The fine art of making excuses
...The fine art of making excuses
which achievement, deportment,
endorsement, and indictment
(more serious than rigging an election)
jump/kickstarts (a divine comedy of errors)
not reason enough
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Categories:
corbin, animal, appreciation, autumn, business,
Form: Free verse
Time bracketed between initial birthday and present birthdate
...Time bracketed between initial birthday and present birthdate
October seventeenth
nineteen hundred sixty one
and October seventeenth
two thousand twenty four
represents, signals,
and traces ...
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Categories:
corbin, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse
Quailimore Drive
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The strangiest livestreet of all the days,
No place so perfectly townsplit,
Half of this street is in Fillblubber,
And the other half is in Cawbit.
The Nensorays on the Fillblubber side,
Nev...
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Categories:
corbin, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Margaret Molly Corbin
...Mrs. Margaret 'Molly' Corbin:
A true Revolutionary War heroine.
When her husband in battle fell dead,
Though wounded, she fired his cannon instead....
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Categories:
corbin, america, hero, war, wife,
Form: Clerihew
Then, I Wanted To Reach You
..."I have created perception in you
only in order to be the object of my perception.
If then you perceive Me, you perceive yourself.
But you cannot perceive Me through yourself,
It is through my ey...
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Categories:
corbin, desire,
Form: Free verse
Lost For the Moment
...Where are you?
Where did you go?
How can I make you return?
Are you with someone new?
Of me does she know?
Or how for you I yearn?
What should I do?
What is left to grow?
Why is it no lon...
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Categories:
corbin, conflict, emotions, feelings, love,
Form: Ode
A World of My Own
...Could it be?
Can it be so?
A place for me?
Does anyone know?
Where can I see?
Which way do I go?
I could land upside down
After falling through a rabbit's hole
Zero smiles turn to frowns
E...
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Categories:
corbin, adventure, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Understood Silence
...When you try and speak there are things you cannot say
It is as if the strongest winds carry your words away
Yet still, your eyes captivate inside of mine
Even without words, I can read the unsp...
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Categories:
corbin, absence, angst, beauty, devotion,
Form: Couplet
Vengeance
...Blood in my site as I go for the kill
Better calm down and take another pill
All the rage surges through as I lose control
The minute I black-out I could lose my soul
Negative reinforcement satur...
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Categories:
corbin, confidence, conflict, deep, funny,
Form: Narrative
Only You
...I will be there for you any time you need
I cannot say whether you'll do the same
Whenever your heart may bleed
I'll be whispering your alluring name
Even if you refuse to accede
I will be there...
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Categories:
corbin, beauty, conflict, i love
Form: Rhyme
Cinderella
...Have courage and be kind
Her mother's wishes still fresh in her mind
For she had not a single bone of hate
Leading her courage and kindness to seal her fate
The days turned to months and those ...
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Categories:
corbin, cinderella, growth, hope, imagination,
Form: Narrative
In This Garden
...This place is full of wonder, full of great sites
A walk in the blissful rays of colored lights
Take me by the hand and pleasure my sensory
Tickle my nose with the smell of your fragrancy
Your tr...
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Categories:
corbin, emotions, fantasy, first love,
Form: Ode
When I Sleep
...Of all things, it is happiness and fear
Both of these are strongly sincere
Either a laugh or cold tears shed
That's when the pain develops in my head.
I think of you and your handsome smell
Lu...
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Categories:
corbin, allusion, dream, emotions, imagination,
Form: Ballad
Gone
...Away from here
That is where I want to go
I want to be able to breathe.
Nowhere near
Just keep digging really low
I want to be underneath.
Somewhere bold with something bright
That is where I ...
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Categories:
corbin, absence, blue, how i
Form: Rhyme
No More Tears
...When it begins to storm outside
When all are gone upon you relied
When you feel utterly defied
And when all of your tears have been cried
Just look to your left and there I'll stand
No matter ...
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Categories:
corbin, appreciation, beauty, friendship, strength,
Form: Rhyme
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