You Be the Judge
...
Those crunchy flakes doped up with sugar
may be contributing to your odd behavior.
Take my advice, it’s not too late, if you’re able:
keep the poisons off the breakfast table –
what you’re ea...
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Categories:
doped, humor,
Form: Light Verse
King Mouse
...Who was only one inch tall,
raised in a lab since he was, well...small,
doped on phenobarbital,
escaping o'er his prison wall.
Tell me friend, can you recall
King Mouse?
Who lived in a tidy ...
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Categories:
doped, animal, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Hey, It's Cafe Jazz
...Snapping fingers, a low hum in the microphone)
Hey, It's Café Jazz/ But we ain't just sipping black coffee and snapping our fingers in polite applause/
Talkin' Bop/ first idiom where being white ...
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Categories:
doped, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom
...Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom
Otherwise titled – my poetic impressions of Helene
All la names bespeaking deity froom
Noah Mo' Room India Arc
of Covenant to crypt tick Blood
(swea...
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Categories:
doped, analogy, appreciation, beauty, crush,
Form: Rhyme
After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race
...After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race...
Planet earth (the Mother of all)
breathed a collective
and palpable sigh of relief,
and I too deeply exhaled,
...
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Categories:
doped, america, anxiety, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Poetic Podcast Episode 19 Bop
...Always say what you mean to say
exactly how you mean to say it;
That’s tattooed so deep in my DNA,
I promise I’ll never get it covered up;
When did sucker become popular?
The game will not cha...
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Categories:
doped, emotions, feelings, humanity, introspection,
Form: Other
Desire, a hurtling horse on hire
...Man, seldom a straightforward animal,
Long lost in the deserts of weariness,
Wants to flee from a life of denial,
Wallows no less still in piles of warm ash,
And feeling hurt, he nurses hidd...
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Categories:
doped, desire, dream, world,
Form: Ode
Zomboid Creatures
...This is a poetry eerily populated with ghosts and mummies and zomboid creatures who go on living though dead from love.
— Patrick McGarth*
ZOMBOID CREATURES
no way out of the...
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Categories:
doped, death,
Form: Rhyme
Cajun Creed Will Get Revenge
...I've been doin' time, sittin in this jail cell for too long.
Yea, I made mistakes because I was headstrong
when I killed Isabelle, but it's what she deserved.
She ran off with my coke and money. T...
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Categories:
doped, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Footles To Bug You
...Query at Insect Inspection:
Insect
been checked?
Response to Query:
Insect
been wrecked
Wanted Ad for Bug Arsonist:
Hire thug -
Fire bug
Doped Up Insects
Red bugs
fed drugs
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Categories:
doped, insect,
Form: Footle
Swing Low
...I lassoed with my lariat
a laureate named Harriet;
I rope-a-doped a pope
and washed his mouth with soap.
The wheel broke on my chariot;
it was too big to carry it.
The poet and the pope got hit...
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Categories:
doped, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Falling Down
...Side effect of intelligence,
paradoxical mind embrace
Negative thoughts seep in,
an experience of disgrace
The price for overthinking,
purpose trickles to a trace
So starts chain reaction...
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Categories:
doped, allusion, depression, mental illness,
Form: Monorhyme
Viral
...
"Viral"
overlords for the good
of the world
walk and breathe
their lines
pure as
Snow White
war addicted
kissed while sleeping
shadows speak
a good ta...
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Categories:
doped, dark, hero, humanity, light,
Form: Free verse
A Dangerous Game
...we remain
at DEFCON 4
no cause for alarm
we continue to monitor
this situation
very fluid
interesting times
buckle your
seat belt
Nosydoomas prophesized:
the Bear goes ballistic
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Categories:
doped, anger, anxiety, dark, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Abcedarian For Fun
...Alleged anthrax-laden alligator arrives in afternoon
Beyond bright baboon baby bestows brilliance
Chaste chimpanzees charge chagrined cheetahs
Doped donkeys deliberate director’s dictate
Elonga...
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Categories:
doped, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Abecedarian
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