Watching Contorted Distorted Poindexter
Contorted and distorted, Poindexter lollygagged in the sun.
Owners tried not to watch until he was completely done.
Twisted into a variety of cat shapes, although he was one.
He did not move for an hour after he found a position of fun.
How can he be this relaxed? The man of the house asked his Missus.
I do not
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Categories:
contorted, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Witty Paradox
Let's say we have capitulated
yes, let's say we have succumbed
to their whimsical naivété and inane wisdom
Let us assume that it is all phoney
that it is a bogus hoax-filled folklore
We shall now pretend that we have been beguiled by such marvelous
exercise of ludicrous folly
Such bombardment of contorted philosophy
But in our gullibility we shall yet ask
in
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Categories:
contorted, africa, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Contorted Heart
Too fiery breathing at point zero oh so it seems
baked I feel roasted my heart to blink once and out goes day
my knight and shining armour words bleed out of my mouth pouring like angry fumes of a festered wound
I ran a little too fast
I walked a little too slow
the ground knows me well
on it
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Categories:
contorted, blue, heart,
Form: Sonnet
Back Contorted
On the contorted back
Of Africa in tearful neglect
Based buttocks
The stoic, obese and always full
Of odd appetites
Pain in the back
Of Africa in tears
Centuries are mange
Here and there, scattered
Oh God, I deplore:
- I got tired of this shame!
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Categories:
contorted, africa,
Form: Free verse
Contorted River - Haiku
Contorted River – Haiku
broke branch lost its tree
on hysterical currents
winding, collecting
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Categories:
contorted, adventure, change, conflict, image,
Form: Haiku