The Days
...My mind is bluffing all the around the clock
Getting the real ones suppressed and block
I'm in a flow
I'm in a blow
But the clouds of doubts are covering it all
And coming back to me like fast ...
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Categories:
guzzle, absence, care, change, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Filler'er-Up Joe
...Joe works the gas station,
they still do full serve,
tops you off with a big grin,
if you wait your turn.
Chats with all the tourists,
shows them where to go,
that’s why everyone in town
calls...
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Categories:
guzzle, fun, life, light, men,
Form: Rhyme
Wine Tastes Better Aged
...Flourished and nourished,
hair locks resembling branches,
I gaze as it dances —
when blowing, he looks glowing.
Twenty years had passed,
but still, I last.
I may have ripened,
but I'm st...
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Categories:
guzzle, age, confidence, desire, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Stunning Spring Time
...Spring
is here!
Little lambs
are gambolling
in verdant pastures.
Soon the white woolly ewes
let hungry offspring suckle.
I smile as the lamb's tails waggle
as they guzzle the nutr...
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Categories:
guzzle, nature, spring,
Form: Etheree
The Days
...The Days
My mind is bluffing all the around the clock
Getting the real ones suppressed and block
I'm in a flow
I'm in a blow
But the clouds of doubts are covering it all
And coming back to m...
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Categories:
guzzle, anger, anxiety, conflict, confusion,
Form: Free verse
EV shock therapy
...
I went to my car dealer, I hoped to save the planet
The saleslady told me EVs were cheap, and to call her Janet
She said we've got so many subsidies, and they're a great deal
I bought a F-150 Li...
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Categories:
guzzle, car, humor, natural disasters,
Form: Lyric
Square Dance Patter Sayings
...Bow to the partner in the corner
Hey, this dance ain't nothin' but torture!
Heads lean left and circle to a line
Guzzle down that old moonshine!
Roll away to a half sashay
Get down on your k...
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Categories:
guzzle, dance, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Villanelles II
...Villanelle
by Michael R. Burch
Is poetry mere turning of a phrase?
Has prose become its height and depth and sum?
What happened to the songs of yesterdays?
Does prose leave all nine Muses ve...
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Categories:
guzzle, dark, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Villanelle
Behold the Beast
...Behold the beast, wandering in astral night
From dark caverns he emerges by starlight
to quaff nectar from his ambrosia chalice.
A leering creature with evil eyes of malice.
What nefarious thou...
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Categories:
guzzle, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Sipping coffee
...
“God within me is the enjoyer of the aroma,
like this dopamine boosting flavor I taste.
I surrender all pleasures to the dweller of my heart,
breath by breath so that my soul may be...
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Categories:
guzzle, appreciation, courage, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Pinworms and Pentagrams
...There are sacks of rotten rattle snakes.
In a pit made of acidic hearts and coal flakes.
Bloody stumps where there once were trees of reasoning.
Pin worms have crawled from asses and into their b...
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Categories:
guzzle, cancer, candy,
Form: Free verse
The Legend of Parson Uzzell's Pants
...Bat Masterson was hired as a gamblin' boss at the Denver Saloon in 1891,
In a town high in the Rockies, Creede by name; he took no guff from anyone!
The rowdy saloon, restaurant and gamblin' hall...
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Categories:
guzzle, humorous, western,
Form: Rhyme
Journey
...We met in our enlighten yesterdays
when love was imagined
and we wanted to embrace the breadth of each kiss
fused upon our lips
like the first guzzle of water from a dying thirst
we garbed our...
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Categories:
guzzle, journey,
Form: Free verse
The Other One Comes
...You give it some kudos, like it does something good?
You say that I’m boring, like I’m made of wood.
You laugh at my reason, you smirk at my way.
Because I don’t feel your passion, because I won’t...
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Categories:
guzzle, absence, abuse, addiction, change,
Form: Free verse
Midnight a and E
...The sun descends this cloudless night
A moon for howling, full and bright
A moon by which the bats take flight
And wolf-men and the undead bite
Stretchered in, a bite mark cruel
He won’t heal ...
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Categories:
guzzle, halloween, horror,
Form: Rhyme
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