Ode to the Sultan of Slights
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You are a soligaster of the highest order, held in pristine favor by your court. A wordsmith after Satan’s own heart.
Champion of Doublespeak, a demonstrative firebrand with a MAGA-phone. An ...
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Categories:
fabulously, 11th grade, angst, betrayal,
Form: Ode
Ode to the Sultan of Slights
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You are a soligaster of the highest order, held in pristine favor by your court. A wordsmith after Satan’s own heart.
Champion of Doublespeak, a demonstrative firebrand with a MAGA-phone. An ...
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Categories:
fabulously, 11th grade, angst, betrayal,
Form: Ode
I am Hilarious Tonight
...I was not always this clever, this funny, this incredibly smart
But it is two a.m. somewhere, and I am hilarious; it is my art.
Weirdly, I was not in any way exciting before I got to this bar.
But...
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Categories:
fabulously, life,
Form: Rhyme
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky
...Harriet Harris née Kuritsky...
Despite being a nineteen year old bride
she wed Boyce Brandon Harris
half a decade her senior,
(where I ranked less than a twinkle in their eyes)
during the mont...
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Categories:
fabulously, america, anniversary, celebration, death,
Form: Rhyme
halloween party memory from 1974
...my makeup was fabulously light green, lips ruby red
I fit in well with the theme, witches, warlocks and the undead
the blue I had sprayed in my hair glittered like starlight
when we entered the pa...
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Categories:
fabulously, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Changes
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A smoky vignette opens up, as if morning fog over the mountain valleys blown by winter winds.
Piano notes pulsing in a melancholic, waltz~ like cadence…the plangent tension ...
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Categories:
fabulously, art, change, clothes, culture,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
fabulously, feelings, grief, growing up,
Form: Tautogram
Blech impossible mission to savor mug of ginger tea
...Blech - impossible mission to savor mug of ginger tea...
When the entire mug awash
with floating leavings
by golly by gosh,
sipping said herbal brew
analogous challenge
to eat spaghetti squas...
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Categories:
fabulously, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
They can take their Big Battles with them
...Green Peace or Hunt for the Royal Sun-
trying to get off a planet poisoned by hate and greed-
warlike ideologies armed to the rotten teeth
hoping to find a New World out of here-out there
hangin...
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Categories:
fabulously, earth, future, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse
pampered cat
...In a palace of cushions and silky delight,
Lives a cat, all pampered, oh, what a sight!
Spoiled and regal, with a snobbish air,
She lounges on pillows with a feline flair.
Her food served on si...
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Categories:
fabulously, appreciation, cat, cute, family,
Form: Free verse
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky circa November 13th
...Harriet Harris née Kuritsky circa November 13th,
1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)
I trot out a poem acknowledging birthday
of dear ole mom, who s...
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Categories:
fabulously, absence, age, america, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
Firefly
...Fiery furnace-filled flames,
Fabulously flash-flare;
Fantastic feelings flow,
Forming flamboyancy;
Flirtatious fancies foam,
Fabricating frenzy;
Freedom flutters fondly......
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Categories:
fabulously, insect, nature,
Form: Pleiades
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:
fabulously, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
Harriet Harris Circa November 13th, 1935 - May 4th, 2005
...Harriet Harris circa November 13th, 1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
untimely death sentence ordained
approximately six months prior
to mother dearest celebrating
her seventieth birthday,
though the ...
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Categories:
fabulously, absence, age, anniversary, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
Economic Disparity Created During the Corona Phase
...Economic Disparity created during the Corona Phase
Death equalizes all at the end
But sufferings are hugely different.
There cannot be any comparison
Between the daily wage earners like
V...
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Categories:
fabulously, angst, conflict, international, social,
Form: Prose Poetry
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