Young Man In Battle
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A threadbare sigh relentlessly lisps
while he begs with twilight
for inner calm;
Dear life...he is just a young man,
wobbly feet wanting to run away
from unknown gr...
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Categories:
lisps, angst, poverty, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
'bout the inch uv learn
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"'twuz this close"
certainly
y'all indulgerz uv
mine write
with telepathy knowz
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Categories:
lisps, adventure, angst, extended metaphor,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
sarikha
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love …
a crutch for you
but you wear it like a Prada suit
matching handbag, of course, to keep
your toys in …
(mostly men … alphabetically)
six-inch Blahnik stilettos for crushing
egos wit...
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Categories:
lisps, analogy, passion, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Toy Phonograph
...Tiny phonograph with a small turntable,
Her child toy that lights up her eyes.
As it spins and turns with its now blurred label.,
It plays the songs in Mother Goose guise.
She becomes mesmeriz...
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Categories:
lisps, child, music,
Form: Rhyme
Missing You
...I miss you
I miss your eyes looking into mine; you see my imperfections and love me anyway
I miss the fire you set to my soul when you kiss my lisps
I miss your touch
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Categories:
lisps, i miss you,
Form: Blank verse
News and Views
...cataract both eyes, grandpa could not read news,
grand daughter six, offered to read him the Times,
she not only read but also gave her views,
her lisps of names and events were so sublime,
end o...
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Categories:
lisps, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Sanctuary of Womb
...In open playing fields on muddy ground,
little fight amongst us children abound.
Petty things would spark arguments to fight,
sans reason so hard to say who was right.
Friends suddenly stop t...
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Categories:
lisps, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Couplet
Coyness
...Coyness
Sheep for pets, I wimp amidst a modest plain of bushy regrets whose leaves of
character abandon its tenuous grasp of reality upon that ...
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Categories:
lisps, muse,
Form: Narrative
Martial Translations
...Martial epigram translations
Epitaph for the Child Erotion
by Marcus Valerius Martial
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Lie lightly on her, grass and dew...
So little weig...
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Categories:
lisps, child, daughter, death, funeral,
Form: Epigram
Twist Again
...Lucy lisps, Lucy lisps
Lucy's tongue is in a twist
Saucy Susie sang a song
Silly Susie sang it wrong
Slinky slimy slippery snakes
Hisses kisses to their mates
Stoats stay stoic on the sand
Whi...
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Categories:
lisps, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Baby Talk
...The way I see it
the world’s gone wrong
I have had this notion
Since the day I was born!
I move about
on my fours
And mum has to
do all my chores!
From where I crawl
It is my view
T...
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Categories:
lisps, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Dad Is Coming Home Tonight
...Our house is abuzz
With Me, Bella and Jess
And Mummy is all delight
“Dad’s coming home tonight! “
The Cake has been made
The table has been laid
Candles are alight
Dad will be home tonigh...
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Categories:
lisps, 10th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Sublimely Subliminal
...Birds cackle overhead
in the grey mews
as wind lisps around
the dead children
held in the arms of
ancient wisened trees
Whispers jump from raindrops
while my eyes flirt with imagination
© 41 ...
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Categories:
lisps, poetry,
Form: Free verse
How To Throw Yourself In the Garbage
...Hobbies are for losers, and habits are hobbies for the poor,
But hopping into heaping piles of rubbish is haute couture.
What’s in, ladies and gentlemen, is what we want thrown out,
But not to o...
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Categories:
lisps, america,
Form: Couplet
Magic Ruins
...in the rusty tide animating bones
of deluded gods reaching for the lie
etched on eroded steles in dead lisps
licking flames of seers tossing guts
filled with blue and red fascists
infecting the...
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Categories:
lisps, art, christian, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
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