Royals
...The British royal family is front and center this weekend. How unusual is that?
The empire may be gone, but it’s time to recall its ghost, dust it off and invoke the ancient spell of monarchy.
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Categories:
getups, england, family, history, humor,
Form: Free verse
Do You Feel It Too
...Do you feel it too
You know, the graying of Halloween
For several decades it was all the rage
for Sonny-and-Cher-like adults, whatever their age
Red-light district numbers sold li...
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Categories:
getups, change, feelings, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Halloween Night
...Halloween means goblins and nightmare dreams
mixed with candies, chuckles, and distant screams.
And costumed kids; chanting 'trick-or-treat,'
working through the neighborhood, street by st...
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Categories:
getups, 8th grade, anxiety, candy,
Form: Rhyme
A Wintery Poem
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Outside, delicate flakes are drifting and dancing,
Last night there had been such a blustery blizzard;
But this winter morning my world was beautiful,
As I sipped hot chocol...
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Categories:
getups, christmas, winter,
Form: Verse
The Performer
...megalomaniac
wakes up one early morn
with a brand new personal plausible
excuse &
this will be the answer of all
answers for
her/him, so that s/he may
beat upon the drum
a new web of madness &
stir...
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Categories:
getups, life,
Form: Free verse
Coaches and Catholic Clergy
...as the kids begin to come out
again
to declare the violation of their innocence to the world
so that finally these pompous pedophiliac pederasts
can be dragged out of their lairs in order to face t...
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Categories:
getups, life, world,
Form: Free verse
Park Street, Kolkata
...Syrupy with recipe ran along brasseries
Peiping, Mags and Oasis pricey rotisseries
Sizzling sizzlers the Peter Cat’s clamor
Addled couples fending their pockets out of scarce.
Boogie with de...
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Categories:
getups, people, places, school, urban,
Form: Blank verse