Coco Tabletop and Grill
...walk the urban sprawl,
where skyscrapers pierce the sky
cities bleeding_assoc.
carnival lights bloodshot dreams that flee,
like squirrels unconfined biting frost of winter,
within the tumul...
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Categories:
disparagement, environment, extended metaphor, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Need I Keep Watching Your Pretences
...Need I keep watching your pretences:
You're good only at using tenses!
And I need not mind your courtesies:
Put you I have in parenthesis,
Catholic your inconsistencies,
On this could write a Ma...
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Categories:
disparagement, absence, career, perspective, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
The Clearing
...He looked above on a clear blue sky
without his shackles, after all those years.
Even a heartless could understand
why those tears flowed from his eyes.
He was a convict of trial by dispara...
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Categories:
disparagement, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Loser Cries
...Could you,Carson, imagine
That Ross gave me a margin,
Gap between us enlarging
With smiles into halls barging...
His words of encouragement
Ones streaked with disparagement,
As they show off ma...
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Categories:
disparagement, conflict, cry, devotion, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Failure
...Trusted producer of crimson cheeks
That could last for weeks:
Prime source of the running temperature
Of seekers of a different picture,
The hammering heart beats few people bear
When nothing ...
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Categories:
disparagement, cry, education, fear, life,
Form: Rhyme
And Many Thought
...AND MANY THOUGHT WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE
Tell me child, what it was like so many years ago?
When as a young person you grew
In what we considered was times of uncertainty so,
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Categories:
disparagement, war,
Form: Free verse
Sugar Daddy Saturday
...Top shelf cologne exhibits sensual tail of peacock
Entrances my senses at our eleven a.m embrace
Eyes shut, my erratic stamina borrows comfort
Curled into leather front seat, chest inhales safe
...
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Categories:
disparagement, beauty, candy, confidence, courage,
Form: Quatrain
What Is My Truth
...Born into light and innocence, possessing a heart with an endless capacity to love, my appetite for life was abundant.
Anchored in purity and virtuousness, hopes and dreams blossomed in my young...
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Categories:
disparagement, change, dark, depression, hate,
Form: Free verse
Sour Grapes
...The teen’s face beamed with pride in his new car,
But Bestie exploded in jealous rage.
His reluctant congrats, a lame sidebar;
“I’d simply rather walk”— framed his outrage.
On Friday she failed...
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Categories:
disparagement, anxiety, appreciation, conflict, courage,
Form: Sonnet
Grandpa, Il Furioso
...My granddaughter loves me,
that's all I need to know.
I will let the toffs and profs
who came my way now go.
For all their disparagement
why should I have the slightest care?
My ...
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Categories:
disparagement, anger, granddaughter,
Form: Couplet
You'Re Fired
...I'm sorry to have to tell you,
but we're laying you off,
effective immediately.
But, please don't feel too badly about this.
It's nothing personal.
It feels personal,
maybe because I'm the pe...
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Categories:
disparagement, business, caregiving, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Golden Year Wishes
...Darling,
I should like to do something more helpful
about this continuing feminization,
marginalization,
disparagement of full integrative value
for cooperatively-owned and managed
ecopolitical...
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Categories:
disparagement, destiny, gender, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
George Had Under Him Five Cooks
...George had under him five cooks
of various characters and looks
with great experience of many a year
in numerous countries both far and near,
all culinary experts of great art,
who were always r...
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Categories:
disparagement, humor, humorous, poetry, political,
Form: Narrative
Of Everyone's Destination - Grave
...that their usual neglection towards me
appeared today,
with their corpses,
they came here
my sympathy was always with them
as I kept reminding them of my countenance through ‘The Book’
I ...
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Categories:
disparagement, grave, islamic,
Form: Light Verse
A Nation Healing
...Afflicted after political taunts, hateful remarks and questioned immorality.
Notions of lies and corruption flooded the Internet; friends clashed.
A nation enraged staked her voice at the polls;...
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Categories:
disparagement, america, anger, anxiety, corruption,
Form: Acrostic
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