A Drink Of Let Go
...A Drink of Let Go
Hardy Levis shorts
Stuckup seesaw
Let go of forgot
Now playing
To my mistakes Sounds of chord Shapes in time
Echo at the end before
The meeting has begun
I can't let ...
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Categories:
levis, allusion, best friend, june,
Form: Free verse
The Ship Came Like A Flying Horse or Homage to the Famous Poet Franketienne
...The ship came like a flying horse, at an inexact time
Our brother-sailor, from the Pantheon of Poets, was on board
Jean Pierre Basilic Dantor Frankétienne D’argent
Who wrote, in haste, ...
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Categories:
levis, celebration, eulogy, farewell, journey,
Form: Free verse
Morose Tears For the Passing of Mommy Germaine Dupiche
...It has been raining everyday
The wet autumnal wind is here
And Mommy Maine just left us today
Peacefully. She just expired, dear
This Ebony Queen was a century plus six years young
Mommy Maine ...
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Categories:
levis, blessing, eulogy, farewell, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Let's Ban War
...“Let’s Ban War”
Have your ever thought
About banning war?
How much better we
All would be
If we just banned war?
So much more we could do.
We could buy food
And clothe the poor.
We cou...
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Categories:
levis, conflict, emotions, irony, political,
Form: Rhyme
Just Before Christmas, This
...I went out back
And sat
On a stone bench
To watch the sun set
Just before 5:00 on Winter Solstice
The cold stung the skin of my Levis
Then fit the back of my ass and legs
Like a saddle of nu...
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Categories:
levis, christmas, devotion, dog, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Your Name
...Your Name
By Franklin Price
7/21/2018
We were in Key West a-drinkin'
Were so drunk we were not thinkin'
Was the middle of a sunny afternoon
All in the bar were smokin'
Irish Kevin was a-joki...
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Categories:
levis, hilarious, smile,
Form: Rhyme
The Cowboy
...The Cowboy
A hundred thousand miles
were written on his face
He'd earned near every wrinkle
Did this cowboy known as "Jace"
He'd ridden cross the country
From Death Valley up to Maine
In weath...
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Categories:
levis, america,
Form: Epic
Lyric and Rhyme
...L-yric
A-nd
R-hyme
R-elieve
Y-our
L-oneliness
E-ndorsing
V-erse
I-n
S-onnet
Topic: Poet (Larry Levis)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...
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Categories:
levis, poets,
Form: Acrostic
The Fifties Were Really and Truly Not All That Square
...The Fifties were really and truly not all that square
Though that dullard Dwight D. sat in the Executive Chair
And his frumpy wife Mamie had really bad hair
Matching those dowdy, plain dresses she...
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Categories:
levis, conflict, culture, history, myth,
Form: Rhyme
The Alarm Clock
...Alarm Clock
-Levis Hutchins,the inventor
On a birds eye survey you had seen buildings, horses, wagons on a flat yard.
In central vision you had seen the street of Hampshire before you
had see...
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Categories:
levis, bible, creation, england, environment,
Form: ABC
Fantasy Man
...My fantasy man – I will always remember him
and how stunning he looked that day
outside my apartment building – tall, dark-eyed, and slim,
and wearing skin-tight levis. Oh, the flirty way
he look...
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Categories:
levis, boy, fantasy,
Form: Quintain (English)
The Fathers of My Co-Workers
...The fathers of my co-workers all look the same
Short haircuts with a slight wave to the side
Mustaches – all well groomed
White button-down shirts with generic emblems
White skin with a hint of ...
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Categories:
levis, beauty, daughter, discrimination, family,
Form: Free verse
Pypu Pull Yo Pants Up
...PYPU what ya gonna do boyz
PYPU what ya gonna do boyz
PYPU what ya gonna do boyz
don't need to see your Fruit or your Looms
don't wanna see your buttocks in those..
Vincent Motega's don't wanna ...
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Categories:
levis, america, analogy, body, change,
Form: Ballad
Elegy For Innocence
...A warm, glowing September night.
Nondescript small town bar with
people enjoying fine company and revelry.
College football game just finished.
We won!
Some friends find a table and
a deck of ...
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Categories:
levis, friend, loss, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Apple Pickin' Time
...Me and Sweetie pickin’ apples -
Ones for making pies we find.
While my Sweetie climbs the ladder,
I stand watching from behind.
In his levis he’s a cutie,
plucking apples from the tree.
Meanw...
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Categories:
levis, fruit, romance,
Form: Rhyme
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