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Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part ii
Highlight of Goofus and Gallant 
bred within the survival instinct 
of hungry hordes of prey, 
when Earth in the balance 
against an uncomfortable truth 
smug smurf like scavengers. 

     Punishment meted...

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Categories: fits and starts, absence, adventure, africa, america, angel, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse



Bad ass beauty brought bedlam, and begat bastard child
Bad ass beauty brought bedlam, and begat bastard child...
courtesy booty call minus preemptive measures
while plugg naughty bits of tarnished knight 
while he took tea and crumpets within mistress's boudoir

The following verses typed out some years...

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Categories: fits and starts, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, blessing, gender,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Three Cousins Played
Three cousins played a “game’ of war
A map of Europe spread across the floor
No adults there to keep the score
As each of them wanted more and more

Three of four empires lay upon that map
As they...

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Categories: fits and starts, war,
Form: Verse
Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along
Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along...

as his stronghold diminishes.

Signals, triggers, and ushers kickstarting debut
of demure "Flora" who slowly but surely attempts
to reveal her true colors in fits and starts,
nevertheless, she displays skittishness,
when...

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Categories: fits and starts, america, animal, birth, celebration, earth, humorous, spring,
Form: Free verse
Turning the maxim familiarity breeds contempt on it's head
Turning the maxim familiarity breeds contempt on it's head...
not just in time for Valentine's Day
but the remaining days of our lives
as the world turns
on all our children
the young and restless
now grown to womanhood

After being married
for...

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Categories: fits and starts, absence, adventure, anger, anniversary, anxiety, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse



Bedlam and Mayhem In the Mistress's Boudoir
Bedlam and mayhem in the mistress's boudoir

Nsync with variations on a theme:
of drool worthy Reuben Sandwich
(consisting of corned beef, 
Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, 
Russian dressing between slices 
of rye bread that is grilled 
until the bread...

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Categories: fits and starts, adventure, angel, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful, desire, endurance,
Form: Free verse
The monumental bane of OCD obsessive compulsive disorder
The monumental bane of OCD - obsessive compulsive disorder

As origin of Homo Sapien species surged ahead,
harboring nascent predominance
asper said primate reproductively bred,
(albeit via incremental fits and starts)
evolutionary forebears didst dread
Tom Tom Club former members
an American...

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Categories: fits and starts, adventure, africa, animal, anxiety, atheist, environment, history,
Form: Rhyme
Happy 68th Birthday Maryann Sage Revisited January 12th 2021
Happy 68th birthday MaryAnn Sage - revisited January 12th, 2021

Wherever you might be holed up
within this whirled wide web wassup?

Mein kampf still equals board
hardscrabble existence deplored
analogous to Norwegian bachelor,
whose Lake Wobegon nestled within fjord
forcing me...

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Categories: fits and starts, birthday, devotion, endurance, heartbroken, husband, january, lost
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Some Final Thoughts for 2024
It has occurred to me that as I grow older and use my life experiences more, everything means more than it did before. So, here I am, at the end of another year soliloquizing about...

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Categories: fits and starts, age, appreciation, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Prose
Shattered dreams of New Canaan
Shattered dreams of New Canaan

no longer land of the free home of the brave,
original rightful occupants hoodwinked, petrified,
where diseases xeroxed
ambushed, crushed, extinguished,
squashed, trashed, wampashed,
the entire kit and kaboodle zapped
violent unwelcome intruders
celebrated acquisition or outright
annexation of...

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Categories: fits and starts, allegory, america, analogy, animal, betrayal, dark, hate,
Form: Free verse
Daily At the Mercy of Anticipatory Anxiety, Hence
Daily at the mercy of anticipatory anxiety, hence...

illogical and irrational obsessive compulsive
exhausting rituals linkedin
with cognitive dissonance
(essentially unfounded worry
birthed courtesy far fetched circumstances)
exacts significant mental expense,
which logically and rationally
makes perfect figurative cents
nevertheless offers assigned therapist
Renee Cardone...

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Categories: fits and starts, 11th grade, 12th grade, anxiety, conflict, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Elusive Ephemeral Ethereal Expansive Eye I Witness Timelessness
Elusive ephemeral ethereal expansive eye (I) witness timelessness

Analogous to Möbius strip -
measured passage of existence
seems to defy any beginning or end
(unless Artificial Intelligence
supersedes developers smarts 
of computer technology
evincing brain power
designing sophisticated machines 
that enslave their...

