toward the coup he goes,
Peeking through the door way and thinking of his fun,
face to face he is now...
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Categories:
chucks, farm,
Form: Rhyme
Taxedermy Me
...give me a sign
a scent for i'm
a pelt trapper
by trade and
your trimmed
beaver would
make a fine
hat at that
it wood
for
how many chucks
would a wood chuck
chuck leaving me all
ch...
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Categories:
chucks, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Unquotable Quotes: L 50 - Tongue-Teasing Epigrams
...UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: L (50) - Tongue-Teasers
The « early bird catches the worm » only because the worm has not woken up yet.
« I don’t love you ! I hated your father ! » - must be the real rea...
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Categories:
chucks, art, humor, irony, women,
Form: Epigram
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