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grist for the mill
...O pure hearts, never forget my words, When you listen to this pretentious, you give him grain to be milled, When you look at this fool, you give him Grist for the mill. Thus is the world made,......

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Categories: grist for the mill, 9th grade, appreciation, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lament of a Friend
... A partisan in this fine fight All beautiful and brash He thought he stood for what was right ‘Til his dreams turned to ash A revelation come too late When worm’s meat he’d already made ......

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Categories: grist for the mill, betrayal, friend, loss, political,
Form: Quatrain



JIGSAW POPULATIONS
...JIGSAW POPULATIONS Our differences are like the pieces of a puzzle called life Shapes that may not all fit together, yet one always will To achieve a harmonious well-fitting picture is the goal ......

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Categories: grist for the mill, analogy, community, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and Gaoled
...Self destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled... with kidnapping little boy ordered to suffer life sentence without parole. The deadly scourge of one obsessive/compulsive di......

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Categories: grist for the mill, 2nd grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse
Ephemeral Social Media Rendezvous
...Ephemeral social media rendezvous "Abort, Retry, Fail?" (or "Abort, Retry, Ignore?") essentially spells does not compute in bobbing spongy mindscape of your friendly martian donned with sq......

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Categories: grist for the mill, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Storms Happen
...storms happen happenstance stomps selfish selfies inherit the wind windmills become grist for the mill Armageddon trending now Utopia is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day go figure (& lie abo......

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Categories: grist for the mill, culture, humorous, satire, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Long Since Stopped Binge Reading Bertrand Russell
...I, (a bookish educated intelligent nerd, albeit three score plus tres años) constitutes a novel titled The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory another writer from England. Not so much to boa......

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Categories: grist for the mill, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Any More You
...The me that you see’s just a face that I wear. You have no idea what’s really on my mind. The me of my soul regards you over there As sly and elusive, your intentions undefined. The me that you......

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Categories: grist for the mill, allegory, romance,
Form: Burlesque
Anglophone Aficionado Exudes Infatuation With English Language Number 1
...Versus me (chilling as an outsize ego freezer) profusely perspiring and heavily panting experiencing one after another stuff whet dreams are made frolicking in autumn mist (think Maxfield P......

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Categories: grist for the mill, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Ephemeral Online Moment
...Ephemeral online moment... Yours truly plagiarizes himself with zeal courtesy mental cogs and rusty wheel, thus no literary crime committed to steel I broadcast material shown thru rickety bla......

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Categories: grist for the mill, absence, earth, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
This and Other Things I Write
...By God of Earth and Eden In this life I have a pencil Bitter and sweet Heavy and light I will ink for a while but then I must buckle for my boat to set sail into the Island of Light. I ......

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Categories: grist for the mill, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Still Binge Reading Bertrand Russell
...Still binge reading Bertrand Russell... 9/8/2020 I plunge further into erudite epistemological philosophication courtesy said renown British polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, h......

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Categories: grist for the mill, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse
Nothing More Frustrating Trying Damndest To Kindle Memory
...(buzzfeeding, kickstarting, needling darn noggin) An effort to recall word, phrase, musician... indigenous tribe... most frustrating literary endeavor to das scribe aggravating enough to sub......

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Categories: grist for the mill, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Ephemeral Social Media Rendezvous
...Linkedin thru tenuous webbed world wide electronic thread defied no matter flurry of emails/ messages exchanged flattery applied courtesy transient online tête à tête downside cyber venue of......

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Categories: grist for the mill, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Thus Ominous and Elliptical Be the Tone of This
...Species sundry sentential Line the lost lowered loft Whose weary wayward-ceiled Roof raises itself over the lot: The diverse specimen bottles of pharmaceutic potations, Mortared and mixed as b......

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Categories: grist for the mill, absence, age, america, angst,
Form: I do not know?

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