Antipoem 36 Silent Mercies
...AntiPoem 36
“Silent Mercies”
(Poet’s Instruction: Softly play in the background Mario Lanza singing
“Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen” from Puccini’s La Boheme, while reading this AntiPoem)
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Categories:
hisself, death, memory, suicide,
Form: I do not know?
I Ain'T Sick
...Old Ellie’s Fred, he hated Docs. Thought ‘em thick as two short planks.
Couldn’t pull up their very own socks. To all the lot, he said: “no thanks!”
“I ain’t sick” just let me be.“But we’ll keep y...
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Categories:
hisself, crazy, fantasy, funny, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
The Big Apple
...I made a trip to New York
and surely looked like a dork
staring at the sky
scrapery so high
(and sometimes ogled a nork*)
I took a walk to the dock
heard so many kinds of talk
from seething ...
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Categories:
hisself, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Just Another Said Love Poem
...My latest fling became a thing.
And I don't know how to tell you...
he holds my hand strong and proud.
He shows me off to wonder filled crowds.
He says he wants me to hisself, but my love is s...
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Categories:
hisself, i love you,
Form: Free verse
The Only Good Enemy
...here be en emimy of tombstone jack
his eminy tried to shoot em back
but ole jack made em see the light
he done it fastr en he done it right
jack showd em the errer to his ways
he sure enoff put ...
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Categories:
hisself, humorous,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
When Love Bleeds
...WHEN LOVE BLEEDS
IT IS BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT ATTEND TO HIS NEEDS INDEEDS.
AND AGAIN, WHEN LOVE BLEEDS, IT BECAUSE WE ARE NOT WILLING TO PROCEEDS
ALONG WITH HIM, WHILE LEADS.
FURTHERMORE, WHEN L...
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Categories:
hisself, absence, abuse, anger, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
A Skateboarders New Lust For Love
...Im going to tell you a story about a skateboarder who thought he was destined to only love skateboarding. Not to long ago there young man who was missing something in his life years and years went by...
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Categories:
hisself, beautiful, beauty, girlfriend, ,
Form: Verse
Lonesome Sound
...LONESOME
SOUND
Old man said he could hear that whistle blow a hundred miles
and they could write a song about that.
Said he could tell how many cars a train freighted
just by how sad wa...
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Categories:
hisself, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Hollowed Canvas
...Some say art is a window into our imagination, a port to our soul
A portal that meets the mind and all of our senses
Mixtures of raw colors engaging in love to create
Names of shades of color one ha...
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Categories:
hisself, art, integrity,
Form: Blank verse
King of the Licks
......for jazz people everywhere
He's King of the Home
in his high chair and gown,
takin' his feedin's with
dreams of bein' downtown;
his jazz band was playin'
he'd blow and he'd sway,
he remembers ...
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Categories:
hisself, music, nostalgia,
Form: Quatrain
Stop Writing Literature, You Garrulous Indian
...for Eric Mottram (1924 - 1995)*
a life of toil for the man in the centre
a hub in the peripheral tireless wheel
where he go then where he go this working man
he go on waking people worki...
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Categories:
hisself, celebrity, people, words, work,
Form: Elegy
A Thought In My Mind
...God, It's been months now,
Wth no word and no sign,
I had once made you a vow,
But now It's lost in my wine.
When I was a child,
You led him to me,
He taught me to be wild,
You answered my plea.
Go...
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Categories:
hisself, brother, me, me,
Form: Free verse
Straight From the Horse's Mouth
...STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH
A man should know the price he'll have to pay
for any cow or piglet he will buy
unless he's got the cash to throw away
for buying something then to wonder why!
He's g...
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Categories:
hisself, angst, family, time,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Cowboy Rookie
...He drove up to the Triple "T" Ranch in his brand new Cadillac!
In his air-conditioned trailer wuz his Arabian steed an' the finest tack!
He'd dreamed uv bein' a real workin' cowboy since he wuz a t...
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Categories:
hisself, cowboy-western, funny
Form: Rhyme
Cap'N and the Wench -Part the Second-
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Cap'n & the Wench *part the second*
Says the Wench to the Cap'n "I thinks I'll have Me a Tequila!"
So says the Cap'n to the Wench "Go right ahead Me Dear~
I'll be hard a'lee ta feel Y...
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Categories:
hisself, adventure, girlfriend-boyfriend, sea, me,
Form: Ballad
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