Silent Night
...Moon sleeps long wrapped in cozy quilt of chilly fogs,
Earth is engulfed in thick black carbon-canopy;
Trees ghosts-like; birds black-hole shaded; loud growl of dogs,
The scene is as silent as a d...
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Categories:
handicapping, christmas, night,
Form: Sonnet
Odds On Favourite
...assigned to a track
race is but a game we play ~
handicapping fate
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Categories:
handicapping, horse, race, racism,
Form: Senryu
Barry University Buccaneer Taking Poetic Notice
...There once was a bulldog named Champ
Who loved to go up and down a ramp
Just for fun they built him one
To stay fit he would go up it
They asked the tech
“did you do this so Champ would have ...
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Categories:
handicapping, animal, bird, dog, fate,
Form: Rhyme
We'Re Not Top of the Heap
...(a regurgitation rewrite)
animal research...
in(to) knowing...empathy and...
communication...
shows man's languages...
(victorian...biblical)...
not of nature's sort...
human dialects......
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Categories:
handicapping, allusion, analogy, animal,
Form: Haiku
What Daddy Demands
...EarthMama Invites
Without RightDaddy Dominance,
Left EcoMama
and Her still innocent suppressed Children,
share no opposing WinLose
assuming
internalized voices,
just anxious and angry
and f...
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Categories:
handicapping, bullying, caregiving, gender, health,
Form: Political Verse
The Racehorse
...In equine racing they always say,
You hope to win when you make your play;
Off course as you know,it's the horses that show,
They're the only ones to make their hay.
With no help from the divine ...
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Categories:
handicapping, animals
Form: Dramatic Verse