Compassion for all Living Creatures
...But not the interminably hopeless daddy longlegs
some say cellar spiders also know as the cranefly
lurking amidst the shower curtain then
flapping wildly all around my hat
just not first thing on...
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Categories:
dullest, flying, insect, morning,
Form: Free verse
Ruby Lane
...Down here on Ruby Lane
Sitting looking at the rain
Looking at my glass of red
Thinking what I haven’t said
If through negligence some changes
Shuffle here with rearrangements
Nothing’s changed...
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Categories:
dullest, loneliness, memory, places, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
So Long! - Apr 26
...Your needs unmet and, too, mine equally
fulfilled,—I s’pose it’s best to leave this where
it stands.—what other course could feel as fair?
But deep disturbances in mon esprit,
increasingly viol...
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Categories:
dullest, break up, conflict, endurance,
Form: Italian Sonnet
The Eternal Return
...It is beyond ridiculous
But anyway, it’s true
The dullest of dystopias
Is here again like new
No use to cite the history
Cause no one can unravel
What is infold in mystery
Which way the stor...
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Categories:
dullest, political, world,
Form: Rhyme
Oh! The Female Form
...
Is it just me or do all old guys drool
At the sight of every young chickie
Could it be I'm a perverted old geezer
Or normal but no longer picky
Once thought I was quite sophisticated
...
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Categories:
dullest, cute,
Form: Rhyme
Secretaries Of Our Souls
...
What inspires us to write heart felt poetry
To divulge our innermost thoughts and feelings
It's certainly not to gain fame or fortune
Ever heard of a millionaire poet
Those two words ...
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Categories:
dullest, allusion, wisdom, write,
Form: Free verse
The Joy Of Beauty
...
Beauty is in the keen eyes that behold
Never in the high mountains tinged with gold
Clouds that can swirl in any form or shape
Or forest greens that can cover and drape
Beauty is...
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Categories:
dullest, appreciation, beauty, bird, extended
Form: Couplet
Gifts and Joys
...I'm eloquent in words that sound poetic;
I'm creative in composing music,
which is an art form so intrinsic!
I run to the one who's sad and bleeds;
I'm very kind in generous deeds,
and to happin...
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Categories:
dullest, beauty, emotions, happiness, literature,
Form: Rhyme
Mystical Song of Trees
...PRELUDE.
When the sky and world are dark no sounds are heard in the woods. Perhaps the scrabbling of night creatures on the hunt fo food. But no sound of woodpeckers ra ta tatting, bird song is dimi...
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Categories:
dullest, animal, conflict, desire, environment,
Form: Free verse
I'Ve Lost a Lot of Pie With Biden
...Ever since Biden marched in my stocks plump
My gains and nest egg make my shoulders slump
Unfortunately I've lost to that chump
My piece of American pie, a dump
What were five stars is now two du...
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Categories:
dullest, america, introspection, loss,
Form: Monorhyme
A Nigerian Town With My Footprints
...Visibly wore she my footprints
While bore I a Restarted Scholarship,
In 1993 flaunting The Dullest Glints
With streets that rather mirrored hardship …
Okigwe was The Sometimes Chilly
And irrit...
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Categories:
dullest, absence, africa, anxiety, people,
Form: Rhyme
Journey To a Crematorium
...Let me tell you a story on a midnight journey,
To a crematorium, through an undergrowth ferny;
At my age between sixteen to seventeen,
In nineteen seventy eight; with a dusky scene;
A time, whe...
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Categories:
dullest, courage, journey,
Form: Narrative
Symposium
...
"Symposium"
where do you go
when you try to
dream your place
in my life
gone now
from your
quicksand shores
once I rolled over
placed my mouth
again...
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Categories:
dullest, love, muse,
Form: Free verse
Nugget
...I've been here for so long
trying to soften the dullest words
digging madly inside of me
in search of the prettiest nugget
but when I finally gave up
recognizing to be made of pure gravel
I ...
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Categories:
dullest, analogy, self,
Form: Free verse
Detoured
...Deft tiptoing of enemy feet
Trails progress of this ink;
Such that when one word
I pen I must pose to think.
Usurping hand’s derailment
Detracts my scribblings too;
So when firing thoughts ...
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Categories:
dullest, abuse, allegory, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Verse
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