Twas the Night Before Christmas
...Twas the night before Christmas late dinner.
Table set, waiting for Conner, a beginner.
Wondering which turkey will be a winner.
Wild round neighborhood, non any thinner.
Turkeys saw the peacef...
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Categories:
chumming, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
How did I get here
...(writing for the voice of my son who has terminal illness)
Reality is searingly intimate. But they say anguish,
woes and sadness are emotions best shared.
I am not saying I enjoy lament...
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Categories:
chumming, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse
She Protests Too Much
...With irascible words, she continues to bemoan
Writing about poets with whom she picks a bone
Chastising those who like to compete in contests
She's infected with hate, like a pustul...
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Categories:
chumming, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Bees Are Coming
...Bees are coming, bees are coming,
how I love to hear their humming,
tiny wings just drum, drum, drumming;
we’ll be chumming, we’ll be chumming.
We’ll share nectar freely with them,
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Categories:
chumming, environment, flower, insect, nature,
Form: Monorhyme
The First of February 2020
...Out into the crisp February morn,
Sunshine finally frees nature
From the long oppressive grip
Of the icy, snowy, bitter cold of
Grey darkness that has enveloped
Both sky and human heart alike.
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Categories:
chumming, patriotic, political,
Form: Free verse
Some Mornings
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Some mornings
Written: by Tom Wright
4/7/2018
Thoughts arrive like comets, swift and bright,
Each, a former tenant of a mind swept clean.
Often with a frequency of thieves in the ni...
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Categories:
chumming, memory, words, writing,
Form: Lyric
Siberian Snow Blindness
...
Have you seen any suspicious Russians
roving around the Capitol grounds lately, sir?
Why, no I haven’t
By the way,
what does a Russian look like,
I dare ask with curious dismay
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Categories:
chumming, humor, perspective, satire, wisdom,
Form: Light Verse
On My Mother Passing
...ON MY MOTHER’S PASSING
i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still shines brighter than any star
is as gentle...
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Categories:
chumming, cheer up, mother, mother
Form: Narrative
Will Bring To Sing With
...Will Bring To Sing With
Each time before we start to sing
A great voice will always bring
With us than can be enjoyed
Not be bad and people annoyed.
Tenors tremendous always are
Real, true ...
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Categories:
chumming, christmas, music,
Form: Couplet
Sculpture
...I LOOK IN THE MIRROR A SHADE OF DIFFERENT IMAGES I SEE OF ME. MY EYES BLOGGING FROM MY SIGHT. DISPEAR OF WHAT I SEE OF ME. STANDING THERE LIKE A SOLDIER WITH MY ARMS AT EASE BY MY SIDE.
CHUMMING ...
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Categories:
chumming, hair,
Form: ABC
You Are Adored
...Bait ready, line in the water,
it is in the waiting that taught her...
its all in the way you put out the tease,
chumming the water for fishing the seas...
as the schools begin to near
easy me...
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Categories:
chumming, on writing and wordsme,
Form: Lyric
The Circle of Life -- Sacrifice
...Tackle box, fishing poles, radio, a good book to read
In a quite little alcove , the back outskirt of Lake Mead
The desert sun burning the sky, I’m comfortable in the shadow
I see the shad chummin...
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Categories:
chumming, adventure, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Bottomless Damn
...I descended
Depths pulling
Ropes tightened
Swelling water
Chalky crimson
Pricks of loose twine
Slivers in my ear
Jabbing
Hard.
Red.
Flesh.
Strangling inside.
I collapsed
Head cocked ...
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Categories:
chumming,
Form: Free verse