Long Off white Poems
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Limericks Vii - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd
Limericks VII - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd
There continue to be modern sequels of the famous "Nantucket" limericks, including this bawdy one of mine:
There was a lewd whore from Nantucket
who intended to pee in a bucket;
but...
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Categories:
off white, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, sexy, smile,
Form:
Limerick
Doggerel Ii
Doggerel II: Doggerel about Doggerel, or, More Nonsense Verse
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood:
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the...
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Categories:
off white, animal, dog, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Light Verse
Maya 2
Continued from Maya 1
At length, when the womens' screams had ceased
and the sound of the thunder had stopped,
he gathered his courage and withdrew himself
from his hiding place beneath the corn.
He left the hut and prostrated...
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Categories:
off white, allegory, conflict, courage, religion,
Form:
Prose Poetry
geneva
During finals week, I’d spent days on various reports and papers, scribbling in the margins of notes and books, checking facts, revising flashcards and prepping with friends. I’ve an unshakable faith in plodding persistence.
We were...
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Categories:
off white, boyfriend, humor, love, school, student, travel,
Form:
Free verse
A Heart Made Hatchet -1
I've never seen a baby so merry as Martha...
They say March newborns are bellwethers for blissful Springs Mary...
Hannah, Haverhill has been a hard place to call home
I'm sorry about Elizabeth's hanging,
Thomas has honored you...
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Categories:
off white, america,
Form:
Epic
Subconscious Super Ego
Parent-like, I looked at my past and the Resolutions
once made.
In doing so I asked myself: "What are Resolutions
anyway"?
Are they initial Collections of thoughts, plans,
Plots, fine proposals, investments and more,
That were all carefully thought...
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Categories:
off white, bible, blessing, courage, desire, hope, inspirational, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
We Danced In the Downpour
We danced in the downpour
The rains falls
not hard, more of a drizzle
this late Winter night
leaning on the light post
across the street,
watching the light in your window,
glowing slats through mini blinds,
outlines of your silhouette,
damp steel seeping...
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Categories:
off white, good night,
Form:
Epic
Dogs That Left Faux Paw Prints Extant Within Me Life
dogs that left faux paw prints extant within me life
lids black out and allow me to write
about a petty issue ye aye in vite
while eyes shut tight
bring back four legged friends sprite
and though many...
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Categories:
off white, absence, animal, anxiety, beautiful, best friend, care,
Form:
Ballad
Hell
Hell
The place of safety was dirty and cold
The building smelt musty, damp and old
Place of safety in which I was to roam
Was, in fact, a children's home
They clothed and fed...
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Categories:
off white, childhood, dark, deep,
Form:
Rhyme
On a Lincoln Highway Greyhound Depot
Sitting on a rusted blue bench the sun blew down on me a cool
green and yellow as the afternoon tucked me into
bed, ...
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Categories:
off white, allusion, america, culture, death, freedom, travel,
Form:
Free verse
One100eight
ONE100eight
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CharlaXFabels
www.three
SUN TRAN history
Passenger Pigeons carry messages to people entrenched at
www.wwone/ditched in doughboy britches wearing Army boots of wool
August 3, 1914 special...
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Categories:
off white, death, fantasy, imagination, mystery, science fiction, war,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Helen's Brick House
Helen's brick house
was built by her grandpa James
with a specific design in mind:
the front black cross-windows
riminded one of Christ's sorrows;
when the off-white roll shades opened
the neighboors saw Helen wearing a rosette
on her blouse she herself...
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Categories:
off white, autumn, beauty, blessing, garden, house, joy, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Thoughts of a Caregiver
I tried so hard, but you were too fast, clicking gracefully on high heels down the
shady block, laughing at me plodding in saddlebacks: Can't you keep up?
I tried so hard, but you were...
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Categories:
off white, caregiving, daughter, death, devotion, health, mother, me,
Form:
I do not know?
Picking Up Lunch
The elevator opened on the 46th floor, to a small foyer and one plain, grey door
The door opened and a young girl, 10ish, in a blue, polo, tennis dress, said, “Hi! I’m Karen, you must...
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Categories:
off white, art, girl, humanity, humor, pets, sister, teen,
Form:
Free verse
claimed voice
I had a dream last night. When I looked into the mirror, I was wearing a denim mid-skirt with boots, and a dramatic yellow top with feathers—things I would never wear, least of all on...
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Categories:
off white, dream, memory, voice, water,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Whisper of the Unheard Voice
Whisper of The Unheard Voice
Writing words of his heart where they have been hidden,
The beating of my heart is at a race.
This quiet of a man,
Has his mind been subdued?
My canvas is off-white;...
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Categories:
off white, deep, heart, how i feel, journey, life,
Form:
Prose
Wardrobe Color Scheme
Blest with garments of varied hues and shades’ assortment
I practice an organized monthly color-scheme adornment…
January is greeted with vibrant green’s life-oozing zest
along moss, emerald and mint scarfs’ accenting best.
With blue motif of azure or cerulean...
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Categories:
off white, appreciation, blessing, christian, color, faith, god, uplifting,
Form:
Couplet
Guardians
One night a beautiful girl is serving drinks at a bar,
she tells her customers, she is an aspiring movie star.
Everyone there loves her and she always gets the guys attentions,
even the ominous ones we don't...
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Categories:
off white, faithnight, girl, night,
Form:
Rhyme
GIRLCROOSH: INSTRUCTIONS ON FINALLY FEELING OKAY
Try to get out of bed early, try to make your bed. Inhale.
Your off-white bedsheets haven’t been washed in a month.
Try purchasing a new detergent, one of those that’s petal-scented:
2 in 1 Aroma...
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Categories:
off white, bereavement, depression, endurance, hyperbole, satire, society,
Form:
Free verse
At Times
At times I just sit and I WONDER,
what is my MISSION?
What is my ultimate goal or in other WORDS,
what is my life’s VISIONS?
At times I sit and THINK,
what will people actually say about my...
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Categories:
off white, life,
Form:
Verse
Journey To Varanasi
Delhi seems closer than it was last time.
After a tea with GST,
on to a backstreet of Varanasi,
Untouched by authority;
ignored more by memory
than darkened by amnesia.
A huge...
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Categories:
off white, god, places,
Form:
Free verse
Human Wreckage (Part 3)
I can’t walk out on this feeling,
Cigarette burns phantom-project onto
The backs of my hands like leprosy,
Hackles rise on the nape of my neck,
Ghostly pliers wrench my fingernails out,
Dripping protoplasm, blood and...
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Categories:
off white, life, loss, lost love, love, nostalgia, time,
Form:
Blank verse
The Compensatory Force of Nemesis
I’ve written enough small poetry
to start a nuclear war.
Do you want to die in traffic
behind the wheel of your car? Or in yr rodeer camp next fall.
Control eludes us. The hero
loses urinary control, the unified...
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Categories:
off white, angel, hero, humor, music, nature, poetry, war,
Form:
Free verse
Rose Rhapsody
My rose bushes are lusher than ever this year.
For soaking rain and warm days abound,
Though with too little sun I fear.
Still, they give me many blooms that astound.
Their gentle glow lightens any despair,
On return...
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Categories:
off white, flower, garden, life, nature, spring,
Form:
Sonnet
A Pillowcase Backpack
A pillowcase backpack, camping under the kitchen table.
Lost in imagination, deaf to strife.
In every way full of wonder of life.
Holed up in a couch cushion bunker.
Barefoot and bare chested.
Taking aim...
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Categories:
off white, adventure, childhood, grandfather, grandparents, growing up,
Form:
Rhyme