Mad Molly Shaw
...This is the story of mad Molly Shaw
She might be mad now but she wasn’t before
she came home to find her man dead on the floor
She lay down her bible and let out a roar
She walked into town wi...
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Categories:
holy joe, western,
Form: Rhyme
Meet Me At the Top
...Never said that I was better than him, her, them, or you But I did say there were certain things that I do...
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Categories:
holy joe, christian, confidence, destiny, devotion,
Form: Couplet
Clinging
...By touching we feel, no real need to show
Let us sense our favourite thing
Dreaming sleeping a wish an awake so slow
Friends we keep close but why not a foe
God a ple...
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Categories:
holy joe, life
Form: Villanelle
A Plan To Kill
...Going to an ocean death, denied worms
At the rear done, stern (yes naval terms)
Best a lower deck down, lowest how apt
Bully he’s gone; all free me now not trapped
Big man struck, stunned, w...
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Categories:
holy joe, imaginationme, me,
Form: Couplet
My Computer Virus
...I had a computer virus, I thought you might like to know.
Not one which makes the computer run real slow.
It completely closed me out of where I wanted to go.
The intruder’s name was "fake antivir...
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Categories:
holy joe, lifecomputer, me,
Form: Monorhyme
Gitano the Miner
...Now one of Guy's children croaked.
A mucous filled his little lung,
that griped his chest until he choked,
from phlegm he could not expunge.
It choked the breath right out of him.
Well, guinea ...
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Categories:
holy joe, allegory
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Gitano the Miner
...Now one of Guy's children croaked.
A mucous filled his little lung,
that griped his chest until he choked,
from phlegm he could not expunge.
It choked the breath right out of him.
Well, guinea ...
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Categories:
holy joe, allegory
Form: Iambic Pentameter
I Don'T Know
...What’s his name? What’s his name?
I don’t know, I don’t know
Let me go, let me go
What’s his name?
Who Jim Crow, Joe Blow or John Doe,
Why do you ask me so, I don’t know?
Why do you hold me in...
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Categories:
holy joe, confusion, funny, imagination, me,
Form: Free verse