A Carrot Fancily Dressed As a Parrot
...Come in disguise, the invite read
Feast our eyes, allow us to guess
Dress in truthful lies, was what it said
Like a queen in chess, whose off with their head!
Prizes awarded for the best dressed
Whoe...
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Categories:
garrot, fantasy, social,
Form: Rhyme
Bedevil? Not Quite...
...I scoot as I scatter
and toss all around,
I break and I batter
so miscues abound,
I dim and I damper
demeanors so sweet,
I hurt and I hamper
those fast on their feet,
I frisk and I frazzle
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Categories:
garrot, allegory, fantasy, parody
Form: Rhyme
Shirley Sherrod Blues
...Shall I be silent while around me roars
Agony older than the night's darkness
Where wrath against innocency pours
Hunted only for God's milk of blackness
Listen to the baying fox, untethered ha...
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Categories:
garrot, black african american, politicalme,
Form: Verse
~night-Mares Ride~
...There the moon suckled on a dram of mist,
bringing illustrious pomp to cardboard mountains,
who cut like a sickle, horizons sincerity,
and I could taste trouble, spoon fed
from darkness that spri...
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Categories:
garrot, imaginationmoon,
Form: Free verse