Cocoon
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"Cocoon"
They say...
a New World
traces over the old,
leaving the unaware,
erased, far behind
the old unaware,
left far behind,
crawls the walls
in its web of ...
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Categories:
gooding, muse,
Form: Narrative
There was a Great Silence
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"There was a Great Silence"
There was a great silence in that place, a kind of peace,
you sensed them, the unseen removed, all around you,
yet, all the cacophony in t...
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Categories:
gooding, muse,
Form: Free verse
The Pages
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"The Pages"
Missing all those years
like a page you could turn,
a book you could throw casually aside,
to be eternally forgotten in electric shady libraries;
at som...
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Categories:
gooding, i am, love,
Form: Free verse
Yankee Doodle
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In 1755 a British army medical surgeon Richard Shuckburgh, while campaigning in
Rensselaer New York, penned the nursery rhyme Yankee Doodle. This was used to mock
the Colonists by the...
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Categories:
gooding, independence day, military, nursery
Form: Rhyme
Small and White
...Tom Cruise line, worst all-time:
“I love you, you complete me.”
Small and white,
Not quite right,
Scientology junkie
Oscar award
Cuba Gooding scored
Best supporting Actor
Tom Cruise lin...
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Categories:
gooding, silly, song,
Form: Lyric
Money Is Welcome Everywhere
...Money is Welcome Everywhere
"It's not the money, it's the stuff!" Bernadette Peters, the Jerk.
"Give me the MONEY!" Cuba Gooding, Jerry Maguire.
“Do you smell that? Money!” Paul Newman, The Color ...
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Categories:
gooding, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Free verse
You Wish
...I looked up from my dainty teacup with pink roses and gold trim
I think it was Cuba Gooding; I am pretty sure it was him.
Hey! I said to my husband, who was devouring his fish.
Is that who I think...
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Categories:
gooding, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Musician Pink
...Pink came out of somewhere knowing she was someone.
Encouraged her band to be their best most joyful selves.
They fell in love with her brazenness, her daring, her truth-speaking.
She wrote songs ...
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Categories:
gooding, music,
Form: Free verse
Do-Gooders Coke Cola Bus
...I see the Do-Gooders are out in force again
And this time it's the annual Christmas Coke Cola Bus
Stirring up the fuss
Crusaders against any and every cause
No topic to juvenile or puerile to ra...
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Categories:
gooding, anger,
Form: Free verse
Viels
...i am
alone.
sitting in the dark.
with only the world.
but still,
i cannot help
but feel.
people breathing,
on my neck.
reminds me
of their presence.
they tell me
"why are...
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Categories:
gooding, absence, angel, angst, deep,
Form: Blank verse
Mr. Truth
...Truth to him is nothing but
what you are able
to dupe the unsuspecting
into really believing,
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Categories:
gooding, introspection, people, philosophy,
Form: Tail-rhyme