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the dog and i

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the dog came to see me the other day
and he pissed all over my
left shoestring
i can't stand to have someone
get my left shoestring wet
i think i would have begged him
to pee on my right s...

Barefoot Dreams

...Rattling through the bogs, my love in limbo

Battling against the odds, arms akimbo 

Too late to tear down the walls that they've built 

Ate a cat-o-nine tails and swallowed their guilt 

T...

Blemish to Menace

...There are people who take what they want
pez dispensers of pain and suffering
gleaning never planting
rapists of confidence 
of fresh air...
staining the soul of everything
tumors in the marrow...

A Bad Day For Todd

...Not all poems are happy
Some are sad and some are sappy
This poem is so odd
It's about a boy whose name was Todd

Todd has hair that is very ginger
He wears a ring right on his finger
His skin...

Why Your Cities Burn, Part II

......Finally Gobayth came to
a devastated mountainside,
the trees and soil stripped away,
slaves cutting out blocks of great size.
They led him to a wooden hut
where several gold coins were exchan...

Conquered, Part I

...She’d not heard the horses approach her village in the plains,
had known nothing or war of death until their arrows rained,
fiery streak against the night, set flame to thatch and straw,
scramblin...

END TIMES : ONE

...END TIMES : ONE 

[Poet’s Note : This poem arose out of a play on quote in Bible by Christ : “I will open my mouth in parables. I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world…This is ho...

Abandoned

...I sat on the floor of the pavement,
Sun shining on my face.
It had been ages since I saw the sun.
It always evoked a feeling of pure pleasure,
Though the one I always remember
It was the rising ...

Life Raft in Amber

...When brother was fading away
black chimes signaled for the demons to play
They attacked all sides of the hobbled mind
Treating the heart like an orphaned marble
They were rabid and had brackish i...

Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep

...Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep...

versus being alive 
predicated victory videre licet lunatic
if Trump trumped Kamala Harris
and stole 2024 presidential election,  
(whereat Musk brib...

A Bird in My Windowsill

...Once a bird sat on my windowsill
Chirped for me to hear
I opened up the window
The bird just had no fear
I wondered how it could be so
And spoke to the little thing
It looked at me as if knowin...

Making a Case for Yellow

...I was never fond of the word or the color
it reminded me of ceiling stains in cheap hotels
infinite shades of latrine piss
bony cigarette fingertips 
grandpa's stage 4 jaundice 
the forever scar...

Gracious Grace

...Gotta Love Alliteration 5-21-24
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Gracious Grace

Endless effervescence of grace,
In riots of radiance, infected by innocence,
Seeks out the heart...

Charleston Merman

...We were vacationing in the state of
palm trees and seashore in September's
mild loveliness.
Me, a sexagenarian widow,
hobbled by arthritis in my knees.
As my family enjoyed the surf,
I sat cont...

Sir Rowelph And The Witch

...on a rearing steed Sir Rowelph rode
and rode, he rode through snorting nose
of thunderous fan, his stallion 
galloping, charging, claiming land
to the rhythm of a drummer’s hand
down silt and du...

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