Grandpa the Master Magician
...Grandpa the Master Magician
Grandpa was old and creaked
like a well-worn floorboard
but he always carried a smile with him
which generally won the day or the situation.
He had just spent time ...
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Categories:
mouthing, fun, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
AN AVERAGE DAY DOWN AT THE FUNNY FARM
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Sir Billy Pig’s missing his oats
Miss Piggy Wig’s had hers, she gloats
But she’s looking so rough
Her bum’s full of crap stuff
Its output is brown and it floats!
I’m advised by...
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Categories:
mouthing, animal, farm, silly,
Form: Limerick
As a submissive and passive lad
...As a submissive and passive lad...
and boyish looking sexagenarian
with similar disposition,
I revel(ed) reading in general
(and spent carefree idle summer days
squirreled away with tomes
of ...
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Categories:
mouthing, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
Autumn Ways
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tree leaves hued
in virtuoso
readiness
mouthing shade
the art of kissing limbo
well knowing they fall
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Categories:
mouthing, absence, autumn, growth, heart,
Form: Shadorma
Prolonged offal bout courtesy constipation redux revisited
...Prolonged offal bout courtesy constipation... redux revisited
Upteenth instance where yours truly
experienced assault upon hindquarters.
A worse hellish fate than perdition
and the closest in...
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Categories:
mouthing, abuse, adventure, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Coffee Break
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Lo, coffee breaks can be broken.
Mission impossible, to wit
Negaholics manage the show,
Often bad-mouthing managers.
Plans to relax workers is foiled....
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Categories:
mouthing, 11th grade, conflict,
Form: Abecedarian
The Tribe
...you opened your mind
and dropped your defences
you smiled at pretences
nodding blind, bending to the lies
you're connected to the tribe
you chatter and shout
mouthing simple phrases
spouting...
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Categories:
mouthing, age, conflict, corruption, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Take Me To Where Love Learns No More
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Take me to a lovely place where love has learned all that it has to learn
A quiet spot where soul can sigh and ease into the heart, like magic
Kachina dolls are we exchanging nature's hue thro...
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Categories:
mouthing, appreciation, love,
Form: Acrostic
Shattered dreams of New Canaan
...Shattered dreams of New Canaan
no longer land of the free home of the brave,
original rightful occupants hoodwinked, petrified,
where diseases xeroxed
ambushed, crushed, extinguished,
squashed...
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Categories:
mouthing, allegory, america, analogy, animal,
Form: Free verse
Night Light
...All street lights were turned off tonight
Lost souls wandering to phone light
Mouthing words of reassurance
In twined with a nocturnal dance
Strangers mingle in unison
Until battery life was don...
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Categories:
mouthing, night,
Form: Rhyme
Go Tell It
...In a space reserved for not thinking
a TV blames itself for telling lies to you.
It's another fake cathartic moment.
A wall clock coughs into its hands,
Mouthing a bullet proof prayer -
I wa...
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Categories:
mouthing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Never
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Never
Miracle Man
10/13/2024
At times I’m guilty of mouthing the word never,
without realizing that never is a time with no end.
I try following it up by saying something clever,
be...
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Categories:
mouthing, future,
Form: Quatrain
You
...You appeared to me
In the guise of a dream
The clouds surrounded your face
You couldn’t be seen it seems-
I knew you were there- for
You touched my very soul
You were direct
You were intentio...
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Categories:
mouthing, allusion, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
THE SONG SANG BY MY HEART FOR YOU
...Your intelligence is of higher value than trillions of dollars,
Your wisdom can give wiseness to even the worst of dullards,
Your greatness will surely walk into many generations like a good ballar...
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Categories:
mouthing, appreciation, birthday, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
As She Lit the Candle
...She lit the candle in evening’s repose
then held the pages bound and decorated
in story-fabled paper coverings.
She buried her head in the words of others.
Arms outstretched and folded on a pil...
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Categories:
mouthing, appreciation, books, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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