Burden of Broken Ties
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Written: December 31, 2024, Contest: Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
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Welcome into the world,
with grazing blue eyes and sap...
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Categories:
constabulary, analogy, god,
Form: Free verse
Caveat Scriptor
...It's not a prerequisite, of course, but if a piece of writing is any good, chances are it's probably offensive to someone. (Paraphrasing John Irving-A Widow for One Year) So, writer beware...
Wo...
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Categories:
constabulary, humor, writing,
Form: Light Verse
Beam Curvature
...feeling his vitamin injection a new adventure begins
a slapstick epic of unfathomable implication here unfolds
as the rat gnawed curtain rises at Ye Bone and Gristle
among the clattering of wooden...
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Categories:
constabulary, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Antique Village
...Antique village
Houses around me are emptying the old, reaching the age of dying.
A timeworn man went missing on Monday, was found miles away,
the local constabulary drove him back home.
He ha...
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Categories:
constabulary, corruption, devotion, flying,
Form: Chant Royal
The Age of Bully Boys
...Welcome
to the age of the bully boys
pulling little girls curls and stealing others toys
unraveling the flag as it unfurls of a nation divided
shouting louder and defiant babblery so misguided...
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Categories:
constabulary, age, america, change,
Form: Carpe Diem
The Tell-Tale Bells
...The bells! The bells!
My looney, tuney pals!
The bells! The bells!
They curse and vex and howl!
The bells! The bells!
I must escape them somehow!
The bells! The bells!
The clanging, banging ...
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Categories:
constabulary, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
I Heard Something On the Wireless
...I heard something on the wireless
As i went about my day,
Some new strain of virus
In some province far away.
I didn’t pay much attention
As it seemed a distant threat.
Well that was my conte...
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Categories:
constabulary, change, endurance, humanity, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Summer Holiday
...We're all going on a summer holiday
So sung Cliff in 1963
It all went wrong with Yorkshire's constabulary,
Aided and abetted by the BBC
Sorted by the judiciary.
Some holidays are quiet and pea...
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Categories:
constabulary, holiday,
Form: Free verse
A Salmon's Tale
...Two brothers salmon in the deep blue sea
Got the urge one day to seek some revelry.
So off they both went into the early dawn
With naught on their minds but to swim and spawn.
Up the big river ...
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Categories:
constabulary, endurance, , cute,
Form: Couplet
My Monster-In-Law To Be
...I have a monster-in-law to be
She’s my boyfriend’s mommy
She forced her son to join the military
‘Til his gait was no longer like a lady
I’ve witnessed many times her monstrosity
She scr...
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Categories:
constabulary, funny,
Form: Monorhyme
Chilly On the Willy
...It's sure chilly on the willy
When parading around in the nude
Almost becomes an obsession
With some of these bold little dudes
They have no silly old hang-ups
'Bout showing their cute little parts
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Categories:
constabulary, growing up, old, old,
Form: Quatrain