Wake Up Dead
...The greatest invention since sliced bread
We've invented many things as onward we tread
Like flush toilets
And shoe eyelets
Meatballs with mashers hope I don't wake up dead...
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Categories:
eyelets, humor,
Form: Limerick
Eyelets Never Lie
...the journey seemed ‘endless’ and the road map had fallen
down an ‘infinite’ cliff of far-reaching obstruction of justice
incalculable risks were the ‘eternal’ message of his void life
oblivi...
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Categories:
eyelets, character,
Form: Free verse
Gazebos
...Millions used to roam across Africa’s plains,
But, sadly, not one Gazebo still remains,
Yes, unfortunately, they are now extinct,
Their fate and Man’s greed, clearly linked.
Treasured for their...
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Categories:
eyelets, africa, animal, environment, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Silent Refusal
...A little hidden, beautiful, and tranquil aquarium
With an amazing view of the subterranean dome.
The ache may be the sign of worsening emotion,
From a little city where the rogues are at home.
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Categories:
eyelets, corruption, funeral, hurt, introspection,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
The Morning Whisper
...With sweet incline her ear is on dawn's arrival
even if night reigns by day, she has no rival
only the morning contains her birthing vine
Her ear is on dawn's arrival with sweet incline'
Dolc...
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Categories:
eyelets, beauty,
Form: Quatrain
The Day I Was Born
...Instead of smiling ,
She was crying
A moment of silence replace tumults of joy;
Thus the day i was born,
A day when the sun sat on the nook of horizon east,
Thus when the angels,
Th...
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Categories:
eyelets, birthday,
Form: Epic
Adrift
...mirrors refract of blue, grays and greens
molded together, patchwork of leans
drowning withouts more than floating withins
mindsided promises, neglectful of ends
dripdry conundrums in, neat stagn...
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Categories:
eyelets, analogy, divorce, eulogy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
A Cloth of Linen
...© 2012 (Jim Sularz)
A stitch, a knot, a sudden tear,
some missing counts along the folds.
Her cloth was sewn in Life's fine linen,
and bordered, in marygolds.
Still monogrammed, but mostly...
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Categories:
eyelets, family, farewell,
Form: Quatrain
Stars In Maine
...Rich dark blanket of night,
Silken wrapper, inducer of sleep,
You sooth the glare of harsh daylight strivings.
Half of the world sinks into rest.
Beyond the soft, tenebrous cloak: infinite brig...
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Categories:
eyelets, night, sleep, stars,
Form: Blank verse
A Lullaby of God
...My little man, a sandman is about,
take along, my dear, plaything,
tomorrow you'll be in, somehow,
with your neighbor boys, on gambling.
I'm your father and your God…
in your pocket a sweet ...
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Categories:
eyelets, Lullaby, social,
Form: Rhyme
Mystery of the Shoe
...Mystery of the Shoe
Dad, I love my old brown shoes with their lace-up strings.
They feel good, and they should
For I wear them everywhere.
You remember them. I’m sure you do.
They have five...
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Categories:
eyelets, childhood, father, mysteryme, old,
Form: Didactic
A View
...Staring at the curtains, sheer,
hanging in the bedroom. Roses
cut in lace, with vertical stripes
spaced between vertical rows of eyelets.
Ovals connected in chains from
hem to hem.
A loophole ...
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Categories:
eyelets,
Form: I do not know?