Here for the Moment
...Janice Avery loved deep green nature; like cherry sunset owls, gawping.
She dwelt with her parents and Sissy, when old, golden days were walking.
They lived out in the hilly country, wher...
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Categories:
gawping, bird, color, fantasy, memory,
Form: Couplet
When is a dream not reality?
...A setted carving,
Written by privation
Words that leak through unfilled ink
Gawping empty between ridges.
Then those canyon cliffs retreat again
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Categories:
gawping, confusion, dream, memory,
Form: Free verse
Hermit
...Hermit thrush
hops, hovers, flips, flicks
gawping shy
modest nest
cup of moss, weeds, twigs, rootlets
sings so Oh! holy...
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Categories:
gawping, bird,
Form: Shadorma
Terror Bugs: Part 2 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
...[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 1 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
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Three man sized ‘mice’ and Stanley Dann stood gawping at the screens
Churchill muttered, “I don’t wa...
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Categories:
gawping, adventure,
Form: Narrative
Who's Laughing Now
...She wore her skirt short,
her lingerie to be seen.
Such sights aplenty!
Gawking, gawping eyes
lusted at shear nudity.
They burned with hunger.
She proudly stood in
ruffled edges of cheap c...
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Categories:
gawping, funny, giggle, humorous, money,
Form: Choka
Infinity
...Gazing the stars in the heaven
Contemplating on the mysteries of the hidden.
Counting the petals of flowers in the meadow
Astonishingly its Fibonacci sequence though.
Diving deep into the cell nu...
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Categories:
gawping, deep,
Form: Rhyme
A Disjointed Street Poem
...The street is full of cell-phone zombies;
I’m grateful that my parents didn’t murder me,
and for other small blessing;
content to be this moving figure
In a badly sketched landscape.
Liquor st...
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Categories:
gawping, poetry,
Form: Free verse
When She Stole My Thong It Went Very Wrong - Bawdy
...My auntie wears 'Bridget Jones' knickers
But last week at tea at the vicars
She’d purloined MY lace thong
It was morally wrong
T’was the cause of very loud snickers
My thong’s wedg...
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Categories:
gawping, clothes, humorous,
Form: Limerick
The Rain
...All night unto dawn
a gentle sadness
a comforting...
there is a dreaming rain falling
it is younger than morning mist
it is the first and last teardrop
as the world recalls its ancien...
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Categories:
gawping, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Nature's Beauty Pageant
...Nature held a Beauty Pageant
Guess who was crowned a crest?
A flowery green meadow was the stage and rostrum
Watch who won the contest.
Well, the peacock from India was crowned beauty King
Th...
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Categories:
gawping, animal, appreciation, beauty, creation,
Form: Tazkira
Gold
...In times of trouble it outshines its glow
The supposed intrinsic value of its allure
Is a safe house in times of economic un-certainty
When money is being made but not through
Traditional means
T...
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Categories:
gawping, political,
Form: Free verse
Falling In Love
...What a phlox in you I find,
What a Rose Flower, oh babe:
Bright like early morning sun of xmas.
Succulent “things” like the rightly ripe pawpaw at my backyard.
Oh Babe what a beauty you...
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Categories:
gawping, girlfriend-boyfriend, sweet, beauty, fire,
Form: Romanticism
Clipper Ships
...Clipper Ships
My mother; she wasn’t there any more
Burned away in chemo radiology
Therapy for the incurable
As she lingered for a year
Lobotomized by cancer
But in her dreams she sailed her...
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Categories:
gawping, mothersea, sea,
Form: Free verse
A Prophets End To Invasion
...A Prophets End to Invasion
They were besotted
And long they stood with their clans men
their adamant frenzy breaking the strain in their eyes
gawping at the infamous injustice done
the dangl...
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Categories:
gawping, life, people, social, war
Form: Free verse