Words
...Aren’t words meant to hurt and heal us.
Why do we cry when they hurt?
But feel comforted when they heal.
Is it because of a lesson not learnt?
or we want them to obey how we feel.
Words are just...
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Categories:
jiggered, appreciation, conflict, confusion,
Form: Free verse
A Storm Is a Brewin'
...The heats beating down on the back of my neck
and a river of sweat's runnin’ down my spine
I swear I would trade away my last red cent
for any kind of shade that I just might find
The sun is so...
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Categories:
jiggered, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Grant This Civil Yankee To Doodle Till Lee Gets Blue In the Face
...Grant this civil yankee to doodle till Lee gets blue in the face
blowing 99 red balloons April 9th, 2023
will signal 158 years since Appomattox
plus what would have been ninety sixth birth
of...
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Categories:
jiggered, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Scar
...She thought the door of felicity got opened...
With all the hopes and brilliance of a new marriage!!!
The butterfly of passion roamed all over...
And the instinct fervour wandered like a fever,,
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Categories:
jiggered, abuse, anger, feelings, hate,
Form: Rhyme
The Limerick, Pennsylvania Nuclear Power Plant Siren Wailed
...The Limerick, Pennsylvania Nuclear power plant siren wailed
yesterday at 1400 hours December the fourth
and probably broadcast further
east, west, south and north.
That shrill ear-piercing
e...
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Categories:
jiggered, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Bili
...Bili’s one of my two best chums. She's exquisite, cagey and ferociously funny - compared to her I’m tomboyish.
Her hair is a straight corn-silk that shines like black-enamel. When we watch movies,...
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Categories:
jiggered, 12th grade, friendship, humor,
Form: Free verse
Drinking Beer With Farmer Fred
...On my way to use the head,
I ran into Farmer Fred.
Now I’ll be jiggered, and I be dread,
If this isn’t exactly what Fred said.
“Ah, me lad tis time to tinkle.”
“Inevitable consequence of the bee...
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Categories:
jiggered, celebration, drink, friendship, fun,
Form: Light Verse
Spilled
...Spilled.
.
Spilled an ocean of hurt and anguish
Over my lost formative years
When my lonely betrayed heart
So full of pain couldn’t take no more pain
And burst into acid burning tears
.
The ...
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Categories:
jiggered, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
A Simple Man
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A Simple Man
Plain, & To The Point
By: Miracle Man
4/13/2020
I’ve never been accused of too much sauce,
Whateer it takes, I get my thoughts across.
I will make said point without th...
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Categories:
jiggered, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Of Doping and Lifetime Bans
...If Lance Armstrong isn’t King of Cheaters
He’s most certainly on the royal court
No soul to sell, that former world-beater
Poster boy for putting self before sport
The town’s old sheriff, aslee...
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Categories:
jiggered, character, sports, integrity,
Form: Sonnet
Metaphorically Me
...His hair is like a black dwarf with white freckles,
with eyes like sharp, jiggered icicles,
a nose like a white man in a lineup of Africans,
and a mouth like shredded onions should you choose to cros...
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Categories:
jiggered, funny,
Form: Sonnet