Motley Poems - Poems about Motley

History’s always been a motley cast of characters gratefully now dead at last. No longer do they wield the flesh with words, commands, decrees – it’s the rotten stench of their legacies we still choke on daily as if fresh....

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One Summer night, just around dawn A Motley Crew came to town But there was something that filled with dread They were all very dead. The folk scattered to all sides Escaping dead of all kinds Skeletons and Zombies too Some jokingly howling "Booo". And so madness has begun "Scaring people is so fun!" "We will get you very soon!" Roared the monsters to the tune Of...

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We were a motley crew No pirate flag or eye patches Still we were gloriously dangerous The neighborhood kids The south side gang We tore up the air with laughter Running house to house with popsicles Tormenting the dogs who chased after us Wanting to be in laps that never sat...

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in the dead of (winter) night in the dead of winter (night) a mime was executed for stealing pancakes the gunpowder tango sounded over the burnt black bones of Bastille wretchedness comes in manifold reverie in distempered visions of epochal disasters mime's widow's now loitering enshrouded dismal and dismantled into the strawberry storm of desolate lament on a horizon monomaniacal embers of...

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I am motley with rain I am spreading on puddles, It's so good to feel caress of shy kiss of spring, Ice of sorrow has left in cold winter, it muddles All my nightmares and I will forget them in fling. There is dirt on the street, but I have no offences, There's no blame in my speech, there are...

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Are you happy? Look at what you’ve done Gone and made a motley out of me Like putting on a show Giving all you wanted and needed Just an entertainment to you Tell me are you happy now? You laugh at the bells Tinkering on my head You chuckle as the tears Streak down through My checkered makeup Who do you think you are? Sitting there laughing As my...

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kickstart my heart.true same ol' situation.yes. a rat like me?no...

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grew up hard and fast not enough love to last,man you want it?just ask...

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