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Pequot River Land Trust
Once,
or twice,
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal
A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted
sometimes hysterically clueless condo
colonial-red predative brick
badly bald aging building
With a sometimes soggy south walled school,
but...
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Categories:
half a dozen, blue, culture, environment, green, health, humor, math,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Ice Cream Gran 5 - Turbo, We Have a Problem
It’s heading for our planet at ten thousand miles an hour
To stop it all the experts say we haven’t got the power
All the nukes in all the world won’t constitute a plan
So someone said, ‘All...
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Categories:
half a dozen, grandmother, hero, space,
Form:
Rhyme
The Philistine Troops Gathered Up For War
The Philistine troops gathered up for war,
Between Azekah and Socoh amassed.
Israel encamped near in Elah vale
And drew a line against the number vast.
There Saul, upon one mountain, made a stand,
To face the other tribe across...
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Categories:
half a dozen, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
Worming the Cat and Dog
Once again it’s Saturday; the day when footy reigns supreme.
The Dogs are up against the Cats, the premier favoured team,
but I’ve got no doubts the mighty Dogs will surely cope with that.
I couldn’t think of...
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Categories:
half a dozen, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
half a dozen, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, blessing, gender,
Form:
Free verse
Half a Dozen Plus Years Ago the Following Became a Near Reality
Half a dozen plus years ago the following became a near reality
Countdown to homelessness –
mars this earthlinked sole Harris - son
panhandler would would register
pyrrhic victory won.
10…9…8…3..2..1…
Found me linkedin at the end of...
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Categories:
half a dozen, age, america, anger, angst, anniversary, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
RED
RED
One hundred years ago in Pollockshaws
A man was laid to rest,
From humble beginnings to a martyr
They buried Scotland’s best.
A man who stood for the people
A man unshaken and proud,
Till the imperialist and capitalist murderers
Connived...
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Categories:
half a dozen, anger, appreciation, community, education, history, memory, political,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
half a dozen, adventure, angel, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful, desire, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
I, Zombie, Part Xii: the Remembering
It’s ten years later
I’ve finally hit paydirt
It’s the motherload
I didn’t strike gold
I struck a deal with myself
To help me grow old
Not act like a child
But first I had to grow up
And not act so wild
I’m...
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Categories:
half a dozen, addiction, allusion, analogy, mental illness, metaphor, self,
Form:
Haiku
Involved
* CONTENT WARNING: This poem is about physical abuse. *
~
eyes, down ...
at my yellow polo,
red spatters
so evenly placed that
they look unnatural -
as if printed,
but unfinished ... incomplete …
yeah ...
blood, but...
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Categories:
half a dozen, abuse, angst, bullying, people,
Form:
Free verse
Choices of Hope
His mean bulging eyes stare at me from behind the screen, and from the look on his face you could see that he has been meddling with my midnight dreams, for twelve long hours he...
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Categories:
half a dozen, america, betrayal, business, care, career, city, culture,
Form:
Narrative
The Tigerilla
CHAPTER ONE
They closed the county zoo for it was sick financially
They thought they’d take the creatures to their homes across the sea
The Silverback Gorilla soon in Africa would be
And then they’d go to Asia where...
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Categories:
half a dozen, africa, animal,
Form:
Rhyme
Requisite Inspection June 29th, 2022 At Apartment B44
Requisite inspection June 29th, 2022 at Apartment B44
Aforementioned title and following
little known verses of Matthew
finds me feeling squeamish,
peevish, anguish, et cetera
at our (the missus and mine) digs,
cuz low income rental housing regulations
require safe and...
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Categories:
half a dozen, 12th grade, adventure, america, anxiety, business, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
Irrational exuberance at respite from reading
Irrational exuberance at respite from reading...
(on a rainy May thirteenth
two thousand and twenty five)
as a balm against ennui
becoming engrossed, immersed,
and lost in space of orrery
regarding the universe created courtesy
Nora Roberts well crafted novel Montana Sky
perusing...
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Categories:
half a dozen, adventure, america, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, sweet love,
Form:
Free verse
The Kitchen Not the Cake
There’s cheap lunches in the Barley Tavern,
each Wednesday, when after one o’clock.
I always chose to eat beer battered fish,
plus mystery cake a little bit ad hoc.
And this Wednesday here in the tavern,
Ted Austin joined me...
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Categories:
half a dozen, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Leap of Faith
As the man on the roof, took two steps towards the edge, he was unexpectedly stopped by the sound of a bright and familiar voice, down below.
"I thought you were...
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Categories:
half a dozen, family, growth, jobs, moving on,
Form:
Narrative
Her Last Client, Part I
Growing up Roxanne learned that a woman
could do anything that was done by a man,
that it was wrong to have different standards,
and this point of view informed all her plans.
She was aggressive in her relationships,
and...
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Categories:
half a dozen, gender, marriage, political, sad, truth, wisdom, women,
Form:
Narrative
Tablecloth Telling the Time
A weasel wibble wobbling can be said to have ingested copious amounts of indemonstrable indelible ink today as it soared into doorways, hallways, cloakrooms, and buffet tables. Buffet tables are neither buffaloes or bongos. In...
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Categories:
half a dozen, beach,
Form:
I do not know?
Further Qualities of the King the Thiruk-Kural Lauds: Iramaadchi - Canto 39, K381 and K382
Further qualities of the King* the THIRUK-KURAL lauds: IRAMAADTCHI - Canto 39, K381 and K382
[*modern-day "kings": presidents, prime and chief ministers, governors, dictators and the like; K381 & K382 have already been posted.]
K383: thuungkaamai kalvi...
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Categories:
half a dozen, caregiving, character, leadership, people,
Form:
Epigram
Drunk In Self
Duet between Omodele Oluwabunmi and Wems Henry Temmy speaks... cautiously
OmO
Mother, I forget not thy words
When I was a score and half a dozen
“My daughter, let your heart hold my teaching "
But my heart was...
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Categories:
half a dozen, abuse, africa, age, art, blue, culture, encouraging,
Form:
Rhyme
I Walked In Her Shoes Once Again
On Monday I tried to call you but no one was home.
On Tuesday I walked to your home and rang the doorbell.
There was no answer.
On Wednesday I baked you some cookies thinking it would...
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Categories:
half a dozen, best friend, farewell, feelings, endurance,
Form:
Prose
A Pet For a Pet
I’d mowed me lawn and chopped the wood, I’d even done some weeding,
And when I told the ‘missus’, she said, “Oh gosh my heart is bleeding”.
‘Okay then’ I sort of thought, her smart remark needs...
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Categories:
half a dozen, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
half a dozen, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
The Real Santa Claus
It was Christmas Eve and growing late;
This was the last of his paid Santa dates.
Still dressed in his red Santa gear,
He stepped inside to have a beer.
One pint soon turned into two,
Then half a dozen...
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Categories:
half a dozen, holiday, inspirationalchristmas, father, me, christmas, father, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Jack 171
Jack 171 27 May 2025
I’m Christopher Columbus, exploring my mind, because no one else has
I’m precise, when rambling on, towards the point
I’m simple, while being extremely complicated
I’m intelligent, but capable of absolute stupidity
I’m a stick of...
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Categories:
half a dozen, anxiety, introspection, mental health, poems, poetry, self,
Form:
Free verse