three sides to every story
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a truth may as well be a lie ~ amid words acting a-priori
one goes for the visceral ~ luridly adding guts to be gory
two tries reducing terror ~ adaptation for ...
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Categories:
luridly, allegory, perspective, truth,
Form: Monoku
A letter to the world
...There is a way..That seems right to man; yet
In the end it leads to death.'
I or we, see atrocitys..Each one more lurid, and more
Luridly depicted by legacy media.'
These events are to be rem...
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Categories:
luridly, education, forgiveness, friendship love,
Form: Narrative
Word Toccata In a Major
...Word Toccata in A Major
Jaundiced ’53 Cadillac in my sweetheart’s carport.
She leaves the hole keys inside the empty fish bowl.
Hidden in her trunk are a set of golf clubs with knife wounds;
H...
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Categories:
luridly, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Waiting For Good Dough
...No matter yours truly
(potential rising star -
analogous to ascending yeast)
bred for easy street
life of po' witless
mendicant nimbly,
pointlessly, and rhythmically
shuffles (think tramp)
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Categories:
luridly, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Hunched Backed Mobster
...A HUNCHED BACKED MOBSTER
It’s sunset in late afternoon, where towards a water pan,
A pride of lionesses, approach with a much rehearsed plan,
Followed by a clan of mobsters,
Hyenas cackling lur...
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Categories:
luridly, animal,
Form: Limerick
The Mockingbirds Be Damned
...They did mock us ...did they not?...the mockingbirds?
I say they did!...innuendo infuse...as pellucid as she...they mocked us!
...gossiped luridly about us in luscious low tones like the old hen in...
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Categories:
luridly, discrimination, people, perspective, sunset,
Form: Free verse
Lunged and Plunged
...Lunged and Plunged
Sin of much temptation again luridly lunged;
Be careful or deep in debt will have plunged;
Errors made,
In stock trade;
Records of my stupidity then were expunged.
Jim Ho...
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Categories:
luridly, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
A Nightmare of Erroneous Intuitions
...his eyelids conclude why bother
manacled they led him away
to the exact center of their city
they tried everything
cattle prod fire hose blow dryer
ineluctable forces of nature
now there are wi...
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Categories:
luridly, how i feel, universe,
Form: Free verse
Thrift Shop Foreshadowing
...Thrift Store Foreshadowing
by Odin Roark
Inventory of past life inventories
Poised in dress-parade attention
Obliging his obligatory inspection,
Seeking the suit ...
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Categories:
luridly, death,
Form: Prose Poetry
Telly the Trendsetter
...:)
What kids are watching on telly
are crimes and crimes in all variety!
Crimes of hate
crimes of passion
acting it out at shocking rate
thinking in some wild fashion
then end...
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Categories:
luridly, addiction, film, youth,
Form: Didactic
Seed
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Desiccated stems scattering amid taut hands;
Lingering footsteps among conjoined velvet roots;
The interval’s inertia an anxious psychosomatic swell.
This once stale earth is now litte...
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Categories:
luridly, confusion, growth, imagination, magic,
Form: Free verse