At The Pier
...Contemplative bliss communes with the serene,
into the spirit of the placid marine crystalized in my mind.
As the sun’s reflection spreads glitter upon its open sea,
throngs milling to the melodio...
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Categories:
meriting, appreciation, beach, day, deep,
Form: Free verse
The Coal Man Cometh
...About the end of times when
Carts were hauled by Shires,
Coal was king and homes
Were heated by open fires,
A seemingly huge dark figure
From my early childhood days
As he drove his horse and c...
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Categories:
meriting, change, history, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Cosmos of Satin Purses
...The stars are lighting up dusk’s aftermath
With a million Christmases’ twinkling light
Tiny dots to be connected in a serigraph
Covering the earth with a dome of white
To show us the ...
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Categories:
meriting, light, night, sky, universe,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Who Killed My Good Dog
...The Dog – My Lion!
The strong like Iron
Meriting Zion
From-The-Brave Scion
Now crushed by Tires
From who engines fires …
Just killed My Lion!
And melted Iron
And just wronged Zion
From-The...
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Categories:
meriting, animal, care, cry, death,
Form: Rhyme
On Writing Contest Poetry
...I really believe poetry contests are beneficial
But I find myself writing lines so artificial
Trying to win a fleeting notice or score a trophy
That I lose sight of writing good, quality poetry...
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Categories:
meriting, how i feel, poems,
Form: Light Verse
Dancing Questions
...I have a lot of questions
questions
questions
he repeats
slowly swinging
and dancing
on our creaky screened porch swing.
Radiant
in fiery ginger godliness,
mind centering omnipotence
He...
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Categories:
meriting, beauty, health, integrity, religion,
Form: Political Verse
Tale of Death's Challenge
...So when the webbed-tide snares the lunars nether recesses in its glow casting shadows that arise among the craggs wedged beside some cliffs of common confirmed debris of the unnamed fa...
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Categories:
meriting, dark, death,
Form: Metrical Tale
Weed Administration
...Gardeners and farmers know better
than to feed and water the weeds.
Psychologists and sociologists agree,
best way to manage an unrepentant narcissist
is to ignore him
and his ego-privile...
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Categories:
meriting, garden, health, integrity, mental
Form: Political Verse
The Relevancy of Aristotle Within the 21st Century Lesson 2
...Beethoven to roll over,
dee composing
(sans my zany brainy adherence
to "FAKE" information I eschew)
and essentially single handedly grew
the contemporary paradigm few
off fish s...
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Categories:
meriting, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Lyric
Theater of Utter Charm Part 16
...where narcissistic assumptions are presumed
to be a priori and default perfect
in so far as we estimate ourselves
in the slightest vaguest
single point mirror ghost called I
this is the grand kn...
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Categories:
meriting, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Dillen and the Dmv
...TO: Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner, Chief States Attorney
FROM: Dillen Dye’s Employer
8/16/16
RE: Some apparent non-compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act; common co...
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Categories:
meriting, culture, discrimination, health, integrity,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Inheritor
...A false perspective from the drug
adversity confirm the slug
to cover my lost space, a plug
the prior years seem lost to tug!
Some remnant, some impersonal shrug
has cast me down to this excha...
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Categories:
meriting, culture, how i feel,
Form: Monorhyme
Grumpy's Return Volley
...If very hard read,
take the log from your eye -
or perhaps it's the wrong creed
meriting such custard pie.
Language archaic?
Well so what if it scans
Neither Norse nor Aramaic,
I'm ce...
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Categories:
meriting, allusion, anger, encouraging, feelings,
Form: Carpe Diem
My Valentine Soup
...Endear my soul
I pled for quest
Your fortune lo and behold
I pored for adore abreast
Lacked in notion by the unspoken magna cum laude
I searched for hope, peacefully at rest.
Love thirst for...
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Categories:
meriting, life, love, nostalgia, passion
Form: Englyn
Fillip Not My Ear
...Fillip not my ear even just once,
it looks juvenile and it is not nice;
don’t even think of taking a chance
by, heaven forbid, doing it twice.
A thing like that I will not take kindly,
it is c...
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Categories:
meriting, funny, people,
Form: Verse
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