Urban Slab
...some level of falling from grace happens in slab city
its twisted humanity
when kindness stops being nornal
when green crusaders are dismissed, unseen
like burying waste in landfill
city of sl...
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Categories:
piggyback, allusion, angst, city, life,
Form: Free verse
Scattered
...Hi. I’m feeling scattered.
I’m completely overrun upstairs. where thoughts should be processed individually, at a normal speed. Nope, not for me.
Currently they’re racing. It seems like they’ve cre...
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Categories:
piggyback, mental health, time,
Form: Rhyme
Here riches abound'
...To my vision; all around some very good poetry, here abounds.'
Many born from 1950s and 60s express thoughts; emotions. That inspire no less!. Who were taught; by those from the
1920s and thirtys....
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Categories:
piggyback, appreciation, destiny, education,
Form: Rhyme
Yet they Smile
...Suite Suite!!
Presence of
White Pupuliary reflux
Macromers
endophthalmitis
senile, senile
Piggyback, piggyback!
Her deep shames and insercurties
white claw!
White Claw.
High Steak Royalitie...
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Categories:
piggyback, anti bullying,
Form: Alexandrine
Dog Days of Summer
...Alice Hubbard's home was not ever cluttered, like azure roses, in rows.
Full of sun, the panes were never shuttered, typical where love grows.
Alice was fondly called, 'Old Mother Hubbard...
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Categories:
piggyback, color, dog, fantasy, food,
Form: Couplet
The Rainbow Bridge Church
...Book One: Ancestors of the Ark
Ch.1: Welcome to the Village of Chapel Hill
In a quiet little village far away from here, lives a Minister ...
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Categories:
piggyback, animal, bible,
Form: Rhyme
I shall find a way or make one
...(Inveniam viam)
Far beyond these eerie things, where limits have no scales
Fish are replacing gills, with turbine aerated tails
Sea level’s losing all meaning, for the humpback whales
Ships p...
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Categories:
piggyback, dark, dream, life,
Form: Rhyme
Persistence
...In order for things to get done you have to take a one-way piggyback ride...
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Categories:
piggyback, life,
Form: Monoku
Gay Or Straight Or Anything In Between
...Thirty years working as an Early Childhood teacher,
With spells working with children of all ages,
Including teenagers with messed up lives,
Has taught me that gay or straight,
Or anything in bet...
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Categories:
piggyback, age, appreciation, baptism, care,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Rehashing History: Squanto and the Pilgrims, the First Thanksgiving
...The winter of 1621 in Plymouth was harsh as could be,
The Pilgrims were sick and sorry they'd come,
They missed their warm English beds and their tea.
The still ambulatory shivered and shuffled ab...
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Categories:
piggyback, history, humor, thanksgiving,
Form: Light Verse
Half Acre
...sweat hogs piggyback
hells half acre of neurons
all eyes on the farm...
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Categories:
piggyback, art, farm,
Form: Haiku
Such Times Are Here
...Such Times are Here
51.
There be utter madness
That pervades the world today.
It's enough to cause a troubled soul
To just up and melt away.
Such times are here to try u...
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Categories:
piggyback, anxiety, appreciation, character,
Form: Rhyme
At the Pivot of Invention Or Piggyback
...by the interpretation comes perception—the faraway dream, the symbols—or the way I attack myself—in harassing my screams. upon a wishbone, to feel some semblance, listening to darker parts; the curse...
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Categories:
piggyback, black african american,
Form: Blank verse
What Kids Did
...Compared with us, the kids today
Too little play and too much weigh.
Alone indoors they snack and sit
And buttons hit, while we stayed fit.
We'd quickly chores and homework do,
Then dash th...
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Categories:
piggyback, children, fun, growing up,
Form: Quatrain
Autumnal Equinox
...Early morning blue sunny skies askew
turn to white grays on piggyback
once light breezes that blew
gentle in and out the trees comeback
now race wildly out to the sea renewed.
The colors ...
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Categories:
piggyback, autumn, sun,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
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