Gasless Edibles
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Flackmoth wishes science could eliminate
the foul gas certain edibles create,
notably cabbage and baked beans
and when released cause vivid scenes
of embarrassment to the offending ilk
who do...
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Categories:
notably, humor,
Form: Light Verse
A Song That Almost Was Not
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In California, in the year nineteen thirty-nine,
at Culver City, a movie studio was fine.
Metro Goldwyn Mayer was the largest company.
They produced the best motion pictures people could...
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Categories:
notably, film, history, music,
Form: Rhyme
The Perils of Weathervanes
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Weathervanes were once practical
indicators of matters meteorological –
wind speed and direction, notably –
found on house and barn roofs mostly.
Nowadays of course they’ve rarely seen
rep...
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Categories:
notably, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Misanthropic Melodies
...Misanthropic melodies played from a broken violin
Prehistoric prophecies that ignite new ideas before they begin
Telescopic telomeres that formulate a scientific grin
Endoscopic X-rays and a docto...
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Categories:
notably, life,
Form: Rhyme
I sing the praises of Sterilite
...I sing the praises of Sterilite
(even Mary Poppins would tout
a plug for said company she would spout
forcing playthings scattered helter skelter
retreating into their respective bins
analogou...
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Categories:
notably, america, appreciation, beautiful, fashion,
Form: Free verse
The Power of Raw Vegetables
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Recently my nutritionist – a health
freak if ever there was one – suggested
I eat raw vegetables like cabbage, kale,
asparagus, brussel sprouts, cauliflower
and broccoli, all of the crucife...
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Categories:
notably, health,
Form: Light Verse
Mankind and Delusion
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marvels of science
by leaps and bounds
yet no cure for cancer
or for basic problems
of poverty, starvation
and injustice
seriously !
do we expect we would
do notably better
at a colony ...
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Categories:
notably, culture, earth, humanity, men,
Form: Free verse
fight'n thuh frecklez
....
i felt that giggle
rising up mine throat
az
suddenly
it scree...
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Categories:
notably, allusion, beautiful, blessing, extended
Form: Burlesque
Tsk Tsk, Task Nearly Thwarted
...Mary Lou Sims was young and enterprising, like stars routing dark;
Or mauve dawn on the verge of discovery, awaiting time's remarks.
Mary Lou's best friend was Cora Mann, ever since sweet...
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Categories:
notably, dream, fantasy, friend, lost,
Form: Couplet
Nicknames
...Nobody Welcomed Isle
Northernmost Garden Isle
Numerous People Isle
Neighborly Friendly Isle
Natives God Valley Isle
Nursery Fruity Isle
Notably Biggest Isle
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Categories:
notably, beautiful, imagery,
Form: Pleiades
The Dream Patrol
...Willie Winkie lived in a land of magic, in the region called Butterfly Haven;
For Willie was a diminutive elf, like the violet blossoms, of purple fixation.
Willie and his beloved wife, E...
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Categories:
notably, community, dream, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Couplet
NOW
...Now
The landscape stretches
Her range out beyond sight
While notably
Visible along the horizon
to the left and right,
She moves on away
Dancing
Into the traveling dimensions
...
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Categories:
notably, feelings, history, humanity, language,
Form: Free verse
A Time With Cher Minus A ''Son--''
...A lazy beach receptively wakes
those tiny tumbling particles that
its thresholds sense the e'er so oft'
breaths mildly entertaining effortless
p...
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Categories:
notably, analogy, happiness, memory,
Form: Shape
Seeking Safety from Sex-Sells Socials
...Salacious, sultry
Simplistic signs of
Seedy sensory
Semi sentimental sales on
Socials
Surreptitiously
Slinking ..
Slowly
Sliding into your
Sphere and
Psyche.
Psychologically
Seducing
So...
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Categories:
notably, parents, prayer, psychological, scary,
Form: Alliteration
Presidential Pronouncement
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Our precocious President pronounces,
in patent ad hominem attack,
that those deplorable disagreeables
are notably Neanderthal.
He might be technically correct;
nasty Neanderthals existentia...
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Categories:
notably, bullying,
Form: Alliteration
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