The Dinner
...I set the table; I did not.
The pourer did. The poor did not.
The seats are cold; merlot is warm.
The pourer asks; there are replies,
sips, guzzles, sighs, manners.
I am satisfied as each one’s ...
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Categories:
guzzles, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Weathered Opportunities
...Beyond the relics stance tainted feigned glory,
the achievers had gifted us their puzzles,
speckled based best in their field of theory,
like Baia hot baths, can't stomach its guzzles...
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Categories:
guzzles, conflict, history, money, passion,
Form: Ottava rima
EV shock therapy
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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:
guzzles, car, humor, natural disasters,
Form: Lyric
Apocalypsis
...Fed but little, I have still written much,
Not bound to some code or a stale cliche.
My poetry springs from organic touch.
How odd - for 'tisn't my usual way.
When I speak, I treasure truth bey...
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Categories:
guzzles, beautiful, beauty, mystery, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Need More Power
...Need More Power
Chasing a red light, cutting a corner, speeding like a devil,
does not win races if the engine still guzzles up diesel fuel!
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Categories:
guzzles, car, power, race,
Form: Rhyme
Sentimentality
...Back, back to the joyful wood
where once you played at Robin Hood.
One-time playground, a beauty spot,
is now an Asda parking lot.
Back, back to the school bike shed
behind which you kissed or...
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Categories:
guzzles, humor,
Form: Free verse
Corvid 19 a Spell
...Doom assails us here;
It consumes our today,
It guzzles our tomorrow
Belching what's left of us
With a rooted arrogance
That elongates the chain
Exchanging pleasure with pain!
Doom digs a ...
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Categories:
guzzles, death, emotions, sad,
Form: Ballad
La, La, La, La, La
...
A love burning bright
A hatred bringing fright
It ends in a blaze
Two hearts trapped in a maze
You loved your puzzles
For the masses to befuddle
Our blood forms quite the puddle
And th...
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Categories:
guzzles, conflict, dark, heartbreak, love,
Form: Free verse
My Cute Cat Tiddles
...Cute Tiddles how she loves to play
She chases toy mice ev’ry day
Her furry clockwork mouse
She pats it round the house
If alive there’d be hell to pay!
She guzzles cool milk from h...
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Categories:
guzzles, cat, humorous, pets,
Form: Limerick
If Tears Could Grow Flowers
...If Tears Could Grow Flowers
If tears could grow flowers
I’d grow fields for you
When I think of how far away you are
I become very blue
I’ve cried more for you
Then you’ll ever know
I j...
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Categories:
guzzles, longing, lost love, love,
Form: Quatrain
Jughead
...his drinking obscene
geezer guzzles a gallon —
impure milk cures spouse
7/5/2018
Mick Talbot’s Senryu Contest...
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Categories:
guzzles, drink,
Form: Senryu
Est Est Est, Part 2 of 2
..."Just take this chalk," (so went his talk,
to servants sent before):
"And do not balk. When you uncork
good liquor, mark the door."
This way, the churchman planned to pass,
when pausing f...
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Categories:
guzzles, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Prize
...Prize primal play
Dance dazzling day
Frame fleeting flings
See senses swing
Grief guzzles grace
Flair finds fond face
Do dreamy dance
Chase curvy chance
Gifts gather grand
Fe...
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Categories:
guzzles, allegory,
Form: Alliteration
The Uncovered
...THE UNCOVERED ....
Blunders draped in bundles
of clandestine regalia
Passing each aurora, simmers
obnoxious guilty flames
Seized are its weapons
Silenced is its voice
Water-tight , to the ...
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Categories:
guzzles, anger, art,
Form: Free verse
Modern Ways Versa Olden Ways
...First let us take our friend the horse
a noble creature who serves us well
supplying us with a source of good compost
ferrying us here and there in fine style
pulling carts and carriages with ap...
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Categories:
guzzles, car, horse, house,
Form: Epic
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