Tatianas Twinkles
... Tatiana’s Twinkles
Once upon a time, a poetess created, such lovely, rhymes.
But, once the doors on free spech were forever closed, she
went on to be a mime!
She s...
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Categories:
crooned, freedom,
Form: Free verse
THE GLASS JAW OF MY UNCLE BOB SATTERFIELD
...MY UNCLE BOB SATTERFIELD WAS QUITE FAMOUS FOR HIS POWERFUL PUNCH BUT ALSO FOR HAVING A GLASS JAW ACCORDING TO ALEX RAMOS THE DIGNITY FOUNDATION RETIRED BOXING ASSOCIATION I ADORED WATCHING BOB AND EZ...
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Categories:
crooned, allah,
Form: Naat
I'M ALSO A SONG
...I’m Also A Song
Hey…
I’m also a song
And I’m not afraid
To sing my own tune
But don’t
Think me
Arrogant
Or selfish
You too
Are a song
To be sung
But this song
Is about me
Rather th...
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Categories:
crooned, allegory, analogy, character, extended
Form: Free verse
BURPS
...Miriam Millicent Mannerheim-Merps
Loved calling her two younger brothers, twerps
After she had her first child
Both were very sweet and mild
But when baby nursed, they crooned her with burps.
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Categories:
crooned, baby, brother, child, love,
Form: Limerick
The Night New York Slept
...It was one solemn, long night,
Tenebrous with the astuteness of perfidy,
And multiple hours before the break of an
Impatient dawn.
Lampposts froze through the pergola of winter.
Limp from exposu...
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Categories:
crooned, city, new york,
Form: Free verse
Jukebox Requiem
...ANGIE, that last slow dance in smoky haze—
you slipped UNDER MY THUMB like twilight’s ache.
The Rolling Stones crooned fate through tangled days;
I tried to PAINT IT BLACK for mercy’s sake.
But...
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Categories:
crooned, imagery, inspirational, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Smiles Of Childhood Days
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A sudden drizzle gushed along the street,
That I wiggled out , romping and playing
In my cotton jumpshirt as summer cooled,
To allow a downpour of monsoon rain.
Swerving through puddles w...
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Categories:
crooned, childhood, fun,
Form: Light Verse
The Golden Age of Music
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Thanks to Rockabilly being wed to R & B,
History changed drastically when Rock became mainstream.
Elvis crooned and moved his hips. Girls began to scream.
Goodn...
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Categories:
crooned, music,
Form: Acrostic
A Kiss In The Dark
...We weren't always dolls
Before the dolls - flesh was
RAW
and torn
Before we were dolls we could rip open our skin
and bare it to the world
and when a little girl peered inside
ev...
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Categories:
crooned, analogy, gothic, psychological, self,
Form: Free verse
Towering Tones
...Better Than Best!!!!!
_______________________
Ruther Casttill a pension schemer, and retired
Dairy farmer: who married Lilly Coa Dang's daughter who is one of
Adebayo Ackah 16 children. My na...
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Categories:
crooned, adventure, film, music,
Form: Bio
Annapolis Too, Do-be-do-be-do
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Glenn Campbell sang of Wichita
Trini Lopez of Kansas City
Otis Redding crooned of Sausalito, CA
Sittin’ on the dock of a bay
Chicago was Sinatra’s kind o...
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Categories:
crooned, celebrity, city, flying, music,
Form: Rhyme
Metamorphosis
...“blessings from above
transformed lust to love
delusion to illumination
earth-heaven bilocation” - Unseeking Seeker
When rays of saffron atonement
streak thr...
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Categories:
crooned, fate, feelings,
Form: Free verse
EUROVISIONs GOLD-Sleep My Love 1958
...Enchants, “Dors, mon amour,” night of romance.
Long ago, he crooned, put hearts in a trance.
André Claveau, nearing fifty years old,
effulgence of French lips, Eurovision’s gold.
Some audienc...
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Categories:
crooned, love, sleep, song,
Form: Couplet
The Rainbow Bridge Church, chs 4 and 5
...Chapter Four: The Rescue
Out he dashed, into wind and rain, his big ears flying behind! He caught the scent of the little pup, she'd not be hard to find.
Back at the Rainbow Bridge Oa...
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Categories:
crooned, animal, bible,
Form: Rhyme
Fading
..."Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more, in the leafless root there is no less" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm a sunflower,
dipped in honey of
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Categories:
crooned, angst, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
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