Resisting The RepressingResisting The Repression
Competition between a brother and sister
Rendition of an eighties song all about how much he miss her
War of attrition between two countries facing off without a resister
Ambition of an Olympian to only on race day end up with a blister
Loneliness creeping in before twightlight starts to break and linger
Ghostliness of a...
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Categories:
language, life,
Form: Rhyme
Todd's Job's in Arbitrage
Todd’s latest job’s in arbitrage
He said it’s the hottest thing going
I asked Todd, if that is the case
why isn’t the field
exponentially growing
...
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Categories:
humor, language, work,
Form: Rhyme
Body Language
Putting my best foot forward
shoulder to the wheel
nose to the grindstone
my Achilles heel
while sticking my neck out
I soon found
as
with my eye on the ball
ear to the ground
when I put my back into it
not with tongue in cheek
but to keep my chin up
heard joints creak
the onset of old age memory loss
an early taste
for in the end...
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Categories:
language, age, body, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Read All About It
I can't bring myself
to read the front page news
with which they string us along
as portrayed by the views
of those with a vested interest
or the rest with an axe to grind
who must think we're all
just deaf dumb and blind
to the truth of which there's more
in the speech balloons
of the funny characters
in the Sunday cartoons
it's all a...
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Categories:
language, how i feel, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
One Coin, Two Sides
What's true for you
even if it is insanity
may not be the same for me
as we each have our own reality
'There's two sides to every coin'
some are said to say
'But what about the edge,
when one is on display,
showing tails and the obverse?'
as a numismatist I insist
even a mirror reflects the reverse
yet when confronted with a conundrum
maybe...
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Categories:
fun, humor, language, money,
Form: Rhyme
Around the World
One day I took the subway
and I went around the world
From one car to another
a new nation’s flag unfurled
The train took off from Brooklyn
and I hopped on at Times Square
and by the time that I got home
I’d been most everywhere
The couple that spoke Yiddish,
and hurried on their way
were deep in conversation
which she ended with,...
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Categories:
language,
Form: Rhyme
Leaders Of Tomorrow
Been around the world
seen some strange sights in my time
and looking back
my favourite is a roadway sign
of yellow and black
viewed in the U.S.A.
which read
(intellectually challenged?)
'SLOW CHILDREN AT PLAY'
...
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Categories:
children, humor, language, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
Green And Pleasant Land
If the UK is as PC
as some would have us perceive
(tho' Britons never never never shall be slaves
Boadicea's turning in her grave)
it's incorrect on two counts
would you believe
and the US we should see
as between '52 and '22
it was a Queendom
not a Kingdom
and either way
that's sexist so
to speak more accurately
accordingly it should be
the United Sovereignty
...
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Categories:
england, humor, language, political,
Form: Rhyme
Love LanguageNeed words of affirmation.
Need words, to make me feel loved, heard, accepted.
Need words that seep in like warmth from a fire.
Need words to communicate our adoration.
Need words of affirmation.
Am I not worth words to make me feel loved, heard, accepted?
Am I not worth words that make me heat as if...
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Categories:
desire, feelings, language, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Tongue of the ForgottenI speak English—
not because it is mine,
but because it was burned
into the soft clay of my childhood.
They called it brilliance
when I spoke the master's tongue,
and shame
when I whispered my grandmother’s lullaby.
But language is not just words—
it is blood,
it is soul,
it is memory coded in sound.
Africa,
how can you rise
when you dream in the syllables of strangers?
When...
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Categories:
education, language,
Form: Free verse
Home, Home of the Brains - Lyric
~ To the Melody of "Home on the Range" ~
Home, Home of the Brains
Where Scrabble is endlessly played
Where seldom is heard
...
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Categories:
america, england, humor, language,
Form: Lyric
Stresses of LovingIII. Shorty Rico continues.
D. She withholds the fact that Shorty Rico's ex- Female friend was
pregant and had moved away. She became pregant and disided to ...
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Categories:
analogy, film, language, music,
Form: Ballade
Protesting sound of music2025.07.09 Wednesday.
Ludwig van Beethoven wrote
"To play a wrong note is insignificant,
To play without passion is inexcusable".
I have been distracted and emotionally affected,
By this particular shop. Therefore,
"To be served by a bunch of unlady like women
Who screamed, and yelled so loud at one another,
At their shop in food court of the shopping centre
Would be like to...
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Categories:
language, anger, anxiety, music, passion,
Form: Free verse
Before the Language of the SensesTouch me
where I do not tremble.
Make of me a scent
without a name.
Let sound become
what breath once was
before it learned to speak.
Let the tongue
forget
its hunger.
Listen to me
with the skin of thought.
I seek no salvation,
only time
that vibrates
beneath the skin.
...
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Categories:
language, beauty, deep, inspiration, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
What Do You Know
You know
it's not what you know
or who you know
it's what you know
about whom you know
and I know you know
'You know'
are the most
abused over-used
words today
you know
I'd be happy
if never again
I hear anyone say
'You know'
but wherever you go
there they are
on the lips
of all your friends
and you know
it never ends
they're on TV
and radio
I'm so tired
of listening to
'You know'
you...
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Categories:
language, fun, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
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