Soap
For hygiene no hope,
No recourse to soap,
Cleanliness for rope
Germs no longer grope;
Easy patrols: lope
To those who hate soap
Do you ever cope?
All Catholics Nope!”
For I could tell Pope.
Soap is Next father
Of laundry’s lather
Dwarfed only by surf
But to Dirt still rough
Use it no odour
You’ll smell the other.
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Categories:
lather, desire, devotion, dream, health,
Form: Rhyme
Next Week We-Lather
the way-there channel...
is for casting
-3 0 3 3 3 0 -3
the next-even days
we-lather tempers...
at yer 'some-day' to
set-a-turd-day...
for casting pat
urned and numb...
brrrr'd assss' into
a favor-ripe fishing spot
stan sand
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Categories:
lather, spring, weather,
Form: Free verse
Scrape, Lather, Repeat
I want to scrape my hands raw,
peel away the loops and whorls,
make it scarlet
Scrape it
as you would fish scales,
but bloodied
Pour antiseptic on it
Let. It. Sting.
Then wash it away,
letting it flow
down
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Categories:
lather, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Lather, Rinse, Repeat
Alison weeps at the fake Senior Prom.
Alison creeps out onto the lawn.
Alison’s skin turns to purple from pink.
Alison’s flesh beginning to stink.
A stench too great to look away.
Poking at the children who’ve come to play.
Poking at Alison with a big long stick.
Flies alight with each small kick.
Alison floats above the field.
Amongst the birds and clouds
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Categories:
lather,
Form: Ballad
Lather, Rinse, Repeat
liberty in verse
atypical on the Soup
born a free-spirited caballero
I’ll not dangle
from another poet’s noose
jigsaw puzzles presented
by contest sponsors
jump through hoops
win their accolades
who’s to say what makes good verse?
flash your PhD at me
“Oh yes, oh yes, you are the best,”
most wholeheartedly agree
those who compromise
win a nebulous prize
preset rhyme patterns
syllable and word counts
twisted forms, multiple forms, mega-forms
atrocities
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Categories:
lather, on writing and words
Form: Free verse