Invaders with Rice
...Treacherous invaders ever growing,
in dark, damp places always showing,
protective boundaries, they will breach,
insidiously extending their evil reach.
How will I conquer these fungal sinners?
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Categories:
insidiously, food, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Les Cirque des Morts Collab with B J Fitz
...A cocooned cacophony of crickets serenades overgrown fields,
drowning out the creaking of rusted cars long since abandoned.
Maroon and sable tents blot the dilapidated ground—
bloated a...
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Categories:
insidiously, dark, death, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Les Cirque des Morts, Collaboration with Sara Jama
...A cocooned cacophony of crickets serenades overgrown fields,
drowning out the creaking of rusted cars long since abandoned.
Maroon and sable tents blot the dilapidated ground—
bloated and we...
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Categories:
insidiously, analogy, dark, death, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Cry Ugly
..."Cry Ugly"
My deepest private searing pain manifests as "Cry Ugly.”
Guttural moans race like a runaway train. The wail crescendos and peaks as a Banshee scream.
Tears race down my face… my n...
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Categories:
insidiously, angst, dark, journey, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Clouds Of the Future in the Present Day Part 2
.....continued from Part 1:
Mass censorship
is sadly all pervasive
to the uninformed
and relative luxury
smitten blind,
A World view bubble,
Idolatry, Idiocracy
Creates all sorts
of ...
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Categories:
insidiously, environment,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Sledgehammer - in Trumps own words
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Folks ask why
I chose Elon as my guy,
Smart and tough
Knows how to fight even when rough,
Let him loose
To put woke projects in the noose,
Cause a stir
For progressives to deter,
Stop the r...
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Categories:
insidiously, america, appreciation, immigration, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Have you encountered this Senryu
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From work to love.
From family and friends
Have you encountered this Senryu?
Being betrayed
Is insidiously mean
By those you trusted
(575)
(C)
Copyright John Duffy...
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Categories:
insidiously, humanity,
Form: Senryu
Where is the Shining City on a Hill?
...Where is the shining city upon a hill? It may be out there…somewhere. ...
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Categories:
insidiously, america, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep
...Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep...
versus being alive
predicated victory videre licet lunatic
if Trump trumped Kamala Harris
and stole 2024 presidential election,
(whereat Musk brib...
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Categories:
insidiously, absence, america, angst, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Gold
...Greed is not a financial issue. It’s a heart issue.
—Andy Stanley
Gold
feel free to share
insidiously
to murder
decree
what’s not worth
gold
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Categories:
insidiously, abortion,
Form: Free verse
Seijaku
...Despite the pulsing pirouette of urban thresholds,
coruscating catalyst amid detachment,
of golden spoke carousel magnetism,
circle-shape swivel platform roundabout,
that spreads incipient wish f...
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Categories:
insidiously, appreciation, beautiful, care, character,
Form: Free verse
When Raindrops Fall
...Pitter patter on rain polished pavements
Tears straggling down window panes
The rattle of ricocheting raindrops on galvanised rooftops
Spiralling eddies in bull's eye puddles
Umbrellas ,shields ...
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Categories:
insidiously, beauty, happy, joy, pain,
Form: Free verse
Spore your appreciation, edification, information
...Spore your appreciation, edification, information...,
orchestration, and utilization,
a moss fungi (fun guy) attests his marriage
synonymous with symbiotic relationship.
Nostalgic acquiescence ...
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Categories:
insidiously, adventure, age, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Betrayal's Harvest
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I couldn't believe the word on the streets
It ran through every nook and cranny
and with urgent feet.
The news of a daughter's unkind heart was told.
A calculated wanton cruelty unfold.
The s...
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Categories:
insidiously, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month
...My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month
Which acknowledgement ought to be year round,
similar to altruistic, humanistic, and philanthropic
unconditional acceptance and ...
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Categories:
insidiously, abuse, africa, age, america,
Form: Free verse
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