Mother Nature
...Life is all about choices we make
Mother Nature bestows its award
Upon souls who endeavored and scored
Them who act to extend one’s bloodline
Those making the choice wise 'n fine
Mother whis...
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Categories:
latrine, humanity, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Cricketing Nirvanas and Nadirs
...“Heady heights..bright neon lights..giddy delights
Arsonists torching the Indian empire
Reputations scorching..awash with brilliant whites
Gilded generation ire… spoils soiled in an oily qua...
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Categories:
latrine, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Hit and Outrun
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Trailhead latrine,
cracked mirror—
three of me grinning wrong.
A soap shaver's chewed itself down,
there's a beetle on its back in the basin.
I clean my hands as best I can,
wipe the...
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Categories:
latrine, conflict, self,
Form: Free verse
Wokery, no just jiggery pokery
...Febrile Fog obfuscates palimpsest varnished promises..
Naysayers hoodwinked... deluded players peeling layers..denuded..
Deafening din of our chagrin...
Espoused by rabbles roused by mandari...
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Categories:
latrine, health, political,
Form: Rhyme
Facing Poverty
... If I went barefoot for a lifetime,
shoes would be pointless.
Toes ate board, concrete, grassland, shoreline.
Me, Tarzan to pedicurist!
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Categories:
latrine, africa, appreciation, black love,
Form: Free verse
Making a Case for Yellow
...I was never fond of the word or the color
it reminded me of ceiling stains in cheap hotels
infinite shades of latrine piss
bony cigarette fingertips
grandpa's stage 4 jaundice
the forever scar...
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Categories:
latrine, color, death, future,
Form: Free verse
The Chairs of Van Gogh
...A long life can be a blessing tinged in blue
you may end up in a garish room
a narrow bed -a communal latrine
at the end of a one-candle hallway.
With very few friends left, if any
loves scatter...
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Categories:
latrine, abuse, age,
Form: Free verse
Mildred
...Mildred
1. Like the flick of a brush to a canvas, her world was tainted by his love. Barely psychotic.
Led by the armor he wore, she rose like a phoenix. It was fierce and unapologetic....
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Categories:
latrine, break up, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Jack's Favorite Cuisine
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Peanut butter, Jack’s favorite cuisine
‘Til he ate a sandwich that turned him green
Jack overlooked one thing
That gave his sandwich ‘zing’
Pea was spelled ‘Pee’ ~ smel...
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Categories:
latrine, food, sick,
Form: Limerick
Bad Trip
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Every day, same routine
out of bed, in the latrine
Cup'a'joe, out the door I go
Work's a bad trip, but I owe
Phony-smile time: 'How was your weekend'
('Still datin...
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Categories:
latrine, death, freedom, life, work,
Form: Couplet
Yesterday
...Yesterday my drain was clogged
Woe was me my brain was fogged
No toilet, sink or washing machine
Whole house smelled like a latrine
But a bottle of black did the trick
24 hours the drain was sli...
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Categories:
latrine, art,
Form: Free verse
The Evolution of the Toilet
...It wasn't all that long ago when a hole in the ground was where people would go.
Many grew sick from lack of hygiene so some one invented the pit latrine.
This greatly prevented the spread of disea...
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Categories:
latrine, time,
Form: Narrative
Religious Wounds
...Don't dare joke with their doctrine
Nor raise it in a latrine
Like had tried Goofing Kathrine
Now melted like margarine!
Their Doctrine not in bathrooms:
Bathtubs never living rooms;
Their ca...
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Categories:
latrine, age, career, celebration, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Waves Of Azure
...Once, rolling waves of azure washed ashore
while cerulean curls colored the sky;
subservient to time and nothing more.
The Sea whips up a zillion drops of rain,
as a melody of showers a...
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Categories:
latrine, angst, anxiety, image, imagery,
Form: Personification
About Uncompleted Building
...I know about uncompleted building
A Terrible lot it could start wielding:
Perhaps, not in Far-Away Siberia
But, quote me, here in Lord God’s Nigeria!
A Receiving Camp for Smokers of Weed,
The ...
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Categories:
latrine, absence, addiction, evil, house,
Form: Rhyme
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