G'day Lord
...For Gina's Contest..........
"This poem was inspired by a beautiful Prayer by Francis of Assisi. For 53 years it has hung on a plaque on our kitchen wall and I read it every day. " The Poet
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Categories:
disbanding, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
If This Was the Last-
...The headline reads: "This contest is the last;
no longer enter poems to be judged.”
How disappointed we'd all be to close
a special door that leads to writing skills.
Each contest offers reason...
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Categories:
disbanding, missing, poetry, sad,
Form: Blank verse
The Square Root of Beirut
...The Square Root of Beiruit
Ten men bending while theyre pretending to be near the ending
A capitalist nightmare glares like rotten fruit
The squate root of Beiruit
No it isn’t fair, so they’l...
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Categories:
disbanding, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
Eric Clapton Inspiration
...Eric Clapton (born March 30, 1945, in Ripley, Surrey, England)
British guitarist who influenced rock.
Later became a famous singer-songwriter.
Clapton was born to a teen mom and a Cana...
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Categories:
disbanding, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, history,
Form: Bio
Climate Change
...Climate Change
David J Walker
I
A teacher we know
died suddenly
or so
it seemed
and
It seemed
as if it were
a dream
unfulfilled
The climate in sc...
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Categories:
disbanding, allegory, change, time,
Form: Rhyme
Place of Fall
...Some find relief in solitary confinement
And others cherish the thought of being alone
I am but a weary soul craving for cessation and realignment
Waiting for greater powers to break this vestigia...
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Categories:
disbanding, death, funeral, heaven, religious,
Form: Rhyme
Earthworm
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It's inevitable the momentum of the large headed human ego....
has finally put mankind over the brink.
There's no coming back
the clock says 1 second 'til midnight.
The earthworms have shed the...
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Categories:
disbanding, sick, silence, war,
Form: Free verse
Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 3
...FM
“ShallowMan, if you’ve conflictions
owing to your mind’s addictions
to subconscious maledictions,
due to doubt in old convictions;
tell me now of your afflictions.”
SM
“FactoidMan, I must...
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Categories:
disbanding, society, truth, universe,
Form: Rhyme
March For Our Lives Parade Poem 4
...March for Our Lives Parade Poem 4 (5,401)
In silence, she was stoically there standing,
Calmly while all of our attention demanding,
And to mention,
Caught attention;
After all was over they ...
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Categories:
disbanding, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
The Perfect Storm
...Bored with a tawdry sanguine summer
Languidly
She licks the brilliant summer blue
from the sun addicted sky
Through naughty cloudy lips
Sucks millenniums of genetic grace from ...
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Categories:
disbanding, beauty, ocean, symbolism, water,
Form: Free verse
Emotional Hole
...I did not find myself to be so important
So I ask my friends do I seem distant?
When I ask the question I had received an answer, Yes
So I think that made it clear that I had been not the best
I am a...
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Categories:
disbanding, boyfriend, childhood, confusion, dark,
Form: Dramatic Verse
In My Dreams
...Kinship, I need you
Friendship, I seek you
Suspend common feeling
Portend a wish come true
Hand grenade carnged torsos
Standing alone I'm unafraid, but I weep
Disbanding the grotesgu...
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Categories:
disbanding, hope, love
Form: I do not know?
Literary Malpractice
...Traveling through the jaded discourse
With bartered pen and little remorse
Brandishing sharpened scalpel; tour de force
Unabashedly seeking all texts from lexicon to divorce
Developing underlyi...
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Categories:
disbanding, on writing and words
Form: Rhyme
The House On Fire
...It has been standing here forlorn:
Now a burning house on fire;
None’s here to rush or shout for help:
There’s None for it a crier…
A gloomy place this has been
For past a year and score;
I’v...
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Categories:
disbanding, death, mystery, nostalgia, satire,
Form: Quatrain
Mnm In Memoriam
...My days in the streets of despair took me from scanty shanties
Intermittent through dreams drinking the syllables of books
Cast before my eyes, I was at the bottom of nooks and crannies
Hiding in ...
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Categories:
disbanding, peoplesweet, sweet, , In
Form: Acrostic
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