Diner Might
...In nineteen sixty-three, May twenty-eight,
three youngsters in a Woolworths five-and-dime
sat down and asked for coffee. This was war.
In Jackson, Mississippi, way back when,
outrageous things l...
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Categories:
gunge, history,
Form: Rhyme
Twisted Knickers-Collaboration Open to Poets
...Some people wind up with twisted knickers
When they get insulted by nitpickers
Words are sticks and stones
Causing moans and groans
When they hear heckling whispers and snickers
Women used to ...
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Categories:
gunge, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Dandelions
...She drinks herbal tea.
Goes foraging in the woods at the weekend.
Wears weird clothes.
Tells me if I pass her 27 point plan, I can go to bed with her.
Something told me I was never passin...
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Categories:
gunge, humorous, passion, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Sluggishly Different
...Enough of golden daffodils, romance and paths not taken
Let's lend poetic airing to a subject quite forsaken.
An opportunity's emerged to give a little plug
To that much lambasted creature called ...
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Categories:
gunge, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Pyrrhic Revenge
... Pyrrhic revenge
They’d eaten his books, his clothes and lean paper money,
Whetted their teeth against his coins and an old jar of honey.
They’d blown cold air nightly, as they gnawe...
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Categories:
gunge, loss,
Form: Rhyme
The Ranch Hand's Babies, Part 3 of 3
...(When the true toxicity of Agent Orange
was finally comprehended, the Johnson
Administration could think of nothing
better to do than simply dump the
chemical on a chain of Pacific islands,
whe...
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Categories:
gunge, war,
Form: Rhyme
Fighting God
...God in shorts, I never thought I'd see the day,
gloves and boots and grease on the eyebrows too
the bell went for round one, I threw a left, then he
smiteth me to the body with great vengence,
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Categories:
gunge, conflict, courage, evil, fun,
Form: Free verse