A Call To Action
...Rebellion and riverbeds start to dance
with a rush flowing, slowing, then stalling.
Both try perilously to gain traction,
the current is treacherous take a stance.
It may appear that you’re bar...
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Categories:
infraction, conflict, courage, humanity, inspirational,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
Life
...In the game of football, one may be
called for an infraction by the toss of a flag.
In basketball, there are whistles and 24 seconds to shoot.
In the sport of boxing, there is a clock and bell.
W...
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Categories:
infraction, growth,
Form: Free verse
Venus and Mars
...Sworn together by my troth my May bride
when joined were glad hearts on eternal date -
Rome did not fall nor the planets collide
and blessed by the Fates we did celebrate.
You wore pearls...
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Categories:
infraction, celebration, dedication, marriage,
Form: Sonnet
Crying Mercy
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Crying Mercy
Hurled down the depth of a desolate ditch
By folks envious of my blazer to c...
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Categories:
infraction, faith, feelings, god, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
More or less?
...Life i beleive...yet cant always see.? Is more than
Physicalitys.'
There's infraction, reaction good and evil in action.'
Its hard to press, against the tide..The wall of doubt
The falseness insi...
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Categories:
infraction, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Just A Girl and Her Seven Dogs
...Once upon a most wonderful walk, a girl and her seven dogs
Shared an entirely spontaneous and ridiculously rude,
Yet delightfully playful social interaction.
To the dreary, disapproving outside ...
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Categories:
infraction, abuse, animal, corruption, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Billy the Kid's Sister
..."Born William Henry McCarty, Jr. AKA, Billy the Kid or El Chivito, (Billy Goat/Kid). He had a younger brother named Joseph, and they both had an older sister named Bridget McCarty. Not mu...
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Categories:
infraction, allusion, analogy, appreciation, brother,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Just a Mom
...When your kids are grown your just a mom,
They call you to be their calm.
You’re not allowed to have advice,
Unless it’s about how to remove mice.
A friend sometimes you just want to be,
But as...
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Categories:
infraction, children, depression, emotions, family,
Form: Rhyme
My Daddy Warned Me
...Screw the rules is the motto I live by
Too old to toe the line
So sue me and then just try to collect
Won't be alive to pay the fine
I'll be kicking up daisies on a hill out back
As yo...
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Categories:
infraction, father,
Form: Rhyme
A Magpies Rhyme
...Our neighbor Edna is an incessant talker for sure
My husband says squawker, and I think so too
Weird words come out in a blather, somehow threatening
More than a bit of chatter, it is constant and...
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Categories:
infraction, women,
Form: Free verse
What I See In the Holy Bible
...I can see that The Holy Bible
Has not Good Words it kept for Libel:
Whoever has been badly defamed
To not feel like Our Lord ‘The Profaned’
I sort of spot in Holy Bible
The Faces of Men that d...
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Categories:
infraction, emotions, feelings, god, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Early Summer In the Meadow
...Taking my first summer stroll in the meadow,
I marveled at the new growth and flowers
The sun was shining full blast, not a single shadow
My mind rummaged through its ivory towers.
Wi...
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Categories:
infraction, beauty, betrayal, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Attitude
...She knew things were going to fall into place in an amazing way
Of course they did.
She obtained her dream job.
He was certain he was going to be flogged and beaten.
Someone mugged him on the wa...
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Categories:
infraction, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
An Orwellian Explanation
...An Orwellian Explanation
Orwellian in nature, data collecting agencies are necessary;
They keep adding info to the files created at someone's request.
Everything gathered is retrieved, an...
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Categories:
infraction, perspective, political, psychological, satire,
Form: Prose Poetry
Zero Tolerance Buzzwords
...Zero Tolerance is a prime example
Of the all-too common phenomenon
Of weasel words -words are words
designed to limit critical thinking
they sound good but they limit
one’s ability to see the...
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Categories:
infraction, political,
Form: Free verse
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