Can't biff the Pontiff
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Dope boundary rope tropes…fans hopes..Ollie copes..thick skin…will find the strength within…ignores the din…as Pope unleashes that boyish grin..
Can hear Freddie and David…ddddd..Under Pressure…...
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Categories:
dueled, sports,
Form: Rhyme
pick a title
...The calm, the eerie still before the storm
Nature herself supports this, this crime is one approved by God
That's what he tried to wrap his head about, certainly with no luck
Strange enough, he k...
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Categories:
dueled, anger, fate, light, true
Form: Rhyme
Her First Ladder
...She remembers that day as if it was yesterday…the first time her fear and courage dueled.
She was standing at the bottom of the ladder of the high dive at the pool.
From where she stood that ladd...
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Categories:
dueled, courage,
Form: Rhyme
En Garde
...Two Woodpeckers dueled as she slyly seduced them.
John G. Lawless
©3/18/022...
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Categories:
dueled, humor, irony, lust,
Form: Monoku
Year of the Mask
...At last you've been laid to rest, twenty~twenty
A plague on mankind with tragedies aplenty
Since February, you've given up total control
abandoning us as a wicked germ took its toll
You'll be rem...
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Categories:
dueled, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Child At the Top of the Stairs
...It was quiet in the house
nothing stirred but the child mouse,
stepping lightly across the floor
she slipped to her knees at the stair door.
Bending low and sliding down
she caught a nail an...
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Categories:
dueled, 8th grade, daughter, school,
Form: Rhyme
Wild Willie
...There was a cowboy from Arkansas
Who bragged that he was quick on the draw
They superglued his holster
Before he dueled a gangster
He doesn't brag much any more – nah!
AP: Honorable ...
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Categories:
dueled, fantasy, fun, silly,
Form: Limerick
Golden Opportunity
...Myths of deductive distinctions,
like white could not come from black,
are disinformed
when severed from contrasting inductive integrity,
greyscale dualdark co-passions
within light's future s...
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Categories:
dueled, earth, education, games, god,
Form: Political Verse
Ruled By the Road
...Ruled By the Road
There are those who may be fooled,
When we by road have been ruled;
Road rage,
Never engage;
Always will win when we are dueled.
Jim Horn...
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Categories:
dueled, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
The Battle With Insomnia
...Sitting here exhausted. Exhausted and drained.
Exhausted and drained and beat.
I battled and dueled with insomnia all night,
And now I can touch defeat.
I parried with anxiety. I danced with t...
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Categories:
dueled, anxiety, grief, sleep, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Gods and Devils
...Gods in time have come and gone
To salvage life for the forlorn
And Christians came from Jewish lore
A prophet from the Middle East
To spread the word and aid the poor
Then demons arose to fil...
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Categories:
dueled, religious,
Form: Free verse
It's a Matter of Honor
...Where are the days
Where a man's word was his honor
A reflection of his character...
Where are the days when
"You have my word for it" meant something?
Where are the days when promises were me...
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Categories:
dueled, men, words,
Form: Free verse
Free Cee Like a Song
...LIKE THE SONG
All of them are unforgettable
Each in her own way
Now I face the regrettable
And what remorselessness has to say
Their names are etched upon my heart
As their faces fade to mi...
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Categories:
dueled, angst,
Form: Quatern
The Royal Changeling
...Deep in the dungeon in the back left corner
Was a mere shell of what was once a man.
He was shackled to the wall of his own design
By the love of his lady so fair, and divine
The queen of a land s...
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Categories:
dueled, adventure, death, fantasy, mystery,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Rock and the Lizard
...Out in the middle of the boundless sea,
As far away from land as ever it could be.
An island stands alone with water all around,
And the very whitest beaches that ever could be found.
At ...
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Categories:
dueled, funny, water, water,
Form: Light Verse
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