Not Invited
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Not Invited
When it’s that time of year for beer and reunion
For high-jinks and thoughts and comradely communion
And having a party to be reunited
There’s one who won’t...
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Categories:
comradely, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
So Welcome Back
...hello hail-fellow, comradely friend, glad to see you back and read you...
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Categories:
comradely, miss you, poetess, poetry,
Form: Monoku
Fields of Blazing Stars
...By your ink on this parchment, my thoughts tattooed
I'm drawn to this bouquet; I am left so madly.
Fields of blazing stars, lying randomly, strewed
Happiest are these thoughts deliberately const...
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Categories:
comradely, flower, happiness, nature, seasons,
Form: Villanelle
Wheel
...That circular object that brought revolution,
That, like greased bearings, made human labor easy;
Like machines many, this made its contribution,
The times to change and the cultures to be breezy....
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Categories:
comradely, change, life,
Form: Sonnet
Buddy
...I really didn’t like him
But what the heck
He was a fellow Yorkie
And he had a lot of neck
He played the piano by ear
And that’s just how it sounded
You couldn’t say his technique
Made notes i...
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Categories:
comradely, character, memory, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
Painted Faces
...He came the hallowed night of haints,
face a kaleidoscope of paints.
He looked all around
until he had found
The source of all the complaints.
The girl enraged was named Sally...
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Categories:
comradely, brother, childhood, fun, giggle,
Form: Limerick
The Intruder
...Idlers, paved paths with active energies, purloining, feigning amity.
Dodgy & concealing past immoral dregs by comradely, waspish mien.
Obdurately empowered by this stranger plucked from th...
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Categories:
comradely, black love, divorce, evil,
Form: Narrative
Jailer From the North
...We peep through grated beams in the dark confines,
Kept in chains by the tyranny of audacious jailers,
unending cynosure of profligates and imposters:
ruining the destinies of million wear...
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Categories:
comradely, anger, corruption, freedom, leadership,
Form: Free verse
No Glory Ft Taint
...Taint/
There was a time when I felt like wealth
all I needed under my belt,
like why the f*** do I care,
look at this Gucci I wear,
like a movie directed by Luci,
I’ve become less a begger...
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Categories:
comradely, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Trusting Trapped Tease----Up There
...If everything is all right
Then there is not going to be a fight
Thoughts from those wearing tights
And arms showing might
A huge net down there
Going through the air
Grabbing a swinging ...
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Categories:
comradely, cool, crazy, fear, friend,
Form: Rhyme
The Beautiful Game
...Four long years have past, World Cup here at last
Thirty two teams full of hope, live their dreams
from all over our world, adorers massed
Within Russia's realms, friendship to extremes
Footb...
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Categories:
comradely, beautiful, dream, football, international,
Form: Rhyme
Home
...Calling
I hear the pipes from far away
drummers in fields play
highlands and bogs
pipers march
in dawns lifting fog
past forest and streams
overlooking stormy seas
the brave need no sword
In...
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Categories:
comradely, adventure, art, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Teachers
...Teachers, Teachers.
Teachers Teach us.
They give us speeches and praise us like Jesus
But they're not holy, swag.
They cater solely, for themselves;So selfish.
Some are rude and crabby;So ...
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Categories:
comradely, anxiety, depression, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
A Lovely Day
...From the past days of old.
At Seventh Street & Florence Avenue.
Vehicles in pristine finished.
Bragging Rights Mint Condition.
Proudly rolled by in a yearly tribute.
Very close behind did the ...
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Categories:
comradely, celebration, community, history, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Gus
...Many are the 'characters' I met while serving my nation.
Seems there's always one who stands out in every organization!
In Bermuda (where I fought the Korean War) was such a cuss.
He was my bunkma...
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Categories:
comradely, funny, may,
Form: Rhyme
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