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Celena, Brave Celena- Part 1

From Judges 11.
Pronunciation: Seh-LAY-nah

His brothers cast the young man out, the child of an harlot;
He fled away to distant Tob before they found an outlet
For anger, more than what they'd done, to fully disinherit
And drive...

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Categories: tramp, assonance, bible, christian, dance, goodbye,
Form: Narrative

On My Mother Passing

ON MY MOTHER’S PASSING

i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still shines brighter than any star
is as gentle as the finest...

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Categories: tramp, cheer up, mother, mother son,
Form: Narrative

The Ash Can

The Ash Can  ©

I got the call on Sunday night.  I was traveling on business.  When I looked at the caller ID
 I wondered why my husband’s boss would be calling me....

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Categories: tramp, bereavement, introspection, lost love, suicide,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

All That Was Sparta

Our lusty voice was in the tramp of narrow, winding,
     Scree-littered, deep-rutted roads;     
 Ravens, uttering guttural croaks, slow-wheeling above      
 ...

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Categories: tramp, myth,
Form: Rhyme

Increase In Head Size

Increase In Head Size

impossible mission to encapsulate notion 
flitting hither and yon, to and fro
within cranium attached to mine body,
whereby irrefutable proof prevails
predicated when yours truly
scrutinizes other people visibly aware,
I a modest married male 
blessed,...

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Categories: tramp, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form: Free verse

Marat and Charlotte 3

Act 3. A dark, empty stage.

Marat
(standing up)

My eyes went blank. That's how it goes when
you have been doubly knocked flat on your back
in half an hour. He went, he went,
he went, he went, he went,...

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Categories: tramp, death, love,
Form: Blank verse

Trouble

Dedicated to the song “Trouble” by Coldplay 

(Verse 1) 
I didn’t mean to
I didn’t mean to
I didn’t mean to cause you trouble 
Oooh ah oooh
I didn’t mean to act so uncanny
I didn’t mean to act...

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Categories: tramp, angst, change, deep, depression, desire, fear, words,
Form: Lyric

I'Ve Got To Go

I’m on my way, I’ve got to go
(the reasons why you’ll never know),
whisked away in winter’s winds, your sleeping sighs remind me.
And I’ll ramble where I please,
sometimes slipping to my knees,
phantom memories a’ chasing close...

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Categories: tramp, cute, farewell,
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: tramp, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence, age, angst,
Form: Rhyme

An Introduction: An Introduction

Considering how many times I set out to pen a small,
Master piece of art, a gem that might underwrite,
The utter liability of being just that stamp,
Or tramp, or whatever other denomination one might reliably take...

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Categories: tramp, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Seasonal Walks In the Park

baseball, bird, change, childhood, games, holiday, lost,

“Seasonal Walks in the Park!”

A walk in the park after a springtime morning rainfall 
Is to hear the droplets fall from bent branches overhead
That can shock and moisten one’s...

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Categories: tramp, baseball, bird, change, childhood, games, holiday, lost,
Form: Free verse

Hollywood

The victim list keeps growing

But no one really cares

The gristmill claims another one

Keep your hands in and don't stare

Hollywood is the golden land

The eternal silver screen

But many souls are lost here

A lot of greats or...

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Categories: tramp, america, betrayal, culture, loneliness, pain, society,
Form: Epic

Isis Staind 26 Plus Years of Marriage

Isis staind 26+ years of marriage

Yes, believe me you, 
I (also considered the best karaoke singer
for the go-go's) 
putting Shabrina Leonita to shame
back in two thousand and twenty one
once flew high as the eagles 
a...

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Categories: tramp, adventure, age, america, anniversary, appreciation, betrayal, marriage,
Form: Rhyme

Ha ha ha gotcha!

Ha...ha...ha... gotcha!

