Feline Confessions
...I confess...
I'm a cat in
a human body
surrounded by
drooling
deluded dogs
I confess...
I spew doggerel
in a poetic
wasteland
as the wolves
claw their
verses
on electronic pages
and...
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Categories:
mauling, cat, dark, dog, humorous,
Form: Free verse
A predator came calling
...We forgot to close the coop and a
predator came calling.
We became entangled by his loop
and now the government he's uphauling.
We let a nemesis on the premises,
so billionaires he's installing....
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Categories:
mauling, america, anger, angst,
Form: Political Verse
Melody Moon's Cauldron
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Written: January 30, 2025 for contest Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon
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Dive into the cauldron, where magic potions brew,
Am...
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Categories:
mauling, beauty, moon,
Form: Rhyme
The hunting tonight
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I sit on my hill and I look at my view.
And a cold world spans to the horizon.
I hear the wind howl and I see the rain drive. And I feel a world of no sun shining.
I watch the clouds gather ...
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Categories:
mauling, appreciation, feelings, rain, senses,
Form: Free verse
Carnage At Sea
...They packed their picnic basket s and journeyed towards the sun, with boxes of liquor, creates of beers and a drum fill with carbonated soda; busloads of them, drove down the slopes, with dug out bo...
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Categories:
mauling, beach, beautiful, community, creation,
Form: Free verse
A Forms and Words - Absence
...Absence as I hear them calling
Broken as I feel them falling
Cardiac as it's stalling
Darkness has me crawling
Endeavoring to its installing
Fevered by enthralling
Giving into it appalling
Hea...
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Categories:
mauling, anger, betrayal, break up,
Form: Abecedarian
El Gato Sonador - a Cats Dream
...In a quiet night of deep sleep
The blankets harbor me – the night to unfold
A myriad of dreams my unspoken secrets keep
As cinematic stories attempting to be told
The curtains open while orche...
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Categories:
mauling, cat, conflict, dream, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Brace For Impact
...*Image of A Fallen Smirk by DG.
Brace For Impact
Pillar of society, creme de la creme, important person,
one to be reckoned by indeed.
One who's untouched by palls, frails near a radia...
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Categories:
mauling, character, fate, identity, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Withholding
...5/16/22
Here let me paint you a drawing
My skin crawling
Something stirring and calling
As the leaves begin falling
It's appalling
That people are always squabbling
And gossiping
Yet an...
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Categories:
mauling, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
A Roaring Edge
...When, on that craggy moorland verge,
you make your stand, body braced
against the storms bullying bite;
when you permit the squall
to sweep your soul awake
attending only to th...
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Categories:
mauling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Snow In Late May
...Late in May and snow is falling
The end is near the voices are calling
This is the north
Desist henceforth
Or you will endure a vicious mauling...
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Categories:
mauling, weather,
Form: Limerick
Mink's Manifesto 2
...How can human deal with all the other animals with a sense of indisputable superiority? What makes them keep mollycoddling the mean motive of extracting from other animals as much as possible while p...
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Categories:
mauling, animal, anti bullying, cry,
Form: Burlesque
Raining Pain
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Pain is like sweeping rain
Dripping wet with gripping tenacity
Beating down with fleeting intensity
Drenching me wrenching my heart
Whirring past stirring up emotions
Pouring ...
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Categories:
mauling, pain, rain, simile,
Form: Verse
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers I
...Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers I
I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his life by not taking dialysis …
Cherokee Travele...
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Categories:
mauling, father, father daughter, father
Form: Rhyme
Sunset
...Sunset
by Michael R. Burch
This poem is dedicated to my grandfather, George Edwin Hurt, who died April 4, 1998.
Between the prophecies of morning
and twilight’s revelations of wonder,...
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Categories:
mauling, age, death, family, grandchild,
Form: Verse
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