Ear-Splitting, Liver-Bellied Bullying
plink, plink, water in the sink
sinks slowly into budding suds
torturing the pans and fork tines
who want cascade - show on the road
plink, plop, hands over ears, now stop
but slowly the spatter of drops
like the slow go of a rain storm
keep habitating, repeating
their ear-splitting, liver-bellied
bullying of the spoons and cups
the apron-covered giant turned
off the faucet, threw
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Categories:
liver, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Chicken Liver Pate'
A holiday tradition,
Christmas time with Dad.
A gourmet appetizer.
Chicken livers cooked,
with sherry, garlic.
Keep cold to-
spread
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Categories:
liver, appreciation, dad, holiday, nostalgia,
Form: Epulaeryu
My liver is Longing
My liver is Longing,
There’s a fortune in the longing,
To lands I’ve never seen,
To the green hills and fields between,
Take me there, my longing.
It’s not meat in my chest,
But feelings that have left,
When a thousand sorrows cloud the soul,
Without a sound, without a toll,
No regret for what’s gone by.
My heart, it flows with warmth,
A strong
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Categories:
liver, home, paradise,
Form: Dizain
Drink, Drink, And Think
Drink, drink enough water
To flush or to cleanse the liver
Drink, drink, and drink
Something pink
Sometimes to unwind
The convoluted mind.
Drink from the full water pitcher
To make the voice clearer or fresher
Powerful words must be hypostatized
They ought not to be internalized
The truth shall continue to set us free
Respect, dignity, pride, death or liberty.
Ultimately, drink a glass of wine
To
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Categories:
liver, adventure, birthday, desire, fun,
Form: Rhyme
LIVER IS NOT A FRIEND OF BOOZE
True truth... I've never heard of any liver
that was a friend of drink... no matter how noble it may be...
Scotch whiskey, French champagne, dirty-stemmed cane,
cachaça that killed the guard, Hemingway's piña colada
Artisanal beer (factory or home-brewed beer)
it can handle more or less a cup of tea... of boldo...!
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Categories:
liver, allusion, analogy, creation, humorous,
Form: Prose Poetry
LIVER POOL
Her soul, a fusion divine,
Music intertwine
Where Something meets stormy seas,
And Eleanor Rigby finds her sweet release.
She sings the Ballad of John and Yoko's strife,
While Howlin' Wolf's ghost haunts the night,
Her voice a whiskey-soaked lullaby,
A bridge between love and midnight's cry.
For in her, the Beatles and the blues collide
A symphony of joy and
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Categories:
liver, appreciation, feelings, how i
Form: Rhyme
Liver Coffee
Liver coffee comes from cats
cats will always spurn
When liver coffee's just to test
what cat's will never urn
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Categories:
liver, cat,
Form: Quatrain
Fast Food, Fast Death
Let’s get some pizzas nice and cheesy
Nothing to cook, life is easy
Another quick fix, just what we need
Fast food, at lightning speed.
Food can fix most of our troubles
Deliveroo, comes to our homely bubble
Stay in and they deliver
Bad for your heart, bad for your liver
A gallon of coke, quench your thirst
Rot your teeth, a trip in
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Categories:
liver, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Shaking Like a Leaf
Shaking like a leaf
Won’t make you a chief,
Never takes one to the top,
Never a popular prop;
Would rather one drop
And one’s mission flop …
Never for centuries A Lever,
Even slightly harms The Liver;
Therefore not a prize from its giver …
So, on no account whatsoever
Must your decisions waver
Nor at the sight of foes quaver
As neither is
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Categories:
liver, anxiety, character, courage, image,
Form: Rhyme
Chopped Liver
12/30/20
Their stuff they are flashing
Towards others they are bashing
They get a kick out of it, and continue laughing
They think they are all that
Against me, you'll fall flat
And never get a call back
Just another small cat
Who always tries to talk crap
When you see me, panic and walk fast
Come get it, if you want the ball back
Or
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Categories:
liver, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Nafld
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) -
Our beloved youngest daughter Shana Aubrey
(endearingly called “Shayne Punim”)
still feels under the weather,
with symptoms centered around gastrointestinal tract,
though she lives in Bend, Oregon
(experienced her pseudo autonomy
before she completed eighteen Earth orbitz
approximately three and a half years ago).
Said healthy apple of mine (myopic) eye
begat between me and thine married mate
conceived approximately
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Categories:
liver, anxiety, daughter, father, health,
Form: Free verse
Dear Liver
If I told you I'm sorry
Would you forgive me
More than once I know
I've put you through some hell
Its apparent that you can't leave
Or walk out on me, but its plain to see
Dear liver
I didn't do this on my own
There's been broken hearts
College bars
A dirt road romance that hit me real hard
And yes you can't
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Categories:
liver, abuse, addiction, angst, conflict,
Form: Lyric
Chopped Liver Was Me
Once had a friend, Ken Steeles
With the girlies he sure had appeal
Outshone me I agree
Chopped liver was me
But my star possession was concealed
© Jack Ellison 2015
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Categories:
liver, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Diva With a Liver
You are sensationally, motivational and sparkling beautiful lady. You are wonderfully and miraculously made. Yeah! That is what you are
You are a Diva with a Liver..
You smell so sweet, creamy and look so radiant and crispy.
You are Pretty, sexy, palatable, reliable and well structured and sculptured by the creator.
God spent extra time to create
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Categories:
liver, adventure, beauty, love,
Form: Free verse
Onions 'N' Liver
I'm the only one at our house who relishes onions and liver.
Ah, the thought of that delicacy sends up my spine a shiver!
Never mind that my spouse almost gags and must pinch her nose,
Keeping the frying pan at bay as that malodorous aroma flows!
When a pan of onions and liver is sizzling in the kitchen,
To
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Categories:
liver, food, funny,
Form: Rhyme
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