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Some Pro's and Con's of Being Connected To Virtual Reality

Some pro's and con's of being connected to virtual reality

Dune not be bashful, grumpy, leery
or any other contemporary dwarf man
regarding countless less well known dwarves
(that never got a chance
to play a bit part) such as...

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Categories: ranked, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st grade, adventure,
Form: Rhyme


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Merov's Ghost and Other Shots Across My Bow

Merov’s Ghost (1) and Other Shots Across My Bow!

In mid-November of Fourteen, I published my first web verse here, (2)
the earliest spanned sixty years, composed for Senior English class
one night in Nineteen Sixty-One. Assigned just...

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Categories: ranked, blessing, life, love,
Form: Rhyme

Some Pro's and Con's of Being Virtually Connected To Reality Poetic Verses

Some Pro's and Con's of being Virtually Connected to Reality poetic verses

Dune not be bashful, grumpy, leery
or any other contemporary dwarf man
even countless less well known dwarves
(that never got a chance
to play a bit part)...

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Categories: ranked, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Rhyme

April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa

April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa

The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and file of...

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Categories: ranked, absence, age, anniversary, april, bereavement, death, father,
Form: Rhyme

Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky

Harriet Harris née Kuritsky...

Despite being a nineteen year old bride
she wed Boyce Brandon Harris
half a decade her senior,
(where I ranked less than a twinkle in their eyes)
during the month of June 1955, 
not quite half...

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Categories: ranked, america, anniversary, celebration, death, emotions, funeral, in
Form: Rhyme


The Great Lakes Acronym Spells Homes

The Great Lakes acronym spells homes

I chose titled topic by a fanciful whim,
nevertheless still consider my knowledge 
of aforementioned material slim.

Housing multivarious biomes
register ecological syndromes
whereby constituents of NOAA 
Great Lakes Environmental 
Research Laboratory writ tomes.

Pellucid...

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Categories: ranked, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful, boat, creation, earth,
Form: Rhyme

Purity-Love

Freed from my mind
I escape it
I end time
I think it
I think nothing of it
I believe in you
I believe in the American Dream
I think of it
I think nothing
I know you are something
How is it found 
Where...

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Categories: ranked, love,
Form: Free verse

After drenching biblical rainfall

After drenching biblical rainfall...
verdant green acres covered the planet of the apes
like a petticoat junction
donning barrel of skinny dipping monkeys.

Once drought stricken vast landscape
far as the eye could see
suddenly flush with promise
of budding new shoots
and...

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Categories: ranked, adventure, africa, august, earth, environment, history, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Matty Mattel Doll Circa Mcmlxv

(alternately titled: idolizing childhood's end
today April 25th, 2021
generates elusive warm treasured memories).

Akin to significance my eldest sister
felt toward her “Willies” –
(totally tubular fuzzy bendable contrivances
analogous to an outsize pipe cleaner)
until she became a tweener
my Matty...

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Categories: ranked, 1st grade, age, best friend, childhood, dedication,
Form: Rhyme

April 9th, 2023 Birthday Poem For Dearly Departed Papa

April 9th, 2023 birthday poem for dearly departed papa

Borne aloft into the netherland
the body bearing thee soul   
of Boyce Brandon Harris
birth name given to my late father
buoyed aloft united with spirit
of mine late...

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Categories: ranked, age, anger, anniversary, appreciation, april, bereavement, birthday,
Form: Free verse

April 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papa

April 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papa

Elysian fields long since embraced dada's soul
which rocketed into aerospace
(courtesy General Electric satellite)
just a tad shy of 
fifty four plus months ago,
nevertheless melancholia
still plucks mine heart strings.

Mine...

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Categories: ranked, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, appreciation, bereavement, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome

I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome...

Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor
nothing short of an imminent civil war
dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021
oddly enough even reducing
ordinary decibels to a mute whisper
madding crowd trumpeting...

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Categories: ranked, abuse, america, anger, animal, corruption, emotions, fate,
Form: Free verse

Mine Courtship and Marriage With Deadly Obsession

Mine courtship and marriage with deadly obsession...

As September daze will soon arrive
recollections from a 
psychologically checkered  past
loom large recalling  
tragic storied days of mein kampf.

Circa early nineteen seventies:
As a mere slip of a...

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Categories: ranked, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form: Free verse

Galley slave to obsessive compulsive disordered behavior announces

Galley slave to obsessive compulsive disordered behavior announces...