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Categories: fits and starts, absence, africa, animal, birth, computer, creation, earth,
Form: Free verse
Her Story of Why
These are her stories of why; the sad excuses of mother's life;
Her oft-honed chip, accented with her mother's old mink stole,
Tears most lovely in her eyes as she spoke of the beautiful farm;
Telling of the...

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© Deb Radke  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fits and starts, historyday, beautiful, old, summer, beautiful, day, farm,
Form: Free verse
Arcola Circa Late 1960s Early 1970s
Arcola circa late 1960's early 1970's...
easy to conjure this idyllic June 8th, 2020

Envision bucolic Currier
and Ives rendered landscape,
or canvas painted
courtesy gifted late Thomas Kinkade
(or substitute favorite creative soul)
how aforementioned illustrious artists drape
mesmerized amateur and/or

art appreciation...

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Categories: fits and starts, 11th grade, 12th grade, environment, father, growing
Form: Free verse
Choices of Past Forebears
Random chain of events
preceded occurrence re:
guarding existence of me
interminable fits and starts
concerning self destruction
inherent within one measly
self important species.

Yours truly synonymous 
with any chance reader
(of course inclusive those 
untold past multitudes,
who trod upon this oblate...

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Categories: fits and starts, adventure, atheist, bullying, creation, earth, fate, grandparents,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Black Powder
We celebrate Guy Fawkes although he did not quite make the grade

I know and understand rebellion threatens thus he met his fate

Could have been worse he could have blown of his incendiary hand

Less body parts...

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Categories: fits and starts, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Sunshine Singers Come to Play
In dribs and drabs, in fits and starts,
the elders slowly congregate;
in the common room of the seniors' home,
they patiently sit and wait.
Some are wheeled in, some simply shuffle
in orderly fashion, without kerfuffle.

They've all been told
there's...

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© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fits and starts, age, appreciation, celebration, humanity, music,
Form: Rhyme
Neurological Tinder Box Doth Hotly Kindle
(okay, yukon axe me whatsapp pinning, 
     though beep pre spired, cuz mess sigh key
     threads experience didst rub burr raw 
     as...

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Categories: fits and starts, crazy, dad, fear, howl, mental illness, suicide,
Form: Bio
Bedlam and Mayhem In the Mistress Iz Boudoir Post Number One
Bedlam and mayhem in the mistress's boudoir

(Nsync with variations on a theme:
various and sundry
pseudo lurid fictitious escapades)
mostly I did merrily wet
whet madness aye ever did dream.)

The missus personal trappings
strewn helter skelter
every perilous step fraught
with danger...

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Categories: fits and starts, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Elusive Ephemeral Ethereal Expansive Timelessness
Elusive Ephemeral Ethereal Expansive: Timelessness

Analogous to mobius strip -
     measured passage of existence
     only took precedence
     with Homo sapiens ascendent
busting forth upon
 ...

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Categories: fits and starts, allegory, allusion, cousin, creation, destiny, old, race,
Form: Free verse
Swath of pristine tractless snow white landscape
Swath of pristine tractless snow white landscape...
tell tale sign where
winter storm Demi left her mark.

Beautiful and bountiful visual scene
(seldom seen around
tri-state geographic area
for quite a few years,
where temperate global warming
spelled unseasonably warm winters)
trumps the inauguration
for...

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Categories: fits and starts, adventure, allusion, america, angel, appreciation, birth, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Never Forget
the buildings gray stood grand and tall
      the proudest prize of man's bright call
         none dared to think that one might fall
...

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Categories: fits and starts, new york, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Between the Cloud and the Field Part2
Between the cloud and field (Part2.)

In your dying days
The nights were not enough
For in fits and starts
Your faltering heart
Gave up diamonds in the rough

In fields sown for us
I hear strangers’ feet
You are now between the...

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Categories: fits and starts, allegory, allusion, bereavement, best friend, black love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Inevitable
OLD AGE PAINS

(In Loving Memory of my Mother.)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Old journal book soiled by life's pains;
Aged ugly looks, pages and stains;
Old people hooked to sad refrains.


Here in this room old odours cry;
Feel the sad gloom where unease...

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Categories: fits and starts, death,
Form: Rhyme
Joie De Vivre Cost Me Nothing To Purchase
No rhyme nor reason why
with yours truly ejaculating
(not prematurely), I utter yippee,
nope no intercourse induced whoopie

upon this... - day three
January two thousand and twenty one
perhaps consummation,
regarding aforesaid euphoric mood
indicative I will become philanthropy

recipient i.e. anonymous...

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Categories: fits and starts, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things