Wokery, no just jiggery pokery
...Febrile Fog obfuscates palimpsest varnished promises..
Naysayers hoodwinked... deluded players peeling layers..denuded..
Deafening din of our chagrin...
Espoused by rabbles roused by mandari...
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Categories:
parsimony, health, political,
Form: Rhyme
firefight
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temperature rising
fire storm raging inside
her soul skin is scalded
blisters sizzle her mind
parsimony lost in translation
thoughts on autopilot and overdrive
emotions opposing each other...
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Categories:
parsimony, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Words are Phantom Neckties
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Words are phantom neckties
in and out of style they go
From parsimony to paisley
ignominious to indigo
From wide to narrow
sissified to antihero
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Categories:
parsimony, clothes, fashion, future, history,
Form: Rhyme
Ephemeral Laments of Technicality
...Ephemeral Laments of Technicality
Qualifications of a criminal mind
Magnifications of virtue in all of mankind
Qauntifications of meaning you cannot seem to find
Fractal notations in dreaming t...
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Categories:
parsimony, life,
Form: Rhyme
MAGNIFICATION
...Close up, on the smooth couth
meretricious pod, vibrantly
violating my optics violently,
even through the microscope.
Its swarthy stare is maliciously
resplendent and evoked from
parsimony.
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Categories:
parsimony, adventure, extended metaphor, flower,
Form: Free verse
Knife's Edge
...the tattoo on her eyebrow frowned
at the sight of yesteryear’s cutlass
the well-rounded blade had become
blunt dull and worn down from overuse
and yet straight to the point of salvation
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Categories:
parsimony, death,
Form: Free verse
Jt Will Be Back
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To Phillies fans, there is great news as of late.
This season, J. T. Realmuto will be back behind the plate.
Many consider him the best catcher in baseball.
For both hitting and fielding...
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Categories:
parsimony, baseball,
Form: Rhyme
There Goes the Honeymoon
...My best friend just had
her wedding ceremony
She's as hap-hap-happy
as a new bride can be
What's her groom's name, you say
Why, it's John P. Marconi
We suspect she doesn't know
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Categories:
parsimony, identity, wedding,
Form: Light Verse
Two Hearts Unite
...Two hearts unite in holy matrimony
Pledge their troth in sanctimony
Yet in a year or two, up springs acrimony
The likely cause, ungentle parsimony
All that money spent on pomp and ceremon...
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Categories:
parsimony, conflict, marriage, money,
Form: Monorhyme
A Modest Proposal
...A Modest Proposal
By Roy Merritt
Doctor Swift wrote it anonymously
His delicate modest proposal
His idea to save the poor Irish
Was to make their children disposal
He was lampooning Petty ...
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Categories:
parsimony, children, food, history, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Opposing Hands
...I strongly believe that the wheels of fate
Are not controlled by some empty chance,
For if they were, I would not have found
Your life-turning love and gripping romance.
I believe there’s some ...
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Categories:
parsimony, love,
Form: Verse
Poor Christmas
...One dollar and eighty-seven cents, that was all
And sixty cents of it was in pennies
Pennies saved one and two at a time
By bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher
Until on...
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Categories:
parsimony, christian, christmas, daughter, december,
Form: Free verse
The Longing, Remembering the Sway of the Primal Guide, Translation of Carlos Bousono's Poem
...Carlos Bousono’s poem : Recordando a pastora imperio
for Damaso Alonso
(Poem published in the collection : Metaphora del desafuero, 1988, and dedicated
to Damaso Al...
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Categories:
parsimony, devotion, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
Makita Xii: Loveless Death
...Omnifarious cancers
Appear to elutriate the air
To the sharp turning leaves of parsimony
as fallacious acts brand us
and the flourishing hunger
betwixt our passionate fidelities
with loveless hues of...
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Categories:
parsimony, life,
Form: Verse
Kleptocracy
...Parsimony whines in the waking dusk
As heedless she scourges society
Painting nature's aroma by a musk
Garnering exclusive notoriety
Phalanges caress the waking dusk
Mauling the ****...
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Categories:
parsimony, political,
Form: Verse
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