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Hee Haw TRUMPetting
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Rico Leffanta
| Limerick |
mule, animal, culture, endurance, international,
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Off-Key
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
| Narrative |
mule, perspective, slavery, truth, wisdom,
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overcome by sorrow
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jan hansen
| Blank verse |
mule, angst, blessing, books,
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For My Children
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Sam Kauffman
| Rhyme |
mule, baby, birth, family, love,
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Here we go a-palindroming
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Gershon Wolf
| I do not know? |
mule, humorous, word play,
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From Plantation to Implantation
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
| Dramatic Verse |
mule, imagery, slavery, visionary, wisdom,
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the village of dreams
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jan hansen
| Blank verse |
mule, absence, abuse, age, allusion,
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Knowing When to Stop
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Roof Missing
| Rhyme |
mule, depression, love,
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Teacher Teacher
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Patricia Garcia Howard Bramble
| Rhyme |
mule, anti bullying, anxiety, bereavement,
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Syncopated Soul
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Winged Warrior
| Rhyme |
mule, analogy, conflict, destiny,
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The Gristmill Song
by Mark Massey
This body, bound aboard a sullen ship,
was bartered for a wagon and a mule.
My flesh belongs to he who wields the whip,
for I am nothing...
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Sonnet |
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Categories:
mule, angst, slavery,
the past is not far from here
by jan hansen
The Past is near
The creaking sound of un-oiled cart
wheels crushing tiny pebbles on
the sandy lane as the night drew near.
The prudent eyes of...
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Blank verse |
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Categories:
mule, betrayal, birthday, confidence,
The Way Things Used To Be
by DrJim Martin
THE WAY THINGS USED TO BE
Dr. Jim Martin
Many these days tend to formulate,
Ideas based upon a former date.
They remember life from way back when,
And conclude...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
mule, america, culture,
Potato Mountain
by Ward Trotter
Potato Mountain
I will arrive
an habitual escapee
from the rabbit warrens
of central planners
By ferreting north
in search of
breaks in the maze
rifts in the grid
I will follow
a stream beside
the...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
mule, mountains,
A Paean to Bacchus
by Jim Slaughter
Squeeze a cherry and let it sit,
And don't forget to take out the pit.
Let it ferment,
At least a day as a rule,
To give it some...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
mule, drink, humor, wine,
The Cougar and The Deer
by David Welch
When I was just a little boy
we picnicked under alpine skies,
one time a mule deer strolled out
and fed in the meadow nearby.
Tall, curving antlers rising...
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Narrative |
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Categories:
mule, age, fear, growing up,
The Essence of Me
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
Born in the Goshen ghetto,
bound by an Ashkenaz forged umbilical chain
Beloved mother was Jim Crow lynch poor,
adored father was the Uncle Sam same
Third-generation slaves,
pauper freed...
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Bio |
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mule, identity, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Teacher Limerick
by Caren Krutsinger
There was once a bad teacher at school.
She called us mean names, and was so cruel.
We wrote up a clear petition.
Getting her out, was our...
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Limerick |
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mule, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Oval Office Recommendation
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
In the spirit of lowered expectations,
loyalty that’s street corner bought
This Oval Office recommendation
was given very little brothel thought
It was stamped with misogynist approval:
he’s a mighty...
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Light Verse |
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Categories:
mule, humor, political, satire, truth,
Rainy Monday Mule
by CayCay Jennings
Turning my nemesis-alarm off,
I wonder at racket lacking stop
before seeking me thru caffeine.
Pouring coffee, I yawn glance up
and feel mood hope end abrupt.
Sheet rain with...
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Free verse |
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mule, angst, rain, storm, work,
My Darling Wife
by Marc Acrich
First draft--------------------
My Darling Wife #80A
My Darling Wife
My darling Debbie, lets us go steady. I'm going to say to you the most honest words ...
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Prose Poetry |
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mule, marriage,
Voter Discount
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
One-third off,
sixty-six percent marked down quality
At the voting booth bazaar,
base gypsy thoughts are belly dancing
around your capitalist-veiled head
You like what that smiling politician said;
promising...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
mule, allegory, political, slam, truth,
Nought Of The Five
by Duncan R. M. Ferguson
Big Mac jacket attack
tree feller whacks away
while tentative gropin'
Helen Keller feels entrails
rings of trees
to gauge years
of coniferous
Kerouac with a stick
n' a sack maligns
to steer...
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Enclosed Rhyme |
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Categories:
mule, word play,
A very quick quack
by Taoi Chanan
A very quick quack
The purpose of a porpoise is to whirl backwards in a spotty boat but the purpose of a penguin is to glide...
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I do not know? |
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Categories:
mule, analogy,
Moonlight Falling In Winter
by Christine Phillips
Naked trees standing tall
Wearing no clothes at all
Naked trees standing tall
Listening to the nasty brawl
Moonlight is shining brightly
With its trousers hanging haphazardly
Stars are peeping through...
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Narrative |
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Categories:
mule, angel, betrayal, change, confusion,
Morphology
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
Politech chef in the kitchen
cooking up another Microsoft microdot
meth batch of morphology
Walter White’s in the house
brewing more truth breaking bad
tweet juice chemical toxicity
And the viral...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
mule, culture, metaphor, political, truth,
Through the Weird of the West
by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Slimy gloppy corn smut
Smeared on a tortilla
Tastes like a monkey's butt
Thank you, Pancho Villa.
Crows' hearts in chili sauce
Beer-battered crickets
Bad luck and double-cross
Ten dollar tickets.
Bar fight...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
mule, food, fun, horror, insect,
several haiku
by jan hansen
Haiku
Beautiful horses
But it is the modest mule
That carries our load
Tidy office building
Busy and efficient place
Kept clean by janitors
Our great cities
Without armies...
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Senryu |
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Categories:
mule, allegory, allusion,
Do the Math
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
Fifty stars
and
thirteen stripes
Wavy patriotic mathematician
do the math ...
Subtraction or addition,
what will the numbers be,
37 or 63?
Slavery took away my parents’ human rights,
and their children’s...
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Narrative |
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Categories:
mule, america, history, math, truth,
Spoil or make stubborn
by Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
When you praise a man
You spoil his humble heart
When you hate a good man
Stubborn as a mule he becomes
...
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Couplet |
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Categories:
mule, africa, culture, wisdom,