Sheetal and the Dung Beetle
...This rhyme may seem strange but each word's truly equal
Now Beetle's tale's done no need for a sequel.
They'd chat by the teazel of matters so lethal
Of sequels and prequels and justice so penal.
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Categories:
decal, humor, nursery rhyme, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Morning Reading
...Reading fridge magnets; surprised how interesting,
the world is when stamped into rubber decals.
Rome, Ankara, both Buda and Pest.
Watching a colorful rolling diorama,
pictographs tumbling over...
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Categories:
decal, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Independence It
...cat man had enough forced isolation
sabbatical dreams after quarantine
entered his hermit cage in seclusion
I need time out from lockdown he promised
they told me of the psych...
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Categories:
decal, celebration,
Form: Free verse
It Took Only 250 Words
...From within the perspex booth, he flirtily inquired
if my day so far had been fulfilling
Duty of filling two reusable bags with thirty items
Didn't stop my silly line from spilling
"Certainly, ...
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Categories:
decal, car, character, confidence, for
Form: Narrative
Redacted Truth
...The times are changing again,
We still criticize what we can’t understand.
We cannot break out,
And we won’t let them in.
Hate is thicker than darkness,
Its the strongest of sin.
And your flag...
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Categories:
decal, anger, prejudice, racism,
Form: Rhyme
Silent Christmas Skies
...A twinkle within people’s eyes,
the homeless extending hands…
Joyous children in their surprise,
as a lonely man sleeps by his pans…
A Santa by the corner stands,
some see silent C...
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Categories:
decal, christmas, humanity, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Too Tan Tess
...Too tan Tess was what they called her
But not for the reason you think
But of a misplaced "two" decal
Stuck to her, after too much to drink
Her moniker came hard for her
With an untanned two o...
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Categories:
decal, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
When First These White Walls Were New and Porcelaneously Gleaming
...Spartan are the white walls were once hung draperies
And things papered, paneled, plastered...
Yet, 'tis so no more.
Now all is white and wan and sickly,
And the ghostly shadows of the accoutre...
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Categories:
decal, absence, allegory, angst, anniversary,
Form: I do not know?
Peace and Hope
...A skeleton on the road
A Stuckey’s of the past
Pecan rolls and gasoline
A place to rest the kids
A shot glass and a flag decal
I stuck it in the back
Another cross on the road
Down in the ditch
Plast...
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Categories:
decal, hope, peace,
Form: Free verse
The Slave's Tale: Revenge
...Exracted from Gerald Nforche's Epic, The Slave's Tale
-Across the Atlantic, 1793-
And as days tumbled away, we staggered
Along, knock-kneed, dead beat and haggard.
Our bodie...
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Categories:
decal, abuse, africa, anger, betrayal,
Form: Narrative