Musk is a Farley's Rusk
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Demagogue not pedagogue
Aghast & agog
Perfidious insidious fog
Reeks of the past
Slog through the smog
Musk seeks to flog
Earth & its serfs
Downed & drowned
In his dystopian...
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Categories:
flog, confusion, corruption, hate,
Form: Rhyme
Stations
...STATIONS
Hark! Oh, Angels, where art Thou?!
'Tis here that thou art needest now!
Before Him does the burden lie
To bear the Cross to Calvary!
While crowds all gather, He is not alone
Though...
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Categories:
flog, easter, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
...Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along outer limits of
the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the p...
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Categories:
flog, abuse, adventure, beauty, body,
Form: Rhyme
Body Ails Yet Spirit Soars
...Written: October 28, 2023, For Unseeking Seeker Contest
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Amid the distress and pressure of life,
A salient soul suspires to s...
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Categories:
flog, analogy, angst, bereavement, character,
Form: Rhyme
Split Personality - Duelling Proverbs
...Mum said "birds of a feather flock together"
so I searched for a man who liked similar weather
until Dad stressed "opposites attract"
and I tried to determine just what I lacked
"Small packa...
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Categories:
flog, hilarious, humorous, marriage, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Cul-De-Sac
...The path led to rose bushes cul de sac.
Early in the morning, we sat down to rest.
Dewdrops are still shining on the track.
At our feet, a swarm of ladybugs, deft.
Petrichor arose as...
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Categories:
flog, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, confusion,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Wrestling With Impasse To Contentment
...Wrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path of least resistance ...
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Categories:
flog, abuse, adventure, age, anger,
Form: Rhyme
The Parting
...In His own image I was created
From his ribs I was created
You delighted in this creature that He created
And this creature that He created
You named woman
For He saw that a helper You neede...
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Categories:
flog, break up,
Form: Rhyme
Clerihew Butterworth
...Geoff Butterworth the English colourist is my pick
to make watercolours so realistic
His paintings have perspective the discerning now seek
Try this link* to give this art ..a peek
inspired by...
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Categories:
flog, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Walkies
...I could go anywhere with my walkie
I’m talking walkie talkie
long before I knew I needed a dog
(anxiety is funny that way
striking when you want to play
locked in a cage with your brain ...
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Categories:
flog, anxiety, dog, work,
Form: Rhyme
I Think I'Ll Be An Influencer
...I think I'll be an influencer
I'll be really good at that
I'll buy some bots from Russia
and flog some plastic tat.
I'll pose in skimpy undies
I'll advertise fake tan
and when my fans unfollow ...
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Categories:
flog, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Holy Determination and Righteous Resolve of Jesus - Mark 10: 32-34
...Jesus mission took Him to the cross
for He grasped what was His holy goal
with a holy determination and righteous perspective
giving a glimpse of His heavenly role
Jesus Christ truly grasped Hi...
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Categories:
flog, god, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Mv Wilhem Gustloff
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This was the worst ship disaster, with the greatest loss of life at sea
A German ship that was overloaded, with over 10,600 war refugees
Sank on the 30 January 1945 by a Soviet submarine in the...
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Categories:
flog, boat, death, horror, world
Form: Couplet
Allow Us To Enter Your Universe
...We are mercenary rebels of emotion
From another place across the wide blue ocean,
With noble ideas concepts and one man’s notion
Come and join our paladin band of devotion.
Force with intellect...
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Categories:
flog, confusion, philosophy,
Form: Sonnet
Impasse To Contentment Part 1
...Just me and mine shadow doth blog
passivity, the path of least resistance oh my dog,
an emphatic YES,
a legitimately valid reason and rhyme to flog
yours truly (figurative emasculation),
thee ca...
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Categories:
flog, absence, abuse, betrayal, crush,
Form: Free verse
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