Musky
...A complete thought
it conveys a complete thought
soothing harmonious phrases
a melody
perfecting a pitch
a sequence of notes
and a musical structure
that grooves and carries
from the Boo...
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Categories:
cooter, analogy,
Form: Ballade
My furrr babies
...My Furr Babies
The echoes of their playful purrs,
A haunting melody that forever stirs.
Cooter, Biscuit, Gizmo, my feline crew,
Left behind, a heartache tearing through.
Cooter, the apple of m...
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Categories:
cooter, deep,
Form: Free verse
Boyhood Memories
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Carolina home
In the great Palmetto State
Place where I was born
Boy was free to roam
On a ninety-acre farm
Free from fear and harm
In dirt, sand or mud
We sandlappers had it all
To wor...
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Categories:
cooter, childhood, growing up, home,
Form: Haiku
I Walk Midnight Arena All Alone
...I Walk Midnight Arena All Alone
O' chalice of the world, mystical sphere
Treasures born from ancient raided castles
What of palid crescent moons hanging low
And the broken arm of heart's rabid...
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Categories:
cooter, art, life, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Sonnet
C-O-U-R-T-N-E-Y
...Cry ‘en out
runty Court, corny core
country coon unroot.
Ornery, yet not
your crony too.
Uncute nut
one rut —or
cooter coroner.
Neo coy
Cure concert tune crooner.
Once re...
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Categories:
cooter, cute, fun, girl, how
Form: Free verse
Time To Go
...Time to Go?
By George W. Clever-----9 September 2020
Have we over-stayed our welcome
At the party for Depression and Booming Babies?
I think they want us to go.
But to where I want to know? ...
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Categories:
cooter, america, anxiety, confusion, death,
Form: Free verse
The Duke Farm
...When the Duke boys tried to jump over my house, they crashed through the middle.
The damn General Lee landed on top of me and put me in the hospital.
The Dukes apologized and said they meant no har...
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Categories:
cooter, farm, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
There's a Pill For That
...Poor old cooter
with a limp pee shooter
Feeling no levity
his battle versus gravity
Doc says if you will
just pop this little pill
Life has returned to great
now that things are back to straig...
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Categories:
cooter, humor, natural disasters,
Form: Light Verse
Cooter
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“Cooter”
By
Tom Wright
There once was a blonde bar room shooter,
Who would travel around town on a scooter?
She was real slick,
At chalking a stick,
But she couldn’t best her boyfr...
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Categories:
cooter, boyfriend, girlfriend,
Form: Limerick
Let's Duke It Out
...I was born in nineteen sixty nine
just off the block and in my prime
now let me introduce you to
some pertty good friends of mine
Let's start with my uncle Jesse
to me he looks like he's nine...
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Categories:
cooter, adventure, dedication, fantasy, children,
Form: Rhyme
The Wreck On Gastons Hill
...I watched as the old train chugged heavily up the hill.
Puffing and puffing the smoke completely shadowing J. Gastons’ saw and
paper mill.
Then I saw what looked to be another train coming dow...
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Categories:
cooter, imagination, me, old, me,
Form: Narrative