Hiroshima eighty years since August 6th, 1945
...Hiroshima – eighty years since August 6th, 1945
About fourteen and a half years
before my birth,
yours truly not even a twinkle
in the eyes of his then
young father and mother
the former ...
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Categories:
discontents, age, angst, anniversary, august,
Form: Free verse
Scars in Heaven, Casting Crowns
...Three has ruled the roost for so long...
Four, boxed in so, has forgotten its role.
So picture five lingering outside, waiting
Thinking itself only a star
None seeing what keys are needed
To...
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Categories:
discontents, america, destiny, future, life,
Form: Free verse
After the wife made a suggestion about what to write about
...After the wife made a suggestion about what to write about...
I decided to title my piece
a concatenation of a few different notions
incorporating fictional romance
alluding to myself and spous...
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Categories:
discontents, adventure, age, allegory, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along
...Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along...
as his stronghold diminishes.
Signals, triggers, and ushers kickstarting debut
of demure "Flora" who slowly but surely attempts
to revea...
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Categories:
discontents, america, animal, birth, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite
...Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite
(any relationship between the following poem and living persons -
namely the writer of these words ranks as purely coincidental and fictitious).
neverth...
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Categories:
discontents, adventure, allegory, animal, atheist,
Form: Free verse
I owe appreciative courtesy to alternative press
...I owe appreciative courtesy to alternative press...
for enlightening my senses
to the evocative, reciprocative
and suffocative
auditory and visual material
publicized in The Nation
magazine J...
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Categories:
discontents, adventure, america, appreciation, art,
Form: Free verse
As a mortal man of threescore and five years
...As a mortal man of threescore and five years...
I bore witness and/or assimilated, gleaned,
and nursed implacable thirst for knowledge
courtesy reading factual narratives,
historical fiction, o...
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Categories:
discontents, age, america, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf
...Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf
Minor emendations to following
just posted verse
oversight to correct dissatisfaction,
yours truly I do curse
ah... methinks if hands of ti...
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Categories:
discontents, absence, adventure, age, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf
...Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf
Thus writer of these words
forever mus lee experiencing
craving to eat cheese,
a milk product
eternally preserved within
annals, chroni...
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Categories:
discontents, adventure, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Saturday, September 23, 2023
...Saturday, September 23, 2023
Coincides with first day of fall
and Autumnal equinox for said year,
where colorful splash kindled like tinder.
After I riff flecked about thee August
Autumn E...
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Categories:
discontents, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Ukraine, Winter of Discontent
...“Ukraine, Winter of Discontent”
The many winters of our discontents
Lie in trenches with the dead.
Mothers in pain.
Boys lost in vain.
Nothing plainly gained.
What empire will repent?
S...
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Categories:
discontents, evil, hate, mother, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Using Discretion
...It is important we do not get our knickers in a pinch
And wind up acting like the mean, old Grinch
Especially during this season of happiness and cheer,
Let’s lay aside our nasties and ...
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Categories:
discontents, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Ghost Towns Criss Cross Wide World
...Information superhighway bumper to binary bumper.
Stark contrast versus deserted macadam thoroughfares.
Magnification rendered visualization coronavirus
alias covid 19 courtesy electron microscop...
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Categories:
discontents, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Missile Poised To Strike
...Hidden under crop circle
resembling an ampersand
hides sheathed silo - obscured,
said symbol adorned every armband
of national socialist, yet weapons
of mass destruction) bland
lee, blatantly...
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Categories:
discontents, america, anxiety, farewell, judgement,
Form: Political Verse
Common Thread First Strand Za
...alternate long worded title – the grudge holder from one generation to the next for all intents and purposes remains the same, and thus interestingly enough, they can easily be a pinch hitter for man...
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Categories:
discontents, 12th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
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