The fine art of making excuses
...The fine art of making excuses
which achievement, deportment,
endorsement, and indictment
(more serious than rigging an election)
jump/kickstarts (a divine comedy of errors)
not reason enough
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Categories:
enraging, animal, appreciation, autumn, business,
Form: Free verse
The Key
...Heaven and Hell are spaces in our mind
Precious real estate taking us over
Seeking consolation never to find
Through senses deceptively hence smolder
Stagnant in solitude, whisper’s wonder
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Categories:
enraging, angel, beauty, blessing, christian,
Form: Sonnet
War
...Who plays
the world's guitar
turning hearts
against life?
US wants money
Russia land
mindless of tears
and blood shed
China's sneezed
covid spread
muzzling mouths
silencing sounds
dulli...
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Categories:
enraging, world war i,
Form: Free verse
Norwegian Bachelor Farmer Days I Never Lived
...Norwegian bachelor farmer days I never lived
Woebegone and egg foo young on you
meaning me of course
sidestepping a crucial positive
electric kool aid battery acid test
prior to pledging troth...
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Categories:
enraging, adventure, america, appreciation, atheist,
Form: Rhyme
Moons Chasity
...“The moon’s vision of humanity
Was something that it once desired
Tinkle, swoouf, it pondered
As it’s luminescence gazed at its prodigious oceans
The defunct dissection of the body fell in...
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Categories:
enraging, community, conflict, confusion, discrimination,
Form: Other
Jinxed Jesting Jejune Junior Jobber
...Jinxed jesting jejune junior jobber...
just jabbering gibberish (A - J)
Again, another awkward ambitious
arduous attempt at alphabetically
arranging atrociously ambiguously
absolutely asinine ...
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Categories:
enraging, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
I Flee From Thy Spell
...Together forever, at cost
It is time I knew why all’s lost
As one we were, so calm, so gay
Then destroyed, our loyalty tossed
If only you...
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Categories:
enraging, betrayal, break up, death,
Form: Rubaiyat
A Book I'M Reading
...At a very young age, he was 'called' and ushered to
the forefront, having very little choice in the matter.
There is much to be said about 'the call', but perhaps
a little taste and a soft touch a...
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Categories:
enraging, christian, god, judgement, love,
Form: Verse
Emerged Rationalism
...They tell us once there was a crow.
Wavering alone in the peril zone
The feeble is not straight on a clue.
It has been winging since the era of stone.
The crow saw the cost of the snare, he sa...
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Categories:
enraging, adventure, angel, bird, character,
Form: Free verse
Enraging Enemy
...R-epel the enraging enemy,
U-sing the pandemic protocol;
T-he terrible threat is erased,
H-aving been killed by alcohol.
S-top the crowned contagion,
T-o uncover the mystery;
O-bliterate...
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Categories:
enraging, birthday, poetess,
Form: Acrostic
Inevitable Fate
...Inclosed by a ferocious fortune for eternity
Naught with naught, can't do anything
Escaping means dying
Vicious prognosticated destiny
Inseparable with the prophecy
Trust is the only weapon
Aga...
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Categories:
enraging, courage, deep, destiny, fate,
Form: Acrostic
Oasis of Stars
...
Masked behind enraging cacophony,
sand dunes bathed in paranoia of fears,
nascent pearls of silver seashells
bubble through exuberant oasis,
flickering candles gi...
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Categories:
enraging, hope,
Form: Free verse
Jinxed Jesting Jejune Junior Jobber Part 1
...Jinxed jesting jejune junior jobber...
just jabbering gibberish (A - I)
Again, another awkward ambitious
arduous attempt at alphabetically
arranging atrociously ambiguously
absolutely asinine ...
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Categories:
enraging, dance, hello, imagery, motivation,
Form: Alliteration
Morning Ritual
...
Newspaper
useful, informative
updating, revealing, rewarding
community, classified, politics, obituaries
enraging, appalling, depressing
precarious, sorrowful-
Psal...
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Categories:
enraging, emotions,
Form: Diamante
What Happens In the Past, Stays In the Mind
...What happens in the past, stays in the mind.
Sitting on the floor, pen in hand, a wealth of books surround me, comfortable in my familiarity.
Studying was my sole mission; achieving only excel...
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Categories:
enraging, abortion, abuse, anger, dark,
Form: Narrative
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