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Solo Performance
It had been a hellish week.
On Monday
my lonely and tired AfricanAmerican husband
told me, as gently as possible,
that what I had hoped was a temporary separation
is to be extended into perpetuity.
This separation had been scheduled to...
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Categories:
unnerved, age, earth, family, health, integrity, nature, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
The Dancing: the Last Dance
Was it a cruel twist of fate?
Sneering, laughing chance?
Perhaps something I ate?
A bad bout of happenstance?
It wrenched and tore at my gut,
A sickening, sober, foreboding sign.
Wretched chance it was not,
This time was by insidious design.
The...
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Categories:
unnerved, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, dance, dark, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Terror Bugs: Part 3 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 2 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
__________
London’s streets resembled an al fresco mausoleum
They tracked a trail of body parts which led to a museum
A thousand Terror Bugs were massed, in...
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Categories:
unnerved, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Chapter 23 -- Dolly Damian Friends and Family-- He Knows Their Names
Two weeks passed before
Dolly called Her twin. "Hey
Girl I'm coming to see you in a
Little while." "Ok, sis at about
What time?" Molly inquired.
"About an hour and a half
Actually it's...
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Categories:
unnerved, day, family, feelings, friend, friendship, life, love,
Form:
Alliteration
Hearthstone Of Thy Fathers Love
Hearthstone Of Thy Fathers Love
Fatherhood exuberant and renowned is how you boys made me feel.
Exquisite was the taste of my tears as I felt the sensation of joy in both of your first cry’s!
The days,...
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Categories:
unnerved, care,
Form:
Free verse
Scented Rosemary
The shadow in the night is smiling with me
The shadow in the moonlight is dancing with me
The shadow in the sunlight is praying with me
And here I am waiting for you to come and unite...
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Categories:
unnerved, anxiety, autumn, beauty, celebration, faith, i love
Form:
Free verse
The Cost of Revenge, Part I
My blood ran cold
when my grandpa told
the story you’re about to hear
of moral laws
broke by great grandpa,
that would bring all involved to tears.
It was one day
in seventy-eight,
I was a young buck of eighteen,
I felt in...
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Categories:
unnerved, anger, betrayal, dark, family, lust, relationship, sin,
Form:
Epic
Cockroach Soliloquy
Cockroach Soliloquy
By:Judge Burdon
The cockroaches left me a wake up message
Written with saliva and excrement
it was placed conspicuously in a garbage can
where they knew that I'd find it
while in search of...
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Categories:
unnerved, character,
Form:
Free verse
Cockroach Soliloquy
Cockroach Soliloquy
By:Judge Burdon
The cockroaches left me a wake up message
Written with saliva and excrement
it was placed conspicuously in a garbage can
where they knew that I'd find it
while in search of...
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Categories:
unnerved, character,
Form:
Free verse
The Heroes of Buzzard's Bend, Part I
Now I know you’ve heard the story
of how I all was way back when,
when cowboys rode with Indians
near our small town of Buzzard’s Bend.
Not long after the Civil War,
when it was a hot mining claim,
the...
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Categories:
unnerved, corruption, god, hero, history, religious, symbolism, western,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Siege At Baker Ranch, Part Ii
II.
It was several days before trouble came,
the quiet seemed at odds with all the news,
the papers told of a nation enraged,
with loud cries for the Sioux to meet their doom.
Myron was out feeding hay to...
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Categories:
unnerved, america, conflict, courage, hero, history, native american,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
He Did Not Come Back the Same, Part Ii
She thought he would rage, clean blow his stack,
but he just nodded with a sad look,
said,”After what I saw, I can’t go back,
there are many things the was has took,
things you can’t even read of...
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Categories:
unnerved, growth, introspection, loss, love, perspective, relationship, war,
Form:
Narrative
The End of the Feud, Part Ii
But later that night the girl tip-toed out,
And went down to the registry desk.
She picked up the ledger, poured through it all,
There was something that she had to check.
Back upstairs she went, content to wait
Her...
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Categories:
unnerved, adventure, conflict, growth, lust, uplifting,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Short Story 1
There is a stranger at my gate.
He stands there watching me with his glowing golden eyes, unthreatening but ever present. I've gone to my gate to ask questions of the silent unmoving visitor, his...
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Categories:
unnerved, confusion, courage,
Form:
I do not know?
