TRIADE 3 The Owl
...A cheetah avoided the trap that night
And the wild cat escaped the shot.
Someone was there for them to learn
And each of them were taught.
The Bear had chosen to spare the cubs
For the eas...
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Categories:
franchise, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Jasprit Boom Boom Hurrah
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Camera zoom...Boom - Boom shakes the room
All eyes on the prize
Rise & lies of franchise
Moolah the crueler ruler
Sparking doom and gloom
Marking Test cricket’s demise
If ther...
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Categories:
franchise, sports,
Form: Rhyme
The Day I Lost A Quarter
...I first fell in love with baseball back when I was 8 yrs old when I went to a Yankee game and was very fortunate to have gotten to see the great Mickey Mantle play. It was a school class trip, and th...
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Categories:
franchise, baseball,
Form: Haibun
This whole world Part 2
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This whole world is upside down
With everything that God doesn’t like
This whole world has become the Opposite
The opposite of Reality
It’s a Like Rabbit Hole just in Lewis Caroll’s Alice in...
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Categories:
franchise, extended metaphor, literature,
Form: Free verse
Back Seat Blues
...He bought himself a tandem
In the hope that he would meet
A suitable young lady who’d
Ride on his back seat.
He took it to the Dance Hall
But didn’t stand a chance
Cycling not seeming to fit i...
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Categories:
franchise, business, humor, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation
...Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...
Maternal grandfather of mine
long since passed among the living;
He left his Motherland
before onset of Holodomor,
a policy of the Soviet Union...
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Categories:
franchise, abuse, age, anger, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Spiralised westerns are not the same
...Roll the credits on what's-his-name,
walks like Eastwood, talks just like Wayne,
saddled up on his trusted steed,
pistol packing, sure he'll succeed,
stealing the sunset, final frame.
Red carp...
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Categories:
franchise, film, western,
Form: Rondeau
zombie
...I have the skills
That normal zombies don't
No one's ever seen anything
Like it in the mist
It's not gonna help
Your agonishing escape
This moment so close
To being saved
That ending tak...
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Categories:
franchise, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Far Beyond Hereafter Part Two
...Brains in this group were graded according to a binary system.
1 winner 0 as in loser.
A hypnotic mantra often -
“Winner, loser, hopeless chooser.”
There were even signs such as a straight fi...
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Categories:
franchise, art, city, color, dream,
Form: Prose
Rock and Roll
...In front of the China Palace restaurant
there was a stone frog,
it was not hatched in a cloud of spawn
like the rest of us,
it was decorative,
placed as it was,
upon a rock
above an ornamental...
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Categories:
franchise, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Control Tower
...Everything has a specific time to make the universe divine; everything has a specific time to make the universe strong, everything has a specific time for business to birth and spread its wings over ...
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Categories:
franchise, beautiful, business, courage, education,
Form: Narrative
Echoes In Silence
...Before I come home my dear, dear lover I know we are getting older I will always be with you. I understand you are fearful by the dominating thoughts of death and the unknown. Have credence my sweet ...
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Categories:
franchise, angel, death, faith,
Form: Free verse
Keen Rigging of Election
...Are we not our graves digging,
With the keenest interest in rigging,
The first to be buried our image;
“To Electoral Franchise: Savage?
Are we not behind greatly lagging,
When the Neutral Pre...
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Categories:
franchise, fear, people, political, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Mister Jack Horner
...Mister Jack Horner’s
Shop on the corner –
His specials were cakes and pies.
While inspector was looking,
He thumbed in the cooking –
Now his shop is a Starbuck’s franchise.
Written on May 14...
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Categories:
franchise, food, funny, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Gathering Storm
...The political storm is gathering
Election fever is at its highest pitch
As Nigerians head to the polls
To exercise their franchise
In the mother of all elections
The most crucial ever
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Categories:
franchise, allusion, encouraging, evil, grief,
Form: Free verse
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