Summer Carnival
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He handed me the air-brushed t-shirt
and I thanked him, said I loved it.
He asked, Do you mean that?
I said, What would have possessed me
to utter it otherwise?
Then he kissed me with his ...
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Categories:
misheard, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Misunderstanding for Grandpa
...He is a crackshot I told his great-grandpa
Grandpa misheard; he thought I called him a crackpot
It took awhile for us to sort it out
In the meantime, grandpa was angry, showing a pout.
Not sure h...
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Categories:
misheard, age,
Form: Rhyme
language
...We don't speak the same tongue,
but the air between us hums
with understanding.
It's in the way our eyes meet,
the way silence bends
to the shape of each other's heartbeats.
The words we don't ...
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Categories:
misheard, feelings, first love, for
Form: Free verse
Words of Love
...You forgot my intonation, and my smile
What’s behind it, wasn’t of your concern
Maybe you did not appreciate my style
Knowing that I have a lot to learn
Out of sight, then out of mind and heart
...
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Categories:
misheard, heartbroken, longing, love, love
Form: Rhyme
I Wonder
...I wonder what do you do when you have all those emotions in you but you can't speak up?
I wonder what to do when you get what you have always wanted but it no longer feels like it is supposed to, in...
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Categories:
misheard, anxiety, confusion, fear,
Form: Free verse
Fates and Whispers
...If ‘Beethoven’s Fifth’ foretold fate
Rapping on humanity’s door,
Then what were Napoleon’s armies for?
When we challenge fate
By declaring war,
What dire results do we ignore?
Are all our...
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Categories:
misheard, destiny, religion, war,
Form: Rhyme
Dream Approach
...Written: September 29, 2023
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Walking through the corridors of my dream,
Down the boulevard of anguish, it seems,
Breathin...
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Categories:
misheard, analogy, confusion, dream, future,
Form: Rhyme
Let No One Despise Your Youth
...Let no one despise your youth
May all disciples tell you the truth
In Word,
Not just the first, second, or third, let your thoughts be heard
And your feelings unstirred
Your heart Misguided and...
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Categories:
misheard, bible, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Veteran Code
...Veterans helping veterans
That’s how the code goes
For there are certain things
Only a fellow veteran knows.
On the local radio news
The newsreader had said
A man was attacked
And been found d...
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Categories:
misheard, encouraging, mental illness, military,
Form: Rhyme
Exert Fear Genteel
...I don't fathom how love could ever hurt.
ECHO - Exert
What is simple in this lysergic exosphere?
ECHO - Fear
Can I be mentally ill or as vicious as an eel?
ECHO - Genteel
Why man is...
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Categories:
misheard, analogy, bereavement, humanity,
Form: Other
Can You Hear Me Here
...(Friend) "Okay dear. Can you hear?"
(Lady) "Yes. Yes! Of course I'm here!"
(Friend) "Your husband is on to second tee."
(Lady) "No. I haven't had my tea."
(Friend) "What a hit! Woah! Ho! Ho!"
(L...
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Categories:
misheard, funny,
Form: Couplet
Paid In Full
...I’ve mucked around when drinking beer like many other blokes,
who love to be involved when playing silly nonsense jokes.
It’s great to see a ‘bunny’ puzzled and completely unaware
that pranksters ...
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Categories:
misheard, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Black Hole Soul
...Black hole soul
Head shrinking time, got to face up to my fears.
Still writing dark rhymes, like I have been for years.
Past my best yesterday, and I’m not even looking back.
Spent years in b...
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Categories:
misheard, death, depression, love, lust,
Form: Bio
Is Ra Ill Question Mark
...Salome just loved gingerbread
But Herod misheard what she said
Who wants a dead head
To bounce in their bed?
So she dashed to the John instead
*Title inspired by Special Charact...
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Categories:
misheard, bible,
Form: Limerick
Listen
...I've been misunderstood
By the strangers in my life
Listen
I wish they would
I've been misheard
By the ears in my life
Listen
They don't and it hurts...
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Categories:
misheard, life,
Form: Rhyme
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