Anatomy of the weekend
...Off the workplace and throng the streets
Flooding the city with our presence and fleets
We must make the most of this weekly stint
Waiting not for conviction but acting on a hint
For the will t...
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Categories:
faired, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Decayed
..."I thought I'd feel comforted by walking through my childhood home. The only emotion I felt was melancholy that it had been abandoned and left alone to die." ~ by poet
I sat in sor...
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Categories:
faired, emotions, home,
Form: Rhyme
When You Return
...Sojourner to far-flung climes;
When you return,
Will you remember the evening songs
Chorused by chirping under the baobab tree?
Will you still remember the fame of the great hunter
Whose courage...
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Categories:
faired, africa, beauty, culture, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
We Thought It Would Go Even Higher
...Big oil has its hands in our pocket
Pump prices rose like a rocket
It was just a ruse
Designed to confuse
The voters who vote with their wallet
Inflation to voters does smell
And affects ...
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Categories:
faired, humor, money, political, repetition,
Form: Limerick
Was Scared About How He Faired
...found out how he faired
in a way which made him scared
still his soul was spared
what i want to stress
must be sure that style of dress
always will impress
for beer had a thirst
then ended...
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Categories:
faired, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
When You Return
...Sojourner to far-flung climes;
When you return,
Will you remember the evening songs
Chorused by chirping under the baobab tree?
Will you still remember the fame of the great hunter
Whose courage...
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Categories:
faired, adventure, africa, black african
Form: Didactic
Rumors
...Rumors
How we arrived at where we are
By Franklin Price
05/03/2020
By now you've heard the rumors
How Covid-19 came to Earth
How it did not come here naturally
How Wuhan, China gave it birt...
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Categories:
faired, america, health, hope, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
Power Mad Unlikeable Sad
...Trekking every which way
mentally mapping at pace
to escape this place
captured for an age
with its rotten decay
compacted waste
attacking my taste
lack hunger stray
overwhelm left sp...
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Categories:
faired, appreciation, power,
Form: Rhyme
The Life of Why-Me
...They tell me I’m living the life of Riley
a float flowing freely with the tide and breeze
They envy my empty whilst I think why me
I’d advise not to buy if this life were free
flow without ef...
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Categories:
faired, anger, angst, anxiety, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Hands of Time
...If I could turn back the hands of time
and once again have ago
I’d make decisions declined
fight pain and look to grow
I could avoid this very path
with its destination unknown
but maybe t...
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Categories:
faired, deep, destiny, how i
Form: Rhyme
Lost Part 1
...He cried for help using a silent cord
but silent cries always get ignored,
he couldn't remember how life rewards
and from his eyes the tears then poured.
He ran away from life because he became...
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Categories:
faired, anxiety, confusion, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
John F Lyons a Brothers Love Never Told Him I Loved Him
...JOHN FRANCIS LYONS: A BROTHERS LOVE NEVER TOLD HIM THAT I LOVED HIM
I thank you John
For being there
You took me here
Took me there
You faired for me
I reverence you
But, I never told you I...
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Categories:
faired, appreciation, assonance, bereavement, dedication,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Bath
...An ordinary Australian from an ordinary country place
Who rallied to the flag's call with god's good grace
He was one of the 33rd Battalion "New England's Own"
Into this swirling maelstrom they we...
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Categories:
faired, world war i, ,
Form: Ballad
Happiness Or Bust
...Is anybody truly happy?
Or, do they merely settle for content?
How is happiness even measured?
What does it's presence represent?
I spent the day silently walking
looking at displays of happines...
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Categories:
faired, change, deep, feelings, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
...My Mix-Breed "Extra Fluffy"
happy as can be
Entered in the "Dog-Gone" trials
Just one of eighty-three
Some as big as horses
some as long as trains
Some so smart they spoke to you
You'd thi...
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Categories:
faired, animal, dog, howl, irony,
Form: Rhyme
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