Breathe Spilled Like BoneAriana shrugged facing Josh’s mocking clap
the stringy harmonica rang acrobatically on the streetlights.
He handed her a firebomb,
eyes sharp as vinegar.
They ran across the hot asphalt,
watching the brass kite rise.
Both caught in the whirlpool of the maze,
they guided the trumpet,
mandolin filling the air, sinking into the smokehouse.
Her jacket flared,...
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Categories:
abortion, anxiety, cinderella, extended
Form: McWhirtle
INFORMANT 1992BEING AN INFORMANT UNDERCOVER DOPE FIEND HAD A FEW PERKS ESPECIALLY FOR MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND HE DID ODD JOBS FOR CIRO AND HIS PARTNER LARRY MOVING VIDEO MACHINES FENCING WEAPONS CIRO HAD STORED IN HIS SHOP TO MECHANIC WORK LOOKING BACK AFTER THE FBI INFORMED ME OF THE REAL DANGER ARSON MURDER RESULTING 8...
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Categories:
allah,
Form: McWhirtle
Pen and PaperKnock, knock! Who's there? A Pen, sharp and keen,
Said, "Paper, my pal, is it writin' time, green?"
The paper sighed loudly, with a rustle and flop,
"Come on in, Pen pal, here's where we can't stop!”
The Pen tapped its foot, with a clickety-clack,
"Got stories and poems, a whole writer's pack!"
The Paper unfurled, smooth...
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Categories:
writing,
Form: McWhirtle
Change is Nature’s DelightOld Man Winter grumbled and frowned,
Said, "Spring's taking way too long to come 'round!"
But a robin, so bold, chirped up from a tree,
"Relax, grumpy Gus, change is the key!”
Flowers peeked out, with a shy little smile,
Said, "Winter, don't fret, we'll be here a while!"
The grumpy old man, with a huff and...
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Categories:
butterfly, flower, nature, river,
Form: McWhirtle
I flipped the script: Does it make it better?,,someone messaged you",
said the classmate I asked my mom before to go to birthday to watch a film through.
The hall was much more tight in the brain I drew,
he was facing me with the phone in my hand and my mom standing beneath the door didn't sense true.
...
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Categories:
extended metaphor,
Form: McWhirtle
DrunkLove has it's bronze.
I resonded with: ,,what do you mean?? Lukas talk with me!!", he turned around and said: ,, Time is getting near, but, It's nothing worth to give your all", his tears suddenly fled..,,what's that? What's the meaning of it? I don't need to mention it twice. Who is being me? Who is...
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Categories:
extended metaphor,
Form: McWhirtle
Mcwhirtle: I Write Because*Image of Notepad by Pixabay.
McWhirtle: I Write Because
I write because,
the birds cannot,
the trees, the streams,
the mountaintop,
Had they a voice,
sounds will swap, yet,
add with words, be,
cream of the crop.
2022 August 27
*4th Place*
I write because
~~Anoucheka Gangabissoon: Judged 2022 September 13...
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Categories:
appreciation, imagery, nature, words,
Form: McWhirtle
Aloha Also Is Goodbye*Image of Floor Mat by Etsy.
Aloha also is Goodbye
How do, You do,
(Obama, who?)
Honolulu,
"Gathers," the pro-left best
they stick like cements,
Issues: starved mass,
overcrowdedness;
their gilded penthouse nests
o'er the homeless tents.
2022 August 25...
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Categories:
betrayal, depression, food, poverty,
Form: McWhirtle
Thundering BlunderbussThundering Blunderbuss!
What is a platypus?
Looks like a beaver, but
Has a duck's bill.
Fairly cute little guy,
Ornithorhynchidae*
Lives in Australia, is
On the no-kill.
Semi-aquatic and
Strangely neurotic, it
Lays eggs like birds and has
Venom like snakes.
Weirdly amphibious,
Bio-fluorescent fur
Webbing between the toes,
Strong swimmers make.
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Technically, this is a Didactic Double Dactyl
since it’s full of educational goodies too.
A double dactyl is a form...
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Categories:
animal,
Form: McWhirtle
Upside Down, Inside OutHummingbird hardly heard,
airily, merrily
extraordinarily
effortless floating, near
weightless transparency,
seemingly without the
slightest of care.
Urgent persistency,
terribly panicky,
frenzied and frantic, she's
burning through energy
rapidly, hungrily;
precise machinery
executes there.
Mallard so lazily,
buoyantly floating on
glassy flat waters, he
glides on the surface, and
wanders unhurriedly,
conveying contentment,
trivial feat.
Feet like a bicycle
furious pedaling,
splendidly, swimmingly,
chasing and fishing, he's
hungrily hunting and
ready to eat....
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Categories:
nature,
Form: McWhirtle
Irreconcilable ParadoxLeaderboard paradox
Bard, crank or chatterbox
Irreconcilable
Most undeniable
Two titles possible?
Can't have all three
Flourish and elegance
Meter and relevance
Grasp of the elements
Sensitive delicate
Post the best poetry
For all to see
Building community
Post with impunity
Dishing encouragements
Never discouragements
Attaboy lunacy
Nice job! Spondee
Magnitude, quantity
Content moronity
Quality suffering
Sputtering, stuttering
Faster through brevity
Haiku for me
Where is the paradox?
Chatter and atta-talks
Raising poetic stocks
Moving up leaderboards
Elevates all their scores
Best that you...
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Categories:
community,
Form: McWhirtle
Didactyl Doe DactylA double dact doe dance:
Six deer in a row prance
Merrily, playfully
Dancing so sweet!
Ungulates ruminate
Chewing the cud is great
And most amazingly,
Didactyl feet!
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ok, ok, i'm getting carried away with these - almost a tongue twister, but fun, and what I saw on my walk with Missy this morning!...
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Categories:
silly,
Form: McWhirtle
Right In the EndDeception reception:
Horrified audience,
Receivers believing
Satisfies goal
Gaslighting, creating
Altered reality
Verity lost somewhere
Deep in a hole
David once raged against
All the injustices
Voicing his frustrations
Starting each psalm
Working his anger out
Stanza by stanza, then
Reaching conclusion so
Peaceful and calm
Things are not perfect now
Confusion, Delusion
God makes a promise: all
Right in the end
Lawlessness dominates
Presently, sadly, but;
Flip to the back and you'll
see that God wins!...
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Categories:
truth,
Form: McWhirtle
18 and 83Eighteen and eighty-three
Cinema poetry
Wagons precarious
Bandits? Hilarious!
Not so gregarious
Shooting at me!
Lightning miss yellow hair
Not too bad, pretty fair
Oregon, here we go
Shooting a buffalo
With Sam, Comanche beau
Bison for free!...
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Categories:
silly,
Form: McWhirtle
Dactyl McwhirtlePoetry, throw-a-three
Dactyls for you and me
Six silly bulls, I see
All in a field!
Myrtle McWhirtley
This is the life for me
No silly names, I see
Less junk to wield.
Dactylly Practical
Superfantastical
Equally Whimsical
More Flexibly
So dactyls or whirtles?
Just tighten your girdles
Throw down some poetry
Effortlessly!...
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Categories:
silly,
Form: McWhirtle
Specific Types of Mcwhirtle Poems
Definition | What is Mcwhirtle in Poetry?