The Bell Witch Legend
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It's told John Bell, North Carolinian
shot dead a brutish scoundrel he employed,
got off scot-free, and went his merry way.
Life as he knew it soon would be...
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Categories:
horrendously, fear,
Form: Quatrain
Authenticity isn’t GMO
...Push the limits…try to find outlets and coping skills for yourself
Pull away from the urge to throw those childish, languishing fits
Explore and implore with me now
Feels drown away and fade someh...
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Categories:
horrendously, angst, deep, fear,
Form: Free verse
WAR
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Tumult and chaos reign around us
Gushes of water spill from shattered roofs unto bodies
Water does not heal the wounds of besieged people suffering
ln the distance music of two misplaced cellos ...
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Categories:
horrendously, war,
Form: Free verse
Trick Or Treat
...Macabre stairs that creek horrendously beneath her feet
that creepy little girl descending owns hair as fine as wheat
Shadows play on the wall like evil puppeteers of old
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Categories:
horrendously, scary,
Form: Rhyme
A Tale of Ancient Times
...This is a tale of ancient times
And a knight of valiant heraldry
Who followed true his knightly code,
The weight of righteousness his load,
All sheathed in heaven's grace he rode,
And practiced ...
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Categories:
horrendously, faith, history, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
Onerous Task Confronted Teachers and Parents
...Onerous task confronted teachers and parents
As prospective students
ably ready themselves to matriculate
and/or first set little feet
inside halls of learning,
I rebroadcast a poem crafted
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Categories:
horrendously, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
I Haint No Recalcitrant Underdog Among Hoi Polloi
...Just a garden variety generic wordsmith
teasing out reasonable rhyme courtesy ploy;
self plagiarizing boot juiced barely abiding
by ruff dogma, with enigmatic joie
de vivre charisma,
which oft...
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Categories:
horrendously, 12th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme
Hold On Tightly, When Life Takes Its Great Leaps and Bounds
...Hold On Tightly, When Life Takes Its Great Leaps And Bounds
Hold on tightly, when life takes its great leaps and bounds
this old blue marble is not all sweet virgin ground
strewn about are hor...
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Categories:
horrendously, art, deep, humanity, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Gist
...He whose life for the time being
Is horrendously unyielding
Shall be found tilting at every windmill ..
Chokri Omri
(Regueb, August the 7th, 2021)...
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Categories:
horrendously, blessing, faith, fruit,
Form: Haiku
An Adverse World Uncurled
...“I am NOT like my father!!!
You say that again, I’m going to kill you!”
I shrivel up in shame
For, I am not to blame
For the shenanigans you put me through so many times
Sometimes, I wish I wa...
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Categories:
horrendously, addiction, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Extinguisher
...When I was 19 years old
I collapsed on my twin size collegiate bed
With my head in my hands
And I sobbed
Because for the first time in my shallow existence
My carefully curated victim complex w...
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Categories:
horrendously, anger, dark, identity, slam,
Form: Free verse
Onerous Task Confronts Teachers and Parents Part One
...The following reasonable obsolete rhyme
verst heard in my faux class (sic) lilting brogue
courtesy coronavirus (COVID-19) rogue
wrought approximate sixth month academic hiatus
nevertheless Septem...
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Categories:
horrendously, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Daver Austin
...ANIMAL COURT
I relate this story from my room in the Quiet Vale Giggling Academy
A reader might find my story hard to believe
BUT!
At one time in my life –
As a matter of fact quite recently...
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Categories:
horrendously, animal, humor,
Form: Free verse
Shall These Words Fall, As a Corpse Into a Decadent Grave
...Shall These Words Fall, As A Corpse Into A Decadent Grave
Shall these words fall, as a corpse into a decadent grave
ignoble unto the ignorance of brainwashed masses
or by some miracle, enlighten...
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Categories:
horrendously, appreciation, art, dedication, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Genuine Apologia Bequeathed
...Genuine Apologia Bequeathed...
Kickstarting Expungement Father Incurred
Within a sea futility aye wallow
riptides exemplifies sorrows
drowning me into undertow
bitter aftertaste hogties abilit...
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Categories:
horrendously, angst, betrayal, giving, heart,
Form: Bio
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