A Real Bloke's Shed
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Have you ever wondered what’s kept in a real blokes shed?
I bet you thought them full of junk, but I’m telling you instead.
I’ve had the privilege to peruse such a shed one night,
It’s owned by ...
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Categories:
hock, friend, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Love Birds
...Moshpit Romance
two lovebird nerds
By:Bird's Eye View
The Peasant and Turkey
The horse and the Cow
churk and ah gimerro
Aurelius sow these seeds for me
in this rich Rio River mud
Aurelius
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Categories:
hock, america, character, chicago, film,
Form: Ballad
Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025
...Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025
min(no) newt effect on me.
As part and parcel of terpsichorean repertoire,
one whirling dervish
flaps his wings at the speed of sound.
With twenty ...
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Categories:
hock, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Once again, yours truly takes poetic license
...Once again, yours truly takes poetic license.
Whenever the missus irks me or complains...
I tell her don't "Hock me in chinik" nor kvetch
before long tête-à-tête escalates in2 Kanipshin
whereby...
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Categories:
hock, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
Trailer Park
...After work at Google, I sat with the guys
I said we were elite, enlightened and wise
We had to censor those in this benighted nation
Who spread disruptive disinformation.
A Venture Cap named Ha...
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Categories:
hock, america, culture, discrimination, humor,
Form: Lyric
A Stone Alone?
...My anger grips my heart with hands of ice;
Cold fury makes my brow burn and perspire.
The things of value, things that have no price
Are being trashed and thrown into the fire.
False promises are...
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Categories:
hock, anger, political,
Form: Sonnet
I lacked emotions where others concerned
...Back approximately half my life ago
dissociative disorder
if qualified to self diagnose
mein kampf psychological state...
I lacked emotions where others concerned.
That refrain replayed it...
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Categories:
hock, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Today I’m Dreaming
...Thoughts, they float on rivers,
they roam anywhere at all,
a joyful heart has risen,
invitation from the dawn,
misty eye reflection caught,
on early morning camera,
picture this upon a bridge,
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Categories:
hock, art, beauty, birth, celebration,
Form: Verse
Seek Shelter
...As the heavy droplets of rain fell on the path,
I could do nothing but laugh.
It amused me to see the tiny ants, scatter.
As one after the other wondered what was the matter.
They scurried alon...
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Categories:
hock, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Ma's Soup
...'Dinner won't be long, Dear.'
Burt puffed up his pillows and squeezed one out.
'Better wash your hands, now'.
The armchair smothered his glee.
Wallaby faggots,
Brown rice juices,
L...
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Categories:
hock, appreciation, drink, family, farm,
Form: Free verse
The Hoof Choice
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Written: November 07, 2023
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Am I condoning a state of affluence?
In recent desultory decadence
Have I drawn a swan dive of choice?
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Categories:
hock, analogy, anxiety, betrayal, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Strip Before the Styx
...Charon demands us to disrobe
Sell your layers for coins
Some with less have more to trade
Better than becoming chained ghosts
Our suits and dresses tie us down
Being nude again will be sobering
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Categories:
hock, addiction, death, depression, extended
Form: Free verse
Poetic Podcast Episode 13
...The gentleman turned to me distraught;
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing,
“Had to park my wheels, can’t pay my bills.”
Another victim of a repeating pattern,
back to our old ways we learned...
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Categories:
hock, emotions, humanity, introspection,
Form: Free verse
She Pawned Her Ring
...She pawned her ring
went into hock
Sold her long hair
went into shock
Took to the streets
with naught to eat
Just a smidgen of dope
and a cup of hope
Tried to beg
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Categories:
hock, hope, money, poverty, sad,
Form: Narrative
Let Me Entertain You
...vaudeville stepped off the stage
and leapt into the living room
with hot topic-tuned antenna views
shy ventriloquists turned from radio
to television with a vision to be seen
juggling with e...
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Categories:
hock, children, humor, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
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