Waggers
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In cricket what is the definition of Stoic?
Who is the limited edition who debunks tradition
Who is the true rendition of heroic?
Pay heed to a rare breed from a special creed
The house...
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Categories:
crudely, sports,
Form: Free verse
You Look Happy
...“You look happy.”
It wasn’t a compliment, nor was it truly an observation. It did not fall from his tongue with ease, it clung to his very being like a toxin that could not be purged. It was an a...
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Categories:
crudely, change, conflict, freedom, goodbye,
Form: Prose
THE F---WORD
...Seems like certain politicos toss about the f---word thinking they're cute!
Didn't their mommies teach them that real ladies and gents of good repute,
Don't express themselves in public in such...
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Categories:
crudely, character, integrity,
Form: Couplet
Canaknas
...Selected by the swift sound of hand to shoulder blade,
The bells upon their ankles sounded like seven trumpets
to me. I had been a chosen sheep among the Shepherd’s flock.
Lead me my Pharisees, I ...
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Categories:
crudely, childhood, christian, nostalgia, religion,
Form: Free verse
Povertys National Anthem
...Slender man walking a dusty, country road,
Clothing on his back dirty, ragged, and worn,
Had been cruelly bullied, poked and ridiculed,
Felt like the dirt under his worn-out brogan shoes....
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Categories:
crudely, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Oceans of Blood
...A drowned Perpetua inhumane, whose dwellers art furthest from sane,
where mortals had once sought to reign, now mindless husks subject to an eerie pain.
And so, amidst boiling waves of a single...
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Categories:
crudely, angst, death, depression, eulogy,
Form: Narrative
'breaking the Trauma Bond'
...'Breaking the Trauma Bond'
Do you still like me?
Let me count the ways.
The tired old familiar abuse,
The ugly scowl,
The “get outta here’s!”
“Don’t give me that kind of sh..t!!”
V...
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Categories:
crudely, abuse, anti bullying, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
For Oscar On His 11th Birthday
...Remember always Invictus and God
when you stand alone before pharisees -
thus follow the path King and saint have trod
and, son, trust in your own humanities.
Prove incorruptible and heed...
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Categories:
crudely, birthday, son,
Form: Sonnet
Essential Distance
...Essential Distance
Take in these cotton soft rhymed words,
deep-seated artistry mastery of
illustrious calligraphy.
Weaves of written illustration, master of mystical mysteries & soulful cade...
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Categories:
crudely, art, black love, break
Form: Rhyme
Indispensable Treat
...No one questions as much
Freedom concept as such.
Nor its value or cost -
Til it is crudely lost.
Once it’s stolen, we pause,
Scrutinizing the cause.
Priceless is freedom’s net,
Le...
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Categories:
crudely, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Shadows of Somber Skies
...She fell from the light, into a world shadowed in gray.
~ by poet
An angel pouted to protest her punitive plight
No repentant redempt...
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Categories:
crudely, angel, dark,
Form: Alliteration
Knotted
...You make simple things
become crudely entangled;
Knotting up a string;
Strangled thoughts and emotions
constricted to bated breath....
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Categories:
crudely, anger, emotions, feelings,
Form: Tanka
Damn Those Boys
...Damn those boys, those idiots, who,
with psychedelic lights flashing on blank faces
nurse their drinks, slowly caress glasses,
joke crudely with their friends —
while I yearn.
Damn you, you co...
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Categories:
crudely, anger, angst, break up,
Form: Free verse
What a Insert Expletive
...Blame hardly ever helps unless it is used to express anger
it does not achieve any more than venting raging frustration
levels the playing field to a point apportioning recrimination
without...
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Categories:
crudely, anger,
Form: Free verse
All Hallows Eve In the Year of the Plague
...As Halloween approaches
I wonder if any bold spirits
will venture out to maintain
a long forgotten pagan rite
and if they’ll don a Darth Vader
mask or wear a more sensible
and hygienic ti...
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Categories:
crudely, halloween,
Form: Free verse
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