As False as Smiles
...Manners are the party fancy —
Petit goldleaf on the melting pudding,
A sticking cream now on your fingers,
Immovable for hours.
Manners like a lady,
Her morning bonnet pinned,
Perching, tilti...
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Categories:
dribbling, anxiety, depression, social, society,
Form: Free verse
Volcano Maricano!
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Held it in, so strong.
For too damn long!
Bit my tongue,
it bled blood-red.
Cracks ran rampant,
as the eruption spread,
the pressure built.
The head-cap exploded -
Volcano Mar...
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Categories:
dribbling, angst, anxiety, conflict, hate,
Form: Lyric
London
...Shoreditch clung to its ruin
Its roughhewn gate staring out at corpses
And the clutch of travellers heading from the fields,
The shepherds rambling onwards,
The herders with their slow-moving cat...
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Categories:
dribbling, allegory, allusion, angel, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Joshua Moore Minnesota
...Damp linens flung aside
sodden cushions
Flank by flank
She was damp
Nickel sack and bark rings
Verdant gaze meet hazel orbs
Ripe late April Northern Flatlands moisture
Slaughterhouse savory mi...
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Categories:
dribbling, america, angst, children, confusion,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Fruit
...Tangy citrus salad bowl
dribbling fruit juice dreams
of mother’s glazed berry pie
ice cold apple sip
on warm palm tree beach
banana
splits...
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Categories:
dribbling, beach, celebration, dream, food,
Form: Epulaeryu
acrylic paints make me happy
...Colored pencils
Pastels
Sticks of chalk
Too light for me
Water colors
Doing what they want
Dribbling all over the page
Wild and free
Oil paints
Vividly beautiful
Take too long to dry
I...
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Categories:
dribbling, art,
Form: Free verse
Hoya Paranoia
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Trump Derangement Syndrome
and Hoya Paranoia*
Both reside in Washington D.C.
both designed to annoy ya
_______________________________
*The Georgetown University ...
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Categories:
dribbling, basketball, political, school,
Form: Rhyme
Football is a poet
...FOOTBALL IS A POET
(Inspired by barrister lanre badmus)
Football is indeed a poet
Fans actually stake bet.
For their favorite team,
Hopefully achieving their dreams.
It is a package of pas...
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Categories:
dribbling, football,
Form: Rhyme
After a Heavy Rainfall
...Banks did not burst,
just a dribbling bladder of river
leaked into our back yards.
It drooled over damp roots,
seeped into groundhog holes,
into ditches, where winter debris
had already washe...
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Categories:
dribbling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Rain when it comes
...The rain - when it comes;
It brings out the poet in me!
Bathing peaches and garden plums,
Tapping the leaves in the backyard tree!
The Mizzle and mist, the drizzle and fog
Sodden the silent, l...
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Categories:
dribbling, love, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Humpty Dumpty
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Humpty Dumpty was in fact a selfish king. A narcissist with a harem of women, many who were under the age of sixteen. He was quite large and disfigured, due to his royal ancestors marrying siblings...
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Categories:
dribbling, dark,
Form: Rhyme
My Valentine
...A pair of doves preen and prim
for the Night is almost done.
And perched on their favored limb;
they await the rising sun.
As Sol rises from below,
darkness slowly fades away.
And as ...
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Categories:
dribbling, beautiful, celebration, emotions, image,
Form: Quatrain
A brushstroke choreographing dramatic elegy framing harmonic gavotte
...A brushstroke choreographing dramatic elegy framing harmonic gavotte
specified such so as to issue a rhyme,
but proceeded as this scribe
didst git linkedin with the cutting crew,
mow or less...
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Categories:
dribbling, 12th grade, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
snowy
...It’s going to snow tonight. It seems the brick shoulders of Elm Street will ooze, like watery eggnog, with a light snow tonight and we’re twitching with delight.
The vibes of it are too much and s...
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Categories:
dribbling, humor, snow, weather,
Form: Free verse
OLDE SJI BRAS BASAH ROAD, 1971
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Journey Journal Page
OLDE SJI BRAS BASAH ROAD, 1971
By Leon Enriquez
Morning Glory
Florals on a fence
Violet blooms beauty
Plain in sparkling sense
Olde school field
By Bras Basah...
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Categories:
dribbling, school,
Form: Quatrain
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