Maybe Fantasy, Maybe Hallucination
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I paint a whimsy in my mind,
A quiet place and pretty,
Where I can simply dream
Child-like without the nitty-gritty
Of the city's less then kind imagination.
In rev...
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Categories:
nitty, angst,
Form: Verse
Glug glug glum
...I swim in sorrow, deep and wide,
Against a tide that won’t let me hide.
Each thought is bleak, each stroke is weak,
My breath is weak, I cannot speak.
If I stop to think, I start to sink.
My eye...
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Categories:
nitty, depression,
Form: Rhyme
A Tritina
...Tritina (three tercets with one final line).
I will return as you taught me to read a god gifted total benign, even after nine
I will return as you taught me to see the specific Night of Knight...
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Categories:
nitty, anti bullying, anxiety, class,
Form: Tritina
Pretty Beautiful
...Here's the nitty-gritty:
I don't need a city
Or the vote from some committee
To tell me that you're pretty
That fact is indisputable
Wholly irrefutable
The truth of it...
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Categories:
nitty, devotion, for her, i
Form: Rhyme
Sneezing fit tests nasal septum
...Sneezing fit – tests nasal septum
The word Gesundheit was first used in English in 1914. It became popular in the United States due to the many German immigrants who moved there. Many Americans ma...
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Categories:
nitty, 12th grade, body, endurance,
Form: Free verse
So Fine
...Grinds so fine. Keep steep steady.
Catch ev’ry nitty gritty. Screen darkness dregs.
Press, add water. Start ebonic eddy.
Stir ‘nilla cream, bright and witty.
Chat with friends so fine. Ke...
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Categories:
nitty, drink, friendship,
Form: Verse
Gentle and Loving Heart
...Gentle and loving heart is all.
It tames the stormy days’ wildness toll,
Subsiding the seemingly incomprehensible
Unfairness of the wild world numb contretemps.
Yet
It flames the homely w...
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Categories:
nitty, heart, love,
Form: Free verse
Parable paired in a pairing unit, you knead--- A Translation of Nirmalendu Goon
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You and your pliant touch lit me up, there my diva, morn.
After the shower, your wet hair and your braid, in trying untangling
Humble effort, down to earth
I rush to thee, my open palm , water...
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Categories:
nitty, absence, january,
Form: Free verse
Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again updated
...Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again - updated
Steely Dan sing queen (me)
outdid himself on sixtieth anniversary
after Grahame Wood
determined to meet
the evolving needs of the communi...
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Categories:
nitty, america, anger, anniversary, april,
Form: Rhyme
Black History
...Written By: D. Collins 2/15/24
To me, red, black, and green means.....
Black blood embedded all over the earth.
There has nev...
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Categories:
nitty, truth,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Nazrul Song
...Theme:
Nazrul Song :
The eternal mid-fielder jersey, won't you have thy mercy?
The eternal mid-fielder jersey, won't you have thy mercy?
The ever-young heart, with a malleable intricate
Time t...
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Categories:
nitty, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Lewd Louie
...Lewd Louie came from Windy City
he went straight for the nitty gritty
got fresh with Margo
who told her man Beau
who kicked his a** with rhythmicity...
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Categories:
nitty, city, cute, funny, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Even Big Boys Cry
...I'm writing in despondence,
Perhaps seeking your indulgence,
Let's talk about this boy,
Let's be their life-buoy,
Big boys are now crying,
They are at a verge of dying,
They're all subject to...
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Categories:
nitty, anger,
Form: ABC
Fruits of Labour
...Fruits of Labour
Sometimes I dream
Where I would like to be.
Far from nitty, gritty chores;
Enjoying fruits of labour,
Feeling the ocean breeze
Breezing over me.
Happy and nonchal...
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Categories:
nitty, beach, culture, dream, paradise,
Form: Rhyme
Wrath of Zeus
...The Greek gods were egotistic, arrogant, jealous,
Said to be excellent lovers, fanatics, and zealous
About everything and anything, lounged around
Adorning places like Marathona, the Acropolis
Th...
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Categories:
nitty, beauty,
Form: Narrative
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