January Double Dactyl Poems

Roller skates
Roll smooth
In circles and orbited figure eights
Gliding great with the rhythmic moves
So quick
So slow
So cool

Ice skate
Aerodynamically
On icy floors slick and wet
A ballet on a...

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Jiggery pokery
maestro Charlie Chaplin
on screen comic icon
amusing stamp.

Unreal acts turned art
verisimilitude
waggish movie journey
from ’Kid’ to ‘Tramp’.

January 15, 2021
Syllable count :6/6/6/4 (howmanysyllables.com)
Rhyme checked on RhymeZone.com
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Tarumbus-stanumbus
Christopher Columbus
Went on a voyage to
See the sea blue

And while there he slaughtered
Enthusiastically, 
The people now gone and
He got fame free

Written on January 13, 2021...

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Alcohol, Alcohol
Is a dangerous drink
Drunk and incoherent
Staggering and confuse
Vibratious smells and fumes
Instantaneity
Causes an addiction
That takes control

JANUARY 11, 2021...

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Spookily  Bookily
Dramatic apogee
Edgar A. Poe's verses
Death from curses

Quite artistically
characteristically
His poems were renowned
to be profound 

Gloomily  Doomily
So methodically
he wrote of never more
and sweet Lenore

Poe...

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turkety,  lurkety
Saul, king of Israel
green-eyed with envy shouts,
“I’ll cut your throat.”

groundless, irrational
obsessitivity.
David, the next king squeals,
“I cut your coat.”

January 4, 2020

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Bryant’s Necropolis Conceit
 
Silent halls of death so cometh
William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis supremeus now
A sepulchre awaits us all.

Dour darkness and shroud forever
Thanatopsis-Phantasmus
The spirit world so beckons...

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Prufrock’s Symbolic World
 
Metaphors-Extraordinaire
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Metaphysical consciousness
Aura of aging and decay.

Streams of consciousness forever
Proto-disillusionment
The mermaids singing each to each
The mermaids will not sing today.

Gary Bateman,...

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