The Hillbilly Blues
...High ho Hill Bill is singing the hillbilly blues
It’s not a bad life, yet, not one that I’d choose
He’s wailing like a cat with a pinched big toe
Singing the blues up and down in summer and snow.
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Categories:
discretions, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
A Second Please
...*Image of Loving One More by NS.
A Second Please
Aesthete equip upkeep spade, trowel, and watering pail,
Balters out freely, gagging unwantable, grit travail,
Chrysalism advents t...
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Categories:
discretions, imagery, words,
Form: Abecedarian
Hide Her Away
...Hide Her Away
Tucked away in shame, to hide his own discretions...he hid her away....
Of the world of social media so that he shall lift his own insecurities and feed his plate of lust, desire ...
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Categories:
discretions, conflict, courage, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse
A Singular Beauty
...Discretions infinity,
its number unknown
One window sufficient
for its light to be shown
An exploding dynamic
tumbling over itself
A singular beauty
—in the distance unfelt
(V...
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Categories:
discretions, beauty, light,
Form: Rhyme
The Way We Were
...Unfortunately, life does not have an eraser,
to do away with our past discretions;
and the way we acted in certain situations.
Oh, I know I would require a great big eraser
Fortunately we do ...
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Categories:
discretions, change, faith, hope, perspective,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
In My Dappled Dream I Saw You
...In My Dappled Dream I Saw You
In my dappled dream I saw you,
Your shimmering ghost, young again,
As we were, when soft flares hid your brown legs,
There, in the warm April shadows, us
Astride ...
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Categories:
discretions, freedom, romance,
Form: Free verse
Dangerous Green
...The town that I was born in was a small and ‘one horse’ place,
where no one held a secret and we knew each other’s face.
Nothing seemed to ever change but then we seen the myth explode
when a mini...
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Categories:
discretions, humor,
Form: Rhyme
What I Love About You
...What I love about you is you,
you know it and it’s true.
not like we don’t drive each other nuts at times,
but there’s only one of you and me,
and only you can make me feel the way that you do.
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Categories:
discretions, love, passion, poems, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Beer Summit of 2009
...He said, he said
I am history it is not dead.
I do testify,
that they ask for more than an alibi.
My face alone! Metal to bone.
See how their discretions lie,
as trampled footpaths to my home.
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Categories:
discretions, history, judgement, people, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Because I Love Her
...Because I love her,
I will work with zeal;
I will be the breadwinner,
Doing the job so well.
Because I love her,
I'll be loyal and kind;
Ignoring temptation,
Never leave her behind.
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Categories:
discretions, marriage,
Form: Verse
Testing the Edge
...TESTING THE EDGE
unsheathed razorsharp
doubledged crimsonbled
dark holes feed blue moles
underneath dirt they skirt
claws braced throats cursed
testing the edge
in mythical madde...
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Categories:
discretions, suicide,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Master Ring
...In ancient times, inside a treasure was a ring
It was known us the master ring or the ruling king
It was made of the finest pure gold
When worn it became an extension of one’s soul
It was made to co...
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Categories:
discretions, bible, character, christian, courage,
Form: Quatrain
A Womans Cry
...Dynasties of radiance splash into a womans swimming pool of excellence a womans cry transforms failures into triumph, should i feel agony & defeat for the lost bondage of our love, does a womans cry ...
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Categories:
discretions, abuse, adventure, art, beautiful,
Form: Light Verse
Picture Imperfect
...Smile
I miss you baby
The sound of your voice
The way you say my name
The I love you and you are beautiful
The way you sometimes make fun of my accent
I want to hear your laugher which makes me gig...
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Categories:
discretions, people, miss you, sound,
Form: Bio
Jesus My Liberator
...Given the truth will lead you into all truth Men under the rose so dispose to bind The secret machinery grinding to Cain Men set f...
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Categories:
discretions, allegory, faith, religion, truth,
Form: Heroic Couplet
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