Fore score minus xv orbitz ago
from being centenarian
strong contractions forced me
to pass thru cervix,
buck naked bare lady,
I ranked as only grandson sharing
same surname as Aaron,
(mine paternal grandfather)
me the...

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Categories: ranked, 6th grade, 7th grade, abuse, age, angst,
Form: Rhyme
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Subject, Aspects of Interest, and Effect of John Keats's ''On the Sonnet''

“On the Sonnet”
by John Keats

If by dull rhymes our English must be chained,
And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet
Fettered, in spite of painéd loveliness;
Let us find out, if we must be constrained,
Sandals more interwoven and complete
To...

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Categories: ranked, england, fate, literature, muse, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Prose
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Sunrise Meditation

Stop in your tracks

Take a deep breath
Stop and relax

Close your eyes
Exhale a slow deep breath

In your mind’s eye 
It’s early dawn
It’s quiet and serene around you

Look far out at the horizon
There over the peaceful rolling...

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Categories: ranked, freedom, inspirational, introspection, motivation, nature, peace, uplifting,
Form: Free verse

April 9th 2021 Birthday Poem For Dearly Departed Papa

April 9th, 2021 birthday poem for dearly departed papa

Elysian fields embraced dada's soul
which rocketed into aerospace
(courtesy General Electric satellite)
just a tad more'n six months ago,
nevertheless melancholy
still plucks mine heart strings.

Mine psyche still situated awry
placid countenance...

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Categories: ranked, absence, angel, april, bereavement, birthday, dad, death,
Form: Rhyme

Whatever Happened To Glasnost and Perestroika

Whatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?

Hobbit those characters who lived 
within the realm 
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squelched cusp of progressivism,
now most likely 
experience bitterness at the...

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Categories: ranked, absence, angel, atheist, beautiful, betrayal, blessing,
Form: Rhyme

Approximately Three Plus Days Elapsed

Approximately three plus days elapsed...
without yours truly experiencing urge to defecate

Neither bloating nor constipation
arose, but one nondescript anguished
logophile anticipated intestinal blockage,
hence prophesying worse case scenario

I (predicated in direction for an adult)
ingested three Dulcolax tablets
and subsequently...

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Categories: ranked, adventure, america, anniversary, beautiful, courage, family, july,
Form: Free verse
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All the Worlds There Are

Just watching raindrops slapping leaves
is better than anything requiring electricity
including fame and posterity. Monday
morning I walk over to the art museum
stand before Homer. I'm imagining
life in ancient Greece, the land largely
deforested to build a navy,...

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Categories: ranked, art, change, god, life, old, rain, world,
Form: Verse

I Posit Picayune Propensities Prevail Among Pesky Management

I posit picayune propensities prevail among pesky management

Most favored renter status imposed on us
i.e. meaning myself;
(one tarnished prince of Highland Manor)
and the missus, his princess consort
who must abide by rigorous writ
of tidiness, whereby
every flat surface...

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Categories: ranked, abuse, america, angst, anxiety, blessing, community, fate,
Form: Rhyme
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Let Me Go

stay  don’t go  stay  don’t leave  stay  don’t go  stay  don’t leave  stay
s              ...

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Categories: ranked, freedom,
Form: Shape

They got the whole world in their hands

They got the whole world in their hands

Worth north of a trillion dollars,
(plus or minus a billion dollars here and there),
the unnamed obscenely rich,
(which top 15 billionaires
projected to become trillionaires
can be located on the computer...

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Categories: ranked, america, anger, angst, bullying, corruption, emotions, scary,
Form: Free verse

Impossible mission for systematization to be wrung out of entropy

Impossible mission for systematization to be wrung out of entropy

Which lame excuse I exclaimed,
when my dear old mom asked
rather told me in her scolding voice
to tidy up my bedroom,
cuz this son of a gun
intuited neatening...

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Categories: ranked, 7th grade, abuse, anxiety, dance, fate, humorous,
Form: Free verse

I Am Ill Eke Quipped To Dusk Hoover Dawn Ting Task of Badinage

I am ill eke quipped to dusk hoover dawn ting task of badinage

Indentured gumption forsaken 
courtesy each pulled wisdom-tooth
this hug gust aspiring writer..., albeit youth
fool looking imp posse Hubble wordsmith,
(i.e. the babbling dad) coon sitters...

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Categories: ranked, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation, beauty, confidence, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
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