Bad Taste
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awful
offal
cricket
brisket
forage
porridge
gobbler
cobbler
boozy
smoothie
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Categories:
forage, bird, drink, food, fun,
Form: Footle
Why Your Cities Burn, Part I
...I’ve seen many look to the sky
and to the gods earnestly plead,
what sins have the committed that
require so many to bleed?
Why does Lord Diyal ride the lands,
do things that make your stomach c...
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Categories:
forage, anger, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Epic
Metaphorical Forage
...Letting all the liquid courage
Fuel my will through searching of forage....
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Categories:
forage, addiction, drink, society, work,
Form: Crystalline
Money
...A long verse on an even longer subject
The eye of most everything is money
Their power over us is unsurpassed
Hey, got the dough? May call me “honey”
To get away, to buy me things, to have a bl...
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Categories:
forage, money,
Form: Rhyme
Felix Culpa
...Some time ago, when we were free to do;
ten I was, or twelve?
I walked along a misty lane to school
the etched patterns of ferns and trees
on my window when I awoke
now echoed ...
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Categories:
forage, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
More habit forming than any drug or liquor
...More habit forming than any drug or liquor
I considered myself sophisticated and wise,
but the addictive power of texting
and subsequently sexting
took me by surprise,
and impossible mission t...
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Categories:
forage, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Laughing With Tears in Our Eyes
...It’s a funny thing, life
Like the tightrope we balance on, the maze we forage,
Poised and sharp like an edge of a knife
We scramble to keep up with life.
A puzzle we solve with struggle and s...
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Categories:
forage, allusion, beauty, community, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Dramatic Moon
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Flow of the lustrous milky rays
Aglow as the coat of white glaze
Birds misled and set off their trills
Herds ready to go to foothills
Confused owls go in awful mood
Amused jars wish to forage ...
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Categories:
forage, moon,
Form: Rhyme
body box - what i am now v2
...if you saw me
the way i see myself
maybe you'd get it.
"count your calories,
read the nutrition panels,
diet,
exercise,"
i know.
believe me,
i know.
"it's for your health,"
turns i...
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Categories:
forage, anti bullying, body, dark,
Form: Free verse
The Prodical Sheep
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There was a shepherd who fell sound asleep
So there was no one to tend to his sheep
The sheep were delighted, freedom at last
Followed the leader and ran from the past.
Walking for m...
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Categories:
forage, animal, care, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Strayed Sheep - William Holman Hunt
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Straying away from the straight path
in search of sumptuous grass,
Me and my friends meander to the mountain top
on a crisp clear sunny day,
The cottony white clouds mirror our soft tufts...
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Categories:
forage, animal, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
I am a butterfly
...Have you had the experience of meeting someone who reminds you of what you truly deserve...? And that you don't have to settle for less than love, kindness and happiness? It might not be a pleasant e...
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Categories:
forage, butterfly, inspirational, life, light,
Form: Rhyme
Tint Of Orange
...Ecstatic eye of night
thoughts tangled tangent
tint of orange moon
slivers were just hazy
incipient learned launch
as the querulous quirk
indented ingress idly
still desperate to capture
thou...
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Categories:
forage, beautiful, beauty, celebration, color,
Form: Imagism
Conception
...The day is conceived,
tossed bedsheets birth landscapes.
Apelike, a grin gawps.
In the backroom of a slow thought
I dress for breakfast -
recall the tropics,
sticky rice, coconut milk and
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Categories:
forage, poetry,
Form: Free verse
butterfly messengers
...from above a hum, a gentle pop and they appear out of thin air
large as Right whales out of the sky they pour in like colorful dreams
gliding down on papered metal wings, the airborne clan desce...
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Categories:
forage, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
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