Fool's Errand
...I wonder after his black spectacles,
if I could recognize his phantom's scare
by his bandy left foot, something he'd wear:
constrictor turtlenecks, cowboy buckles
his trials decided by flayed knu...
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Categories:
grunts, confusion, dark, heart, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Up Close with Strangers
...
plane, bus 'n train
elevators 'n escalators
revelers 'n sale-day crowds
is where we meet
STRANGERS!
looking away,
with no eye-to-eye contact
no nod, wink, grunt of 'Hi's',
never ever recogn...
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Categories:
grunts, fear, relationship, together, travel,
Form: Free verse
Sizzle
...
My hair ripping as her fingernails entwine
pulling my head back
She slaps me harder than she should
Her smile slightly offset
My cheek reddening from the welt of her hand
Shifting herself fo...
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Categories:
grunts, poems,
Form: Free verse
MockingBird
...MockingBird
Always Teasing
"Effing - Effing - Effing - What?"
A Gray And White Kite
Needing A Little Mate
She's Music & I'm Just Grunts
She's Always Flirting...
(MayBe Male?)
W...
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Categories:
grunts, life,
Form: Free verse
The Folk Of Habitat Bay
...
There is a lovely town l know of called Habitat Bay
Where the residents are of the animal kind
Living together in harmony
A community supportive and aligned
Duck is the towns only doctor
A b...
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Categories:
grunts, humor, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Young Man In Battle
...
A threadbare sigh relentlessly lisps
while he begs with twilight
for inner calm;
Dear life...he is just a young man,
wobbly feet wanting to run away
from unknown gr...
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Categories:
grunts, angst, poverty, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Anthropology 101
...Once, sat and thought, a hairy brute,
wearing not, a well-tailored suit.
In grunts and growls, he said, "I suppose,
if thumb and fingers should oppose,
it would not be so very dumb",
and paten...
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Categories:
grunts, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Bunch of limericks and other funny tricks II
...I hate it when a girl rolls her eyes,
because that means she's on to my lies.
And then it's harder to get her
to let me under her sweater,
and then on to the ultimate prize.
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Categories:
grunts, funny, giggle, howl, humor,
Form: Limerick
My cat can’t be happy
...
Ok God hear it is
I spent eons perfecting an animal that cares about nothing I call it a……Cat
Gabriel beams as he places it gently in Gods lap
Could you please remove it
It is making a weir...
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Categories:
grunts, poems,
Form: Free verse
Augury
...Augury;
a sign of what will happen in the future; an omen:
Complacent the night lays above,
Unsure what the darkness lies of
Corners, cracks, and fields
Lies only the beasts that yield
Befor...
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Categories:
grunts, allusion, future,
Form: Rhyme
Gobbledygook
...Gurgling grunts
Help the pretty flowers grow
Babbling bluntly my mystical muse
Is easily confused
Pretty smells I do inhale
Dream faeries up my nose
To my brain attach a hose
To drain m...
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Categories:
grunts, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
cross thuh creek
....
lean'nin 'gainst an
age'd wooden
ranch fence
thuh dream'r
Tie'd
her flannel'z hem
...
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Categories:
grunts, beautiful, blessing, extended metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Stop Thinking!
...
The 2nd Trump Presidency Begins
To express my own Whitmanesque
"barbaric yawp", constrained by
internal (and external) barriers,
mentally constipated, I merely mutter,
feel pressures steadil...
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Categories:
grunts, age, angst, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Devil's pet
...When you placed your hands on the littles ones thigh,
When they saw your shadow in stead of theirs,
When they glanced up at you, adoration and want radiating from their eyes,
There goes your rot...
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Categories:
grunts, abuse, child abuse, evil,
Form: Free verse
Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed
...Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed
made fibrous threads...constituting heavy blanket
(crocheted by the missus)
on a cool Autumn like morning...
to stave off experiencing get...
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Categories:
grunts, analogy, animal, august, autumn,
Form: Free verse
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