One Foot In Hell
...War weary wayward wanderer walking westerly
Sadly slowly striding shadowy suburban streets
Barely behaving bravely but blindly bound
Coldly click-clacking cumbersome calloused cleats
Tormented ...
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Categories:
lackadaisically, angst, fate, war,
Form: Rhyme
The Crow Bar
...
"The Crow Bar"
she said,
here I bury my dead,
you can hear them sleeping
somnulent forget-me-nots,
snoring blithely unaware,
in neat rows between
the thick,
ink injec...
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Categories:
lackadaisically, love, muse, satire,
Form: Narrative
My Only One
...There she was, my queen standing lackadaisically at the horizon as the sun set
Her face gleamed and glowed like the fireflies at night.
Her smile that caught my eyes was as curvaceous as her body.
...
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Categories:
lackadaisically, beauty, cute love, feelings,
Form: Romanticism
Sweeping Snow
...angels sweeping out flakes
lackadaisically
successive shift:
fast and furious
angels on break
storehouse still
to be emptied
funniest sight?
a full-size snowman
drops from the clouds
...
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Categories:
lackadaisically, angel, snow,
Form: Free verse
A Fool In Love In Paris, In April
...For crying out loud
I am awesomely proud
To be a Fool in love
With Mother Nature.
I thank the Almighty above
For everything he has done
Hoping that I have a secured future
Earth is ...
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Categories:
lackadaisically, april, feelings, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Above Looking Down
...Above Looking Down
Above the earth, floating on air,
In gas spheres upward extending,
Lackadaisical without care,
Storm clouds are brewing, so it’s time for shooing.
In a gas sphere u...
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Categories:
lackadaisically, flying, perspective, satire, surreal,
Form: Pantoum
Today,
...
Today,
Written: By Tom Wright
11/20/01
That period of time between past and future,
where man is predisposed to reflect and dream.
Reflections on former actions,
can impact our future...
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Categories:
lackadaisically, funny, writing,
Form: Free verse
No Heavenly Delight For This Atheist
...Bleak existence portrayed,
nonetheless this (baby
boomer) hybrid dreamer
oft times evocative
edenic reveries bekiss
mine psyche with pastoral trappings
evoking utopian bliss
on par with dr...
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Categories:
lackadaisically, absence, abuse, anger, animal,
Form: Lyric
I Am Rhymthically Sound
...I have arrived gradually, in boxes.
from foreign places, unknown sellers.
part of me was procured from a man
who told his son to come get me or else five years ago
I am stealthily planning my t...
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Categories:
lackadaisically, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Personification
Crimson Maple Leaf
...Crimson Maple Leaf
by Valerie D. Staton
Crimson Maple leaf
lackadaisically swirled
amidst a backdrop of blue...
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Categories:
lackadaisically, nature,
Form: Haiku
December 2017
...DECEMBER 2017
secondary storm
as snow rushes from branches -
trees hold onto roots
a snow-bird pauses
on white cold platform ~
perhaps further South?
as main road traffic moc...
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Categories:
lackadaisically, weather,
Form: Haiku
Lackadaisically Lackluster
...You lack what I have.
You can't have it back,
because your lack is my gain.
Lacks define your success.
The less you have the better.
But, a life with too many lacks is lackluster,
a lif...
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Categories:
lackadaisically, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Disarray of Thought
...Chaotic peace, I describe it as what I need
my personality conflicts with the balance of nature
There is a clear dividing line between good and bad
but I walk the very fine line lackadaisically be...
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Categories:
lackadaisically, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
When the World Grew Wings - Full
...There once came a day
when the world took flight
('twas only a handful
who gaped at the sight)
For when she spread her wings
so few could believe;
and fewer still
could keep alive the dream,
...
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Categories:
lackadaisically, allegory, allusion, beautiful, earth,
Form: Rhyme
When the World Grew Wings - Part 1
...There once came a day
when the world took flight
('twas only a handful
who gaped at the sight)
For when she spread her wings
so few could believe;
and fewer still
could keep alive the dream,
...
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Categories:
lackadaisically, allegory, beautiful, bible, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
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