It's Raining, It's Pouring Man--REMAKE
..."It’s Raining, It’s Pouring"
It’s raining, it’s pouring
The old man is snoring
He bumped his head
And went to bed
And didn’t get up till morning.
Shivers 'me Timbers
truth be told t...
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Categories:
kabuki, appreciation, music, song,
Form: Lyric
Remodeling
...Get out your sponges, stippling brushes and pens,
It’s time for makeover-Monday-night to begin.
Think Winky Lux, L’Oréal, Urban Decay,
Maybelline, Armani and Fabergé
It’s a black magic realm wh...
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Categories:
kabuki, celebration, color, creation, fun,
Form: Free verse
Izumo No Okuni
...Behind the mask,
only truth gets told
Its covering sacred
—eyes behold
(Kabuki Theater: April, 1973)...
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Categories:
kabuki, truth,
Form: Rhyme
All the World Is a Stage
...you aren't
a geisha
you can't
be kabuki
we can
perform
together
with our
expressful
masks of
wood
if you want
you should
just say noh...
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Categories:
kabuki, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Probability Analysis
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O Magog,
from the sterile land of Gog,
thou rejoicest over how thy biological idol father
hast devilishly embraced thee
Spiritual mathematics
offer free radical theorems
of probab...
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Categories:
kabuki, judgement, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Buttcracks and Bellybuttons
...Buttcracks and Bellybuttons
Buttcracks and bellybuttons
little people doin’ nuthin’
diapers drooping in the sand
stickysandwiches in hand
seagulls diving for frenchfries
children shriek at se...
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Categories:
kabuki, beach, childhood, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Untitled
...The Kakocracy has finally won.
Didn’t you know that?
The rats at the helm
No longer fear the rat catcher.
He was been bought a long time ago
And is nothing more than an errand boy
Who knows hi...
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Categories:
kabuki, anger, angst, political, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Bando and the Blowfish
...Of hubris, overweening pride,
(a thing the gods can not abide)
and all the hassle it may bring:
of this, and blowfish, do I sing.
The former, we will meet anon
(it merits being mused upon...
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Categories:
kabuki, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Placid Pond
...placid pond
in the moon's reflection—
kabuki dance
1-13-22
HAIKU CONTEST inspired by BASHO only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Damned I-Be
Thirteen Syllables or Less Contest 3-29-16
Spons...
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Categories:
kabuki, art, beauty, dance, moon,
Form: Haiku
False Geisha
...Her face was splurged with white powder
An illusion of mask under the white cover
Red and black accents her eyes and brows
Lips like flower buds cool in the afterglow
Like a maiko pursuing her ...
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Categories:
kabuki, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
I Wish I Were Nicolas Cage
...Well, he's goofy and gangly and thin up on top
And his real last name once began with a "Cop"
But I don't give a hoot about all of that
'Cause his box office draw's made his wallet grow fat.
If...
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Categories:
kabuki, celebrity, crazy, film, poetry,
Form: Quatrain
Kabuki Bizarre - Haiku
...Kabuki Bizarre – Haiku
Exaggerated
Long red gown flows wild like swans
Girl drinks tea and sings...
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Categories:
kabuki, beautiful, beauty, celebration, celebrity,
Form: Haiku
Western Horizons
...Incarcerated soul in ribcage of slaughtered fate
Obsessive saw penetrates secret catacombs of meltdowns
Poetic seascape showing radiations of a human skull -
A cranial Kabuki Mask spreads uncerta...
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Categories:
kabuki, death, sea
Form: Free verse