Modest is never me
...I don’t want to be famous, is no gripe,
One can fetch some fame with a lot of hype,
No never, that’s not me,
I’d rather farther see
To see me more a legendary type.
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Limeri...
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Categories:
hobbes, humor,
Form: Limerick
neither cleanliness nor godliness do I abide
...neither cleanliness nor godliness do I abide
rather yours truly doth thrive
on keeping the ethos, mythos,
and pathos of Pigpen alive
subjected to eternal
abomination, brutalization,
condemnatio...
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Categories:
hobbes, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Inside This Cave
...Inside this cave, my refuge, nave
I bend and stretch and breath,
to find myself among the ruins
of ancient places, faces, and history.
Although I strive to change the tide
of my own motivat...
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Categories:
hobbes, allusion, history,
Form: Rhyme
Somewhere In Time This Philosopher Stonily Ponders
...Somewhere in time this Philosopher stonily ponders...
A poet (quite familiar with yours truly)
sat at his computer
trying his darnedest to craft a rhyme
imagining when both parents
of mine liv...
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Categories:
hobbes, appreciation, august, conflict, environment,
Form: Rhyme
A Change Is a Com N
...A Change Is A Com'n
Though this baby boomer,
(who didst roam man
upon this Earth
since the year
mcmLix) does not
coon sitter himself
a political activist his wear
re: some ness, p...
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Categories:
hobbes, anxiety, class, environment, grief,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Brief Epistle in Urgent Forewarning against Melancholia--Part I
...(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions ...
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Categories:
hobbes, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Prose
Solitude In Academia
...Homer, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Goethe, and Crane;
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens, Tolstoy, Whitman, and Twain;
Whose imagination and toil helped to unfold
Stories, philosophies, and lessons to be...
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Categories:
hobbes, books, deep, happiness, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Lamenting
...For unspoken answers,
there was always the-
question, why hawks
were needing the peace ?
Tied to innate fringes,
I want an explicit display.
The prologue was very
misleading.
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Categories:
hobbes, art,
Form: ABC
The Meaning of Life
...Ah, the meaning of Life...
What is it?
Perhaps it is just a feeling of not being complete.
I've always said that the meaning OF life,
Is to find one's own meaning IN life,
To reach a state o...
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Categories:
hobbes, life, philosophy
Form: Prose Poetry
Spectrum
...Spectrum
Hobbes
I sit beneath the wondrous skies,
The spectrum overhead.
Such endless beauty way up high,
The reason why I said;
The colours warm the coldest heart,
Will light the darkest so...
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Categories:
hobbes, nature
Form: Rhyme
Star-Crossed
...Star-Crossed
Hobbes Dec 22/09
Two lives that fate and destiny entwined,
Together though circumstance doth protest.
Breaking free of the heavy chains that bind,
Forever, through the worst and ...
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Categories:
hobbes, lovelove,
Form: Sonnet
Struggle
...Struggle
Hobbes
Move along,
Down the line.
Sing their song,
So Sublime.
Inch by inch,
Forward still.
It's a cinch,
Fire at will!
Load your gun,
Ammo pack.
Break a run,
Don't look bac...
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Categories:
hobbes, war
Form: Rhyme
Captive
...Captive
Hobbes
I am a maze,
A living puzzle.
My stripes are cover,
Living camo.
I stay hidden
safe from a world of predators.
Humans who would take my hide,
Skin me and hang it like decor....
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Categories:
hobbes, animals
Form: Free verse
Save Me
...Save Me
Hobbes
Hold me under,
Drown me, Drown me.
Breath escapes me,
Kill me, Kill me.
Hide the body,
Leave me, Leave me.
One last chance now,
Save me, Save me.
Bring me closer,
Hold m...
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Categories:
hobbes, lifeme, me,
Form: I do not know?
Dominance
...Dominance
Hobbes
Snowflakes fall
from the sky.
Days go on,
people die.
Never fall,
Never cry.
Continue on our way.
Passion burns,
Hearts ablaze.
Haters hate,
Zelots praise.
To the ne...
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Categories:
hobbes, war
Form: Rhyme
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