Extra Large Helping of Crow
...I went home wearing my dinner.
I had egg all over my face.
Something I said had made her see red
And she dumped spaghetti over my head.
Maybe I should have said “Sorry”
But she quickly stormed f...
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Categories:
make like, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Semi-Indulgent Moon Bounce
...I am if not a man of routine
A glass half full is a still a big spill if it tips
I can't believe you’d let those words slip
So make like Pluto and demote yourself
That's only something you'd ...
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Categories:
make like, analogy, devotion, fate, growing
Form: Free verse
Nay To Reckless Speech
...Sometimes, in speech we stray
With what we rashly say,
While attention ears pay
Our lips allowed their way...
Worse when our mood is gay
Or we forgot to pray,
Now to Free Mistakes 'prey'
Lis...
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Categories:
make like, devotion, imagination, wisdom, words,
Form: Rhyme
Guardian Angel Dear
...You see me at my birth,
Like a fresh flesh dumbbell;
Sing lullabies with mirth,
As silent as mumble;
Ease me, in quilt of care, lest I fall and crumble...
You fix your eyes on me,
At my sle...
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Categories:
make like, angel,
Form: Alexandrine
Electric Shivers
...fear seems to be the cause du jour
fear if it all just ended
shapes us like quivering jello molds
fear of the landline
tapping into our heads
fear of the landmine
careless gifts from the feds...
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Categories:
make like, angst,
Form: Prose
The Toledo Panic Button
...A Con-man's way out
Only in cases of emergency
Like the fire axe behind the glass
Only this is more deadly
Way more sketchy
Die with the lie
A mark gets wise
Gets hip to the jive
Catches on
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Categories:
make like, adventure, allusion, art, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Call of Nature
...I am at one with myself
I am the tree trunk that grows from the ground
As the branches and twigs move when the wind blows
I myself remain robust
Extentions of my life break off and die
Or just...
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Categories:
make like, life, nature, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?
Summer Cooking For Slumber
...SUMMER COOKING FOR SLUMBER
At the edge of the Thar desert in a city
the simmering summer sun doesn’t set
before it blazes the day at 45 degree C.
On rock slab of backy...
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Categories:
make like, city, food, summer,
Form: Rhyme
What If
...What if the city streets rolled up, and Malthus resurrected
As the sun rose at night and stars skipped upon the sea?
What if the tales of doom were doomed, and earth opened
Like an egg and hatched...
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Categories:
make like, angel,
Form: Ode
Odyssey From Africa 1a
...Chapter 1 THE FISHERMAN
At the dawn of humankind in
Africa's great land of sunlight
This adventure of survival
Of a family's arduous journey
One of exile and betrayal
And of hopeful brav...
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Categories:
make like, adventure, africa, history, humanity,
Form: Narrative
I Am Life
...I been told to be who I am...
I am who I am.
no better way to be but who I am
I live who I am
if only life cared about me.
I care when nothing matters
I make like a tree
and b...
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Categories:
make like, life,
Form: Rhyme
Never Ending
...I love you but it hurts, I want you, but you don’t
You found me, I didn’t look for you
Now I'm going through the same
Damn thing that made me run to you
In the first place
Now who's gonna take ...
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Categories:
make like, beautiful, best friend, break
Form: I do not know?
Moving Home
...Half a home, half a home,
Half a home conjured.
Into the jaws of skip
…….goes all we plundered.
Clear out the crap we said
Make like we now are dead
Into the jaws of death
…….our ...
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Categories:
make like, emotions, home, house, leaving,
Form: Rhyme
Grand Residential Old Worthing Town
...Oh how very earnestly pleasing
I do so find
The wide, sun splashed avenues
Of grand residential Worthing;
Where the old poets
Announce each and every corner;
So neatly squared and turned
By th...
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Categories:
make like, holiday, urban,
Form: Rhyme
What Big Eyes and Ears You Have
...By Elton Camp
A girl called Little Red Riding Hood
Visited her grandmother like she should
It wasn’t long before she had to say
“Grandmother, you look an odd way.”
Her eyes and ears didn’t...
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Categories:
make like, america,
Form: Rhyme
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