EVERY FAMILY GOT ONE
...Every family got one
That one family member who
You won't invite to the cook-out
Because you know that they'll
Do something stupid to turn it out
And pissed everyone off, might
Even cause a fi...
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Categories:
hoggish, conflict, family,
Form: Free verse
Pinwheels On Pumpkins
...
Lollipops for good little boys and girls
melt like tricks onto rotting teeth;
Full of intense flavor and colored swirls;
Nightmares freeze into all that spun sugar,
cotton candy pinwheels on ...
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Categories:
hoggish, candy, child, emotions, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
I Can't Find the Mustard
...This sandwich is destitute
And the dijon has expired
A miraculous vision appeared to me, a gentle lady
One who gloriously gazed on my face
What is the life of but Art and Science?
The Shephe...
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Categories:
hoggish, anxiety, food,
Form: Free verse
Porky Problems
...A porky problem
worth resolving
Is our scientifically hoggish evolutionary
survivalist assumption
that all Creatures that Matter
would highest and best
usefully support AnthroPrivileged
ra...
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Categories:
hoggish, analogy, health, integrity, political,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Birds In All Seasons
...poetic trilling of joyful greedy song birds in summer
faded pink male cardinals swoop and flip
running red squirrel flashes tail
excited white-tailed deer knocks down bird feeder
mushy wet bir...
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Categories:
hoggish, bird,
Form: Free verse
The Wizard and the Dragon
...On a land across the sea
There's a dragon, so fierce and mighty
All the peasants tremble in fright
When he's roaring with his might
He casts his prey in his breath of fire
And devours him...
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Categories:
hoggish, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Hoggish Hypnotism
...Hideous hank hoisted
smoothened scrunched sculpted
tactic turn twisting
scared surges skipping
smithereens into span
contracted turbulent trance
vile vibed passion
inflected per punctures...
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Categories:
hoggish, hyperbole, imagination,
Form: Sonnet
Ndidi
...NDIDI (PATIENCE IS GOLDEN)
Patience said:
"Whatever my old man says."
So,
I saw the wise, bald, old man
In his thatched mud hut
Loin cloth knotted
Around his shoulders
The whiff of (snuff...
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Categories:
hoggish, pride,
Form: Prose
Big Bad Recliner Chair Leader
...It is a brisk seventeen degrees. Some are complaining
at the 40 mile-an-hour winds, dandy
Winter tornado in Saint Louie. I am in my
giant brown recliner, wearing doffers, and
My zip up strippe...
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Categories:
hoggish, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Impatience Was Our Only Commonality
...My Grandpa was an impatient man.
One time when the boys didn’t bring the truck home in time
And he had to move hay,
Grandpa took a chain saw and massacred the top
Off his spanking brand new Cadil...
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Categories:
hoggish, abuse, child abuse, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Sorry
...This ain't your depiction of forever
Actions confined by my feelings
Far from foreboding, distemper, fear, and double crossing you know all to well
Unsettled questions wielding a sword of ignoranc...
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Categories:
hoggish, anger, angst, dark, depression,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Eternal Hustle
...In years past and now, and those to also come
Close by, afar, where’er , all men are one
Thus affined well to all ‘good things’ on earth
And give their lives to hunting down some pence
He is as...
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Categories:
hoggish, humanity, race,
Form: Quatrain