tiny bit of spoofery
...a cartoon cutout
tiny bit of spoofery
keeping it real...
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Categories:
cutout, art,
Form: Senryu
The Boy of Art
...Ken, they all say painters paint best
When they're torn apart,
Music sounds best
When it hurts your heart,
Love’s ONLY real
When it crushes your soul, made into broken shards
So, is this why...
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Categories:
cutout, art, deep, destiny, self,
Form: Rhyme
Turn Me Into Love, Ethereal Lanterns
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Rice paper dreams, lanterns and beamers of peace
lighting the way to my heart you are in far remote
Intricate cutout beauty, please do not decease
for I need you to guide me with radiant ...
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Categories:
cutout, appreciation, emotions, faith,
Form: Sonnet
Where Do All the Colours Go
...blues and greens, gently trickle out of the day
night's henchmen, shadows gather on corners
demise looms in leaking squalor, exsanguinate
remorseless swelling of silhouettes, cardboard
cutout sce...
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Categories:
cutout, color, dark, day, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Shadowy Tales
...Shadows are unforgiving,
stark in relief,
dark in infill.
These stiff hollow silhouettes
of gutted entrails
follow us around,
lacking the detachment
to avoid being brutally honest
about our ...
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Categories:
cutout, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Bums Scarecrow Soldiers Pretty Ballerinas
...Invasion of the Bums & Scarecrow-Soldiers & Pretty Ballerina’s
By David J Walker
What are you gonna be
I donno
Maybe a soldier or a bum again or a Martian
My sister wants to be a ballerin...
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Categories:
cutout, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Scary Halloween
...Upon this twilight eve a full moon-lite night appeared,
Crackling leaves with mounds of bags and children jumping with glee.
As graves flew open with ghostly sights witches began their brewing,
wi...
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Categories:
cutout, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Mr Slick and the Ladies
...I stroll into the bar one night, pausing at the door
I smooth these luscious locks back, start to strut my stuff
I see all the ladies looking at me, clearly wanting more
I’m pretty dam...
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Categories:
cutout, drink, funny,
Form: Quatrain
Halloween
...My neighbor's orange pumpkin patch
seems so spooky and 'very scary' from my veranda.
A black cat cardboard cutout 'will still' give me a thrill
if provocatively ...
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Categories:
cutout, anxiety, children, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Verse
Angela Will Visit On Fathers Day
...Our oldest daughter will be here on Sunday, Father’s Day.
I will fix something tasty.
She will give Daddy a present and a card.
It will have all kinds of hand-written compliments in it.
Best Dadd...
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Categories:
cutout, daughter, fathers day,
Form: Narrative
Still Your Date, Dear Jude
...Be happy
For the peace of mind
Be scrappy
And celebrate to go blind
Of the joy you've find
Never permit
The drabness in your situation
Never admit
It could stoke up your reason's activa...
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Categories:
cutout, 1st grade, africa, age,
Form: Rhyme
Ice Diamonds
...After the flurry
My soul delights
Soft curves before me
Ice cream dreams
Shadows dancing and stretching
Defining infinite frozen sculptures
Ice diamonds
floating through the air
Glistenin...
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Categories:
cutout, appreciation, beauty, happy, how
Form: Free verse
The Poet With No Soul
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The Poet With No Soul
"I will run, when you are in pain,
After all, I have so much to gain!
To me, you are but a cutout photo
at a baseball game."
"You see I have zero compassion...
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Categories:
cutout, emotions, feelings, poets,
Form: Couplet
Cathedral Window Cutout
...Matisse’s “Christmas Eve”
in a procession of candles
Through the church window
in the 20th century of faces
impaled gingerly
in velvet glow
flickering shadows against
the walls
an organ str...
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Categories:
cutout, allusion, art, christmas, imagery,
Form: Imagism
Diabolical
...True note: I was married and pregnant, supposed to go to Alaska with my husband. The Senior Chief looks at me and actually says: Did you ever think of having an abortion?
Another loved one was in ...
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Categories:
cutout, abortion,
Form: Free verse
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