Then
...If boxers worked at farms making bales
Then we would call them haymakers
If hammers are made to hit nails
Then they could be finger breakers
If boxers ate hay everyday for lunch
Then bale maki...
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Categories:
haymakers, funny, humor,
Form: Quatrain
Steel Blades
...6/21/22
"Steel Blades"
All these spiels and games
Yet another shady deal made
We do not feel the same
Chop you up with steel blades
Your body left in the field decays
I've no interest in start...
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Categories:
haymakers, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Old Thing, New Thing
...Everybody want that old thing
everybody want that new thing too
got me on my Billy Paul ya know…
when love is new, it's perfect it's worth it
those hugs and kisses goodbye got you
feeling...
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Categories:
haymakers, abuse, life,
Form: Lyric
The Class of 1956
...Some promptly left and didn't return,
Some chose to stay with concern showing.
For a finer life perhaps the first did yearn,
All building lives as families were growing.
While additional left a...
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Categories:
haymakers, friendship, memory,
Form: Lyric
Vicious Game
...Out the door
is a vicious game
a process
battle of spite
tug of war
circus of irritation
where nobody loses
no one wins
a bloody senseless draw
no referee
only stiff jabs
right crosses
haymakers
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Categories:
haymakers, angst, fear, people, places,
Form: Free verse
Ring Around the Pumpkin
...For the bounty of the earth
Come Ye thankful people come
For it is Autumn
And the leaves are coming down
Run run sweet John Barley Corn
Let's play ring around the pumpkin
As the harvest moon sh...
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Categories:
haymakers, faith, family, inspirational, seasons,
Form: Ballad