Undergrowth with Two Figures - Van Gogh
I have the rhythm of a winding road
how do I consign myself to being confined
rows of poplar pillars prop
the rendezvous canopy beneath we meet
—I self-cajole on ooh-la-la afternoon
yellow eyes; daffodils watching
lean into gossip groups nodding
a prodding breeze instigating deep-freeze
I am a sweet weed in this place of sway and betray
with a stranger
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Categories:
custom make, angst, conflict, endurance, engagement,
Form: Free verse
Customized
Customized
Custom requires behaviors which
Usually are good for us, but
Sometimes it is better if we
Think
Outside the box and
Make different choices and use our
Imagination to add
Zest to our lives so that
Every day
Doesn't become mundane
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Categories:
custom make, philosophy,
Form: Acrostic
Gun Fight
Was it the kiss of the July morning sun,
That lit your face with so much glow,
Or the possibility of a meal in an unwary dove,
That lifted the glaring muzzle of my silent gun,
By the stream’s watchful, sleepless flow.
Or the crack in the air of the barrelled whip,
That took the fragility of the morning, by the
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Categories:
custom make, absence,
Form: Rhyme
Mistletoe
mistletoe season ~
time to pucker up and kiss
the dung on a stick
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Categories:
custom make, celebration, christmas, december, funny,
Form: Senryu
Pumpkin Head Fred
There once was a man with a head
Like a pumpkin it was, and called Fred
How they laughed in the Spring
At the pumpkin head thing
Oh the sting of rejection, he said
In summer the sun burned a hole
Through his head like a rat or a mole
And no-one ate soup
Made of pumpkin and gloop
So he spent all his
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Categories:
custom make, character, halloween, hero, humor,
Form: Limerick
My Cup of Tea
May I suggest trying a strong cup of tea
When I am distraught, my go-to remedy
A soothing tincture for the addled brain
After a cup or two, I really can’t complain.
I shall take the English at their word
A spot of tea, especially in the afternoon,
Can shed new light on the simply absurd
Restore to normality quicker than soon.
Nothing
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Categories:
custom make, culture, drink, happiness,
Form: Sonnet
Peanut Butter Pants
All wore peanut butter pants
where the world spread jam
As the tailor tried to fit you
in a bread you'd call his clam
And you paid for more than sticky
when a sandwich would expand
And your filling was for others
that your taste was in their hand
And you never knew another
for leaving you alone
When you're made up for the moment
that
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Categories:
custom make, analogy, culture, cute love,
Form: Quatrain
My Fat Aunt
An aunt of mine
cheerful and cherubic
holds no grudge against anyone,
altogether she is a noble soul.
obese, extraordinarily
huge, short, blunt,
a moving bag of flesh,
She walks, moves,
squats, lies on the floor
with ease. Alarmingly flexible!
She ties her hair loosely
with a string
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Categories:
custom make, humorous,
Form: Free verse
My Hobby Built Custom Birdhouse-
{I want to make a bird house,
Guess I need these things from Hobby Lobby and Michael's}
÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷
Minimum 50 to maximum 100 popsicle sticks
1 Hot glue gun
with hot glue sticks
1 finger paint
for a illusion seemingly complex design
1 bowl of string yarn
1 paper clip
criss-crossing alternating stacking making a square overlapping stick over
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Categories:
custom make, analogy, art,
Form: List
Bulgarian Kukeri Dancers
Bulgarian Kukeri honors ancestral ways at annual feasts
Descendants don wooden masks and faces of bird or beasts
Filled with metaphoric meaning, meant to inspire fertility
Also purposely pointing out a young man’s oncoming virility.
There are many reasons for Kukeri which diverts the evil eye.
Location and region enter into the discrepancies of the where and why.
As the dancers
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Categories:
custom make, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Caustic Custom
as i write this
i'm being con
sumed but not
ever understand
ing why it's by you
of course as a
hobo homeless
person i gladly
and when see
ing you see
that my desire
is more then my
want but for some
one such as myself
i'm on the bottom
shelf where people
don't bend or stoop
to see what is almost
lower then their feet
and the dust must
after all these
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Categories:
custom make, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Custom Made Love
Eyes glaring, love’s deep;
Heart-felt secrets keep;
Burried deep, love is kept;
Heartbreak stirs, lovers wept;
Love fills, hearts loudly pound;
Search no more, love found;
Amber silents, daylight violets;
Custom stares;
Love comes here;
Love is where there is caring faith;
Loves committed grace;
A chance we come together;
Writing this love letter, caressing rhymes;
For all times;
Shall we write together "letters" and "words";
O love of
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Categories:
custom make, love,
Form: Free verse
The Custom Officer's Careless Gun
The truth is never enticing
Like the cleavages of a fallen breast
You lay at the surface your lame lies
But I will dig truth from its daring depth
You murdered her son for little bread
But you claimed your gun was asleep
Your sleeping gun could aim the head
I wonder what it alertness will inflict
You saw him as an evil
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Categories:
custom make, 1st grade, 7th grade,
Form: I do not know?
Custom
Ply poise
Nurture clear choice
In fragrant voice
Sans noise
Speak clear
Purge thus all fear
That draws you near
My dear
Start well
Custom deep spell
Just where touch dwells
Warm tell
Heed pain
But not in vain
As echoes gain
New strains
Frame light
Where thoughts take flight
In sensuous sight
Most bright
Mood swings
That vain touch flings
In fuzzy spring
Now strings
Last gate
Tells of brisk fate
That reports late
Due date
Dream quest
Feels happy fest
As lovely zest
Speeds
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Categories:
custom make, allegory,
Form: Quatrain
Custom Made Prison For a Volunteer Prisoner
Freedom has been forced out, it is long gone
and on the back of kindness it rode.
Pride spreads the unpleasant atmosphere through its campaign
setting up annexes and covering more zip codes.
Even the joyful melody of happiness
are crippled and void of cheerful nodes
Sweeping off all goodness to leave stones and thistles,
that’s exactly hatred’s kind of abode.
On every
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Categories:
custom make, character, feelings, forgiveness,
Form: Classicism
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