Lure of Glistening Dew
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Written: January 26, 2025
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In the pale autumn sun,
a radiant shimmer thrives,
A solitary strand,
a seascape draped in mist...
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Categories:
galumphing, analogy, autumn, feelings,
Form: Free verse
After drenching biblical rainfall
...After drenching biblical rainfall...
verdant green acres covered the planet of the apes
like a petticoat junction
donning barrel of skinny dipping monkeys.
Once drought stricken vast landscape
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Categories:
galumphing, adventure, africa, august, earth,
Form: Free verse
Limitless and Sequencing
...Infinite bottomless
Infinite limitless
Limitless stamina
Limitless energy
Energy overload
Energy burdening
Burdening burgeoning
Burdening flourishing
Flourishing enterprise
Flourishing compa...
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Categories:
galumphing, nonsense, repetition,
Form: Blitz
Clothes Make the Man
...Timendi causa est nescire (Ignorance is the cause of fear).
– Seneca
About two thousand years ago,
when Quintilianus said it
(at least, that’s who gets the credit),
his paradigm was apropos:...
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Categories:
galumphing, history, truth,
Form: Rhyme
The Tale of the Awesome Winsome Knight
...THE TALE OF THE AWSOME WINSOME KNIGHT
© 2021 John T Haupt
Armed with luminosity,
And with epiphanous numinosity,
With snicker-snacks,
And a few quick hacks
The ...
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Categories:
galumphing, allusion, art, conflict, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Body Whispering
...Do you gurgle, grunt, and gripe,
grind the soft bones of thought dry?
You need some orchestration,
some instrumental tuning.
Play with those ad hoc glottalized vibes,
harmonize.
The body, t...
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Categories:
galumphing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Lewis
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He said that it was brillig, but what did that word mean
And slithy is a word that I had never seen
If you gyre and gimble, what do you really do
I guess when in the wabe, you seek th...
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Categories:
galumphing, poetry, tribute, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Nudnick
...Nudnick
By Sy Roth
Self, I say
Self,
Wake up.
Your ganglions
Are asleep again.
Wakey, wakey…
Those around you, nudnick,
Are whirling dervishes
Those who come and go
In the Speakeasys...
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Categories:
galumphing, courage,
Form: Free verse
The Boys In the Back
...The Boys in The Back
By Sy Roth
The right hand turned the waters 360 degrees
Then another willful rotation
Until the bubbling chicken-fatty waters splashed over the sides
While the boys in the...
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Categories:
galumphing, africa, dark, death, dream,
Form: Free verse
Schvitzing For More N Sixty Hours Without Electricity
...Schvitzing for more'n sixty hours without electricity
(visit https://www.aol.com/?ncid=
crosssellusaolc00000003 - for further details)
Courtesy rare derecho
killed four people
nearly forty eig...
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Categories:
galumphing, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Knees of Enemies of Progress
...Teeming and brimming with green bile
Enemies of progress plot from an evil thought
The downfall from a high wall isle
Against a progress protagonist caught
Up in an intrigue driven in seas of d...
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Categories:
galumphing, poems,
Form: Free verse
Hurry Not, Worry Not
...Hurry not, tarry not, worry not
For life yours to live, yours to squander
If you slot the wrong plot
Swimming with a groggy gander
To plunder the best resources life offers
In the best years ...
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Categories:
galumphing, poems,
Form: Free verse
Gangly Ghosts
...Gangly ghosts galumphing in our lives
Gamble
With outstretched knives and chives
Fumble and mumble
Encouraging us crates of lager to quaff and drink
Tomes of *********** for our eyes to dabbl...
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Categories:
galumphing, poems,
Form: Free verse
Two Besotted Beggars In Our Lives
...Prejudice and malice
Both besotted beggars
Gamboling, galumphing, griping and gripping a solstice
In limpid lives whose tigers and daggers
Stagger, simulate and strut along
Craven
Oblong, wro...
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Categories:
galumphing, poems,
Form: Free verse
Pain Pricks the Heart of the Beholder
...Don’t denounce me when I weep
Soaking blows right, left and centre
From angled arrows that keep
Galumphing near my fort vying to enter
The crib the moon loathes
Which the venom sunshine can’t ...
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Categories:
galumphing, addiction,
Form: Free verse
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