Th' Crick Is Dryin' Up
...Th' Crick is dryin’ Up.
Ah got this Stick, ah call a Tree, stuck in th' mud:
Decorated it with dental floss, well za could
‘Cause there’s so much of the stuff in the dead weeds out back
An’ th’...
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Categories:
dryin, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Light Verse
Walk a Mile In My Shoes
...Let's go.....
I'm on a rough route to a righteous destination,
Tormented by the obstacles, blockin' my path
So I'm embracin',
All my miscreant guilt, blended up with my sorrows,
So I follow,...
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Categories:
dryin, hip hop, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Divorce - the Truth of a Woman-Child
...Mom - Dad,
Why couldn't you have just gotten along,
Why couldn't you have tried to work it out,
Look at what you taught me,
To give up before I even tried;
That my relationships will never work.
You ...
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Categories:
dryin, art, family, me,
Form: Free verse
Almost Home
...He had plastic bags wrapped 'round his shoes
He was covered with the evening news
Had a pair of old wool socks on his hands
The bank sign was flashing "5 below
It was freezing rain an' spittin'...
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Categories:
dryin, family, peopleold, old,
Form: Free verse
The Dead Cowboy Poet's Society
...Now, ol’ Twister Tom he was quite a cowboy find—
A real rock hard cowpoke, though the question begged—
Some say that he was a legend in his own mind,
He’d a been six foot six if he weren’t so bow-...
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Categories:
dryin, cowboy-western, death, funny, life,
Form: Cowboy Poetry