Sheep Intestine
...Catgut
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Gestures and facial expressions
they were advised to
differentiate between
both fact and fiction
to ensure that everyone was
on the same page
Clear points of ending an...
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Categories:
lyricists, culture, music,
Form: Ballade
Oral Poetry
...
In days old, oral poetry existed
(When most people, including
the authors of poems,and stories, lyricists,
artists,....couldn't read and write.)
as a part of oral literature
which had no t...
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Categories:
lyricists, drug, poems,
Form: Free verse
BACK ROAD MAN
...(verse 1)
I have really long hair,
don't understand why people stare.
I'm looked down upon by society,
they try to destroy my dignity.
The people call me lazy and low class,
'cause my mop is al...
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Categories:
lyricists, america, class, friendship, society,
Form: Lyric
Bike and Beans
...I got a mountain bike
it sits on my side porch
it sits under a torch
it should go on a hike
I got free beans from Mike
There’s three beans in my jeans
That I’ve had since my teens
or ...
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Categories:
lyricists, humor,
Form: Limerick
Lyricists
...lyricists are heaven sent
while poetry is the height of language
it does not touch the heart
as do the millions of songs
on a daily basis
that is because the heart is simpler
an organ than the ...
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Categories:
lyricists, humor, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Amusing Earthmusic
...When did music begin
for us?
For you?
When did musicians separate
from Earth's music?
Were we thereby commodified
as professionals
instead of cooperative healers
engagers
story tellers
...
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Categories:
lyricists, happiness, health, heaven, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
One Word
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with midnight dreams we dance
unyielding, i stir unwilling to awaken
incessantly seeking
You
like virgin wings of the monarch, your shape gently unfolds
i clutch the edges of slumb...
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Categories:
lyricists, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Goodby To Prometheus
...I am cutting ties
that I knotted to a faraway soil.
Exiled no longer at the tiller
of a long beached fishing boat
that bobs only on the legends
of ancient waves.
Those fluent in soul-breathing,...
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Categories:
lyricists, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Birds Tell Me
...First greetings gaily given
Fair days brighten with benevolence
Feathered beacons warble crystal incessance
Favour of lurid lyricists to gladdened ears submitted
Choral phenomenas divulge
C...
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Categories:
lyricists, beautiful, bird,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Lilac Orbs
...Words silent turn at the melodic tunes
Oozing from the lush lilts of your eyes;
Telling of stung lover’s anthems warm,
Of the rapt poet whose scribbling dies.
Windows into realms old lyricists...
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Categories:
lyricists, allusion, angel, color, cute,
Form: Rhyme
That's Poetry
...When tongue is silent, but muse is chanting - that's poetry.
When we write what the heart has been asking - that's poetry.
As dawn's hues glisten golden rays, in blue, bronze, orange skies,
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Categories:
lyricists, poetry, poets,
Form: Ghazal
Choir Dissonant Practice
...I am a right-brain prominent writer
which must not be confused with
a prominent left-brain writer,
which I am almost decidedly not
nor would I aspire
toward such all or nothing thinking
and not...
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Categories:
lyricists, anxiety, appreciation, depression, health,
Form: Political Verse
Stealing and Killing Time
...Patrick Deneen follows Tocqueville
speaking of risks to Western liberal democratic experiments,
great personal enlightenment adventures
seldom calm within a federating kettle
of competing selecte...
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Categories:
lyricists, destiny, health, history, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Fall Night Seires
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Fall Night: 11/22/18
Finally grateful for the fireworks on the fourth of July,
Today I'm finally grateful for the table that the feast is feasting on,
Took the game and the knowledge...
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Categories:
lyricists, hip hop, how i
Form: Free verse
Behold the Splendor of Fall
...Behold the splendor of another magnificent fall!
Every tree is adorned with a resplendent shawl!
All the trees have shed their abundant foliage of jade;
Umber leaves now - they once provided...
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Categories:
lyricists, autumn,
Form: Acrostic
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