Crumm
...An anonymous artist had named the painting:
'Bertram Crumm'
it was simply a depiction of a man
trudging over a blank Landscape.
No one had heard of this man,
but this enigmatic fact alone was ...
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Categories:
emphatically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
sugar boo
...We’re frantically typing to finish our assignments
and end our Friday night homework confinement.
Chella wants to go to a frat-house soirée
I went to a few of those back in the day.
No more fra...
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Categories:
emphatically, cheer up, environment, humor,
Form: Rhyme
le livre bleu
...
“le livre bleu”
Terabytes.
lonely poets, writers,
musicians and artists play here,
they wear masks that cover
vermillion dripping smiles
over sharp little wolverine te...
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Categories:
emphatically, muse,
Form: Free verse
Outside The Box
...
Heard the term “outside the box”?
What box are they referring to?
Sitting in my jammies at my computer
Don't see no box, do you?
A term you hear a lot these days
What can it possibly...
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Categories:
emphatically, smile,
Form: Rhyme
Ordinary married sexagenarian mortal feted as savior incarnate
...Ordinary married sexagenarian mortal fêted as savior incarnate...
Courtesy a plethora of marriageable females
dogging, hounding, and lowing the living daylights
forcing yours truly to go underco...
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Categories:
emphatically, absence, adventure, allegory, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Things I think now that I'm old
...The older I get, the more I forget the names of colors.
Would you call this paint amber, burnt ochre, or clay?
Would it were the same with all of my dolors.
But age hasn’t washed an...
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Categories:
emphatically, age, dark, grandparents, memory,
Form: Rhyme
i did not use special characters
...Inauguration Day 2025 - Monday, January 20, 2025, 12:00?PM
Aforementioned event interestingly enough
coincides with Martin Luther King Junior day.
The late reverend American minister and activ...
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Categories:
emphatically, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
For You
...Pray to Him…ask Him…and you shall receive
All you need to do is have faith in Him and believe.
He hears your praise and your prayer
He will safeguard you and love you because He will always c...
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Categories:
emphatically, care, faith, god, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Spirit and sponsor sane sexagenarian scribe and his spouse to a Utopian country
...Spirit and sponsor sane sexagenarian scribe (and his spouse) to a Utopian country
He seeks (in tandem with the missus)
legal asylum in Canada...
New Brunswick, Newfoundland,
Nova Scotia, et c...
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Categories:
emphatically, america, angst, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Dump Trump The demagogue Hitler reincarnate!
...Dump Trump - The demagogue Hitler reincarnate!
Countdown to Armageddon
precariously, lugubriously, hellaciously,
and deleteriously hinges
potential apocalypse now outcome,
mere smattering w...
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Categories:
emphatically, america, anger, autumn, evil,
Form: Free verse
Don ta Ask Me Bout Exacerbation Of Trumpeted FAKE News
...Don (ta) Ask Me 'Bout Exacerbation Of Trumpeted "FAKE" News
written September 19th, 2018, and following words still ring (more true) today – exactly six years later.
The then forty fifth prez
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Categories:
emphatically, absence, abuse, addiction, america,
Form: Rhyme
Dot dot dot, and in other news devil's advocate claims Teflon Trump
...Dot dot dot, and in other news devil's advocate claims Teflon Trump
courtesy the comfort of his mancave,
I (a mutated batman wannabe)
doth prattle and stump
and display wide whirled webbed
...
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Categories:
emphatically, abuse, america, anxiety, august,
Form: Rhyme
When Summer is Gone
...When Summer is gone along with substantial flowers,
a lingering memory, I wonder “were you here at all?”
It will only be, in each new Spring reviving,
that the iris near the tear duct blooms...
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Categories:
emphatically, grief, seasons,
Form: Elegy
A MINISTER RETIRES: SOLILOQUY
...A MINISTER RETIRES :
SOLILOQUY
I arise as infant Phoenix
from Akasha ashes
counterparts frozen
with foibles intact
a still Arctic of death
sheath for recalibration
Source Light bre...
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Categories:
emphatically, change, character, emotions, extended
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Max’s Angel in Surround Sensation
...pink paragon
renders no features;
a buoyant olive
shouldered above florid wings.
golden halo, open ring.
nature’s schmooze, profound.
deeply saturated midnight
in the labyrinth of the ...
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Categories:
emphatically, angel, art, beauty,
Form: Ekphrasis
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