Heal Thyself O Patient - II
...Proffered no reprieve, led was I like cow
By clinic’s nurse to slaughterhouse, I thought,
The wise me cursing the rebel me now,
All mute, betwixt devil-pain-and-doc caught.
Take thermal waves...
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Categories:
humerus, care, health,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Humorous
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When someone stumbles and falls on their ass;
we find their predicament humorous.
And even though it is considered crass,
the people caught laughing are numer...
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Categories:
humerus, cheer up, funny, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
Holy Communion
...A vicar once said to a nun
Why don’t you and me have some fun
She yawned and said, “Look,
I’ve got the good book,
So, just let me know when you're done.”
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19 May 2023
Con...
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Categories:
humerus, rude,
Form: Limerick
Justice Disarmed
...Full of fascination, awe, and strange mystery,
a legend from some languishing law history…
He cracked open the case to see if credible,
when tastes for each other turned to the edible.
Valuing ...
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Categories:
humerus, judgement, mystery, nonsense,
Form: Other
A Bone To Pick
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Humorous? This could be one;
rhyming rules are numerous,
jumping through hoops nearly fun
as bumping your humerus…
An Ae Freislighe, an Irish quatrain with abab and 2-sy...
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Categories:
humerus, humorous, writing,
Form: Other
Prizes
...The other day I got a flyer
Because I am a frequent flier
And, as you have already guessed
It said I was an 'honoured guest'
In fact, the 'most important one'
And a 'special prize' I had won...
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Categories:
humerus, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Theory In Crisis: Ii
...If function is king, then there aren’t any Types,
but the living show us that’s simply not true.
The class tree is ordered according to forms
and not by the functions a critter can do.
So here’...
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Categories:
humerus, life, science,
Form: Rhyme
Dance With Your Skeletons
...Dance with your skeletons
Fling the closet doors wide
Throw open the blinds
Let the sunshine inside
Dance with your skeletons
You know that I’m right
For they have no backbone
When held to ...
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Categories:
humerus, dance, fear,
Form: Lyric
Bone Sore
...From marrow to vein the thin thread of memory drags another new malignancy out into the light.
I shall tuck it, as a gift, within Destot’s space and leave it to harden and calcify until it’s colour ...
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Categories:
humerus, body, flower, hurt, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Wife of Bath Made Me Laugh
...The Wife of Bath
She made me laugh
Can't recall now precisely why
It's something she stirred
with her foot in her mouth
and humerus in gooseberry pie...
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Categories:
humerus, food, humorous, literature, wife,
Form: Light Verse
The Skeletal Poem
...The human skeleton,
is made up of 206 bones
By jove, they are hard,
as if made of stones!
The brain you think with
is in the Skull or Cranium,
the Maxilla and the Mandible
are for chewing bu...
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Categories:
humerus, 10th grade, 8th grade,
Form: I do not know?
Ball and Chain
...Hassan harbours hard-worn hardship in his heavy homeless heart
Drones dereliction devastation and dire disintegration of daring dreams
Dear daughter dead at dawn Delisiha demised dismembered de...
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Categories:
humerus, war,
Form: Alliteration
Humor
...Humor is easy to explain,
It often comes from pain.
A leg broken times numerous,
Fractured my ribs, so humerus.
Because it's all about perspective,
You prospectively prospective-
Actually, I...
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Categories:
humerus, blue, humor, missing,
Form: Couplet
Ins and Outs Part 3
...Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts.
Part 3
our subject awoke
while still dark everywhere
dark with ...
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Categories:
humerus, how i feel, ,
Form: Free verse
A Body At Work
...I was working out back, while under the palms
I've a tendon-cy to stand under the limbs
to focus my eyes, and digest the surrounding glands...
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Categories:
humerus, humor, humorous, imagination, insect,
Form: Free verse
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