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Cymbric Vale
I believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts...

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Categories: handy, holiday,
Form: Rhyme



Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 Hours
Poem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours

Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior 
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women, 
based upon a character 
in The Impertinent Curious Man, 
a story within a...

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Categories: handy, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
The First Valentine Poem, Circa 1415
The First Valentine Poem

Charles d’Orleans (1394-1465) has been credited with writing the first Valentine poem for his wife in 1415. Charles wrote the first Valentine poem in the first year of his captivity while being...

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Categories: handy, heart, love, passion, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Donald Pellegren born 6-4-1937 garment district slash Detroit hitman posing as a nice guy publisher
Donald impersonating
a nice guy publisher right 
after my accident traumatic 
brain injury car bomb attack 
he followed me to book stores 
ice cream shops art museum 
obsessed with my poetry my 
manuscript i was writing...

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Categories: handy, allah,
Form: Ghazal
Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along outer limits of 
the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path 
of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking...

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Categories: handy, abuse, adventure, beauty, body, christmas, desire, father
Form: Rhyme



Marat and Charlotte
(A somnambulistic drama in four acts)

Actors:

Jean-Paul Marat; 
Charles Barbarou;
Charlotte Corday;
1st Philosopher;
2nd Philosopher;
The Commentator’s Voice.

Act 1. A tavern. Two philosopher sit at the table; 
Marat sits at the other, some distance away.

1st Philosopher 

…or even worse:...

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Categories: handy, death, life, love,
Form: Blank verse
Sarah’s Origin
My eyes stare straight,
fixated on something in the distance, 
humming a song that would send chills,
if you ever got the chance to listen.

A padded cell and a straitjacket,
the doctor giving one of his ‘visits,’
his moans...

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Categories: handy, dark, death, gothic,
Form: Epic
Premium Member P O W DOWN
I will never ever fear domestic terrorists waving flags threatening and intimidation of severe PTSD survivors Army Veterans being stalked by enraged corrupt beasts attempting to blackmail him for medical benefits he receives from risking...

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Categories: handy, allah,
Form: Masnavi
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 71
The preparations were almost complete when Lumi reappeared down stairs.  He seemed preoccupied and burnished an all encompassing smile across his face.
     “Lumi... Lumi,” Joulupukki had to repeat himself to...

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Categories: handy, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Saturday, September 23, 2023  

Coincides with first day of fall
and Autumnal equinox for said year,
where colorful splash kindled like tinder.

After I riff flecked about thee August
Autumn Equinox 2023,
this seasonal polymath teached you 
fall Equinox...

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Categories: handy, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration, cool, environment, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Wrestling With Impasse To Contentment
Wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking voltage surges an emphatic...

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Categories: handy, abuse, adventure, age, anger, betrayal, black african
Form: Rhyme
Shaggy Dog Limericks: the All-Time Best -- Vote For Your Favorite
The Spaniel

A Spaniel that uses its head 
Can tell when its owner’s unfed 
So instead of a duck
That is down on its luck 
Will deliver a pizza instead
 
The Afghan Hound

The Afghan’s a dog groomer’s...

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Categories: handy, animal, cat, cute, dog, fun, humor, pets,
Form: Limerick
June 12th 2017 Transition Revisited and Revised Today 4 2 2021
June 12th 2017 TRANSITION revisited and revised today 4/2/2021

While scrolling over outdated docs
(i.e. namely OpenOffice documents)
derrière seated upon hard backed chair,
yours truly came upon following poem
to share with anonymous readers,
whereby slight modifications 
got made to...

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Categories: handy, adventure, angel, anxiety, blessing, conflict, husband, july,
Form: Rhyme
Come post presidential election 2024
Come post presidential election 2024... 

heil to the Wharton chief firebrand -
more worrisome than an ovarian cyst
every race, religion, nationality, 
gender, creed, et cetera with impunity dissed
brigand able, eager, ready and willing
to punch contenders throwing...

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Categories: handy, 11th grade, 12th grade, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
I Wait With Bated Breath For C Cure T Clarence
I wait with bated breath for... C. Cure T. Clarence

The following crafted 
approximately midway 
into the administration 
of forty fifth president,
whose crass, gutsy, lewd,
repulsive yawping finds
him squarely poised to
nab the nomination as
Republican front runner
come the...

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Categories: handy, america, anxiety, appreciation, character, confidence, fate, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Invisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilism
Invisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilism

Psyche wracked with agony
impossible mission to extricate lovely bones
they wanna remain permanently abed.

I chiefly function to amass knowledge
courtesy assiduously, habitually,
and judiciously reading
an eclectic assortment of written material.

Yours truly woke
with ambition, disposition,
inclination,...

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Categories: handy, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence, age, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Dream State Yields Deep Sleep Personifications
Dream state yields deep sleep personifications

Upon lying supine - eye shutter lids
into the land of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,
where the sandman beckons and bids
dead to the webbed wide world,
yours truly immune to wakefulness 
despite being...

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Categories: handy, 12th grade, 1st grade, adventure, animal, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
as does yours truly,
whose ecological ethos
goes out the window
into the cold freezing iceland
prompting the following balderdash.

Upon the advent of an unexpected inspection
slated for tomorrow January 24th, 2025
myself...

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Categories: handy, abuse, adventure, anger, betrayal, crush, devotion, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Onerous Task Confronted Teachers and Parents
Onerous task confronted teachers and parents

As prospective students
ably ready themselves to matriculate
and/or first set little feet 
inside halls of learning,
I rebroadcast a poem crafted
at the height of Covid-19.

A couple years gone back educators
adaptation regarding coronavirus...

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Categories: handy, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Very Fine Imagery
I was touring the lovely countryside, once on a golden Saturday,
Lost within the raptures, of languid summertime's scenic display.

And I came into the vicinity, of a beautiful historic old home,
So being curious and interested, inside...

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Categories: handy, adventure, fantasy, house, imagery, mirror, places, world,
Form: Couplet
Saturday Morning Reflections
My stomach is growling from the coconut trash bubbling in my system, my stomach is growling from toxic energy circulating in the street. My stomach is growling from words people are shouting in the town;...

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Categories: handy, community, future, happiness, sad, strength, success, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
As a mortal man of threescore and five years
As a mortal man of threescore and five years...

I bore witness and/or assimilated, gleaned,
and nursed implacable thirst for knowledge
courtesy reading factual narratives,
historical fiction, or biography
that since the advent of Homo sapiens
avast number of civilizations
and their...

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Categories: handy, age, america, anger, angst, anxiety, humorous, me,
Form: Free verse
Letter From a Son To His Late Mother
Ma,
Why do I need to apostrophize you? Why did you flew away into the celestial regions so earlier? Is it because you are from a land where ‘twenty is plenty’ for women? And hence, ignoring...

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Categories: handy, emotions, family, loss, mother son,
Form: Prose
Remorseless Sweaty Palms
Remorseless sweaty palms

despite being prescribed glycopyrrolate.

Though the angst riddled psyche of mine crafted youth, long since receded, ebbed in the past, infringement, impingement, and indecent wracking wrath of mental illness, that even as a middle...

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Categories: handy, 12th grade, anger, blue, care, crazy, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tasting Africa, One L----Ick At a Time - Part 2
Tasting Africa (One L****ick at a Time) Part 2
(Though the title's a joke, my limericks are not!)

5. Yet Another World Wonder
Feel like now I am older I need to admit
A Safari to Africa costs quite...

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Categories: handy, africa, appreciation, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme

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