Shallow End Of The Pool
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When handed a stuffed pullet
looks like a stunned mullet
should I turn surly
in high dudgeon
please don't bludgeon
this old curmudgeon
and not to be outdone
altho' I am an only son
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Categories:
high dudgeon, animal, bird, fun, how
Form: Rhyme
HIGH DUDGEON
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She slapped my face and walked out
And said she’d never come back.
She’d never cross the threshold again
So there; and that was that.
But she’ll return, I have ...
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Categories:
high dudgeon, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
What Formerly Got Celebrated As Adventitious Age of Exploration
...What formerly got celebrated as adventitious age of exploration...
1492 unleashed, jump/
kick started, and downloaded
a bittorrent götterdämmerung
spelling genocide of indigenous peoples
occup...
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Categories:
high dudgeon, absence, abuse, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
Wee Small Hours
...Hobgoblin in the gutter under canopy of midnight,
magic brew of muti without rein.
Shadow figure torchon, darting half-light dare.
Spine chilling droplets wobble slowly down drains,
rusty copper...
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Categories:
high dudgeon, courage, creation, dark, dedication,
Form: Prose Poetry
Twenty One Earth Orbitz Ago
...Twenty one Earth orbitz ago...
February fourth two thousand and twenty...
Shana Aubrey Harris
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GREETING,
albeit eleven days early
Countless years after papa
took thee and Eden
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Categories:
high dudgeon, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Dorian In High Dudgeon
...For such a low gudgeon, Dorian in high dudgeon.
The puppet popped atop amid internal turmoil,
Of the Russian, for the Russian and by the Russian,
He spent nearly 3 years trafficking spoils
The ...
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Categories:
high dudgeon, satire, slam, storm,
Form: Pantoum
Stop Abusing Women
...Stop Abusing Women
A man saw a beautiful woman
in white cloths
She was going to church.
He called her,
pretty come to me please
She was well taught by her parents,
And she came close ...
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Categories:
high dudgeon, abuse, evil, hurt, husband,
Form: Dramatic Verse