Long Ayes Poems

Yours truly would never be confused for a gourmand, nevertheless I could enjoy experiencing taste testing select food samples if offered an opportunity of attending a fancy feast viz smörgåsbord, whereby oral indulgence would arouse,...

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Food glorious food

Asia generic guy gastronomy (and how gourmet foods eat destructively clearly beyond any) excess enthusiasm, the necessity to feed and clothe this lean mean exercising machine gunning corporeal essence christened Matthew Scott Harris...

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Consonant Like A Vow (el)

Now ma nada twirly (to early) twittering 
condolences to the esprit de corps, qua 
(just recently) late John McCain, and his 
surviving family suddenly damning original 
way word odd did see,...

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curt hissy Matthew Scott Harris
who wishes ewe well
to make $cents of the following
mumbo jumbo lettered gumbo.

Hip puck crease see
(ad hoc) key hide dee claim
haint how my noggin 
comports itself to take aim,
cuz ear lee aire...

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After all is said and done, cliché style
(Forgive me if this does not rhyme, I'm moving
Past rhyme for the sake of rhyme)
You will have gone away rich and returned for more
Because you thought you knew...

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A tale of two twins ...


Kit:	That sure was a mean swing, Dottie. You knocked it out of the park. You’re the Sultana of Swat. I love the way you ‘round the bases doing your cute...

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Part I – Plow’s New Home

He was squiggly and fat with dark round eyes.
The auctioneer held him up, but no ayes!
HE MUST HAVE BEEN ABLE TO READ MY MIND.
Five dollars, do I hear $10? …....

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Crack-ed craniums,  splintered personalities
Neural pathway of coping escape
led to a padded place for shattered identities

Disposable souls, which fell thru the cracks,
became ill weeds of society — 
Concrete tares of bipolarity

They took the sweet powdered...

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Is she the one? my daughter asks
Of a mom not ready for the tasks
Of always knowing the words to say
Or the one to choose this summer day.
Is this the mare I should buy and ride
Along...

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Holding out my unchained hand,
light as evaporated air
is the emancipation accrued debt equity

By making reparation demands,
this long overdue affair
has a short tabled legislation probability

Many moons of unpaid slave wages owed me,
fills my bosom with hollow...

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I stand for you, you vote for me,	
I win, my title now M.P.	
I have the traits that you thought key,	
respect, work hard and honesty.
	
My first day here in Parliament,	
to aid all my constituents.		
The ayes, the...

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You would have known
If you'd had the sense to have lingered long
Enough to have figured out how things worked
And what gave weight to matters of worth
You would have known what was known
And what you didn't...

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First and foremost on the agenda,
would be to locate an affordable,
casual and favorable eatery
tubby agreeable to our taste
indubitable choice without
(any formal dress code),
nor further haste.

Strait away to the great weigh
(or if vegetarian – whey)
station of...

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by Michaelw1two

 fantasy and dreams
 a world of what if
 around me, the earth shakes
 I feel where, blinded eyes flutter
 through sightless sleeps
 the moon’s twilight
 beams beneath nightmares
 for the first time, I...

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O foolish Amerikan klan,
who hath Klux bewitched thee with pale poof?

Kluless to the celestial truth,
Love immutable is infinity grand

Children of the Aryan band,
what doth the dark star say unsooth?

Thy divided house is quaking from the...

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'Tis know wander nor em aye telling yew anything gnu,
Hour tongue is awash with homophones confounding me end ewe.

Ah, two sea thee broad expenses from a towering mountain peek;
Thee pristine see, thee rolling veil end...

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To enjoy an upstart is quite easy in art,
You just have to let go, and enjoy their mistakes!
Is it foolish to scheme, does a snail even dream?
Does a lightning bug know, that a spark's all...

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Live the life
where you let others judge and praise
more religiously than God,
with all the shackles of social media
you adorn in blindness,
letting trinkets fill you with ecstasy, 
and trends that eventually bend, 
and lies smothered with flies.

Boasting faces and...

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CBC Literary Prizes  
Today's writing tip: 04/22/2021 
Write a poem that's not about you.

Poetry sucks
Poetry is not
Not easy
Not to me
To be sure
To be or
Or not me be
Or else
Else me be
Elsewhere 
Where deer and antelope...

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Dear Mary,

Wholly, In the name of my Ilah

I shall begin to strive...,

wearing my heroic glamor

and set forth a knight without Armour

 

O ye,

bell the ring of happiness;

here I am to confess my adorable joy,

yester-years my...

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I never knew am a human
until you came to me, O 
woman.

back then am wasn't so sure
yet though I was assured..

I awake every night all alone
and dream myself so loned..

asking;
why was my life off show,
why...

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I realize

I have real eyes

That see real lies—

     ~Nearsighted
          (rule of law)

     ~Farsighted
     ...

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But even halfcut spiders some
damn how bleed their papyrus way towards
the light to die, they later told me,
from behind an aching searchlamp
(onehundred watts, a blade
brilliant tearmuse for
my rapidwrinking visions)
during that eonslong debriefing
in our lonely hilltop...

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"Limpid pools of prevarications laid down and to the left.The ayes and nays of what lay between us , belie sweet spoken claims of truth.A Chalice filled with promise is naught but empty if held...

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What if yreve third word dah to be sdrawkcab
What i 's had to be lower
--------f--f----------------------
Or -nag-ne an ex-stence w-thout any eyes
Ayes or naws
Do do do's or don't don't
Big pair of donkey ears
every years my year
a...

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