seventy three
...prickly and simply
wrinkly and pimply
old aged and one paged
ungauged and enraged
wildly carefree
honest living at seventy-three...
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Categories:
paged, age,
Form: Rhyme
The White Pages
...Before technology, to find
A number, you would look
In a pretty big directory
Of names bound in a book.
There were two types - the yellow pages
Listed business phones
And the white-paged pa...
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Categories:
paged, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Three Sides to Every Story
...My lifetime friend, I feel so odd.
I'm not insured for acts of God.
Everything, it seems, is lost or gone.
I can't feel the ground I stand upon.
Today, we oldsters sat down to look
inside your...
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Categories:
paged, jealousy, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Crack the Codes
...A man once stood with might, before men
Preached "Fruits before marriage is a sin"
And a crowd stood with a sudden objection.
Showing great opposition.
I was part of the crowd,
But where my gr...
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Categories:
paged, confidence, mystery, spiritual, spoken
Form: Free verse
Lady Atmosphere
...
She is a masterpiece of wild contradiction,
fuse blown by a wick, of litmus tongue in your senses-
her moods shifting chameleonic shades everything at once
in candle wax trick or r...
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Categories:
paged, art,
Form: Free verse
Prodigree 2
...
O, elusive muse, mysterious and profound bruise,
you bewitch my soul, never to be found in the way of former use.
In your absence, I am left with bittersweet
caramello pai...
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Categories:
paged, art,
Form: Rhyme
LIBRARY DISHES I AM FULL LIKE A PAGE IN A BOOK I AM AN OPEN BOOK-
...Like a page in a book
Turn the page, turn the page
Every step that we walk minimum two feet
Print ink marks letters, words and phrases
I am so thirsty I drink those letters daily
As ...
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Categories:
paged, analogy, dedication, how i
Form: Free verse
POETSLAB
...
Mnid playrugond a laynbirth mzaing plzuze.
Intricately woven words amaze with nuzzle.
Nurturing emotions, they ascend,
Delicate meanings, they transcend.
Piercing through the depths of ...
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Categories:
paged, art,
Form: Acrostic
A New Heart a New Dawn -
...A New HEART A NEW DAWN
a new heart a new Dawn
Precious child
Of a living God
Rise up behold His love
We are worthy in honor
We are more
Than just His friend
We are His ch...
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Categories:
paged, analogy, appreciation, caregiving, heart,
Form: Free verse
Lena's Lament
...
Heroines fought battles, overcame
hardships to proclaim victory
Lena's sedentary reel, same same
Pristine paged humdrum story
Secure foundation led steadily...
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Categories:
paged, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
An Existential Curiosity
...*Image of January 14, 2023, by WinCal.
An Existential Curiosity
~0~
Ambitious existent presence to yield,
Hostage that's well endured of a pre-life,
Handcuffed fallible praying...
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Categories:
paged, brother, dad, family, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Blank Page Syndrome
...Blank page syndrome
feels like full page longing
to be done with some work project
that will not slowly grow worthy
of my time
and certainly no captivated reader.
I feel victimized,
torture...
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Categories:
paged, beauty, community, extended metaphor,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Four Paged Letter
...I have lost my lines on love ever since your birth.
Lines i did stepped on in your name
Lines i weaved from the deep to feel the quiet ocean.
I lost it all ever since your birth.
I lost my dawn...
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Categories:
paged, baby, birth, dark, lonely,
Form: Didactic
Through the Vicious Eyes of Love
...
"Through the Vicious Eyes of Love"
All is fair
in love and war
or so they say;
why so
as saints,
mothers
go through
the course of w...
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Categories:
paged, child, i am, woman,
Form: Free verse
The Age of Outrage
...Joseph Biden thought he'd call Donald Trump
Trump picked up and roared, "How ya do-in,' Chump?" --
President Joe was outraged
He had Stormy Daniels paged --
Smirked, "This'll help you get o...
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Categories:
paged, america, giggle, leadership, satire,
Form: Limerick
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