endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me
...endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me...
like the infinite vista
upon the midwestern plain
farther than the eyes of mine
(an ascetic and copacetic
shortsighted father of tw...
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Categories:
fielded, absence, adventure, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
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:
fielded, america, anniversary, celebration, death,
Form: Rhyme
Dusk hoover ring dawn ting task of badinage
...Dusk hoover ring dawn ting task of badinage...
This hug gust aspiring writer..., albeit youth
fool looking imp posse Hubble wordsmith,
(i.e. the babbling dad) coon sitters hyperbole
insync as a...
...
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Categories:
fielded, 12th grade, addiction, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Attitude with latitude
...Attitude with latitude
originally written January 19th, 2019
and tension defines the dynamic
Valiant prince sip pulled effort
rebuffed, snubbed, thumbed
courtesy eldest daughter
uncontested...
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Categories:
fielded, abuse, anger, anxiety, betrayal,
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:
fielded, absence, age, america, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
Underdog Alleluia
...Underdog Alleluia
By Mark D. Stucky
Why do we love underdogs?
Why root for ragtag Rockies
and scruffy low-rated teams
coming from behind to win?
Why adore unlikely tri...
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Categories:
fielded, america, anti bullying, conflict,
Form: Free verse
I Am Ill Eke Quipped To Dusk Hoover Dawn Ting Task of Badinage
...I am ill eke quipped to dusk hoover dawn ting task of badinage
Indentured gumption forsaken
courtesy each pulled wisdom-tooth
this hug gust aspiring writer..., albeit youth
fool looking imp po...
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Categories:
fielded, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Ars Poetica
...Poetry is a busy crosswalk downtown,
when everyone moves together with elbows
held a little wider than normal.
Poetry is a middle-aged man, creased
and folded, sprawled out on the neglected
w...
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Categories:
fielded, poetry, writing,
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:
fielded, absence, age, anniversary, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
Courtesy Google, I Learned Dynata Mite
...Courtesy Google, I learned Dynata...mite!
Constitutes the world’s largest
first-party data platform
for insights, activation and measurement
Earlier today August 28th, 2022,
a representative...
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Categories:
fielded, 12th grade, america, animal,
Form: Rhyme
I Am Ill Eke Quipped To Dusk Hoover Dawn Ting Task of Badinage
...This hug gust aspiring writer..., albeit youth
fool looking imp posse Hubble wordsmith,
(i.e. the babbling dad) coon sitters hyperbole
nsync as acceptable literary playfulness,
no matter figurati...
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Categories:
fielded, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Everlasting
...Have you lost an EVERLASTING love like me?
Did you assume your love would last to eternity?
Well my answer is an emphatic yes to both questions!
And I’ve fielded so many suggestions
But it’s shee...
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Categories:
fielded, devotion, dream, how i
Form: Rhyme
Cosmetic Brain Surgery
...his last gasp was quite lengthy
trying to go out with a bang as usual
a rationalist manifesto covering his face
accompanied by a cotton field work song
his grip went slack under the torrent of im...
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Categories:
fielded, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Dusk Hoover Ring Dawn Ting Task of Badinage
...Dusk hoover ring dawn ting task of badinage...
This hug gust aspiring writer..., albeit youth
fool looking imp posse Hubble wordsmith,
(i.e. the babbling dad) coon sitters hyperbole
insync as a...
...
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Categories:
fielded, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Still Pictures Transfrom
......and then darkness fell through a rocky bottom
of lost innocence in the light of waning truths
an aperture tore away the veil of discomfort
tranquil as if nothing had happened at all...
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Categories:
fielded, memory,
Form: Free verse
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