Invisible:Not For Contest
He stands beside this long black granite wall
broken lines accentuated reflection recalled names
It is here where he realized
that intranquility of redemption, even of prayer's forgiveness,
he do not...
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Categories:
unnerved, memory, military, , memorial,
Form:
Free verse
Lament of My Life
How regretful was I
To see my dead body from the sky
How regretful indeed
Why, with utmost sorrow, did my spirit bleed
In my early thirties was I still
Life, had I lived it according to my will
Yet, so...
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Categories:
unnerved, death, life, paradise,
Form:
Rhyme
Yacht Club Dreams- V
As the light turned red, she reached for the door handle
About to jumpt out of the car
When all of a sudden
He slammed on the brakes
Reaching passed her,
He pulled the opening door shut.
She felt his...
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Categories:
unnerved, dream, romance,
Form:
Free verse
Swan Song, Part I
Here I am
Stranded between this and your goodbye.
You,
Whose thatch is a-glow with fires of Beauty
That burns my heart,
unkempt and wild,
Sits atop...
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Categories:
unnerved, love, sad, heart, child, heart, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Ghosts of the High Rockies, Part Ii
* * *
The trapper looked for the oddly-dressed man,
but could no longer see him, or his tent.
He glanced around, so supremely confused,
now where the devil had that darned fool went?
He searched along the whole of...
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Categories:
unnerved, america, confusion, history, imagery, nature, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
All Twelve Apostles: A Tyburn
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
PETER or SIMON the YOUNGER
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
slower
lower
grower
thrower
Christ calls~"Have faith,"~slower~lower~rock
Build church~confuse~grower~thrower~flock
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ANDREW the ELDER
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
netter
better
petter
getter
Catch fish~Greek~Saint~netter~better~first
Bonds~apprise Christ~petter~getter~versed
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
JAMES of ZEBEDEE the GREATER
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marvelled
compelled
upheld
rebelled
Wonder~victim~marvelled~compelled~zeal
Witness~fiery~upheld~rebelled~peal
~~~~~~~~~~~
JOHN of ZEBEDEE
~~~~~~~~~~~
observed
deserved
conserved
unnerved
Flux~beloved~observed~deserved~great
Cross Christ foot~zeal~conserved~unnerved~trait
~~~~
PHILIP
~~~~
willing
filling
quilling
spilling
Holy Ghost fronts~willing~filling~yearn
Guides Divine Truth~quilling~spilling~learn
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BARTHOLOMEW or NATHANIEL
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
sincere
adhere
severe
revere
Gospel~devout~sincere~adhere~true
Exquisite pain~severe~revere~blue
~~~~~~~~~~~~
THOMAS...
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Categories:
unnerved, allusion, analogy, appreciation, baptism, brother, love, prayer,
Form:
Tyburn
Wild Cinnamon Roots
Echoes from a haunting refrain
buried deep within the corridors of her heart
weave their tangled, worn threads
playing on her memories
like the delicate frayed strings of a...
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Categories:
unnerved, allegory, lost love, nature, passion, sad, heart,
Form:
Epic
The Man Who Rode Champ, Part I
If you’ve been to north New York,
or the western side of Vermont,
you might’ve head of a sea monster,
the vast Lake Champlain is his haunt.
The locals all call him ‘Champy,’
not to dissimilar to Loch Ness,
many folks...
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Categories:
unnerved, adventure, animal, crazy, drink, fun, humorous, water,
Form:
Narrative
Brice - Flash Fiction
(a flash fiction piece)
My brother (Brice) left university, 6 months ago, like millions of other students, to shelter from COVID. After years away Mr. Annoying was back in MY world, bickeringly close and way too...
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Categories:
unnerved, 11th grade, anxiety, brother, heart, humor, missing,
Form:
Free verse
In stars above
'This or That, Vol 34' Contest
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh 18/6/25
_________________________________________
"It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions,"
Quote by William Shakespeare
Watching his face carefully for nuance of expression.
My sweet...
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Categories:
unnerved, star,
Form:
Narrative
My Time
I know I’m just another
stating above and better
trying to place letters
to a beat with base and treble
as my only form of credit
to impress so they give merit
Offer opportunity
tasked to write a tune...
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Categories:
unnerved, destiny, fun, word play,
Form:
Rhyme