Strange Acting
...One can a secret leak
While one didn't dare speak
All over seeming weak
But could fight for a week;
At a weakling not spit
But against A Camp fit
Live as needy prophet;
Starved eyes not on pro...
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Categories:
half mask, allusion, analogy, character, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
The Flags Fly At Half Mast
...Dedication to our fallen four Victoria Police....
The flags are at half mast
The flags are at half mask today
For four fine officers lost in duty’s say
In silence now we all stand
As grief ...
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Categories:
half mask, death, death of a
Form: Ballad
Mindbender
...Puzzles come in many forms
setting the mind to always ask
what's the meaning of this query
realising your brains on half mask
Once you get the mask off
then you can start to think
setting the...
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Categories:
half mask, education, games, life,
Form: Rhyme
Dirty Betty the Horse of Cause
...Did…I…. tell you my father had a horse?
This story is true, you know that, of cause
Well, one day, we found her, with her legs in the air
Chewing a pair of my dad’s old smelly underwear
The poo...
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Categories:
half mask, funnyfather, dad, old, dad,
Form: Rhyme
Robbie Burns
...(THE TAKANINI VERSION)
Glazes eyes affixed to life’s heavy hinged seal,
waiting for 11am to be served his liquid meal.
Empty flagons he carries with a shaky mournful hurt,
red nose prominent, p...
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Categories:
half mask, cute, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Elective
...A handsome man, dark curly hair.
A specialist. He smiles again
and then his face
under the white half-mask
begins to peel away.
“But I didn’t come,” I say,
“for me.”...
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Categories:
half mask, imagination, mystery, people,
Form: Free verse