Annette
...A morning coincidence, to school we laughed and skipped -
A cloud that drifted through the sky, from my mind it slipped.
For many years and then forever, I would forget
That happy race with th...
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Categories:
ill chosen, crush, humor, kiss, lost
Form: Rhyme
Cupid Unkind
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Love,
The emotion
From eternity to eternity
Touches humans
Giving serenity,
The ones in love
Forever fortuitous
To be singing
Life's glorious song,
A dance of
Tango
Between two
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Categories:
ill chosen, emotions, extended metaphor, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Winter Ode Number Two
...The power keeps flickering.
Don’t mean to be bickering;
Just glad that it keeps coming back.
True, the clocks keep resetting,
But what’s far more upsetting:
When a pump room becomes an ice pack....
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Categories:
ill chosen, angst, power, weather,
Form: Light Verse
Coming Home For Christmas
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Twas the night before Christmas before I got home,
it took a train, bus, and taxi in falling snow;
and how that bus on the road did sway and roam,
while the wild snow and wind did h...
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Categories:
ill chosen, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Political Rhetoric
...Words can have so many meanings
It pays to carefully choose what you say,
Lack of phrasing can reveal your leanings
Ill-chosen words will often make you pay.
Politicians quickly learn how...
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Categories:
ill chosen, meaningful, spoken word, words,
Form: Rhyme
The Knight In the Panther's Skin
...THE KNIGHT IN THE PANTHER’S SKIN
Shota Rustaveli (c. 1160-1250), often called simply Rustaveli, was a Georgian poet who is generally considered to be the preeminent poet of the Georgian Golden Age...
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Categories:
ill chosen, hero, love, star, stars,
Form: Epic
If You Pull a Long Face - Part Xiv
...IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XIV
IF you pull a long stiff face
Week after week while you parley
You risk stoking the furnace
Ill-chosen words all ending in nay
If you keep pulling the l...
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Categories:
ill chosen, america, analogy, conflict, leadership,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The View From Where I Stand
...I’ve an anger which cannot be hidden!
A burning passion that comes unbidden!
My Soul desolated with grievous rage,
reacts with furious justified outrage!
Occasioned by the offences of ignorance...
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Categories:
ill chosen, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Disenchanted Ideology
...There were shades of tranquility
aching 'neath civilization's cry,
still blood was shed amid glorified
borders of battlefield's convoluted calling,
each magnified footprint pooled crimso...
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Categories:
ill chosen, angst, death, grief, history,
Form: Free verse
Word Hoard
...They say if you don’t use a thing for a year
It’s time to get rid of it, just to be clear
Feel free to sell it or give it away
But to get clutter free, just don’t let it stay
So, I checked my g...
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Categories:
ill chosen, education, fun, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Nothing To Hide, Translation of a Coeur Ouvert, Poem By Rene Etiemble
...Nothing to hide*, Translation of a poem: “A coeur ouvert” by (René) Etiemble
For Jeannine
(Later in life, Etiemble suppressed his first name, ostensibly on account of the accented “é”
endin...
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Categories:
ill chosen, love, , literature,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Political Incorrectness
...The politically correct nonsense of today is so very absurd!
The language of my native land has become so terribly blurred,
By those who devote themselves to concocting such inane idiom.
Such prat...
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Categories:
ill chosen, political
Form: Rhyme
Savages
...Mentally ill chosen by a few cowards they struck;
Against fundamentals of mankind and society.
Jehad against Allah's doctrine in self destruct role;
Seek a place in heaven with innocent blood on...
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Categories:
ill chosen, life
Form: Free verse
These Eyes of Mine
...These eyes obedient, have led the way
Onto countless ill-chosen paths.
These eyes as apart from body like partner,
Witness free will in mountainous struggles
Equal in preventability.
These ...
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Categories:
ill chosen, introspection, mother, son,
Form: I do not know?