Smitten by Kitten Disinterest
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never loved cat ways
their tail-flicking arrogance
their unasked-for gaze
my family longed for one —
I yielded, keeping distance
stray kitten arrived
they all fawned gushed over it
but the...
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Categories:
fawned, cat,
Form: Tanka
To Good Health
...Jack Sprat and wife Mary, lived in a glory of lemony, chiffon days;
Like maroon birds keep on singing, until the sunset, orange phase.
They were comfy and happy, like a picnic in lavish, ...
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Categories:
fawned, color, family, fantasy, food,
Form: Couplet
My Childhood Christmas
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The folded corners and wrinkled pages
of catalogs that were tattered and ripped
From the first of October until late in December
we drooled,
we fawned,
we lusted,
we swooned and giggled
mut...
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Categories:
fawned, christmas, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Remains of Emotion
...I’ve been called a masterpiece,
I’ve been called obsessed;
I’ve been referred to as psycho,
and regarded as magic;
I’ve been ignored
by those who hold my heart;
I’ve been fawned over by stra...
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Categories:
fawned, emotions, feelings, introspection,
Form: List
Shame and Guilt Sabotaged Mine Healthy Growth
...Shame and guilt sabotaged mine healthy growth...
and let yours truly not forget emasculation
that prickly emotional immobilization
whereby these lovely bones
subject courtesy senescence
upon...
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Categories:
fawned, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Inauguration Day 2021
...Four years ago on this very day
the Democrats and their proxy media stooges
cried “the election was stolen!”
and “we need to impeach Trump!”
Today the same apparatchiks
and oligarchs and ...
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Categories:
fawned, america, political,
Form: Political Verse
The Secret Life
...“What is this strange place we find ourselves in
trapped in the open we are free within”
The speedboat skipped like a stone on the lake,
The Commander took charge for the crew’s sake.
If the...
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Categories:
fawned, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
God Search
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Earth bound soul went about it’s quest
Burdened by desires on his chest
Enmeshed in fears, by ego spawned
Dark despair, hoping to be blest
Before many gods, this soul fawned
Yet...
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Categories:
fawned, god,
Form: Rubaiyat
Fawned To Spurn
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Love
blossoms
firm buds burst
branches bedecked
with resplendent green leaves herald love's joy
spring turns to summer as love grows and glows
leaf turns yellow
love fades fawns
red...
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Categories:
fawned, autumn, love, red,
Form: Tetractys
Woman and Her Dog
...She had never felt so loved and cherished
He was her everything, he fawned over her.
Their loyalty to each other was beyond admirable.
But he is a dog a non-dog person said.
Yes, he was, whic...
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Categories:
fawned, dog,
Form: Free verse
Kick It Down
...I see you standing by the door, your hesitancy clear.
Enter to be fawned upon, embraced with love my dear.
And yet there is that moment, a tension lost in thought.
Your prior self is lurking and i...
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Categories:
fawned, analogy, imagery, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Nursie Pooos
...The rules for being a nursie poo is simply this
You must be efficient as well as a delicious dish
Plain Janes need not apply
Must be pleasing to the eye
To be fawned over and cuddled is e...
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Categories:
fawned, drug,
Form: Limerick
The Dawn
...The tree was flowering the waist of every twig at dawn
Sun shined it with golden ray through fawned eyes lawn
After morning bath you came to pluck some of it
No one was there but from the roof sil...
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Categories:
fawned, morning,
Form: Free verse
My Utmost Dream Has Changed
...When I was a child my utmost dream was to be recognized, famous.
I determined that it is rather a curse, not a joy, for it impedes freedom.
Being a hippie I relish my seclusion and communal time; I...
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Categories:
fawned, dream, self,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
To Dead Heart O Valentine Come
...I’m dead in my heart
you killed me by the sword lips
oh! what a killer sight you have
I’m banned in my heart
O beauty
you sovereign my poetry
I’m ruined in your cheek dimple,
your neckline ...
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Categories:
fawned, lost love, love, love
Form: Free verse
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