To Sock Or Not To Sock
...He wore his desert wellies
With suitably besocked feet
As he strode manfully along
The rain driven wet street.
Britain in the summer time,
Ten climates in one day,
So the British stiff upper ...
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Categories:
manfully, fun, humor, irony,
Form: Rhyme
A Dream Like That
...out on my legs
little shaky
little flaky
achy
blue jay scolding
it sees my weak ankle
it knows
mercilessly mocking
got to walk
car at the nail salon
stalk my own steps
slow w...
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Categories:
manfully, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Brain Drain
...Wearing dinosaur boots
blundering through the city lights
of a brain high on low energy.
Being a concrete Tarzan
bending only to crumble
at the waist
while within me
a jungly place rains rip...
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Categories:
manfully, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Combat Cricket
...A game played by gents they say
But at over ninety miles an hour
A fast bowled cricket ball
Really has some striking power.
A longed for confrontation between
A superb bowler and a class batter....
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Categories:
manfully, humor,
Form: Rhyme
An Ode To Life, Part Ii
...Life shows its frills if ye dwell on fair side,
Perceive it with a poet’s perspective—
Life’s negatives seen with eyes positive,
Let not life’s dangling duals take a free ride.
If sin there ...
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Categories:
manfully, journey, life,
Form: Ode
A Boy, a King
...
selected when but a child
ruddy face and handsome, he,
short of stature, manfully
used the sling to great effect in wilds,
protecting flocks from the beasts
caring for the last, the ...
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Categories:
manfully, hero,
Form: Verse
Tomorrow, Tomorrow
...Tomorrow I shall see the birth of the awaited dawn
Today it seems I am locked in a midnight zone
Tomorrow I will not walk into the dread of the night
But shall be led by the blazing light
Tomor...
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Categories:
manfully, appreciation, celebration, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
The Arrival of Sound
...Once upon a long time,
The silence blanketed my world
Like snow covering an arctic forest.
The nooks and crannies of my days
Were filled with the wispy webs of quietude
Worked by whispering l...
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Categories:
manfully, environment,
Form: Blank verse
The Arrival of Sound
...Once upon a long time,
The silence blanketed my world
Like snow covering an arctic forest.
The nooks and crannies of my days
Were filled with the wispy webs of quietude
Worked by whispering l...
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Categories:
manfully, meaningful, symbolism,
Form: Blank verse
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
...Swept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around.
It is almost as if the drab
Streets were strewn with the
Precious wealth of King Solomon's
Gold! ...
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Categories:
manfully, philosophy, senses,
Form: Rhyme
Decisions Decisions
...Life is so full of decisions
we seem to have so many to make
what would it be like without any?
making our lifes a piece of cake
Every day is filled with them
many causing all kinds of stress
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Categories:
manfully, change, life, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
Fond Reminders
...If fond reminders seek a passion void
Then leave without a voice of "I love you"
Make him feel that you are still annoyed
And lead him to this place without a view.
That this allure has possibl...
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Categories:
manfully, happiness, hope, life, love,
Form: Personification