Coined Poems

Not too Shabby Mate

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“Not too Shabby”

(one of my market regulars wrote us a lovely letter.. to raise our flagging spirits..and this is our tribute to you Tom..who whenever you ask how he is?....says not too shabby)
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August 13th, 2025 twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events

...August 13th, 2025 – twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events

The following poem posted about a half hour before the bewitching hour that spelled calamity (which though a frea...

SUMMER'S PROMISSORY NOTE

...Option #5 Poem Written for “Half Past Summer, Two Months 'Till Fall Poetry Contest,” Andrea Dietrich, sponsor.
SUMMER'S PROMISSORY NOTE
Summer: I relish its tastes, s...

Billionaires hunker down in their Queenstown bunker lairs

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Let’s pester Uncle Fester

After dafter Luxon 

Pushed the button

Welcomed every glutton

To the isles of mutton


Theme of the meme

Team New Zealand 

It does seem

No longer a
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Renee Vivien English Translation of her 'Coming Out' poem

...Renee Vivien English Translation

Words to My Love
by Renée Vivien
translation by Michael R. Burch

This is Vivien’s “coming out” poem, although the term wasn’t coined until many years after Vi...

Excalibur

...Excalibur 
The sword was held aloft by the lady of the lake 
She said only the mightiest of men shall wield its strength 
Only those true of virtue 
Only those planted firmly in their moral convi...

The Prismatic Self

...I write because silence was a tyrant
with a velvet muzzle.
Because childhood was a soundproof cage,
and I was taught to swallow every scream
like communion.

“Poetry is not therapy,”
the judge...

Life is still being fair

...Life is still being fair to every person 
Walking all roads toward destination 
No matter they are circuitous or plain
And mind not the yields joy or pain 

Lives suchlike yours and mine appeare...

Buddy Hi-Di-Ho Santy

...Buddha meets ... that is strange,
Announce the meet ... strange the more,
Buddha meets ... not so strange,
Announce misquote ... Buddha just wrote,
Though history ... Buddha's story, 
Timing bit...

AI: An AndIdote to Regret

...Youth is not on my side anymore
Dreams yet to load from my analog days
Caught up in the bitrate of life
A legacy model looming 
up an exponential curve

Heuristic hallucinations take flight	
M...

Koilon

...Blavatsky said space is God
but pause we her give a nod,
consider: where is God not?
Contemplate thus, be self-taught.

Wisdom Leadbeater affirmed 
and Annie Besant confirmed;
koilon: a term c...

MODERN BIRDS

...The advent of women is a daily phenomenon,
I'm glad I'm not one when all is said and done;
be honest, God must have been laughing creating Eve,
might have been less problematic if Adam and Steve.
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BELOW AND ABOVE THE SEAS SURF FACE

...BELOW AND ABOVE THE SEAS SURF FACE

Gone are the fishers pulling Lugs; the Gull its gizzard rusty hooked; 
and barbed, limit its shelled Limpet supply as blown sand creeps;
smart gulls dunk and d...

DEMOCRAZY IN A STATE OF EMERGENCY

...DEMOCRACY IN A STATE OF EMERGENCY  

Yea how shall we start with 
Dancing to tune of craze
Walking up at a lever so aching
Dragging with demons all days
Who did we offend, which way

I'd thou...

Tell Me Which Do We Decide Go or Stay?

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Tell me — which do we decide — go or stay?
like a wounded bird love has taken flight
a grappling ponderance every day
as our ships steer silently in the night
reasons vary and we both understan...

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