Wooden Box
...Wooden Box
In my deep deep wooden box I keep: in
triumphant completion of
something’s; depending on
whethers; keyboards with
buttons who don’t make notes audible to
the human ear; descri...
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Categories:
nauseam, humor,
Form: Free verse
To flowers once said dour thorns
...I
For long faulted as wicked causing pain,
And condemned as crooks of a cruel kind—
Old prejudice or heartless brain’s refrain,
Repeated ad nauseam a point to grind—
An error all the same of ...
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Categories:
nauseam, flower,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Hate Speech
...("Howling Rock", City of Rocks, 2016)
Hate Speech
My dogs bark into the night
scared and excited about something in the dark
coyotes or deer or maybe just their own shadows.
It make...
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Categories:
nauseam, dog, humanity, humor, night,
Form: Narrative
Uniquity
...Ubiquity is, oh, … always aggravating to me
Since I’ve bought one, I see them everywhere
If I choose a new, strange, exotic word to use
It pops up in everyone’s poem, well, I’ll swear,...
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Categories:
nauseam, spoken word, words,
Form: Rhyme
The Rowdy Prevail
...I'm wide awake, listening to the roar.
My musings become a glowing rainbow.
I lie pique designing vile dreams offshore.
I dream of an ominous sky shadow
Away from the ad nauseam...
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Categories:
nauseam, anti bullying, confusion, freedom,
Form: Dizain
Deconstruction
...Away from the areas of complete ad nauseam
As political cases grasp a zenith of their corium
To utterly saturate the airwaves with information
Each other's obnoxious and feeble desc...
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Categories:
nauseam, analogy, bereavement, caregiving, change,
Form: Rhyme
The Orange Man
...I had to stop watching the news
The orange man's wrecking my brain,
His lies are stuck on repeat
Ad nauseam, again and again.
Hubris beyond capability
A loathing for others success,
People ar...
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Categories:
nauseam, judgement, leadership, political,
Form: Rhyme
Barba Tenus Sapientes
...
Collective consciousness
Folded over into a square
Wrapped around a tree trunk
Etched with a scimitar
Another guidepost
To the morning star
Ad nauseam
Barba tenus sapientes
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Categories:
nauseam, allusion, life, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
In Progress Versions 1, 2, 3, 4
...In Progress ver. 1
1. Imagine an Idea from which later a title will form.
2. Select a form, a kind of song, cadence, rhythm from your soul.
3. Allow the tone to be defined.
4. Sketch with words a...
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Categories:
nauseam, creation,
Form: Free verse
S L O T H
...the sloth yawns at time
inert, as listless minutes
turn wasted hours to years
work is left undone
avoided like a poison
the very thought, repugnant
the useless hand rules
in sluggish mon...
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Categories:
nauseam, character,
Form: Choka
Ad Nauseam
...My doctor loves the birds and bees
And anything that makes me sneeze
Perfumed employees my heart tease
And indoor plants cause me to wheeze
My doctor says a little breeze
Picks up pollen from ...
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Categories:
nauseam, anxiety, health, how i
Form: Verse
The Candygram
...One fine day Abraham
Wanted to send a candygram
All the way to Amsterdam
Sweets ad nauseam
Weighed by kilogram
All he could cram
In a huge box stamped with a monogram
This is the pric...
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Categories:
nauseam, adventure, candy, fun, word
Form: Monorhyme
Waving Cat
...You see them perched in windows
Of so many types of stores
But really, they don’t blend at all
In anyone’s decors.
They range in size from tiny
To those taking lots of space,
All with the sam...
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Categories:
nauseam, fashion,
Form: Rhyme
Ad Nauseam
...Sunshine grows men on ropes
Similar with metaphors and similes
And cold plastic smiles.
Slim, shiny, at first slimy, Then…
Then mass produced body index
Fat and hypertension deficit syndrome-o-m...
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Categories:
nauseam, community, corruption, growth, life,
Form: Free verse
Remains In the Museum
...Who were you, witness prized.
telling all manner of things
Who were you, sincere, wise,
voice quiet and hushed,
beloved by mankind?
Stranger bathe in crystal light
Now spoken of ad nauseam.
bu...
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Categories:
nauseam, appreciation,
Form: I do not know?
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