Allocation, Ally
...Allocation, O ally?
Resources put where?
In the heads of those who fly?
Worry, hast thou care?
O ye spirits, I collect!
End Times, be my Muse!
Golden gods to genuflect?
Dare to disabuse!
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Categories:
genuflect, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Wearable Tech
...I think that if I could have wearable tech
it might be a vest that inflates in a wreck.
Perhaps a decoder of lyrics by Beck,
or one that converts between gallons and pecks?
Or lets me run wild in...
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Categories:
genuflect, silly, technology,
Form: Monorhyme
Sizzle
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My hair ripping as her fingernails entwine
pulling my head back
She slaps me harder than she should
Her smile slightly offset
My cheek reddening from the welt of her hand
Shifting herself fo...
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Categories:
genuflect, poems,
Form: Free verse
Allowance, Allosaur?
...Thunder, sound above. Found.
Do we need intellect?
O inner heart, resound!
Grill, gain, and genuflect!
Words of the prophet writ.
The serpent deeply bit......
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Categories:
genuflect, memorial, wife,
Form: Alexandrine
Forget regret, riffs on what ifs
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Forget riffs of regrets
But
To the hilt
We tilt to
Inbuilt lilt
A guilt quilt
Can jilt & wilt
But
No tiffs with what ifs
Won’t let you fret
Circumspect.. I find
Older you get
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Categories:
genuflect, hope,
Form: Free verse
Millie the Mermaid was a Reading Machine
...Millie, the mermaid was a reading machine.
It started with a shipwreck, among the marine.
A library for a king had gone down in the wreck.
I can teach myself to read, she said without genuflect.
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Categories:
genuflect, books,
Form: Rhyme
Heaven Turned to Hell, Then Hell Turned to a Heaven
...What's man that heaven turned to hell
in Eden's garden? It's a tale,
as old as time before the flood,
before Cain spilled Abel's blood.
Subtler than murder, the neighbor
grows rich against th...
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Categories:
genuflect, america, bible, fate, god,
Form: Couplet
PANGIE’s MEETING WITH GEORGE CHAKIRIS Of WEST SIDE STORY
... 4/3/2025
No, it was not a dream at all….
I was with George Chakiris by my personal request.
No,I was not in with crazed teeny boppers in a hall.
It was just George and I, from whom...
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Categories:
genuflect, chicago, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Persnickety Perfectionist Parents
...She did a whizbang job on her science project
Her teacher was impressed and did a genuflect
Parents pretended she had done it all her way
These perfectionists had done it after sending her out to ...
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Categories:
genuflect, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part ii
...Highlight of Goofus and Gallant
bred within the survival instinct
of hungry hordes of prey,
when Earth in the balance
against an uncomfortable truth
smug smurf like scavengers.
Pun...
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Categories:
genuflect, absence, adventure, africa, america,
Form: Free verse
Adoration Called For
...For it speaks true, to sensitize
through taste and touch, nose, ears and eyes
By nature, some will genuflect,
a flower's fragrance to respect,
detect unseen need to admire
gifts freely given b...
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Categories:
genuflect, appreciation, creation, hope, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Hit by a Stegosaurus Tail
...the den is as dark as the inside of a witch’s hat, macabre as can be
someone with a green face and pointed nose sits across from me
her nose gives a twitch, there is too much make up around her eye...
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Categories:
genuflect, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Requiem for a Motherless Child
...REQUIEM FOR A MOTHERLESS CHILD
Hallelujah….. Hallelujah…..Hallelujah
Leaning on the somewhat-padded kneelers
is a family lined horizontal to the father.
This is as close as they’ve b...
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Categories:
genuflect, child abuse, childhood, family,
Form: Free verse
The Old Church Revisited
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The space is smaller
than what was measured by memory,
the stained glass windows much less
vibrant compared to what glowed
brightly in the light of back then.
The pews have been worn down
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Categories:
genuflect, memory, nostalgia, religion, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
kitty has no idea
...Snail travels to Japan in the fanciest way
We see him traveling, he’s cutesy today
He is wearing a camera around his neck.
He stops to give the emperor a genuflect.
His hat is from Australia, h...
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Categories:
genuflect, cat,
Form: Rhyme
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