The Muezzin
...Before light’s encroaching
Beams, across wavelengths
Of glints, in between yawning
Protocols of waking,
The cocks strike a redundant
Note.
Choked by their own sensitive
Yodelling spree, muted ...
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Categories:
piddling, prayer, religion, religious,
Form: Free verse
cha cha cha and lah dee dah
...A piddling, trifling cha cha cha
Danced her petootsie off, rah rah rah
Wiggling, jiggling and a ha ha ha
We wanted to join them lah dee dah...
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Categories:
piddling, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Ah methinks I could sleep forever
...Ah... methinks I could sleep forever
Basking in a supine position
with eyes wide shut
while the space heater churns out
fast moving molecules of heat
solitudinarian drowsy thinker fêted
by mi...
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Categories:
piddling, adventure, appreciation, atheist, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Three Sides to Every Story
...There are three sides that form every triangle
and not always are they of the same equal proportion.
There can also be three sides of many a story told,
and stitched with tenuous threads that loos...
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Categories:
piddling, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Keen Observation
...
A drunkard while piddling
was struck by this fact incidental
that holding a beer requires
the same hand as at a urinal.
...
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Categories:
piddling, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Strong suspicion a 2024 presidential win
...Strong suspicion a 2024 presidential win...
for the trumpeting don
spells loss for democracy
after inauguration day
witnesses his swearing-in
nepotism will run rampant
lawlessness the name of...
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Categories:
piddling, america, angst, anxiety, business,
Form: Rhyme
If Only
..."If only..."
How often I've whispered those two piddling words.
Quietly, like the fluttering wings of hummingbirds,
wishing I could rewind the clock to the time when
we...
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Categories:
piddling, sad love,
Form: Rhyme
Hypersonic Tsunami
...I/you
is/am/was
a soldier of
fortuitous (mis)fortune
a quiet
puddle
piddling in
southerly sloth
a gnarly ghost
galloping in
whirling ~ twirling ~ swirling
electronic sandstorms
...
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Categories:
piddling, dark, society, surreal, word
Form: Free verse
Personified Lighted Candle
...PERSONIFIED LIGHTED CANDLE:
Come on, I'm strong and edified.
No one can hold me in detention for getting them defied.
Compared to Cassius Clay; fiercely bonified.
A firmly personified lighted c...
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Categories:
piddling, self,
Form: Lyric
Storm Clouds
...A buzz-saw wind
peppers a far horizon.
We hear the nails falling
from an impossible distance.
Damage will be done elsewhere;
instinct squeezes a grey glue
out of blind brains.
A razor-teethe...
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Categories:
piddling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Inner Peace
...
Inner Peace
Miracle Man
February 3, 2022
A soft breeze
rustles through dry grass,
and we observe time
being whispered from life.
Breeze and time
both leave imprints of having be...
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Categories:
piddling, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Dan-- You Are the Best
...(Sing along to tune, "Simply the Best!")
Dan, i'm saying, my laugh's afire,
Dan, I voted for you, on the wires,
Dan, golfers are piddling in the rain!
They'll get Corona on their dicks again,
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Categories:
piddling, analogy, angst, beautiful, environment,
Form: Free verse
Randy Wanted To Be Dashing
...Standing reverent in a dull cast mist
glazing my cheeks while prayers were said
so silent stood at Rand's memorial
My mind dashed to the self-drawn sketch
he staged as "The Youthful Raconteur";
...
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Categories:
piddling, brother, death, destiny, earth,
Form: Free verse
Thank You Soupers
...We may think we are piddling poets
But some of our words are knit through eternity
When they hearten, give that single smile, you know it
May be the only smile all day, all week, for you and me
...
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Categories:
piddling, appreciation, cheer up, community,
Form: Free verse
Oh My Golly So Jolly
...I never knew that Stonehenge refers to hanging gallows
While solstice gives solace as the sun dial moves forth
Many years of mysteries immortalized for sacred worship
Blue Stones transpor...
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Categories:
piddling, christmas,
Form: Free verse
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