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...A skeletal smirk at the school door - the greeter-teacher; 50 years later, I feel his gimlet eyes at my back, that leer is now plugged with dirt, yet it can still be traced in the brown water sta......

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Categories: gimlet, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Christmas Walk
... Breath of fresh air on Christmas Day To walk cliffs briskly and view the sea Boat's in the harbour, anchors away Silent good wishes to sailors from me. Ragged cormorant on favourit......

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Categories: gimlet, boat, celebration, christmas, sea,
Form: Rhyme



I relished being hungry for leftover Thanksgiving pop slop gloppy grub
...I relished being hungry for leftover Thanksgiving pop slop gloppy grub (a poetic partial fiction blended, diced, fricaseed, marinated, mixed, pureed, sautéed, stewed... with fact) Hmm... ......

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Categories: gimlet, america, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 5th Avenue Sunrise
...jampacked city streets that jangled and banged in the raucous jarring day shifted from business to boogaloo squeezing into moonlight party lights gin and lime-kissed gimlet sequined dress st......

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Categories: gimlet, city, culture, day, new
Form: Free verse
I Still Feel Under the Weather Today April 2nd, 2023
...I still feel under the weather today April 2nd, 2023 Unseen enemy invades my body with platoon of green berets air rating, and enfilading immune system viz Hib bully knock and sock kin me c......

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Categories: gimlet, adventure, anger, anxiety, april,
Form: Rhyme



Snapdragon Dance
...Papery feathers strain to take wing. Frills ruffle, mythic masks gnash at the air beautifully belligerent. Plucked, they dally daily between the surfaces of legend, and the finery of a silk-st......

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Categories: gimlet, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I Loathe Feeling Under the Weather
...I loathe feeling under the weather..., especially when nasty elephant (named Thomas the pachyderm) stomping to break loose courtesy tether, where antibodies of mine struggle to band together......

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Categories: gimlet, 12th grade, adventure, animal,
Form: Rhyme
I Relished Being Hungry For Thanksgiving Pop Slop Gloppy Grub
...I relished being hungry for Thanksgiving pop slop gloppy grub whereby the missus didst potchke created whirling dervish hubbub after enjoying repast, (fit for a tarnished king), yours truly a......

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Categories: gimlet, abuse, adventure, appreciation, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bereft and Bereaved
...In loving memory the saga goes, or so they say when feint reminder culls a piercing interlude. Remnant of an unfinished sentence, broken shadow haunt awash with grief, snapshot at the edge of a w......

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Categories: gimlet, art, august, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
I Relished Being Hungry For Leftover Thanksgiving Pop Slop Gloppy Grub Second Helping
...Thus, methinks himself wise to don cooking apron please do not ask why trumpeting self as master chef boyardee so move over wife and allow husband to try his hand (using skill - let) me prepare ......

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Categories: gimlet, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Girl With the Gimlet Eyes
...Her golden hair and gimlet eyes Caught me completely by surprise. With her I felt virile and strong As she slowly led me along. ......

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Categories: gimlet, fear, mystery, travel, woman,
Form: Rhyme
I Relish Being Hungry For Popslop Grub
...I relish being hungry for popslop grub... (on second thought lemme join anorexic club until rib cage protruding taut and visible doubling as drum to drub synchronized with heart that goes lub d......

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Categories: gimlet, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Turn Off the Room
...I met a man on the road today otherworldly, gamin, fey. A gimlet look in his jaundiced eye, he held my gaze and I questioned why he wandered here, a mendicant man of pleasant demeanour, when,......

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Categories: gimlet, drink, fantasy, fun,
Form: Free verse
The Tale of Timothy Catchpole Part 1
...Timothy Catchpole lived in a field on the edge of a deep, dark wood. One of a long line of Catchpoles he was, who tried to do nothing but good. Home was a nest on an ear of corn, in a fresh gr......

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Categories: gimlet, adventure, animal, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
My Beloved Teachers
...The greeter-teacher, the smirkier at the door. I feel his gimlet eyes at my back and though it is 5o years later and his mouth is now plugged with dirt his leer can be traced in the brown water......

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Categories: gimlet, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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