The Madness of Giants
...Thinking all of this time
that I stood next to giants
'til I realized those giants were mad
But what brought me here
was impulsive stupidity
I see now that I have been had
Why seek fame and...
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Categories:
nuthouse, deep, metaphor, moving on,
Form: Rhyme
Starting With Paradox In a Poet's Nightmare
...Whose words these are I think I know.
His workshop is a nuthouse though;
He will not like my chortling sneer
That mocks his composition so.
If you, dear reader, think it q-ueer
To smirk and la...
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Categories:
nuthouse, parody, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Crazy Train
...with apologies to Yusuf Islam
Now I've been crazy lately
Thinking about the bad things we've done
And I believe it could be
The devil's work has begun.
Oh, crazy train sounding loud...
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Categories:
nuthouse, anxiety, crazy, humor, journey,
Form: Lyric
Shakespeares All of You
...Surfing, morphing
Through amorous tidal waves
Thou Babylonian scoundrels
Poisoned, ordained
By the blues-begging rasps
Smelting Earth
Caching together as one
By force and virtue
Yielding life...
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Categories:
nuthouse, allusion, appreciation, character, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Can Five a Day Contain a Quatrain of Apples
...Imagine if today were the anniversary of the day
A phantom, some angel came down here to say
Or more to compel us to change our ways
Stop selling rotten apples from your tray.
To the nuthouse f...
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Categories:
nuthouse, fruit,
Form: Quatrain
Ride To a Nuthouse
...Now I am sitting alone in this
Funny wagon with my boom box
and minding my own business
along with a bunch of numskulls
who thinks I am a nutcase like them—
What a drag! And they think we are
a...
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Categories:
nuthouse, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Full Moon Rises
...Full moon rises over haunted house
Things move there quiet as a mouse
At the front porch are some pumpkins
Lit as though there’s a soul within
Nothing will come and surely douse
Outside s...
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Categories:
nuthouse, holiday, life, moon,
Form: Rondeau
Spies
...His life is now constantly watched
What has he gotten himself into
They locked him away in the nuthouse
All he did was love but he was not loved
She was beautiful he loved her
We spent many ev...
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Categories:
nuthouse, depressionlove, drug,
Form: I do not know?