Gelatinous Poems

Premium MemberBad day for a duck

...my dog Buddy attacked my neighbors poodle
Dad said I never use my noodle.
Big vet pills now I have to pay
Just hoping both dogs survive OK.

I sat on a bench in Congress Park
Then 2 ducks came ...
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Categories: gelatinous, hilarious, humor, humorous, nature,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberTomato Soup

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I never liked tomato soup -
that thick slurry of red
in a white bowl - childhood
winters, Friday nights
with a menacing dark  
pressing against the window
as if trying to get in.

Tomato ...
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Categories: gelatinous, celebration, childhood, fear, food,
Form: Free verse


Everyone nose especially Al R Gee I haint no otolaryngologist

...Everyone nose, especially Al R. Gee, I haint no otolaryngologist

Nonetheless this bard **** 
videre licet punster mocker feels gratitude
courtesy Kaitlyn Gilsenan, PA-C
a moost deal height full...
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Categories: gelatinous, adventure, angel, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Rhyme

We All Float

...In the tenebrous, xenial realm of the lake, where human cadavers oscillate, suspended by verdigris chains, a lamia of unholy provenance, orchestrates a gambits cavalcade.

Each mortal she ensnares,...
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Categories: gelatinous, dark,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy Miniature Odyssey

...Some days I just wanted to tread muted waves
not knowing whether
what grazed my leg was a porgy,
or a Leviathan reaching out to me from the gradient depths.

The paranoia kept me afloat,
the fe...
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Categories: gelatinous, beach, change, courage, depression,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberUnder a Bridge on a Hot Summer's Day

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There are few places now
where life can find respite
on hot summer days.
Shady spaces are contested
real estate beneath trees
and in the shallow waters under
a bridge where countless
plump, ...
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Categories: gelatinous, change, political, pollution, summer,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhen You Return

...Sojourner to far-flung climes;
When you return,
Will you remember the evening songs
Chorused by chirping under the baobab tree?
Will you still remember the fame of the great hunter
Whose courage...
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Categories: gelatinous, africa, beauty, culture, eulogy,
Form: Free verse

Karst Material

...With light might they sparkle

Karst Experiments which labors and
Chores
Might there mindfulness to produce
For who adores
Folk of value to stem and stern
Together in the name of science which...
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Categories: gelatinous, art, blessing, business, music,
Form: Blank verse

Kevo

...depression in the other pillow is deep
	your head
	is a hot air balloon
i wish you’d be there when my hamster dies
	my heart
	is locked up, whirring
photo paper scrunched by anguish
	your eye
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Categories: gelatinous, dream, longing, lost love,
Form: Free verse

Everyone Nose I Haint No Otolaryngologist

...Everyone nose, I haint no otolaryngologist

Nonetheless this bard **** feels gratitude
courtesy Laurence V. Cramer, D.O.
without cerumen eye zing
May 17th, 2022 'ere
and thank dog guardian ange...
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Categories: gelatinous, appreciation, blessing, caregiving, dedication,
Form: Rhyme

Beings

...the outline of the silhouette suggests a torso 
but a torso is not a man
the concentric circle emerges from the surface of the lake 
and the insect revolves in the center
if the air had consis...
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Categories: gelatinous, how i feel, symbolism,
Form: Free verse

One Mind

...We are of One Mind -
a tentacled,
ethereal monstrous mind,
not inherently vicious
but nevertheless
                prone to random acts of terror.

One Mind swims,
slips through your time and...
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Categories: gelatinous, poetry,
Form: Free verse

3 Poems

...Sy Roth - 3 Poems
12/17/20130 Comments
 
Picture
Silence

I’ve dreamt often that she crept deep
Into my cellular structure, 
Some time in the nightfall of my being
And planted deeply into my...
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Categories: gelatinous, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Cribbar

...Cribbar



I stand on the precipice,

I drink her eagerly from atop the raw stone.

Her jaws split open in bursts of pure, vicious foam around the feet of civilisation;

I stand caught betw...
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Categories: gelatinous, conflict, earth, growth, nature,
Form: Free verse

Zombie Slide Dance At Shoprite

...Zombie
Slide 
Dance
At Shoprite
By Sy Roth

Glassy-eyed
Rubber eeking
Disobedient cart
A red-river
Slide to the condiment
Aisle.
Eyesdivergent
To the tattood
Ladies’ 
Birds-flying-
On...
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Categories: gelatinous, confusion,
Form: Free verse

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