Losing Face
...
One may see puffins and parrots
any hour of the week
both birds bear a big colourful beak
the former pelagic feed on fish
and live in large colonies on coastal cliffs
tho' monogamous c...
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Categories:
opportunistic, bird, fun, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
An unexceptional turning point in our marriage
...An unexceptional turning point in our marriage...
unexpectedly came about,
when possible prospect
of the wife going
to Puerto Rico by herself
(for a fêted celebration
of our eldest daughter
...
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Categories:
opportunistic, absence, abuse, adventure, anger,
Form: Rhyme
A trunkful of recyclables patiently awaits,
...A trunkful of recyclables patiently awaits,
(and cries out long day's journey into night,
no...not for Eugene O'Neill),
but rather being distributed
in their respective bins at Wegmans
Under t...
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Categories:
opportunistic, adventure, america, anger, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Lemme regale you with splendid and fabulous exuberance
...Lemme regale you with splendid and fabulous exuberance
Despite being an amateur
paperback writer wannabe,
whose storied protagonist
stars colporteur wannabe
(thinly veiled cover as yours truly...
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Categories:
opportunistic, adventure, age, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
...Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
as does yours truly,
whose ecological ethos
goes out the window
into the cold freezing iceland
prompting the following balderdash.
...
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Categories:
opportunistic, abuse, adventure, anger, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Look no further than the nose on your face
...Look no further than the nose on your face...
for Mutualism among *****sapiens
long thought to be a pipe dream
case in point sited by a couple of recent
purportedly natural events possibly
exa...
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Categories:
opportunistic, america, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Modern Bipedal Huminoides
...Tire Town USA - An old flour mill with opportunistic metalwork;
windowless, wooden building with last century's red paint and
an open garage with Able Men clad in baggy skins of oil stained overal...
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Categories:
opportunistic, romance,
Form: Prose Poetry
Aliens! I shouted above the roar of the blaze
..."Aliens!" I shouted above the roar of the blaze.
Please rescue us from this godforsaken place
veritable hellscape, where angels fear ingress.
Just then an unexpected pleasant distraction
woke...
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Categories:
opportunistic, 12th grade, america, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Winter Solstice
...Winter Is here,
Fear washed away my sorrow with desperation and opportunism,
Now I wait for winter,
For I will meet the woman of my dreams in winter,
Torrid freezing,
Will throw her into my arms...
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Categories:
opportunistic, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Spirit and sponsor sane sexagenarian scribe and his spouse to a Utopian country
...Spirit and sponsor sane sexagenarian scribe (and his spouse) to a Utopian country
He seeks (in tandem with the missus)
legal asylum in Canada...
New Brunswick, Newfoundland,
Nova Scotia, et c...
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Categories:
opportunistic, america, angst, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Let us bear witness to arm and blindfold
...Let us bear witness to arm and blindfold...
each candidate for president of United States
and therefore witness a duel (to the death)
between Biden and Trump to determine
who occupies Oval Office...
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Categories:
opportunistic, america, anger, conflict, dark,
Form: Free verse
Tautogram: Number 01
...____________________________________________________________
An Kaleidoscopical Use
Apple Kindergartener ...
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Categories:
opportunistic, analogy,
Form: Tautogram
A civil war ferociously raged
...A civil war ferociously raged...
within complex edifice...
derelict hulking corpse delineated courtesy
seared, singed, smoldered smithereens
formerly robust warrior
slain during prime of his l...
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Categories:
opportunistic, age, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Crocodiles, the living fossils
...A mighty ancient predator a reptilian that’s highly feared,
distinct among its peers deserves to be revered.
Basking on river banks seeking the sun’s warmth,
but when it comes to mating it’s b...
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Categories:
opportunistic, animal, death, food, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Omnipresent lurch toward authoritarianism
...The views and opinions herewith extemporized to spur discourse with me, or to be mindful when exercising the right to vote in the country of your existence, which expressed intimation predicated upon...
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Categories:
opportunistic, abortion, abuse, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
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