The Butterfly
...As she drinks nectar from a flower, sweetness from heaven falls like dew
anointed with a gentle rain amidst sun showers she appears as if on cue
Lifting her wings she lands on a Zinnia b...
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Categories:
mummer, beauty, butterfly, girl, memory,
Form: Couplet
Bully me you I exemplified archetypal scapegoat
...Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat...
who suffered cuts by a thousand knives.
Even as old (dish) married
(spooning) curmudgeon,
who receives social security disability
linke...
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Categories:
mummer, anger, bereavement, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
I miss you
...you said we were close like tightbond two
I never would be losing you
but now I'm left only thinking of you
I used to see you in the stars
but now all I see are scars
why'd you go so far
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Categories:
mummer, absence, anger, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Sit with me
...Come and sit with for a while
And tell me exactly how you feel
Come and sit with me for a while
And I will listen to your dreams
The sparks have gone out of your eyes
And the joy has disappeared...
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Categories:
mummer, business, change, character, community,
Form: Free verse
Farewell to Summer - 2024
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Falling Autumn leaves brashly wave goodbye to Summer
And strew the pathways with emeralds, rubies, and gold.
Radiant beauty engages the land in mummer
Encouraging Sum...
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Categories:
mummer, autumn, environment, nature, science,
Form: Acrostic
Dot dot dot, and in other news devil's advocate claims Teflon Trump
...Dot dot dot, and in other news devil's advocate claims Teflon Trump
courtesy the comfort of his mancave,
I (a mutated batman wannabe)
doth prattle and stump
and display wide whirled webbed
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Categories:
mummer, abuse, america, anxiety, august,
Form: Rhyme
Cenobite Muse
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My muse keeps pestering like a cenobite,
chewing my brain like a hungry parasite.
Pressuring the ink to bleed like acid rain,
catharsis to release perpetual pain.
Hiding poems that l...
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Categories:
mummer, muse,
Form: Masnavi
Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat
...Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat
Even as old (dish) married
(spooning) curmudgeon,
who receives social security disability
linkedin with social anxiety)
chose the fork less ...
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Categories:
mummer, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Going Somewhere
...Every time it feels as if I am going somewhere it turns out that I am not going anywhere, every time I plan to go somewhere, you change into another gear. I sort of understand the game but everything...
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Categories:
mummer, business, community, earth, education,
Form: Free verse
Hummer' and Hibiscus
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Hibiscus for a sweet hummer',
with feathers so iridescent;
oh, dip your long beak in nectar !
Flutter my little incomer,
I love your green blue pearlescent;
oh, lovely flower ...
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Categories:
mummer, bird, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Bully Me You, I Exemplified Archetypal Scapegoat
...Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat
Even as an old curmudgeon, aye pucker
and raspily suction, albeit toothless mouth
drawing reminiscent guffaws affecting
(think feeble attempt
...
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Categories:
mummer, anger, angst, anniversary, anti
Form: Rhyme
Words For New Eyes
...I want to peer through tomorrow’s eyes.
Not a thing already old,
not a yesterday word
only temporarily paroled
from a moribund dictionary.
These words
newly dead now for millenniums.
Words o...
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Categories:
mummer, poetry,
Form: Free verse
New Years Day 2021
...New year's day 2021
Disinclination regarding tradition
to make resolutions stance
adopted courtesy yours truly.
Though such proclamation
may smack of high treason
no matter convenience to s...
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Categories:
mummer, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Bully Me You, I Exemplified Archetypal Scapegoat
...Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat
Even as old curmudgeon, aye pucker
and raspily suction toothless mouth
drawing reminiscent guffaws affecting
attempt impersonating plumber
(thi...
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Categories:
mummer, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Bio
Droopy-Bottom Mummer
...Squile mushroom girl you fill an isle
and force my eyes to split.
You're bolar hair and baggy clothes
A package all made fit.
Albino hair and teasing teeth
you bare an impish feast.
My loins ...
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Categories:
mummer, beautiful, character, crush, cute
Form: Quatrain
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