witch's cauldron sets the mood
...witch’s cauldron had bit of a hiccup today
ghosts and goblins laughed about it a bit
Halloween humor lives beyond the fray
Dracula’s ghost appeared with a happy hey
some of the warlocks and wiz...
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Categories:
drably, halloween,
Form: Villanelle
She Was Very Pretty
...She Was Very Pretty
by Michael R. Burch
She was very pretty, in the usual way
for perhaps a day;
and when the boys came out to play,
she winked and smiled, then ran away
till one unexpectedly...
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Categories:
drably, boy, daughter, girl, hair,
Form: Free verse
He Is the Prettiest Rooster
...He is the prettiest rooster I have ever seen.
Handsome too, she said. She was the chicken hawk queen.
We had heard rumors about them both, some of them mean.
She was an ugly hen, kind of pathetica...
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Categories:
drably, animal,
Form: Rhyme
A Flame Once Burned
...A Flame Once Burned
The new girl gathered her books as the class bell did ring
That’s when I noticed my heart’s spark began to fling
I followed her to physical Ed
I wanted to say hi but my bold...
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Categories:
drably, life, lost love, love,
Form: Couplet
In Clara's Light
...Awake, he felt asleep and struggled, for
it seemed upon his back there had been flung
a mantle of fatigue he drably wore,
and like a hag accursed, to him it clung.
His children, sad to see h...
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Categories:
drably, love, uplifting,
Form: Sonnet