4 Chickens: A Survival Story
...It seemed to happen in a flash.
Our movements were rash.
Behind the breakfast bar
With scraps of potato hash.
Our webbed little feet
Stuck in a muddy mash.
Scores of us slip-slapping up the all...
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Categories:
man sized, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Terror Bugs: Part 2 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
...[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 1 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
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Three man sized ‘mice’ and Stanley Dann stood gawping at the screens
Churchill muttered, “I don’t wa...
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Categories:
man sized, adventure,
Form: Narrative
Freezer Mice: Reposted
...Those primeval skies, no man ever knew
Ignited, as one massive boulder burst through
Hollow inside, creatures not unlike mice
Strapped themselves in as they plunged into ice
Instantly boiled then...
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Categories:
man sized, adventure,
Form: Narrative
Catonita Strikes - Part Two: a Freezer Mice Adventure
...Continued from
‘CATONITA STRIKES - PART ONE’
A Freezer Mice adventure
When no-one was around they did the finger-clicking thing
And grew to human size in time for what the da...
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Categories:
man sized, adventure,
Form: Narrative
Freezer Mice
...Those primeval skies, no man ever knew
Ignited, as one massive boulder burst through
Hollow inside, creatures not unlike mice
Strapped themselves in as they plunged into ice
Instantly boiled then...
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Categories:
man sized, adventure, fantasy, hero,
Form: Rhyme
God's Handiwork
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God's, Handiwork
By: Tom Wright
Feb. 10, 1998
Beyond my wood lot filled,
with snow so deep it chilled.
I watched young mink at play,
Paying me no heed this day.
Fulfilling their pl...
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Categories:
man sized, god, nature, snow, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Don'T Get Caught In the Woods After Dark
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Don't Get Caught in the Woods After Dark
By: Tom Wright
1/9/99
While walking in the woods one moon less night.
I stopped, but for a moments time,
to collect my thoughts, regain my be...
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Categories:
man sized, child, dad, funny, scary,
Form: I do not know?
If You Pull a Long Face - Part Xxii
...IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXII
IF you pull a long lonely face
Standing all alone near or on a busy airport flyway
Sans kith ni kin nor traffic police or friends en surplus
Hell you'll b...
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Categories:
man sized, friend, humor, loneliness, metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
An Heartless Woman
...Used like a man sized tissue
To soak up their emotions
And cast aside in the waste bin of their life
the destiny of man
when in the hands of heartless woman
useful when in need
but easily disp...
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Categories:
man sized, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Not Ha Ha Funny
...
My friends call me gay,
not ha ha funny
My enemies call me *****,
they say I dress
like an androdyous honey
My mama with tough love,
tells me:
I’m living a sinful lifestyle
My dadd...
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Categories:
man sized, conflict, emotions, identity, prejudice,
Form: Dramatic Verse
All Hat and No Cattle
...They hung around the beer joint with the finest Western wear
with thumbs tucked in their belt loops and such a studly air.
But those boots weren't made for stirrups and were polished to a sheen,
a...
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Categories:
man sized, humorous, old, time, ,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Children of Pride
...On the Isle of Man adrift in a rugged sea
the Children of Pride fell with Lucifer, they say,
fallen angels all, called Fairy, or Adhene….
fair of form yet stark are these sorrowful beauties.
Th...
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Categories:
man sized, adventure, allegory, childhood, children,
Form: Rhyme
For Chris On the 1st Anniversary of Your Suicide
...I guess he lost his way when
he left the beaten path,
I guess he was confused when
instinct and logic crashed.
I guess he killed his brain cells
with alcohol and hash,
I guess that his insani...
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Categories:
man sized, anniversary, brother, deathlost, lost,
Form: Elegy
The Beginnings (Of Laying It Down)
...I am a woman
with a pen
Sounds lame
but listen again.
I am a woman
with a pen.
Stories and schemes
Weaver of fairy tales
or broken dreams.
Little girls at wishing wells
pretty pink dres...
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Categories:
man sized, hope, imagination, introspection, on
Form: Free verse