The Quidnunc
...A curious fellow named Trunc
Was known as the town’s quidnunc.
He’d peer and he’d pry,
With a glint in his eye,
Till secrets would spill with a thunk!
An irritating ...
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Categories:
invariable, satire,
Form: Limerick
I aim to live in the here ahem hair and now
...I aim to live in the here (ahem hair) and now...
despite entrenched familiar
obsessive compulsive disorder behavior
distracting me courtesy
countless what if scenarios,
particularly before und...
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Categories:
invariable, 7th grade, absence, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Laceless Shoes
...Inexplicably they appear in memory from time to time
the characters of the long-faded autumns and dim winters
Condescending, always ready to pry
to pick on, to step on, to say a loud word
and sud...
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Categories:
invariable, memory,
Form: Free verse
footfalls
...
beware ...
they are coming
I hear them as they tap their invariable
pulses on my spirit
like steel drums in the Cruzan night
all at once frightening
and irresistibly intoxicating -
the war...
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Categories:
invariable, analogy, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Forever doomed to reside at 2 Highland Manor Drive
...Forever doomed to reside at 2 Highland Manor Drive
A worse fate than death being hull hive,
I just realized after a surprise inspection
our opportunity to relocate cursed
after yours truly and ...
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Categories:
invariable, anger, angst, community, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Unique
...UNIQUE
Ultimate oneness
Nonparallel
Invariable
Quotha
Unbeaten
Establishing one and only one solution.
04\17\23
Writi...
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Categories:
invariable, appreciation,
Form: Acrostic
Severe Surge Regarding Thou Shalt Not Kill Violations
...Severe surge regarding thou shalt not kill violations
Fifth commandment breached regularly
epidemic of gun violence in America
bullets fly, scream and tear into flesh
senseless rampant mass kil...
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Categories:
invariable, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
In the Eyes of the Beholder
...In the eye of the beholder
To navigate between truth and lies skill is needed
I read in the Guardian, famous as a paper speaking the truth
but somehow, in the current debacle sounds like
polite...
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Categories:
invariable, absence, anti bullying, history,
Form: Sonnet
Open the Closed Window
...The crimson blood colored invariable,
flows free through every single heart,
as the common ancient ancestor etched
the footprints of humanity on earth.
The shared lineage thriving insulated,
...
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Categories:
invariable, discrimination, humanity, rights,
Form: Free verse
Taxing and Spending
...
A Couplet
on
Taxing & Spending
By: Tom
10/29/2021
Our elected officials are irrational thinkers,
tax and spend ideas are invariable stinkers.
...
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Categories:
invariable, political,
Form: Couplet
Repast For June 13th 2020
...Repast for June 13th, 2020...
(and countless provender
scores of years gone by)...
to partake larding refrigerator cupboards
think respectable food vendor.
Courtesy Montgomery County
(Pennsyl...
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Categories:
invariable, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Hear the Footfalls
...Beware ...
they are coming ...
I hear them as they tap their invariable
pulses on my spirit, like steel drums
in the Cruzan night, all at once frightening
and irresistibly intoxicating - the war...
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Categories:
invariable, analogy, courage, death, fear,
Form: Free verse
Oh What a Christmas Tree
...Oh What A Christmas Tree
Mistletoes, poinsettias, holly, and pinecones, stimulate their confidences regarding passage,
Tenuous fancied is the Norfolk pine, object facing, particular n...
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Categories:
invariable, beautiful, christmas, tree,
Form: Narrative
Shoot Nothing Like Killing Spree To Bookend August 2019
...Shoot! Nothing like killing spree to bookend August 2019!
The latest homicide,
where gunman(men) slew
dirty deed done dirt cheap
half dozen innocent people drew
minimal horrific gasps, now a n...
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Categories:
invariable, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Facebook As Confessional Minus Sexual Abuse
...Past psychological development
describes zigzagging mama's yoyo
casually, aye publicize, (asper
mein kampf) personal woe
unpleasant memories indelibly
etched, jagged, scar outlined like tickta...
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Categories:
invariable, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Bio
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