CYPRESS LAKES
...THE BEAUTY OF CYPRESS LAKES CAPTURED MY WONDERING SENSES THE MANY CYPRESS TREES SURROUNDING MY HOME WRAPPED AROUND A SOFT GOLF COURSE GREAT VEIWS OVER SEVERAL LAKES THAT HOUSE THE MOST INTERESTING NE...
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Categories:
cougars, allah,
Form: Naat
Dreams of the Shaman
...Dreams of the Shaman
David J Walker
It was the Prairie version of Eden
In the evening light
Awaiting the day exposing the
Cover of Buffalo Grass
Its flag-like banners of male flower
Fly...
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Categories:
cougars, creation, history,
Form: Rhyme
Bizarre
...My pooch has funky tastes
To sniff out bizarre caviar of freshly milled
Tissue paste
Pounce like cougars
Not for meat treats, but Kleenex filled
Boogers
He's got
A nose for skilled
Snot
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Categories:
cougars, dog, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Weddings
...Wishing you a happy Monday as you promised me to skI
Ending the day with champagne – Oh how I wish it was reaL
Do you love me or do you hate me? I questioned thee as I said hellO
Delve me into you...
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Categories:
cougars, addiction, art, kiss, lost,
Form: Acrostic
Reconstruction
...Lincoln never imagined
today’s white victim zeitgeist,
pouting persecuted supremacists,
their clenched jaws and fists.
Civil war rages in limbic memory.
Encoded somewhere,
the panic attacks ...
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Categories:
cougars, america, discrimination, freedom, hate,
Form: Political Verse
The Rake's Song
...Some people go get married,
but I won’t be tied down,
not with such pretty woman
living here in this town.
The young wives in their twenties,
soon after the big day,
see the Honeymoon pass by.....
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Categories:
cougars, desire, humorous, lust, men,
Form: Rhyme
Jungle Reality
...The everyday project is to continue the extreme task of survival
waking up every morning to the bad reality that it may be the last
holding unto this hint, the greatest wisdom to acquire.
Communit...
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Categories:
cougars, anger, angst, animal, bullying,
Form: Free verse
The 49er Strikes
...He'd come west back in forty-nine,
three long years had passed since that time,
and still he mucked 'bout rivers cold,
with pan and shovel, seeking gold.
Fa away from Sutter's Mill,
he'd stake...
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Categories:
cougars, america, conflict, dark, history,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Cougar Fan
...The older woman suddenly beams
When the young man says they are his dream
Thinking he's a fan
She flashes her cans
But his T-shirt reads, 'Cougars Football Team.'...
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Categories:
cougars, confusion, funny, riddle, word
Form: Limerick
Today's Racist
...Today's racist is not your hate racist of the past.
Today's racist are just ignorant people, both good and bad.
Most see humanity,
as akin to the feline family.
There are lions and tigers, cougar...
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Categories:
cougars, race,
Form: Rhyme
The Cougar and the Deer
...When I was just a little boy
we picnicked under alpine skies,
one time a mule deer strolled out
and fed in the meadow nearby.
Tall, curving antlers rising up
from a regal, tan-grey head
“The fi...
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Categories:
cougars, age, fear, growing up,
Form: Narrative
Frangipani Delight
...Frangipani Delight
Another drab evening in a menagerie of unfit suitors
And here I am, among the mockingbirds, amused and ashamed
This ancestral ritual of confidence and cougars
A pellucid beha...
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Categories:
cougars, red,
Form: Free verse
Passionate Predators
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Restless soccer moms,
whose kittens have all become mature,
got plenty of suburban boredom
Time enough for sure
to get hooked on every advertised lure
As daytime soaps and gossip ki...
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Categories:
cougars, life, marriage, perspective, society,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Cats In the Cradle-With Writer's Note
...Cats In The Cradle
cougar
prancing terrain,
prospect's skinny dipping,
yearning inside her garden groove
howling
connie pachecho
6/09/17
Note-With the title I wanted to suggest that t...
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Categories:
cougars, romance, sensual, word play,
Form: Cinquain
Slaying Dragons
...In my daughter’s world, fraught with danger,
Sharks swim at the deep end of the community swimming pool,
Long-clawed demons roam the hallways after dusk,
Sea lions emerge from wooded trails to sna...
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Categories:
cougars, childhood, dad, dark, daughter,
Form: Free verse
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