Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation
...Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation
Otherwise titled deep into my fiftieth year of passive aggressive rebellious puberty.
Yes, I chickened out getting a haircut yesterday August twen...
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Categories:
jabbering, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
hollywood
...In Paris, society people unironically dress for dinner, go to cocktail parties (where the hostess has an obvious drinking problem), dine with Catholic Bishops, industrialists, politicians and occasio...
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Categories:
jabbering, adventure, celebrity, growing up,
Form: Free verse
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
...I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re:
long in tooth sexagenarian
nostalgic for the following imagery
ev...
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Categories:
jabbering, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Stopping By
...Here I lie in a hired bed
Everything around me is red
For their minds bleed much in ponder
Over foolish things, they wonder
The hassle of travelling
But my stomach is quarreling
I need t...
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Categories:
jabbering, courage,
Form: Rhyme
The Parrot Dogs
...Eyes prying at darkness time
Mouths babbling without a rhyme
Biting at back like coward's teeth
Telling reasons without a beat
They're like parrots from dusk to dawn
Jabbering in someone'...
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Categories:
jabbering, character,
Form: Rhyme
The Trolls
...Everyday, from time to time
They do things that do not rhyme
To and fro without a cause
Barking bitterness without a pause
They're like pests on a plant
Or like ants in the pants
Doing n...
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Categories:
jabbering, courage,
Form: Rhyme
DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE
...Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Jovial Dr Jekyll played for juvenile Justice
a just jaspered journey
jokingly jumped a joyride
to juicy jukebox jabber...
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Categories:
jabbering, 12th grade, extended metaphor,
Form: Alliteration
I Wonder
...I wonder how people live everyday by bitterly minding other people's business instead of fixing their own life, like jabbering parrots that have no life of their own. Or is it really true that they ...
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Categories:
jabbering, wisdom,
Form: Other
Jabbers
...Voices ringing with the same story
Like they did long time ago
For it's the only thing they know
It's the only thing they can do
To jabber behind someone's shadow
Vilifying day and night
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Categories:
jabbering, 10th grade,
Form: Free verse
Blech impossible mission to savor mug of ginger tea
...Blech - impossible mission to savor mug of ginger tea...
When the entire mug awash
with floating leavings
by golly by gosh,
sipping said herbal brew
analogous challenge
to eat spaghetti squas...
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Categories:
jabbering, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
of daybreak's dreams
...After the sun sets
Before the moon peeks
Coldly over frosted ponds
Daylight hovers behind the curtain
Enjoying a cup of darkness
Flirting with the shadows
Gliding easily across the stage
Hunge...
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Categories:
jabbering, dark, light, stars,
Form: Free verse
Come post presidential election 2024
...Come post presidential election 2024...
heil to the Wharton chief firebrand -
more worrisome than an ovarian cyst
every race, religion, nationality,
gender, creed, et cetera with impunity dis...
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Categories:
jabbering, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Jesus and the Child of Grace
...In an old vineyard
When Jesus was just a lamb
His coat eight years old
Working with the chaste Joseph
His father and guide
As the beloved Mary
Kneeled and prayed to God
In their small a...
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Categories:
jabbering, angel, brother, child, children,
Form: Choka
Grandson Gabble
...Chit chattering so happily, in babyish first conversations,
Like treetop little birdies, sharing emerald observations,
Burbling giddily and gaily, as golden moments evanesce,
Tattling like garden ...
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Categories:
jabbering, family, fun, grandchild, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Why Do We All Tease Morty
...Many whispers travelled through the lunchroom
The newcomer was nervous, maybe,
That could explain the jabbering right?
Some of the diehard eaters stood by, demanding answers
It seems like Morty...
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Categories:
jabbering, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Narrative
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