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THE RUMOR
...RUMORS USUALLY BEGAN BY SOMEONE SO FIXATED ON ANOTHER PERSONS LIFE IT COULD BEGAN ON THE SCHOOL YARD SOMETHING AS SMALL AS BEING JEALOUS THAT YOUR CLASSMATE HAS A SHINING NEW INK PEN WITH A BIG PINK ......
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Yolanda Nicholsen
Categories:
folk lore,
allah,
Form:
Naat
Lilith
...“The actual guise of her has become apparent” ~~ The Poet Engaged in rapturous slander. Forced by reputation to meander. Through the annals of time, Deemed worse than a witch sublime Indicted ......
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Speaks Volumes
Categories:
folk lore,
night,
Form:
Rhyme
The Last Organ Grinder
...The Last Organ Grinder The last Organ Grinder gave his barrel organ to his grandson, now working in JP Morgan He preserved tha......
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Anisha Dutta
Categories:
folk lore,
appreciation,
Form:
Couplet
Living With a Visiting Ghost
...Most local folk lore is intended to unnerve but I think there's validity to the Haunted horse shoe curve. The building of our nations rails took a terrible toll on the Irish, the Chinese, and many......
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Nancy Kaufman
Categories:
folk lore,
1st grade,
Form:
Light Verse
You
...It’s you who I adore, I want you more and more. I’d even be your whore, Your own Pussy Galore; Ignore your wretched snores, Believe your life’s folk lore, Let lie our settled scores. I......
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Jennifer Thomas
Categories:
folk lore,
romantic love, sensual,
Form:
Rhyme
Clerihew Bilk
...Jazz clarinatist Acker Bilk vibrato-rich soft as silk Famed for 'Stranger on the Shore' now in musical folk lore......
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Brian Strand
Categories:
folk lore,
music, people,
Form:
Clerihew
1974 Green Gremlins
...Green Gremlins were all the rage in nineteen seventy-four. I am not talking about creepy fat-headed full bellied tiny beings. I am talking about cheap cars with a V-8 and four on the floor. Everyo......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
folk lore,
car, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Journey To a Crematorium
...Let me tell you a story on a midnight journey, To a crematorium, through an undergrowth ferny; At my age between sixteen to seventeen, In nineteen seventy eight; with a dusky scene; A time, whe......
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Christuraj Alex
Categories:
folk lore,
courage, journey,
Form:
Narrative
Each Pore a Door
... Each pore a door, so spake folk lore God’s abode is within Pure of heart feel blessings in-pour Bliss bubbling on our skin There’s nothing to apprise Each breath offers surprise......
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Unseeking Seeker
Categories:
folk lore,
blessing, god, joy,
Form:
Rhyme
Trolls
...Tales in Norse folk lore of these mythical creatures, though sadly nowadays they are better known for trawling the internet targeting people on <>...
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Jan Allison
Categories:
folk lore,
abuse, internet,
Form:
Verse
The Cliffs of Sand and Sea
...The music is her breath, or…wind… into the open bottle. The songs of folk-lore. *** Around her bon-fire, embers sear the sleeve, of her Hoodie; The sparks are as red as the bl......
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Jennifer Cahill
Categories:
folk lore,
allusion, anger, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Johnny Cash: Indestructible
...Indestructible, for Johnny Cash by Michael R. Burch What is a mountain, but stone? Or a spire, but a trinket of steel? Johnny Cash is gone, black from his hair to his bootheels. Can a man......
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Michael Burch
Categories:
folk lore,
america, guitar, heaven, mountains,
Form:
Verse
Silver Lining Sought Amidst Coronavirus Covid 19 Onslaught
...Silver lining sought amidst coronavirus COVID-19 onslaught Two hundred and forty six plus months into twenty first century celeb and anonymous folks alike gripped courtesy pestilence re: deb b......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
folk lore,
12th grade, april, blessing,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Legandary - For: Your Favourite Legend Contest
...A chronological anthology Of legends, folk lore and mythology There’s no one called Eric Or Ethel or Derek For which I shall make no apology Samson just got himself sheared Delilah had cut of......
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Terry Flood
Categories:
folk lore,
hero, myth, mythology,
Form:
Limerick
Redneck and Hillbilly War
...Rednecks and hillbillies having a war. They fought and they spit and both were so sore. It got bloody. There was much ugly gore. We scratched and we bit just like the folk lore. Cousin found go......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
folk lore,
fun,
Form:
Monorhyme
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