The movers and Shakespearers
...No comfort for the stickler, sticking literary fixtures depicting conflicting inklings to their minds as perfect pictures.
With one stroke of my pen the standards rose again and damned be lesser men...
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Categories:
fittingly, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Under the Weather
...Dr. Foster lived in old fashioned London, and was content to stay there;
As red roses are content being caressed, by the wind from everywhere.
Dr. Foster loved his daily routine, like the...
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Categories:
fittingly, beauty, fantasy, home, london,
Form: Couplet
The Reluctant Bride
...She is getting married today, my childhood sweetheart. I catch her eye and in that instance her sensual lips curl in a half-smile. I would like to think that it contains a message – even an apology –...
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Categories:
fittingly, lost love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Fiddle-dee-dee
...In Wonderland dwelled Tweedledum and Tweedledee, twin brothers;
And genial next door neighbors, like the rainbow's changing colors.
Employed by the Mad Hatter, at Vale asylum, in Looking ...
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Categories:
fittingly, bird, color, family, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Lilith
..."Truth are not from the valley of the shadow of death ... Lilith, like all mythological entities, are humanity's creation, to explain--what they cannot," ... by The Poet
Hawaii Nei, bidst ...
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Categories:
fittingly, abuse, america, betrayal, bible,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Ella Fells A Fella
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Ella peripherals the scene,
instantly onboard. (A ship of fool.)
An onlooker, a poor dead-wood, looks, to be
particle_lurely bored.
Then another quip came to her
a...
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Categories:
fittingly, art,
Form: Narrative
In Search of a Great White Butt Ox
...We embarked on an adventure
That was quite quixotic
A scientific dream quencher
Searching for exotics
We started where we thought made sense
Out on the sunning docks
Where perhaps there’d be ...
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Categories:
fittingly, humorous, journey,
Form: Rhyme
The Mirth of Monsters
...A picture appeared on my phone today,
on the proverbial page I perused.
A view of an evil most vile,
villainy veiled behind verve and vim.
Sadists from Auschwitz,
smiling in a storm.
Should...
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Categories:
fittingly, evil, fear, holocaust, horror,
Form: Alliteration
Flowery Fields Forever
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Fragrant, flowing fields of flowers.
Faitfhful friends, fantastic festival
Fittingly fresh, free, fertile fonds
Framed fortunes,forevermore!
4/19/2023...
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Categories:
fittingly, beautiful, flower, imagery,
Form: Alliteration
Dramatically
...Fittingly one randomly playing piano as I prepare
For heading home: where I am playing my most dramatic medley.
Someday even my own misery will meet its ending....
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Categories:
fittingly, angst, mental illness,
Form: Sijo
Wedding To Unfailingly Attend
...They were all briskly heading
For a full member's wedding
With an attached harsh Levy
Only too fittingly heavy
For The Careless Absentee,
Who had stayed back like a tree;
Not The Dying at that...
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Categories:
fittingly, drink, humanity, love, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Nature My Inspiration
...Mother nature never worries about anything
Embracing whatever needs grace with due diligence
Never trembles when its hard facing the scorching sun
Nor fidget at the provocation of mankind
Even wh...
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Categories:
fittingly, analogy, encouraging, environment,
Form: Free verse
A Meal In Five Senses
...Within an overplay of paneled oak
and illumination fittingly low,
set upon a table, its style baroque
a lighted candle, its shimmering glow
plays an unopened bottle of Bordeaux
Distant soft mu...
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Categories:
fittingly, drink, food,
Form: Quintain (English)
Macmurphy's Head
...MacMurphy’s head hangs
Fittingly from my saddle horn.
I’d snatched it in a moment
When he couldn’t decide
Which way to parry.
The look of surprise is still on his face.
MacNulty’s ugly mug p...
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Categories:
fittingly, history, war,
Form: Blank verse
A Former Slender Man Lapsed Unitarian Anorexic
...A former slender man (lapsed Unitarian anorexic)...
deplores adipose tissue gain
No Holiday music can soothe savage beast
washboard abdomen weight watcher's dream fleeced
skinny bag of lovely b...
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Categories:
fittingly, 7th grade, absence, age,
Form: Rhyme
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