Mad About Towns
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When we set out on a road trip
We didn’t stick to the old script
And were gladly amazed
And rarely unfazed
Hitting strange towns though some were skipped
We started from Thatsnot, OK
Which ...
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Categories:
earwax, humorous, travel, word play,
Form: Limerick
Quiet
...The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. Albert Einstein
When whisperers are seen and colors are heard
The...
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Categories:
earwax, analogy, appreciation, inspirational, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Don't Stop Beating Yourself Up
...All of the failures are mine
All the successes are theirs
I cannot stop ordering wine
I keep rearranging the chairs
Don’t stop
Don’t stop
Don’t stop beating yourself up
Should you go to Ma...
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Categories:
earwax, abuse, age, drink, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Approximately Dceased
...He has left the world.
A half-made bed creaks still.
A life left elsewhere,
not here in this blue rat-tailed viewing.
Display the cold hands,
the musty suit newly buttoned.
Teeth wedged t...
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Categories:
earwax, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Such Innocent Madness
...Such Innocent Madness
Listening to KHJ with the Real Don Steele,
playing it straight and loud on Boss Radio, with an
Elusive Butterfly wafting about, inside the tan ’68 Caprice,
when his sec...
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Categories:
earwax, desire,
Form: Free verse
Voice of Nothing
...Here we are
a title of a song, a transitional statement with no meaning
does it really serve a purpose
delaying the inevitable train-wreck these words will incur
I concur
words are meaningless, ...
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Categories:
earwax, violence, words, world, write,
Form: Free verse
Where Did My Freedoms Go
...Where Did My Freedoms Go?
By Linda Hays-Gibbs
Where did my freedom go?
It was here not long ago.
I was sure for all those that fought and died,
Someone had surely lied.
I cannot say what I ...
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Categories:
earwax, abuse, america, angel, anti
Form: Ballad
I'M Alive
...I can barely hear the sound of the engine of my favourite car
Through all that traffic, the cheerful laughter coming from the bar
I overhear parts of conversations on footsteps of passersby
The so...
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Categories:
earwax, car, life, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Reggae Nights Part 1
...‘You have to leave, miss. The club is closed’
Bang. Bang. Bang.
‘Okay’
I stand
My head spins
I sit down and pull my knickers up.
What the hell had happened?
I remember Tracey with her arm around ...
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Categories:
earwax, funny, people, me,
Form: I do not know?
Dedication To All Those Who Misinterpret At Poetry Soup If You Don'T Comprehend Don'T Read
...I wish that we had some understanding on a subject
For Pete's sake because he's tired of explaining himself
To dim-witted losers who call themselves philosophers
I wish that if you speak, convey w...
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Categories:
earwax, on writing and wordslost,
Form: Free verse
Earwax
...Gooey yellow stuff
Lying deep in my ears
Makes my ears tickle...
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Categories:
earwax, health,
Form: Senryu
Motorbike
...Motorbike
I bought a little motorbike, on monkey spit it ran.
But the monkey I got with it, took a week to fill a can.
So out I went and got a chimpanzee, thinking a bigger ape more fitting.
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Categories:
earwax, animals, funny,
Form: Rhyme