WE ARE ONE
...WE ARE ONE
We march towards beckoning stars
tears, sweat, scars across bars
heralding heroes gone not forgotten
paving ways with courageous bones
we are One Love sown
Fortune, ...
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Categories:
gaffs, change, character, creation, earth,
Form: Couplet
Kamalatte
...
[ with a hint of the bridge from A Man Has Dreams
sung by the character George Banks in Mary Poppins ]
A bank is a community where people banked
They did s...
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Categories:
gaffs, nonsense, silly,
Form: Monorhyme
Fig Leaf
...Fig Leaf
“While the fig leaf traditionally covers naked shame
The fig leaf also makes a healing tea of restoration” Quote by poet.
Ducking beneath a quilt woven of the fig leaf
To sip upon a...
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Categories:
gaffs, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Two Lovers Iii - First Valentine's Day
...She took some care making her choice
A Valentine's Day card
It is a silly little thing
"It shouldn't be this hard"
But she still feels indecision
Selecting the right one
To set the proper ton...
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Categories:
gaffs, happy, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Summit
...intimidating serrated crest
emulates Ansel's view
challenges down-clad one
to climb her stretch-marked belly
a gaze upward
at silver glazed wall
the glacial rock face
mirrors reflection
f...
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Categories:
gaffs, adventure, metaphor, nature, winter,
Form: Free verse
Here's What Super Tuesday Told Me
...Here's What Super Tuesday Told Me
By Franklin Price
03/04/2020
Here's what “Super Tuesday” told me,
As I think of yesterday.
Biden made a come-back.
That's the first I have to say.
That Be...
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Categories:
gaffs, political,
Form: Rhyme
Dancefloors of Derbyshire
...This was the year that I Iost all my flab,
Met so many people
Ì'm really quite glad
That i put on my shoes
And took to the floor,
Watch out 2020,
I'll be back for more!
This time last year y...
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Categories:
gaffs, appreciation, body, dance, emotions,
Form: I do not know?
The Whirligig of Autumn
...Orange and reds - the vibrant shmooze of Fall.
The social froth of maple shapes, and oak.
The chatty leaves infringe upon us all,
As piney-green hangs back for Winter folk.
A cocktai...
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Categories:
gaffs, autumn, children, halloween, wind,
Form: Sonnet
My Small Bit of Forest
...The colorant of dawn, the cardinal sees,
intoning its hues with, “pretty...pretty...pretty.”
As I covet red feathers, in the teaberry tree,
the sunlit chickadee harmonizes, “hey sweetie.”
The...
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Categories:
gaffs, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Were You To Be Gone
...Were You To Be Gone
Could I carry on
Were you to be gone
I guess I can
But do understand
The skies would be blue
But have no more color
Not driving with you
Would lose all of its wonder
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Categories:
gaffs, blue, feelings, lonely,
Form: Verse
Ginger Mustard and Spices
...You said - Have just put two on here. I have a backlog. Will be back on here later. Hope you are ok. X Any language including alien and northwestern star?
2
ginger mustard and spices
A mild ...
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Categories:
gaffs, allah, appreciation, , western,
Form: I do not know?
The Laughter of God
...Can you imagine God that laughs?
Well I feel sure I can!
When “Christians” flock to Church in droves
Though sinful to a man.
A God who tolerates the gaffs
That we plunge in his side,
Though we ...
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Categories:
gaffs, god, life,
Form: Rhyme
Yellow-Fins
...One by one
yellow-fins are gathering.
Their salty hearts gently filling
with the indigo currents
of struggle -of living.
Tide treading the present...
back-stroking(grimacing) the past.
Front...
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Categories:
gaffs, allegory, business, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Trudy
...You puckered up your lips
You went and cut your Beatle fringe
You squeezed in your bikini
And you trimmed your ginger minge
Your shadow on the beach eclipsed
The bathers on the sa-a-a-a-nd
Oh Tru-u-u...
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Categories:
gaffs, abuse, beach, love hurts,
Form: Lyric
All About Mandy
...May I introduce myself, but I’m not sure how,
My given name was different to what it is now.
Amanda Michelle, they named me back then,
But nobody told me until I was ten.
I’m now known...
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Categories:
gaffs, people, me, writing, education,
Form: Rhyme
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