Confessional Booth Number 9
...Streetlight dander. Jawbone asphalt.
Blink razors carve her iris script.
Rib stars ovulate in feral grates,
mechanical tongue juts a bloodline breath.
Keystroke ruin writes in collapse,
a wavefo...
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Categories:
incisor, absence, conflict, corruption, desire,
Form: Romanticism
Gradations of Color
...Hydration day’s a month away.
Online belonging company’s an hour from
startup stardom. Titration hors-d'oeuvre
Viewfinder pigeonholed
to rooftop tourist
traps ruin’d carriage holy woods
Ho...
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Categories:
incisor, absence, addiction, age, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Terror Bugs: Part 3 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
...[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 2 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
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London’s streets resembled an al fresco mausoleum
They tracked a trail of body parts which led to a...
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Categories:
incisor, adventure,
Form: Narrative
Three Teeth
...three incisor teeth burst through fresh flesh...
opaque as pearls, strong as love, precious
beautiful baby babbles assertively
mesmerized by mishmash sounds
that her astounding mouth can make...
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Categories:
incisor, abuse, addiction, childhood, drug,
Form: Free verse
Waiting For Santa
...I sat on the edge of the roof, studying the horizon
Waiting for the do-gooder, who makes me wretch
He will not be ho-ho-ho-ing after I get finished here.
I feel something protruding from my left i...
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Categories:
incisor, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Long In the Tooth Male Doth Recount Reflect Reimagine
...Long in the tooth male doth recount, reflect, reimagine...
his woebegone damn dental daze today May 5th, 2021
No particular rhyme nor reason
garden variety indentured flunky (me)
revisits his ...
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Categories:
incisor, 2nd grade, absence, age,
Form: Rhyme
Mr Slow Will Dine - Warning a Bit Grimm
...[A parody of Mistletoe and Wine... apologies to Sir Cliff]
[‘Chorus’ indented for easy skipping if desired]
This night it will bring, a venomous sting
His life is long past, his cadaver’s grin...
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Categories:
incisor, christmas, fear, horror, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Teeth Take To the Streets
...My teeth walked down the stairs today
Molar stepped on aluminum and I yelled “hey!”
They were rioting to protest the new floss.
I rolled my eyes; after all, I am the boss!
My mouth tried to s...
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Categories:
incisor, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Game Show Question
...Canine, incisor, molar to.
What are all three? I’m looking at you.
One hundred thousand dollars up for grabs
Ellen is waiting showing her abs
Dogs teeth, teeth dogs, dogs the woman guesses.
Man ...
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Categories:
incisor, life,
Form: Light Verse
Poetry Is Part 1
...Poetry IS the Mother of ALL art.
The completion and the part.
A private punchline-divine.
Be it the fruit or be it the vine.
It is The IS, sometimes the Music,
sometimes the Muse for us.
The us...
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Categories:
incisor, art, inspiration, inspirational, poems,
Form: Rhyme
The Bridie Price of An Unfortunate Lady
...THE BRIDIE PRICE OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY
Quietly her love fathomed
The glittering incisor,
A puissant one unravished,
An aesthete affirmed.
Wide in comb of friend
A pilot stood aghast
In rapt m...
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Categories:
incisor, adventure, art, aubade, beauty,
Form: Elegy
Two Cowboys
...At 27,123 pounds, Gertrude was at her finest, and friskiest weight.
She said to everyone she met, “Hey, I weigh over a ton, isn’t this terrifically great?”
The other dragons were jealous, as weight...
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Categories:
incisor, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Beheld
...Beauty beheld by a devil
Would fury and lust incite
Taunting him to revel
At things lovely and bright
And only annoy and dishevel
The beast like a collar too tight.
Ugliness happened upon,...
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Categories:
incisor, beauty, perspective,
Form: Quatern
- A Meeting With a Ghost - 1973 -
...
Several years of my childhood I spent with my aunt and uncle
who lived in an old rectory in Northern Norway
It was a hard time, much work, little food never time for play or entertainment
My a...
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Categories:
incisor, fantasy, fear, writing,
Form: Prose Poetry
Bard's East Side Recitation
...ya can't recite a sonnet
without a union card
we got rules here ya know
now move along,
you're not da bard
ya can't be a narrated narrative
neither an alliterative comparative
voiced onomatopoeia ...
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Categories:
incisor, imagination, on writing and
Form: I do not know?
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