My Inner Voice Told Me So
...At the end of the meal we shared,
my participle principles split my jeans,
when you called me to split the bill!
What about the banana-split you had for dessert?
You split-up spilled friend?
Or...
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Categories:
infinitives, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Adolescent infatuations never consummated
...Adolescent infatuations...never consummated
Greetings reader from a cross between an aging seventy inch long (ringing ding dong) haired pencil necked geek and a Norwegian bachelor farmer wannabe; ...
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Categories:
infinitives, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Writing a Poem Vi
..."Give me words, thousands of words,
I offer my kingdom for words, for I wish a
poem to write.
Not any poem but a masterpiece of a poem!" The aspiring
Poet shouted, and then in a lower voice added...
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Categories:
infinitives, inspiration, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
To Boldly Go
...
Shatner's Star Trek: a true break-out show
Well, except for the red shirts, you know?
With their food replicators,
Universal translators,
To infinitives, they'd boldly go.
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f...
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Categories:
infinitives, space,
Form: Limerick
Apology
...the limericks can’t be eschewed
my muse seems excessive imbued
they seep through the pores
they flood out in scores
seek nuance to coyly allude
It’s not just a trek through lewd grit
perfecti...
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Categories:
infinitives, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Papa Prizes Prurient Pubescent Pussy Riot Glacis
...(alternately titled: a pudendum posse petty filed trophy -
by hy phen - made declarative).
Appearance of the New Courier
(with namesake "Georgia Ives")
flew into the courtroom
faster than Bo...
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Categories:
infinitives, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Monoku Monday - July 2021
..."Debby Downer edition" posted 5 Jul 2021
the chill pill you took this morning appears to have been a placebo
misery loves company though company doesn't lo...
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Categories:
infinitives, humor,
Form: Monoku
Words
..."Give me words,
Thousands of words,
I offer my kingdom for words
For
A poem I wish to write
Not any poem
But
A masterpiece of a poem!" The aspiring poet shouted, and
then in a lower voice add...
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Categories:
infinitives, muse, poetry, poets, words,
Form: Free verse
Reverberating Poetry Line
...“To be or not to be: that is the question”*
Shakespeare’s wise words, worthy of introspection…
Such was first brought to my young mind’s discretion
During an English grammar class instruct...
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Categories:
infinitives, christian, encouraging, faith, god,
Form: Monorhyme
Dangling Participles
...Every time something breaks
like the pipe in the wall
we heard gushing
this morning
my wife wants to call
a repairman because
I can’t fix anything
except split infinitives
and dangling p...
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Categories:
infinitives, angst,
Form: Blank verse
Strangers In Peoria
...I met a proper woman in a proper pub on a Monday in Peoria. It was noon, time for lunch, and we were sitting stool to stool over very large burgers at a long mahogany bar. It curved in and out as if ...
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Categories:
infinitives, break up,
Form: Prose
Childhood Dreams For Contest
...Reigate Juniors, late July, in nineteen sixty nine
Miss Leggett crossed the room and slowly pulled down all the blinds
as one by one the summer's morning settled into gloom
the five of us sat quie...
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Categories:
infinitives, dream, science,
Form: Rhyme
Infinitives
...It’s one thing to write
it’s another thing to feel
to feel and not profess
For the sake of being
alive and filled with blood
we cast ourselves aside
You don’...
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Categories:
infinitives, love,
Form: Free verse
My Poetry Garden
...My poetry garden of late has lain untended and forlorn.
I succumbed to shock and dismay upon entering recently, for I observed that
great disagreement had erupted and now vehemently
raged among a...
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Categories:
infinitives, garden,
Form: Narrative