A Much-Neglected Woman
...My bones are weakening,
they have carried this manly man
through heaven and hell and back again.
I’ve always chased women,
and on too few occasions
have actually caught them.
Now, here in my do...
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Categories:
flic, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story -X-Xii
...Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story - X -XII - Continued
for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun
(The pantun line varies betw...
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Categories:
flic, age, humor, literature, satire,
Form: Pantoum
Dig It - Collaboration With Chris Green
...Bring it!
Oooh yeah baby,
Kick and swing it!
swirl, sway,
just admit it
Sing it!
Let it go loudly
Dance and wing it!
move, groove,
just feel it
Dig it!
Tap your d...
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Categories:
flic, dance, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Rented Earth
...[url=https://flic.kr/p/nnkQSQ][img]https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2938/14025010092_5f06e4ab47_n.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/nnkQSQ]
What the hell have I
...but hands full of dust
From bene...
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Categories:
flic, earth, garden, introspection, nature,
Form: Free verse
Cricket-Rounders
... Debbie Guzzi
Contest Name
For Love of Language
Cricket-Rounders
A new bloodsport in the town,
We call it Cricket-Rounders,
The bowler runs up to the pitch, (22 yard run)
And the bou...
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Categories:
flic, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Planets Before Us
...Like a scene
from
an old sci-fi flic
Planers loom before our eyes
Some with rings
Some hot and red
We know that we
are but
a small part of the
universe
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Categories:
flic, science fiction
Form: Free verse
Hard Times
...Burning rubber on the pavement used to be my one big thrill.
Now with the price of gas just thinking about it gives me a chill.
Used to ten dollars worth of gas would last a week or more.
No...
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Categories:
flic, recovery from..., science fiction,
Form: Narrative