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An Uppercut I Remember
Dad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height,...

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Categories: helluva, father son,
Form: Blank verse



I leave buying food at the market to the spouse
I leave buying food at the market to the spouse...

one helluva comparative
humdinger savvy shopper,
who can rattle off the best buy
for most any given item,
at the drop of a hat
analogous to baseball fanatic
(unlike myself who knows...

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Categories: helluva, adventure, angel, anxiety, appreciation, august, humorous, love,
Form: Free verse
Saved By His Creator, Part I
His first moment was a strange one,
he senses told him not a thing,
but he knew words and he knew thoughts,
oh, so many thoughts were spinning.

Then somehow he heard a voice speak,
knew that it was a...

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Categories: helluva, death, future, humanity, life, meaningful, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Tale of Two Cities and Two Captains
Well what the Dickens is going on?
My choice as the greatest scribe and voice of our tribe
Charles not himself a cricketing man but definitely a fan

Twas…the tale of two skippers and two cities
Both burdened by...

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Categories: helluva, sports,
Form: Prose Poetry
Trumpiad Iii - Foreign Affairs
IV Foreign affairs

« Putin, I’m rootin to stop the shootin. »
« So am I ; about time you started too. »
« Started too! Me, I’m faster than you. »
« Not start too, you fool, but Start One, Start Two. »
« Start one, start two ? What...

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Categories: helluva, humorous, political, satire,
Form: Political Verse



Alone
Always alone
That is my destiny
I’ve never really had someone to have my back
Other than family and friends
But no man has ever truly loved me
I’ve asked why several times
Some people are not meant to live 
Happily...

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Categories: helluva, life, me, body, me, time,
Form: I do not know?
Free Verse Ranch
Hear the clip-clop of iambic beats
Sounds like Shelley with a side of Keats
Is that the scritchity-scratch of a goose quill flickin’
Or just the tippity-tap of some mouse you clickin’..?

So you a prophet poet, regular Marley...

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Categories: helluva, adventure, poetry, word play, words, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Slamming Dakarai Cobb Part 4
Ding. Ding. Goes the sound of the bell.
Soupers see a poetic king emerge from his cell...

You called me a "Whorelock" - define that word punk?!
You're in for a shock - I don't entertain poetic junk!
I...

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Categories: helluva, slamme, life, me,
Form: Rhyme
Are We In Love?
There are things that I'm going through that no one knows of 

But it’s written on the walls of Egypt
 

I gotta read your phrases like 10 times and I'm not checkin for grammatical 
rhymes

I'm...

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Categories: helluva, black african american, friendship, lost love, love,
Form: Blank verse
Slamming Dakarai Cobb Part 2
Ok, this is gonna be a poetic airstrike, like it was over Baghdad.
I've been told my slams are god-like, and dakarai, you're being slayed on my writing 
pad!

I've done ripped out your heart, now I'm...

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Categories: helluva, dedication, fantasy, slam
Form: Couplet
Outlaw Poetry
Outside the laws or standards
Inside my mind there are no laws, no limits
In ur world is not where my mind resides
Like a bank robber uses a gun
I use words
Stick 'em up!

Laws of poetry be damned
My...

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Categories: helluva, art, creation, freedom, hero, i am, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Pablo, According To Me, Part 1b
Pablo...according to me (Part 1b, continuation/finish from Part 1a)

Re Pablo Picasso printmaking exhibition at Bellagio Hotel's Fine Art Gallery.

(7) Photo - PP's living room (by David Douglas Duncan), Summer '57, Villa La California Cannes
 ...

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Categories: helluva, art,
Form: Free verse
Cold Case
Fingerprints, used to track them down and a clue or two
Now they have all this fancy technology, some stuff called DNA
"No Sir", them old crooks don't have much of a chance anymore
"And the old worried...

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© Danny Nunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: helluva, peopleold, me, old,
Form: I do not know?
Cold Case Part Two
The female Black Widow Spider, they all do the same
When they copulate with their mate, the next thing you know he is dead
And so goes the cycle, kind of like the game you play
The ...

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© Danny Nunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: helluva, peoplegod, old, god, old,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Flock Reconsiders the Sermon
It don't do much good lookin' back 
But maybe if we could
We'd find another way to take
That'd be for a greater good

Maybe it's worth a look
The preacher he thought we should

Nineteen seventy-nine it was 
And...

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Categories: helluva, america, history,
Form: Lyric
WTC Final bowlers' ball

Have bowlers become spicier?

Hitches in batting riches

Cut sl**s shut in a rut

Pitches become dicier?


Chestnut witches strut

Gluts of stitches

And seams dreams

Humdrum Timber 

Tantrum doldrums

Back in the hut


 
What we did see at the WTC

Wood from the...

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Categories: helluva, sports,
Form: Rhyme
The Southpaw
THE SOUTHPAW
By Roy Merritt

This kid has a helluva arm 
The coach he told the scout
And if we could get him 
to get it over the plate
He'd strike all the batters out
He can throw it really...

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Categories: helluva, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Give Me Some Skin
Give me some skin
(from the sun's point of view)
By Franklin Price
7/26/2017

Give me some skin, this is me the old sun
You may not like it, but you are the one
Chose you when young, to put to...

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Categories: helluva, cancer, health, sun,
Form: Couplet
Adored Lord Broad
Let's applaud our 

Adored Lord Broad

Fame and awards

Crossing swords &

Bossing visiting hordes 

Name in the frame

On Lords boards


Cooing..wasn't it grand

Tanned boy with headband

Wooing the fanned stand


No wonder we're so fond

Of this towering..glowering

Powering flowering blonde


Plumping for...

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Categories: helluva, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Super Bowl Li Hype Rocks Houston and Viewers
Super Bowl LI Hype Rocks Houston And Viewers


Superbowl LI promises to be one helluva game
With the Patriots and Falcons vying for championship claim
Houston will stage the uplift off this Sunday, February 5th
As a global audience...

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Categories: helluva, football, perspective, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Slamming M T - a K a - Ms Poe
I'm making this a special affair, so soupers, chant my name.
This site is about to witness a poetic warfare, my favorite game!

My words will be like bombs over Baghdad, the couplets like an airstrike.
With this...

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Categories: helluva, dedication, funny, slamslam, slam,
Form: Couplet
Boaster Rap
BOASTER   RAP


Sometimes the guys used to sit around chugging bird-beer 
Boasting of chicks they’d  held dear.
Some British guy started  in... Well, I was going out with some nice birds
We said -...

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Categories: helluva,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Tribute To My Friend
A TRIBUTE TO MY FRIEND. 

Warriors, brave in battle and honorable at home
we pray they find their most just reward.
To Heaven departed, no longer will they roam
We lose them and find its always SO hard!
As...

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Categories: helluva, absence, appreciation, courage, dedication, friend, soldier, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
The Old 5y Ranch
There is an old ranch outside of El Paso in New Mexico
No windmills, not a drop of water, sits on the Mexican border
No horses or cattle, not a cowboy does it employ
Used to be a...

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© Danny Nunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: helluva, cowboy-westernold, old, drug,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Cowboy Philosopher
An old cowpoke throwed his leg over the well-worn saddle horn,
And tilted back his ten-gallon hat that was sweat-stained and worn.
From his shirt pocket he took a Bull Durham tobacco pouch,
And with one hand made...

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Categories: helluva, day, me, old, work,
Form: Rhyme

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