pretty brick a brack on the old shack
...Pretty brick-a-brack on the old shack
across the porch all the way to the back
delighting Zack who has a design knack
next to the door was a fire place plaque
I looks like rickrack said my cous...
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Categories:
knapsack, house,
Form: Monorhyme
Sexually explicit meme more real day
...Sexually explicit meme more real day
originally written May 31st, 202_
humorously, posthumously,
and tempestuously expressing woes
from the top of my talking head
to gnarly nails of
(this ...
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Categories:
knapsack, 11th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Free verse
Cornerstone In The Building
...The cornerstone turned the corner
reading a map without
ever looking back
A nomad with knapsack in tow
sowed seeds without
worrying if they'd
ever grow
For them it's just a show but
for me t...
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Categories:
knapsack, introspection, perspective, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Panoramic
...He said ‘Saving the world’s in your hands.
Look how you sparkle, see how you shine?
So crucial the poet understands,
what pours out of your pores is so fine.’
Upon hearing those words I fell ba...
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Categories:
knapsack, emotions, introspection, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Pre-Determined Donkeys
...Donkeys are known for their sheer stubborness;
determination beyond compare.
I see three "saints" for donkeys, nonetheless -
Mary's transport to Bethlehem's square
and Balaam's unique donkey, qui...
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Categories:
knapsack, animal, appreciation, bible,
Form: Quintain (English)
Our Civilization Collapsed
...A new day
Without the sonorous
Songs of songbirds
And the bustle
Of busy humans and animals.
The sun struggled to rise,
Struggled to shine,
Weighed down
By the dark couds of July.
The...
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Categories:
knapsack, computer, creation,
Form: Free verse
Somewhere On Foot Part One
...I peered deeply into a water trickling dyke clustered by pale blue and green peebles.
“Oh dear I sometimes dig too deep or maybe not diffidently.
Damon Deep thinker, lost in thought type.”
There ...
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Categories:
knapsack, beautiful, character, city, deep,
Form: Prose
Ted wants a Knapsack not a Backpack
...Mommy, I do not want a backpack
I want a polka-dotted red knapsack
this annoyed Ted’s father, big Max
All kinds of conformity this child lacks
Knapsacks do not have zippers Ted said.
I don’t w...
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Categories:
knapsack, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Irish Farewell
...O'Rourke has left Ireland with all he owns in a knapsack.
He is going to America with sunshine at his back.
The Irish soil is dotted with potatoes now turned black.
O'Rourke has left Ireland and h...
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Categories:
knapsack, goodbye, ireland,
Form: Rhyme
Black Mass Wedding
...
Self's colors-change in the modes of wanting,
as a chameleon in the daylight,
as the seasons fade to black, hunting season
where loyalty is clothed in sackcloth,
used as a knapsack w...
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Categories:
knapsack, art,
Form: Rhyme
The Celestial Nile
...Journey by Ferry on the Celestial Nile
7 Ancient Portal Ascension to Immortality
In a Vessel, The Radiant boat employed to Traverse
the Cosmic Galaxy
On a Quest to seek within the Universe in My ...
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Categories:
knapsack, moon, planet, stars, voyage,
Form: Free verse
Iselder Ysbryd
...So to the waterfront I go,
Heart heavy with the weight of feeling alone,
And there's all Mcculloch & crew can do, I find,
To settle my soul, to ease my mind.
The world is at peace but my mind ...
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Categories:
knapsack, allegory, lonely, mental health,
Form: Rhyme
Two Sorrows and a Lie
...You cannot charm away the grim reapers;
No matter how beautiful your slick tongue
Bathes your bottom lip; to give air lippers
‘til oxygen craves your depleting lung,
Because I saw you but once ...
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Categories:
knapsack, angel, anger, cry, dark,
Form: Elegy
Swim
...I watch a golden sun slowly rise above the eastern sea and my thoughts naturally drift to her. I wonder what she is doing, and if she ever dreams of me.
A southern breeze gently caresses my...
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Categories:
knapsack, confusion, desire,
Form: Haibun
Memorial Day May 29th, 2023
...silently wailing analogy to Moby Dick
regarding how yesterdays
prurient laced introductions
to rhyme in retrospect embarrassingly blows.
Herewith to enliven anecdote ever further,
I inject ...
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Categories:
knapsack, absence, america, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse
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