Nearing the Finish Line
...As the might-have-beens get smaller
And the what-the-hecks get taller
Life gets sweeter.
What a beater,
Death looms, but ya wanna stall'er...
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Categories:
hecks, life,
Form: Limerick
Kiss the Night Goodbye,
...K-iss the night goodbye,
A-s you rise from slumber;
R-ight away leave the dark,
E-ither now or
N-ever.
M-istakes, errors and sins
A-re causing a nightmare;
I-mprove the way you walk,
N...
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Categories:
hecks, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
A Thing Called Love
..."A Thing Called Love"
by: Eric L. Boddie
You only Live once, so have no regrets
So, at some point, go and have you some sex
And if you do it right, Love is what comes next
But please understa...
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Categories:
hecks, inspirational, life, love, passion,
Form: Monorhyme
Football Mom
...I never quite knew
what it meant.
And, if explained,
I never understood.
Shoot! I've never even LIKED the game!
And, I never thought that I would.
But,
The fear... The pride...
The gleam, i...
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Categories:
hecks, football,
Form: Prose Poetry
Sillybillables
...Sillybillables
sillybillables stuff up my attempt at limericks,
stilted seems the day,
guess im not meant for 'what the hecks,'
shut up johnson n go away:) (yes Russell)
it would be more f...
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Categories:
hecks, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Crazy Kid Star
...Actress Bette Davis
Alias Baby Jane
A woman insane
Who wants to entertain!
*For John Hecks Contest...
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Categories:
hecks, childhood, loss, mystery
Form: Clerihew
Heaven and Hell
...You were just a fairy tale
a dream that sometimes felt so real
a secret I kept safely locked away
You were there and I was here
and never would I ever dare
that is until one very crazy day
Then...
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Categories:
hecks, love, song-lyricme, dream, heaven,
Form: Lyric
Dizzy With Love
...I chanced upon a memory
that seems like yesterday
but it was really long ago
and oh, so far away.
It was a chilled November night
and in my thirteenth year
the stars were gathered in my eyes
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Categories:
hecks, funny, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, nostalgiawords,
Form: Quatrain
And There Was a Day...
...Somehow, I don't know how,
I wound up at the Soup...
The minds I have exchanged thoughts with,
I could find nowhere else...
The Sharons, the Christys, the Hecks...
These are jewels of humanity
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Categories:
hecks, adventure, angst, caregiving, education,
Form: Free verse