Lubricant
...We all love love, but all agree
that friction is our enemy:
when all slides nicely, that’s the thing!
Of lubrication do I sing.
The oil of primrose, asphodel,
or axle grease, or KY Gel,
one ...
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Categories:
judder, love hurts,
Form: Quatrain
The Buddha Meets Christmas
...Down the fervent aeons Buddha’s sagesse,
casts its august shroud on benign witness,
shades, shadows, subtle symbol shift,
encompass cosmopolitan and temporal,
incongruous to flaccid predilection ...
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Categories:
judder, august, celebration, character, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Mitch
...Mitch
My friend is my brother
from another mother
who is like no other.
In Christ, he’s my brother.
It’s my privilege to utter
and I do not stutter,
nor would I mutter,
In Christ, he’s my...
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Categories:
judder, best friend, emotions, friend,
Form: Rhyme
No God of Mine - 2021 Edit
...[This poem 'No God Of Mine' was seemingly confounding readers as
to its meaning. Ordinarily, if I felt a poem wasn't cutting it, I'd delete
it, but on this occasion, I've been asked to explain it...
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Categories:
judder, evil, horror,
Form: Rhyme
No God of Mine
...Cement, sand and gravel, blood, body and soul
Eternity bred from hell's darkest hole
Combine gruesome aggregates, hydrate the mix
Mould them and dry them, then stack up the bricks.
Thought in a...
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Categories:
judder, halloween, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Spirits In the Wood
...Standing all alone in the woods;
eyes shut, I feel the lilting light.
Sun dodges needles through the crown,
beams land on my skin softly so.
Brisk breezes quicken and rustle.
Bristlecone pines e...
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Categories:
judder, death, earth, fantasy, sin,
Form: Free verse
Moo
...Moo
It bounced down my street like a mad thing on heat
Or a kangaroo doing a trick
The farmer that blocked it was knocked off his feet
By his cow on an old pogo stick
So a cow on a pogo stic...
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Categories:
judder, animal, farm, funny, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Worst of the Worst
...NEVER SHAME A WOMAN
SHE'LL OUT DO YOU
AND FIND PEOPLE WHO'LL
DO THE SAME
MAKE A MESS OF YOUR LIFE BY PLAYING
SILLY LITTLE GAMES
MAKE YOU TO BELEIVE
THINK ABOUT WHAT SHE SAY'S
LIE AFTER LIE
Y...
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Categories:
judder, abortion, adventure, america, black
Form: Ballad
Stranded
...My long train journey late at night
I take this route each day,
With heavy eyes I gently doze
The engine chugs away.
Suddenly there is a judder,
the train’s brakes are applied.
Ro...
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Categories:
judder, fate, fear, journey, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Jubilation
...Jesters jokers juggle
Jink joke as journeyman
Jag up one jocose notch
Jougs jesserants judder
Jussive jokes demand the
Jutty jailors’ justice
Juxtapose jolterheads...
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Categories:
judder, joy,
Form: Free verse
Part Two of They Made Love Uninterrupted As the Monsoon Thundered and Volcanoes Erupted
...As thunder and lightning shatter the night
I feel safe in your arms, held so tight
The rain pours hard, the earth could drown
That mountain rumbles, we hear no sound.
We lay naked by soft candl...
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Categories:
judder, love,
Form: I do not know?
Quake
...Feel the slight tremor grow into a judder
then the slides begin to announce her coming
with the water bath and blast,
keep your mind together, fear not; just wonder.
An earthquake.
feel the sl...
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Categories:
judder, inspirational, water,
Form: Sonnet
Personal Demon
...Prowling the darkest terrain of my mind,
He hunts for an aperture to govern me.
He wants only to cause turmoil and suffering,
My own personal Demon...
His talons sink in deeper,
Forewarning th...
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Categories:
judder, imagination
Form: I do not know?
Descent From the Clouds
...Prepare for landing
boeing 747
Its path meandering
descending from heaven
Up here in high definition
the sky as black as molasses
Crisp and clear as when your optician
gave you a first pair...
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Categories:
judder, holiday
Form: Rhyme