Anyone For Tennis?
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I do enjoy verbal tennis
wordplay may be a game
outwit outsmart the opponent
is the only aim
lobbing phrases across the net
volley and rally back and forth
no one's a loser and yet
t...
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Categories:
lobbing, humorous, sports, word play,
Form: Rhyme
A Liar’s Living - Mar 4
...The luckless leper’s lousily lobbing
Lame libel at Lords and Ladies along
His lonesome lane, a lizard in limbo
Loafing on his lowly laurels, laughing....
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Categories:
lobbing, character, conflict, crazy, hate,
Form: Alliteration
cruelty to toads
...the toads do not dive
they plop into the scummy pond
pale green bellies floating beneath them
like airbags
they paddle and back-stroke
through the weedy water
as slow as inflatable boats
whe...
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Categories:
lobbing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
February 13th, 2023 old man winter gave a one two punch
...February 13th, 2023 - old man winter gave a one...two punch
Overladen snow covered crackle and crunch
though, this skeptic owned a doubtful hunch
that such 24/7 round the clock whether coverage
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Categories:
lobbing, abortion, abuse, age, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Future time traveler looks back one century ago
...Future time traveler looks back one century ago
I exhibit health and virility at one hundred and
64 years astride planet earth, whereby spouse,
(who remained married to yours truly for about
o...
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Categories:
lobbing, absence, adventure, anniversary, birth,
Form: Free verse
Potatoes In a Pretty Blue Dish
...The potatoes are cooling in a pretty blue dish.
Looking like hillside stones or sleeping piglets.
While waiting for the litter to cool off.
I thought about the many wars being fought...
On our...
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Categories:
lobbing, food, war,
Form: Free verse
Cruelty To Toads
...the toads do not dive
they plop into the scummy pond
pale green bellies floating beneath them
like airbags
they paddle and back-stroke
through the weedy water
as slow as inflatable boats
whe...
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Categories:
lobbing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I Still Feel Under the Weather Today April 2nd, 2023
...I still feel under the weather today April 2nd, 2023
Unseen enemy invades my body
with platoon of green berets air
rating, and enfilading immune system viz
Hib bully knock and sock kin me
c...
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Categories:
lobbing, adventure, anger, anxiety, april,
Form: Rhyme
Mosque Cowed Covenant I Keep Putin Off
...Mosque cowed covenant I keep Putin off...
and withheld broadcasting
the following communication
tucked away these many years,
when president number forty five
donned, jump/kick started, and tw...
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Categories:
lobbing, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Acquiescence Begets Hegemony
...Acquiescence begets hegemony...
Think Putin whose forename
Vladimir translates as great power,
whose singular minded aim
after lobbing bombs into
second-largest country
by area in Europe afte...
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Categories:
lobbing, abuse, anger, beautiful, city,
Form: Rhyme
Circa February 12th, 2122 10:30 Pm
...Circa February 12th, 2122 ~ 10:30 PM
Equals twenty one thirty 22:30 military time
future time traveler looks back one century ago,
oceanic waterways overladen with green slime,
yours truly atte...
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Categories:
lobbing, absence, age, celebration, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Distant Guns
...The garden sunlight plays tag
with our fat ginger cat.
Dad watches World War Two
he grinds his teeth
a general forced to take a back seat.
Mother is in the kitchen
not her natural territory.
S...
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Categories:
lobbing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
No Love Lost
...No love lost
all these 32 years
still lobbing grenades
shielding the tears
A heart cannot heal
'til the anger's let go
throw the weapons away
he's no longer the foe...
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Categories:
lobbing, conflict, divorce, health, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Electorate Witnesses Wounded Beast
...Electorate witnesses wounded beast...
flailing, lurching, and writhing in throes of agony
Trumpets blare acknowledging
crack hunters lucky strike,
i.e. bullseye salvo shot at
innocuous yet bru...
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Categories:
lobbing, absence, autumn, class, evil,
Form: Political Verse
9 Minutes
...R.I.P George-I'm sorry for what happened to you.
Nobody deserves to die like you died...
your face mashed against the asphalt
knee grinding into the neck
handcuffed to your death..
The "thing" t...
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Categories:
lobbing, society,
Form: Free verse
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