another missing wife
...Ginny's husband's verbosity and arrogance were tiring
The press was weary of his fabricated story
No one believed this guy
Ginny had not accidentally disappeared
He went from celebrity to a villa...
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Categories:
ginny, murder,
Form: Free verse
Goblin Ghoul and Ghost
...generous Gus, Greystone’s glaringly green goblin glided into the glades.
giving Ginny Graceful, a gruesome ghoul a glimpse of glorious shades.
gary, Gryffindor’s ghost glared at them; for where was...
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Categories:
ginny, word play,
Form: Alliteration
Poems About Poets X
...Poems for Poets X
Poems about Poets X
Sinking
by Michael R. Burch
for Virginia Woolf
Weigh me down with stones ...
fill all the pockets of my gown ...
I’m going down,
...
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Categories:
ginny, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Virginia
...Virginia is a bread-and-butter woman.
She reckons by the Farmers’ Almanac.
She welcomes you with southern inhibitions,
Then gossips to her friends behind your back.
Virginia goes to church each...
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Categories:
ginny, allegory,
Form: Lyric
Regret
...We were cousins and had grown up
Close friends, living not far apart.
When I was nine and he was eight,
(His sister and my brothers were younger)
We were going to get married
Some day and have t...
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Categories:
ginny, age, bereavement, family, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Missing For Six Days
...I am careful to not look under the mulberry bush at apartment five.
For that is where my meanest of mean great aunt Ginny Madeline lies.
She was bossy, a real shrew, who was always telling me what ...
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Categories:
ginny, funny, humorous, light,
Form: Rhyme
Ginny
...There once was a young man from Leeds
Who proudly went spreading his seeds
But he spread one too many
To a coal miner's Ginny
And now he lies buried in weeds
4/8/18...
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Categories:
ginny, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Goose Eggs
...Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. Now, however, he...
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Categories:
ginny, abortion,
Form: Prose
Virginia
...I also loved Ginny, Edgar.
Though mine is an imagined love
It’s nonetheless deeper than yours.
When I recite “Annabel Lee”
Every salty-breeze line I taste
As you did when you composed th...
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Categories:
ginny, death,
Form: Verse
Ginny Greenteeth
...GINNY GREENTEETH
Water plays on the edge.
Sand gravel and stone
Splash and play dear ones
Disturb my home.
Skip your pebbles .
Wet your toes.
Let my icy reach.
Creep along ripples.
Come p...
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Categories:
ginny, adventure, allegory, art, dark,
Form: Free verse
The Riders
...Four young fellas rode by around midday.
Sun was strong as whiskey scratching the back of a three day dried throat.
The three girls were out front and Ma came out pointing her loaded shotgun.
R...
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Categories:
ginny, daughter, desire, nature, sensual,
Form: Prose
Parked Behind the Waffle House, Doing Whippets
...i killed myself
and got an eviction notice
he stuck it to
my coffin with a wad of
tangerine gum
my mind has become melted parsley,
my ears frozen cheese.
like old aunt ginny u...
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Categories:
ginny, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Flower Girls
...A is for Annie Apple Blossom she buds in the Spring.
B is Betty Baby Breath she's such a dainty thing.
C is for Miss Candy Tuft pink-cheeked with hair of gold.
D is Debbie Dandelion who never d...
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Categories:
ginny, daughter, easter, little sister,
Form: Couplet
Ph Im Bd
...President Bob walks round the brane - with his Joy'see'n Mar'bells and his Clue-in cane.
Ionic thunder, allow and relax. Blueprint cells drop'n barley meatsax.
Brick and mortar - cumin and ply. Flip...
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Categories:
ginny, metaphor, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Distressed
...His spouse leads an idyllic life, nothing ruffles her much.
She attends her clubs, cooks, sews, tends the kids and such.
But today he received a call at work that shook his orderly life!
'Twas a f...
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Categories:
ginny, funny, me, me, today,
Form: Rhyme
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