Cash strapped despondent citizen banker
...Cash strapped despondent citizen banker
in unrelenting deep purple Depeche Mode crisis...
the yeast you could do
for a crusty and crabby old man,
(who I know
like the back of my clawed hand),...
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Categories:
handler, adventure, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Cash strapped despondent citizen banker
...Cash strapped despondent citizen banker
in unrelenting deep purple Depeche Mode crisis...
the yeast you could do
for a crusty and crabby old man,
(who I know
like the back of my clawed hand),...
...
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Categories:
handler, adventure, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
The Dog's Words
...Some people believe
that dogs have no words.
Perhaps they've never
heard the language of dogs.
In the heart of a guide dog,
there is language,
and in moments of danger,
appropriate actions spe...
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Categories:
handler, dog,
Form: Free verse
A Palm Reading
...The chimp stretches its arm,
a small hand, palm up under my chin,
fingers and thumb supple,
a pink-pawed sharing.
It’s a palmistry offering,
if only I had the skill to read it.
There is a lif...
...
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Categories:
handler, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Get a Life
...Releasing a
lost-in-city
Inland Taipan
into the wild,
the snake handler
exclaimed with joy
'go! get a life'.
Slithering away snake
hissed back 'you too'!
...
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Categories:
handler, humor,
Form: Free verse
The Labyrinth and the Gardener
...A pondering of multiple raindrops from a detrimental storm onto the empty fields, crashing into them as hard and loud as clashing metals. The depth and existence of love weighs over any deprivation a...
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Categories:
handler, abuse, allegory, corruption, extended
Form: Free verse
Peace
...
(A lone voice whispers)
In the lower levels of spiritual existence
We once roamed
Alone and lonely
Forlornly
Looking for true love
And all its mysterious emotional energy
Hidden...
...
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Categories:
handler, loss,
Form: Rhyme
John Brown Still Sees God
...[[X][x][X][X][X][X][X]]
[ ]
Albeit, a riddle and true,
happenstance quietude,
privacy absolute of two,
monarch, and servitude.
( ...
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Categories:
handler, appreciation, caregiving, death of
Form: Rhyme
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Much Ado About Poi
...Welcome to a typical 'Luau' spread. The first thing that is best to learn is the Hawaiian word, 'ono', which means, delicious. It's a word bandied about before and after food goes in your mou...
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Categories:
handler, allusion, analogy, appreciation, culture,
Form: Narrative
The Greasy Saddle
...In walked the Redeyed Stranger
Bragging: he used an excessive amount of
bagging gestures and words. He was told by
his handler to tune down the rhetoric, as one
person found him rude and over...
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Categories:
handler, fashion, horse, music, repetition,
Form: Ballade
Expectations
...I received a comment on my post
I attempt exposure once again
Shall I perish by others' words?
Rein in heartbeats like a strict handler
Or ride the bronco bareback?
Awakened from depression on...
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Categories:
handler, appreciation, depression, faith, grief,
Form: Free verse
Bringing Joy
...Each week she enters the building with smiles all around
She’s come to bring them happiness and hope to abound
Her large Newfoundland body sets many aback
They wonder what her breed is, and if s...
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Categories:
handler, animal, appreciation, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
I Am the Power of Iron Fist
...I’m the pair of fists belonging to Danny Rand’s identity
Along the ranks of Marvel’s super hero-integrity…
“Iron Fist” is my label against cowardice-instability
Powered to advance justic...
...
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Categories:
handler, appreciation, christian, god, hero,
Form: Monorhyme
The Line
...The chimp stretches its arm,
a small hand, palm up under my chin,
fingers and thumb supple,
a pink-pawed sharing.
It’s a palmistry offering,
if only I had the skill to read it.
There is a lif...
...
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Categories:
handler, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Still Dithering With Hesitation On Brink of Abysmal Precipice I
...Infinite pitch black void zoomed,
I vacillated then pitched headlong
(head and knobby knees, over heels)
where skeletons in shuttered closets roomed,
and antithesis of freedom loomed
large (thin...
...
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Categories:
handler, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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