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Long Swigged Poems

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Premium Member Forevermore
My Iphone softly played Reveille as my 4:30 morning alarm.  Without opening my eyes, I found the phone in the dark and tapped off the alarm.

I gradually worked my way out of the guest...

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Categories: swigged, death, life,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Hubbard Was Bare
Old mother Hubbard got locked in her cupboard
But not just the cupboard was bare
She let out a yelp but nobody could help
Because there was nobody there 

She’d make this assertion, there was no perversion
She never...

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Categories: swigged, humorous, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Forgotten Traveler
Creative is the mind of this traveler
lost soul amungst the earth
given a second set of rules and standards 
since my day of birth 

not known for my talent 
tho art i do possess 
cause no...

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Categories: swigged, friendship, lifeme, me,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member A Trip To the Dentist
Face fractured with fear 
As the Taxi drew near
The building was in the next street
" I'll drop you off here" 
Said Steve full of cheer
(Annoyingly rather upbeat.)

As you pushed on the door
It's sticky hinge ...

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Categories: swigged, health, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Forgotten Love
Time was melting away. I was unaware; where and how.
My eternal companion in happiness and tear was gone,
The love which had compassionately held me near,
On that love, my busy lifestyle had played a con.

 
You...

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Categories: swigged, allegory, books, lost love,
Form: Free verse



Changing Worlds
CHANGING WORLDS




.. And Unc' Nathan -
Well.., he just kept right on .., 
You.., (he coughed a long one) eyes.., 
They gonna' be square..

I blasted another.

'All that killing', said Ma..,
Lighting Grandpap's pipe.., 
Pausing.., for her own...

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Categories: swigged, family, grandparents, growing up, growth, humorous, together,
Form: Narrative
Contradictions
the Priest sucked in his Four Star Brandy
hoping that a drunken release
would help him with his conflict
in an alcoholic sleep of peace
the alky swigged his cider
vintage cheap and strong
the crutch to his addiction
making existence crawl...

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Categories: swigged, addiction, confusion, philosophy, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
The Bullingdon Club
The Bullingdon Club

In the hallowed halls of Oxford's elite,
A secret society did convene,
A gathering of privileged retreat,
A club known as the Bullingdon team.

With tails and bow ties and polished shoes,
They swigged their champagne and plowed...

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Categories: swigged, adventure, angst, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Elixir of Life Two
Maybe I shall live long
Long and long.
Perhaps I might not defunct
After emptying this long life pot.
My boy shall die while I'm exist
I shall place him beneath soil of gold in zealot’

To his surprise the pot...

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Categories: swigged, death, destiny,
Form: Didactic
He has something to tell Us
They looked to find him
to discuss his shirt.
on the front of
the large sized, great
 quality cotton t-shirt
were the letters
          I.-S.-D.
perfectly centered in
 royal blue letters with
gold...

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Categories: swigged, chocolate, culture, dance, film, guitar, kiss, music,
Form: Ballade
Check Your Calendar
While looking for Viagra
with passion on its brink,
I dropped the little box of pills
they all went down the sink

Now on the pack it clearly says,
40 minutes take to work, so I
was keen to find them...

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Categories: swigged, funny, sexy,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs