Ode To The 90s
...It was a time that I will never forget,
a time of grunge, flannel, and war;
A War on authority, a war on what we knew;
Electric colors and synthesizers are gone;
I remember the death of hair ...
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Categories:
grittier, emotions, feelings, perspective,
Form: Ode
Stairway To Heaven By Led Zeppelin
...Hope resounds through my soul pockets as I hear Stairway to Heaven
There is more than one road to get there, the paths pliable like a willow
It is okay to reach for all that glitters, but even the ...
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Categories:
grittier, music,
Form: Free verse
Walking Down the Streets of Another Levittown Today
...At one time my neighborhood was new mass-produced little boxes made of ticky-tacky – all looking just the same*
Beautiful affordable, true suburban models, in mid-twentieth century they were truly q...
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Categories:
grittier, america, color, culture, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
The Dirty and Gritty
...Most people need to see Magic in technicolor
because they want to see all of the bright creatures
like Brownies and Pixies.
I don't want to see the façades
that Brownies and Pixies
present to ...
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Categories:
grittier, anger, fantasy,
Form: Free verse