Mixed Drink Sets Raccoon Straight
...Hawaii is the place, raccoon decided, loving the idea of course
He sold his farm, plow, tractor, combine, goats, pigs and horse
Ran to Hawaii to sit on a pink beach and enjoy the sand
He said to h...
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Categories:
mixed drink, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Drinking Water
...Two glasses of water
wait to be touched by hand and lip.
The water itself remembers the taste
of whiskey, sarsaparilla, Fixodent;
the salty funk
of being swallowed down the throat
of one expe...
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Categories:
mixed drink, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Frangelico
...
There is a hazelnut-flavored liquor named "Frangelico"
It's named after a hermit monk who lived long ago.
This twenty percent alcohol spirit comes from Italy.
All over the world, it has ...
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Categories:
mixed drink, drink,
Form: Rhyme
Holiday Reprise
...Mid-morning waking
Merrymaking
Mixed drink shaking
The holidays baking...
Cheerful leave-takings
'Stay-in-touches' making
Happy bones aching
Joyous yearly undertaking...
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Categories:
mixed drink, happiness, holiday,
Form: Monorhyme
Remember
...All your memories crash home
And surround what you don't want to remember
SIX
They are a horror movie
Terrifying but you can't look away
They are the monster under the bed
And in the closet
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Categories:
mixed drink, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Get It All Backwards, Part I
...Maria wanted to no longer think,
and stared broodingly upon her mixed drink,
she’d already had one, still felt depressed,
hoped it would mellow once she drank the next.
But then a young man sat...
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Categories:
mixed drink, career, children, life, men,
Form: Narrative
An Alcoholic's Dream
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I gazed long upon the glass, full of mixed drink.
Sparkling light crystal and smooth as long mink.
It glides down the palate, soothing as it goes.
Then bites like a viper, the beginn...
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Categories:
mixed drink, addiction, allegory, dark, wine,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas Dinner
...The ham was golden brown
With glazed sugar upon it
The Turkey was there to
A breast for you and a thigh for me
The yams just came out of the oven
I need a mixed drink
Father is in watching TV...
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Categories:
mixed drink, christmas, drink,
Form: I do not know?
Crazy Me
...I feel like hurting myself, I’m sorry, Lord
Don’t know why I feel the urge crawl into me
With crooked, malicious, wicked discord
I need scars of soaring, eager sympathy
To be my shadow beneath m...
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Categories:
mixed drink, angst, crazy, desire, endurance,
Form: Lyric
Iced Tea
...Open a tea bag,
Put it in a glass of hot water,
Use the teaspoon to stir
Until the water becomes unicolor.
Get another empty glass
Fill with the iced cubes
Then pour the hot tea
Into the ice...
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Categories:
mixed drink, courage, drink, life,
Form: Free verse
High Yellow High
...HIGH YELLOW HIGH
Fire
above
soaked
under
golden sun
dancing
in
sound vim
of bright skies
and tender breeze
then taste some
under
the
tuscan
suns, good times
warm...
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Categories:
mixed drink, happiness, strength, summer, sun,
Form: Verse
The Drunken Pen
...My pen remains drunken yet does not stumble
A functioning lifeaholic somehow agressively humble
Mixed drink of choice reality with a shot of enlightenment
Often it speaks through unslurred words it s...
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Categories:
mixed drink, confusion, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Avid Diva
...avid diva
her name, Eva
with nails painted hot pink
she stirs her mixed drink
too hot to hoot
looking for loot
she struts with all her might
hoping to snare his sight
“madam, I’m Adam”
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Categories:
mixed drink, funny,
Form: Free verse
Mixed Drink
...Blackstrap molasses I drink every day.
I've learned it holds anemia at bay.
One tablespoon quick stirred up
with almond milk (a scant cup)
makes my red blood cells cheer. Hip hip hooray!
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Categories:
mixed drink, food, health,
Form: Limerick
Mixed Drink
...Cool Cat , in "Mixed Drink"
Gently,
the night surrounds,
cool, like wet snow.
As the gurlz cruise,
touch, then go.
Cold beer by my side, coooooool, mellooooow, slooooooowww.
Cool Cat can't think, can d...
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Categories:
mixed drink, peopledance, cat, cat, dance,
Form: I do not know?
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