The imagined intimated response
linkedin to a swindler's
imagined thought bubble
silently spouting you ain't nothing
but a pluperfect sucker...
rendered penniless suffered
courtesy a financial blow
now left forced to eat crow
forfeiting every last red cent,
plus if applicable escrow
being analogous...

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Categories: tramp, absence, abuse, anger, angst, betrayal, bullying, depression,
Form: Free verse

While Daydreaming About Timepiece Inventors

While daydreaming about timepiece inventors...
as the figurative curtain closes on 2022

How arbitrary the assignment
of seconds, minutes, hours,
days, months, years...
to the passage of time,
and I would be hard pressed
to differentiate one moment
from the next without the...

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Categories: tramp, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, creation, december,
Form: Free verse

Leaving a book incompletely read tantamount to being sacrilegious

Preface: 
On February 4, 1861,
the seven states that had seceded
by this point convened and created
the Confederate States of America
under the leadership of Jefferson Davis.

Just under two months later,
on April 12, 1861, Confederate forces
opened fire on...

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Categories: tramp, absence, america, anxiety, baptism, bereavement, break up,
Form: Free verse

Three-Fifth Stooges Quartet


Moe
Larry
Curly

Shep 
Joe

This Three-Fifth Stooges moron quartet
are brain-slow slugs you don’t wanna IQ know

Just sitting on a milk crate,
waiting outside of the MGM studio gate
Moe, Larry and Curly passed my way

They were yukking it up,
talking clown...

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Categories: tramp, fun, humor, parody, political, satire,
Form: Light Verse

Isis staind 27 plus years

Isis staind 27+ years...

of scorpion stinging poison us marriage,
whereby the missus and I,
nevertheless experienced genesis as 
mama and papa respectively.

(jest kibitizing)

thus explaining why I 
(a beatle browed  
sixty five year young adult) 
joined blue...

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Categories: tramp, adventure, angst, anniversary, appreciation, celebration, divorce, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Blinks Through Bloodshot Walks

When at five-thirty
In the rubbed-eye haziness
Of ferreting lonesome night walks
The camera-eye refugee
Asleep in the half wakefulness
Of the hour
Peers out of his high turbanned sockets:
Hyde Park's through road links
London's diurnally estranged couple -
The Arch and Gate.

...

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Categories: tramp, places,
Form: Free verse

Affectations trailed with pet appellations, particularly endearments suffuses me with giddiness

Affectations trailed with pet appellations, particularly endearments
suffuses me with giddiness

Even though veritable hypothetical unknown females
courtesy Facebook Messenger
frequently pepper their text messages to me
with sweet nothings,
which figurative playful banter tickle my fancy,
and immediately triggers romantic fantasies
courtesy...

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Categories: tramp, adventure, age, analogy, angel, appreciation, august, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Beef Jerkey and a Bottle of Wine

A tramp steamer plies an ocean of fog. 
The Chief Bos’n makes a note in the log while the helmsman 
Strains to see beyond the wheel. 
The ship’s Captain leaves the bridge with a groan....

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Categories: tramp, adventure, sea,
Form: Ballad

Aha Argh Oh My Dog

Aha - argh... oh my dog...
don't mind me muttering, eh?

Earlier today (May 5th, 2020),
I forget thee exact hour
found me utterly beside mice elf,
matter of fact even at this moment,
yours truly doth feel mad at himself
cuz...

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Categories: tramp, adventure, celebration, fun, heartbroken, husband, nostalgia, sensual,
Form: Narrative

Election Reflection - Join In the Collaboration

Some folks will be down in the dumps 
Hillary lost … Donald came up trumps
Britain made their exit
They voted for Brexit
I have a question …are we all chumps?

JAN ALLISON

11~09~16


I think we're all sick of the...

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Categories: tramp, humorous, political, satire,
Form: Limerick

Marat and Charlotte 4

Act 4.

Marat

Where do these tears come from? My makeup
is melting in the spotlight. She has gone.
Oh, how I wished to tell her… I did not.
I wished to tell but I forgot the words
to say according...

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