Flower Beds
...I'm a fruit of the tree of life
with knowledge of
the unknown
What I'm known to leave floats
above trees with grown broken
branches
I've grown to see that not
all soil is fertile as many
se...
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Categories:
hashed, introspection, perspective, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
The Quiet Brings Introspection
...The quiet brings introspection - emotions contained…those of excitement, roll-up-the sleeves, the dejection, beliefs. The empty room filled with holiday assortment. A shame to shape the room back int...
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Categories:
hashed, family, holiday, introspection,
Form: Prose
Critterature: Bones of Contention
...I'd like to step back in time a bit
And mention the dinosaur.
He lived two hundred million years
And then was seen no more.
The dino's demise is a mystery
That's hashed and often rehashed here.
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Categories:
hashed, animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Rehashing History: Missing Persons
...I
Where, oh where is Virginia Dare*,
No one can find her anywhere.
Her disappearance is the very worst,
I guess that's what comes from being the first.
*Virginia Dare was born on Aug. 18, 1587...
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Categories:
hashed, history, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Ashes In a Cage
...There's a fire burning
Have you not yet heard?
Rumor has it a woman
Finally found her nerve
She doused her home immensely
In gasoline before striking a match
The flames devoured it all
F...
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Categories:
hashed, abuse, change, courage, fire,
Form: Free verse
Lamenting Appalling Heartbreaking Mistreatment
...Lamenting appalling heartbreaking mistreatment...
nonagenarian father experiences at Normandy Farms
Though dead, I gauge
these past one hundred and four plus months
linkedin with Gregorian cale...
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Categories:
hashed, absence, appreciation, cry, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
I Can'T Breathe
...A social commentary
ALL BLACK MALES LIVES DO MATTER!
We the ones who get beaten and battered
Screaming out injustices as loud and clearly
But it’s what I saw that’s not cle...
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Categories:
hashed, black african american, community,
Form: Political Verse
Regrets
...Regrets
Are yesterday's newspapers re-hashed.
People really do love us as we are.
And what do regrets serve us?
These squiggly thoughts of loss?
We only have today to live,
Enjoy it to the ...
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Categories:
hashed, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
The Smarts and Dogged Callisthenics
...The Smarts And Dogged Callisthenics...
Cannot Wall The Will Of Catapulting Mice
A titled unwritten poem requiring
little effort to dip and dive
I accidentally, inadvertently,
and unexpectedly ...
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Categories:
hashed, adventure, blessing, confidence, endurance,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Chaos In the White House Jab Two
...when Democrats outliers gnashed
teeth, and nonestablishmentarian outlaws
pistol whipped and hashed
tagged traitors who roared America
went bankrupt at sold at fire sale price slashed
when D...
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Categories:
hashed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Word To Wives
...To keep your marriage smiling
Never point your finger on the
Hungry face of your husbands,
Never dream like a woman in
the Disney World Series of lies
and paint that clothed sorrows
To keep ...
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Categories:
hashed, africa,
Form: Blank verse
Chaos In the White House - Part 1
...Congressman and senators forewent
all manner of civility, fidelity and integrity wii
hull ding broadswords, derringers
and firearms as all hell broke loose as testimony
to the dire progno...
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Categories:
hashed, crush, grave, hate, history,
Form: I do not know?
This Lovers Fight
...Minced Words Contest
Sponsor: John lawless
Broken up in our oath your minced words remain,
We hashed it out this afternoon by the ol’ night stand,
For this lover’s fight has caus...
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Categories:
hashed, angst, break up,
Form: Pantoum
Last Visit To My Friend
...I passed by to see you
I knocked on your door but you
Did not answer so I let myself in
I thought you needed me but you
Showed no kindness
I sat there in your house after the long journey
I fel...
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Categories:
hashed, best friend, betrayal, care,
Form: Epic
Malimar
...Inhaling, hushed, from hashed cigars
my mind implodes in Malimar
where Naiads bathe in caviar -
I dream of dwarves and three-eyed tsars.
The captive kiss of Princess Ma...
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Categories:
hashed, fantasy,
Form: Monorhyme
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