Again
...It comes in waves
Before you know it
Was it always there
It comes in waves
You didn’t think about it today
Did I make it up
Is pain a feeling I’ve ever known
It comes in waves
This time was...
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Categories:
covetously, abuse, dark, depression, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The Balls: A Parody of Poe's the Bells
...I
Hear the bouncing of the balls--
Basketballs!
What a sound of merriment they cause when each ball falls!
How they echo, echo, echo,
Inside the gymnasium walls,
Arriving at a crescendo...
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Categories:
covetously, 11th grade, basketball, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Triumph of Self-Glory's Loss
...God-wrought triumph*
jubilantly serene, blissfully radiant
faith-fortifying, spirit-reviving, Christ-exalting
stewardship, faithfulness; arrogance, selfishness
mind-afflicting,...
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Categories:
covetously, blessing, character, christian, faith,
Form: Diamante
To Help the Deaf To Hear and the Blind To See
...TO HELP THE DEAF TO HEAR AND THE BLIND TO SEE
“Skepticism," the poet told the woman,
"is contained in human reason and can never divorce itself from it,
because human reason contains the truth.”...
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Categories:
covetously, people, philosophy, silence,
Form: Free verse
Fool's Goad
...
Little lemmings,
beware of the Yukon yodel
Don’t ear swallow the Arctic shiny yellow
Fake eureka disclosure: It’s jingle hollow
So, enamel blowflake please,
place not your panhandle h...
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Categories:
covetously, allusion, muse, wisdom, word
Form: Rhyme
Jade Oinkment
...
The sow beauty queen’s
favorite color is money green
The cloven jaw cutie’s
favorite sound is “cha-ching”
Miss Piggy Lips loves how the cash registers
throughout the land constan...
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Categories:
covetously, funny, humorous, parody, satire,
Form: Ode
Sea of Collateral Carnage
...
See the human debris,
the scattered limbs torn apart
by shrapnel velocity
In so many Third World places,
the second-hand groan grafters
commit mercantile murder
in the first degree...
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Categories:
covetously, dark, imagery, perspective, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Sand Goddess
...Supine she lies upon the sand
beads of perspiration finely dot
curvaceous golden brown form
carefree tresses spring, fly away hair
coconut oil lathers coquettish peaks
bared free, fles...
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Categories:
covetously, beach, summer,
Form: Free verse
Imp-Ulse Attraction
...
The seductive voice
emanating from the Cyclops eye,
whispers: Don’t believe what you see!
Only trust what I say,
when you zombie sleep turn off the TV
Have no bewitching faith in y...
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Categories:
covetously, allusion, imagery, satire, surreal,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Digital Translation
...
Ten fingers
left and right palm pig squeezing a thief’s prayer merry
One finger
covetously dipped in the pie hole green apple gouging
Nine fingers
raven cloaked in vulture reape...
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Categories:
covetously, allegory, corruption, perspective, wisdom,
Form: Couplet
New Moneychangers
...
And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them t...
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Categories:
covetously, corruption, religious, spiritual, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Liberty Bow Face
...
Red power mode
White digital
Blue logo
My, oh my ...
sweet apple pie!
Patriotic American cheese is turning sour Kraut commie
Democracy is Wisconsin curdling ... penicillin shot
ne...
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Categories:
covetously, allusion, imagery, truth, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Slithering Meat
...
Reptile meat got a foul swallow
The creeping things they eat
emit putrid vapors ...
vocal odors lemmings do follow
Falling off the cliff
into the mouth ...
Bask in the saliva nasty...
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Categories:
covetously, corruption, dark, truth, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Speaking Ill of the Dead
...
Dishonorable plastic discharge
gouge a crater debt
of predatory lending regret
Dead faces on printed paper
exercise still
their executive will
Oppressive weight
from the mausol...
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Categories:
covetously, corruption, money, perspective, truth,
Form: Verse
Life In An Aquarium
...My life in an aquarium, so great,
But fearsome, with unknown fate.
Swimming against the fresh water,
Flapping my gills for a breather,
The air pump producing bubbles,
Se...
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Categories:
covetously, fish, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
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