Fleeing my song
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The Irish band was playing on a Vermont Green
People brought their outdoor chairs, it was a charming scene
I got carried away, tried to sing along
But from the looks on the faces, I'd done them ...
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Categories:
outworn, humor, humorous, muse, music,
Form: Lyric
Ya'll Need to See it
...The core explosion is due September in the sky!
A supernova T Coronea Boralis to lite the
skies of earth. The remeant of a once larger star.
Once in a lifetime event. A red Giant anda white dwarf....
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Categories:
outworn, music, repetition, romantic love,
Form: Bio
Invisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilism
...Invisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilism
Psyche wracked with agony
impossible mission to extricate lovely bones
they wanna remain permanently abed.
I chiefly function to amass knowled...
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Categories:
outworn, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Never Born, Never Died
...She can touch me,
reach in
with an inward and knowing finger,
stir my senses,
entice,
until I know for sure
that the dead and the living,
are timeless.
When her love steals my mind away
'2...
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Categories:
outworn, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Meeting John and Speaking With Him
...I had just spoken with John!
To meet the bastard I’d sworn,
My planned time 5:00am dawn,
Over his fertile grass lawn
He had had to treat with scorn,
Contented with being a con…
“You listen t...
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Categories:
outworn, business, confusion, food, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Life Is a Term Lease
...This wreath is in your eidetic memory, yet you should live.
Can you receive my lament, which is almost to happen?
There is no garland as I plummet, rattled by the sieve.
Died with you,...
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Categories:
outworn, analogy, grave, life,
Form: Rhyme
Graveyard
...Time's flowing tributary; the future changes the past.
Our burial cortege concludes its course at the graveyard.
Falling leaves collapse, crafting new fates; feel the weight of dust.
S...
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Categories:
outworn, allusion, anger, bereavement, death,
Form: Rhyme
Trains That the Words Forgot
...Steam and smoke trains, dont fume anymore,lying like dead corpses or spare parts of what once was called the golden age;;
If they would fume, it would only be a plaintive sigh, about their desolate ...
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Categories:
outworn, age, nostalgia,
Form: Prose
Journey Into Self
..."Every struggle in my life has been a lesson and made me stronger."
~Constance La France.
I think I am going out of s...
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Categories:
outworn, leaving, life,
Form: Verse
Frightened To Take Two
...Frightened to take two
Her soul was clenched in the hand's of evil, A strident deafening scream reverberating in her mind,
Searching for where she's broken the most, Trying to collect shatter...
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Categories:
outworn, dark,
Form: Couplet
The Mall Is Too Much With Us
...A parody of Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us,” which appears under the parody
The mall is too much with us, spring and fall.
Getting and spending, we lay waste eac...
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Categories:
outworn, humanity, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Maxed Out On the Rim of Time: Imitation Poem of Off-Season At the Edge of the World By Debora Gregor
...We have sprinted on our paws
from silver fields into the ashen corridors
of Office-Max
How early we set our alarms, how grown up,
who don the coats of men,
despite the heat,
who drive on four w...
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Categories:
outworn, adventure, analogy, angel, appreciation,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Lady By the Corner
...So at the nook of the broadway alley
Stood there was an old defaced stall
With an outdated dark outworn wall
Coverd with the fetching portrayals of Scotland valley
At the upfront shelf was a yo...
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Categories:
outworn, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
O Muses, What Is Genius
...O Muses! What is genius? Is it born?
Or is it taught? Why do some possess it,
and some do not? These questions are outworn!
As riddle over which to obsess, it
matters only that genius...
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Categories:
outworn, art, god, lust, muse,
Form: Sonnet
Demount
...Nail on the wall
Picture to fall
Spider in crawl
Omen to stall
Side along side
Image in stride
Time not defied
Somebody lied
Web on the spin
Calling the sin
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Categories:
outworn, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
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