A B C D E F G H
...awkward always alone Allie
bragged boastfully to baby Bertie Bill
clearly clarifying club-footed cloven Callie
deliberately deciphering dairy dung in Dickie Dill
easing eager Edgar’s electrifyi...
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Categories:
greasing, word play,
Form: ABC
MY DREAM FOR ZIMBABWE
...I wish I could speak Shona fluently
Trace the paths of old Zimbabwe
From the ancient cliffs of Chinoyi
To Nelson Mandela Avenue’s concrete.
But wishes, like dreams
Are shooting stars across th...
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Categories:
greasing, 12th grade, africa, children,
Form: Free verse
Harry and Hilda
...Harry and Hilda Herald in Halloween
haphazard handsome Halloween Harry
has hurried helpless hapless Hilda of Herrington.
ghosts, ghouls and gruesome ghoulish ghouls gather,
greasing Hilda’s han...
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Categories:
greasing, word play,
Form: Alliteration
Country Life
...Country life is simple,
Spacious and organic
Simple life is healthy life
Imagine natural beauty
Where you settle and established
Your family life and your future
Living the country is living...
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Categories:
greasing, humanity, life, nature, perspective,
Form: Free verse
A Developing Nation
...It seems the roots of our humanity
Began its civilized nature upon land.
As much as nearby waters flowed & nourished,
Firm ground was needed as most would stand.
Like the seas, the eart...
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Categories:
greasing, history,
Form: Narrative
The Greasy Saddle
...In walked the Redeyed Stranger
Bragging: he used an excessive amount of
bagging gestures and words. He was told by
his handler to tune down the rhetoric, as one
person found him rude and over...
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Categories:
greasing, fashion, horse, music, repetition,
Form: Ballade
Twas the Night Before Christmas
...‘Twas the night before Christmas
My momma was upset ‘cause papa was drunk,
A decorated tree stood lopsided in the corner
And my older brother insisted Santa was bunk!
I still had ho...
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Categories:
greasing, christmas, fun,
Form: Rhyme
My Wish Would Come True
...When I go out, people smile with their stretched jaws
But the moment I turn, they mock at me for no cause.
On my achievements, my fellow-men shower applauses in tons.
But in my absence, ...
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Categories:
greasing, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Neapoliticians
...Get right with the creator...
Teach your kids how to fish.
Give EVERYBODY a second chance or even a third
(that's if they're not to vicious).
After that you're wasting your-breath- my dirty dim...
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Categories:
greasing, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Elocution To Bitter Cola Iii
...Why slaying the stars
& rigorously binding their light
for listening ears under the mango tree
to frame folktales for midnight song,
make a geysers of yellowstone
carrying fresh fetch palm wine—...
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Categories:
greasing, grave, murder,
Form: Elegy
Snapshot Dating
...Snapshot Dating
The right place
The right time
Again the day begins with
Faint sunshine
Over the sleepy villagers
Gathered in cities like stooks of corn
Stacked against the rainy form o...
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Categories:
greasing, allegory, love,
Form: Rhyme
Dead Poets
...He took his leave of this world
with the truth on his lips
while soaking in that warm bath in Paris
where he had flown to pursue a new path
having been forced to publish his poetry himself
beca...
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Categories:
greasing, death, money, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Oh, My Precious Pacifica
...
Dearest cherished oceans of the deepest blue.....
No, oh, no....I may not even visit you!
I cry to God's awesome skies,
To awaken people to all the lies.
Seagulls.....see me wave to them...
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Categories:
greasing, america, angst, corruption, environment,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Then and Now
...To this day, the breath labours on still
Marrow birthing blood same as ever
to keep this battered carriage oiled
The soul wills the flesh to hobble on
and prays the spirit keeps aflame
The g...
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Categories:
greasing, africa, betrayal, culture, endurance,
Form: I do not know?
Term Limits Are Needed
...
Term Limits Are Needed
Another Tom Opinion
1/16/2021
When running for office they run as our elves,
but once in hallowed halls become full of themselves.
Voters send some as pups, ...
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Categories:
greasing, political,
Form: Couplet
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