Backstage with Iron Maiden
...A Wilderness of Mirrors. I am unfamiliar with Iron Maiden's music, even though I worked a handful of times at their concert. I was curious about their mascot guy...Eddie. At one of their concerts, ...
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Categories:
drumsticks, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Misgivings
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Remember us?
We were not invited to your plenty.
Remember us?
Our Bounty was far less than empty.
Remember us?
We tilled, we toiled, we too wiped our brows.
Remember us?
We sang, we joyed, w...
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Categories:
drumsticks, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
SO SIMPLE
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Apples, apricot, blackberries, biscuits
Children ! Cheese cake, donuts, dozen drumsticks
Enjoy eating : Food for friends - fellow , fun !
Got guava- grap...
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Categories:
drumsticks, absence, children,
Form: Alliteration
MY 62ND BIRTHDAY
...MY 62ND BIRTHDAY
It’s my birthday and I’m in my 62nd year
I’ve shared the laughter and the tears
I love birthdays and there’s been a lot
I love all the cake so far that I have got
I did some ove...
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Categories:
drumsticks, age, august, birthday, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
It's Always the Drummer
...He beats on the drum
The vibrations thrill
It makes me succumb
He goes for the kill
He sways as he plays
and beat after beat
puts me in a daze
He brings on the heat
My body's in time
to ...
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Categories:
drumsticks, cute love, dance, music,
Form: Quatrain
beating drumsticks
...like beating a drumstick she beats her own heart. she bashes it around by lending it to others, but the wood splinters striking people. what people don’t know is that is just her hard front perso...
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Categories:
drumsticks, abuse, betrayal, emotions, for
Form: Free verse
Fresh Veins for a Chameleon
...The con man wears a greasy, porcelain grin
trumpets like a swan but the soul of a raven.
From paper mâché pulpit. he'll surely sling
thrice tainted blood drops passed off as gems.
His complime...
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Categories:
drumsticks, men, pollution, remember, rude,
Form: Rhyme
BROWNED BEAUTIFUL BRONZE BROWN NATURAL WOMAN-
...BROWNED BEAUTIFUL BRONZE BROWN NATURAL WOMAN-
Soften tone medi
-um brown ever so her eyes
Smiled all natural
Skin fresh breast symmetric like-
-N grapefruits moisten lips spea...
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Categories:
drumsticks, analogy, beautiful, black african
Form: Ekphrasis
The Minestrone Rock Soup
...If Minestrone soup
Was a rock group...
The Beefy base
Would take the lead guitars place.
The Croutons crunch
Would be the drums - munch!
The Carrot bits,
The drumsticks.
The Onion's t...
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Categories:
drumsticks, food,
Form: Couplet
Collarbone Symphonies
...Pass me along
a pair of drumsticks
so I can create
vibrating calypso melodies
on the steel drums
found within the bones of my collar...
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Categories:
drumsticks, imagination, music,
Form: Free verse
Critterature: Entomophagy, It's An Acquired Taste
...The cooks in the Japanese navy
Make a dish of aquatic fly larvae.
Too small to filet them,
They just lightly sauté them
In well-sugared soy sauce as gravy.
That Venezuelans eat spiders may be ...
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Categories:
drumsticks, food, humor, insect,
Form: Light Verse
My Impromptu Picnic
...[Written during a twelve hour power cut caused by
Storms this past winter]
The storm that arrived in the depth of the night
Got even worse with the new morning’s light
Although I presumed that ...
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Categories:
drumsticks, food,
Form: Rhyme
The Sweet Shop
...There's a shop down the street
where all the school kids meet;
a shop of wonders and delight
all wrapped up in one big bite
Step inside this tasty paradise,
take a bite of fudge, take another ...
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Categories:
drumsticks, 9th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Obianuju
...I fear to tell you how much of your love
that has drown me into your lake—
I'm a body under water.
Each time i walk on the street
my body, a drumsticks playing itself
would feel the rise of sens...
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Categories:
drumsticks, love,
Form: Free verse
The Sweetest Stone
...A shinning stone has left us
skipping gaily toward heaven
tapping on Saint Peter's door
with a pair of pearly drumsticks
leaving rift and ripple in our hearts
a million doors are painted black...
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Categories:
drumsticks, death,
Form: Free verse
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