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Dance of Shrinkage

...Written: June 26, 2023
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In the realm of creation, where forces collide,
There is a phenomenon that cannot hide.
Shrinka...

Categories: lading, analogy, angst, bereavement, care,
Form: Rhyme

Semi Divorced

...She was a less-than-truckload lady
Who’d signed a contract for the long haul
With the interstate driver she married.
But that trucker kept a bogus bill of lading
And a logbook full of lot lizard ...

Categories: lading, allegory, divorce,
Form: Lyric

The View of Anthony Hepplethwaite 2013

...With a little tightening round the waist 
the skinny day comes out to taste the 
fatness of the light
I am in sight of something great but I’m hungry,
cannot wait
so I make my move too soon
and...

Categories: lading, death, loss, political,
Form: Rhyme

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New Zealand

...The dark, drenched forest
was tinkling with tuis and bellbirds,
blind to the ledger book,
the bill of lading,
the glint in the eye of the ax.

Pious settlers wired the land for religion
and sw...

Categories: lading, earth, environment, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Beast of Burden

...Thy elegance of form
Hast weakened my body and soul
As the weight of thy splendor and beauty
Hast become my payload

To carry thy love
Within my pitiful heart
Hast become my penance
For wanti...

Categories: lading, dedication, devotion, love,
Form: Free verse

My Nose Is Hard

...Murk Rammer froze as he felt the nuzzle
of a snub-nosed thirty-eight’s deadly muzzle.
Louis The Retch poked it into his back.
“The jig’s up, Rammer. I ain’t cuttin’ no slack.”

Murk had been tri...

Categories: lading, mystery, , cute,
Form: Rhyme