A Sticky Silence
...A keyboard lays across my knees
like a sleeping lapdog,
The B and the K are sticky keys
that cannot bark
or pronounce their own function.
The keys are unstuck by pure alt control,
I have al...
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Categories:
lapdog, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Lapdog
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Preaching ‘constructive dialog’
Rule-breakers mock her
Minouche Shafik is in whole-hog
Puppet of Progressives ~ the left’s lapdog
__________________
Minouche Shafik is the c...
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Categories:
lapdog, analogy, education, irony, political,
Form: Rubai
papillon
...a glass magnifies
small lapdog
butterfly
landing perfectly
on a flat nose
the glass pushes detail
into a wide eye
the picture is a thumbnail
maximum enlargement
knocks over it digita...
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Categories:
lapdog, poetry,
Form: Free verse
You're the Reason
...Not easy following you,
picking up the pieces
my, how you
wreck with a vengeance.
Not talking just this life,
so many others, no choice
still as mine (the choice), take heed!
come back to ...
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Categories:
lapdog, perspective, remember,
Form: Prose Poetry
Desk
...The oak desk is a polished surface
holding-up nothing, reflecting nothing
not even a base of anything.
Once it was an upheaval of random displacements
of elbows and eyes.
E-mails wriggled li...
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Categories:
lapdog, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Broken Valkyrie
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"The Broken Valkyrie"
when
the artificial
sun
replaced
true Light,
revolution
was a forgotten
Valkyrie,
Liberty
had been
put to bed
broken whore
of ...
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Categories:
lapdog, dark, humanity, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Tea Party In the Attic
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The attic is creaky and full of dust,
but, I just pretend it is my stardust;
I love playing tea party with my pets,
they sit as I recite my alphabets !
At the table is Willy a hu...
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Categories:
lapdog, children, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Pearls Before Swine
...Drove past your old house, slowin' just because..
perhaps just to return to scene of the crime.
Kinda sad to find nothing left as once was,
proof your lapdog better comfort than I.
Came to set...
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Categories:
lapdog, absence, appreciation, life, lost
Form: Rhyme
We Ain'T Want That
...Crumbling I say our country is crumbling
A president that don't have self confidence
we ain't want that at all
A so call vice president with no dignity
Pulling the strings like a puppet master
W...
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Categories:
lapdog, conflict, devotion, future, history,
Form: Free verse
No End
...The lapdog is our friend
The laptop is our mend
There’s no end
We are trapped in a pen
Maybe this is a trend
We don’t need to spend
However, we need to pretend
We enjoy our weekend
Although...
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Categories:
lapdog, community,
Form: Free verse
You Have To Be a Dog Lover
...The Heinz dog and the Silky and that Precious Papillion,
A Terrier and Chihauhau-are a few that I have known.
Not all at once, of course, but a few throughout the years,
They delegate their tails ...
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Categories:
lapdog, dog, love, people,
Form: Rhyme
The News Seller
...Callum is an old-fashioned man on the verge of becoming history’s memory
Ancient even in that he holds only one job but that is for privation of another
Sort of a whiz kid at what he does and ...
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Categories:
lapdog, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Brainwashing a Greenhorn In My College Den
...I dubbed a first year my room mate
Upon arrival into our teacher training college
To baptize him. His pride in quick order I did decimate
Taking him at high celerity on a binge
Initiating him i...
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Categories:
lapdog, poems,
Form: Free verse
Chained
...Chained
Winged, winking devils dance
on onyx tinted wings entice
burnt appendages so broken inside rib cage
Unable to fly out of this hell hole
a shadow lifted nevermore
a touch as cold as ...
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Categories:
lapdog, dark, heart,
Form: Free verse
Chained
...Winged, winking devils dance
on onyx tinted wings entice
burnt appendages so broken inside rib cage
Unable to fly out of this hell hole
a shadow lifted nevermore
a touch as cold as night lures...
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Categories:
lapdog, dark, desire, heart, lust,
Form: Free verse
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