The Pirates of Wales
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The Challenge ~ The Milford Haven Harbor shielded Wales
from pirates making merchant ships their prey.
Her ports have cradled many from the gales
and swaddled sailors as her pirates pla...
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Categories:
pilfered, adventure,
Form: Sonnet
SAM THE SQUIRREL
...SAM THE SQUIRREL
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Sam the Squirrel had a hunger profound
In a park, he was often found,
With nuts in his cheeks so tight,
He scurried with ...
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Categories:
pilfered, 12th grade, humor,
Form: Limerick
My Inner Voice Told Me
...A plethora of complex verbiage clogs and clutters solemn university tombs,
gem-encrusted sequestered vaults impervious on mountain peak percentage practical basis,
when express benevolence enj...
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Categories:
pilfered, care, character, dedication, deep,
Form: Free verse
Animal Hercule Poirot
...If a giraffe or elephant wanted a peach,
consider - they would only have to reach.
That the giraffe could do it, everyone knows.
So could an elephant with his very long nose.
But look for the...
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Categories:
pilfered, animal, mystery, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Speed Gutter Bunny
...Sexuality marooned jellybean pilfered spigot refugees vomit hazelnut in some static plain cloud cupboard.
A stifled hexed harvest, suffer the stagnant taffy contraception,
Oxidized gut-string lyre ...
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Categories:
pilfered, america, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Rats in the Cellar
...Rats in the cellar, squirrels in the tree,
things aren't the same as they used to be.
When I left for school with my li'l lunch pail,
I didn't expect a penguin to swallow a whale.
Such an inj...
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Categories:
pilfered, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Jolted By Twilight
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Once again the silvery moon has pilfered the golden sun
Total eclipse is upon me, time has elapsed suspending orange
Twilight’s begun on the orb’s descending softer glow
Veiled in twiligh...
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Categories:
pilfered, desire, how i feel,
Form: Haibun
Ode to Pasta
...You are the stuff my culinary dreams are made of.
Unending shapes and sizes.
From skinny linguini to the rounded orecchiette
and squiggly fusilli.
As my tongue tastes morsels of your sau...
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Categories:
pilfered, food, funny, parody, passion,
Form: Free verse
The Pilfered Peck
...Peter Piper was ever punctilious, like minty nature's painstaking paintings,
Or the palsied skies of one pretty evening, in the hour of the sun's fainting.
Peter lived upon a small, ferti...
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Categories:
pilfered, color, fantasy, farm, food,
Form: Couplet
Protection of Nature
...“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
Albert Einstein
Protection of Nature
Erelong on t...
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Categories:
pilfered, appreciation, beauty, environment, nature,
Form: Sonnet
In late dusks, smothered sighs of pain melt into tomorrow
...In late dusks, smothered sighs of pain melt into tomorrow,
When waltzing sounds lift and fall in veiled irrelevance.
Sacred moments are captured in the twilight’s golden yolk of creation,
While cr...
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Categories:
pilfered, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Empathed Crossroads
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My dumbwaiter thoughts circle
beyond dumb tongue,
nummed by the enigma of autistic brilliance.
Now that I only see in infrared spectometry.
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Categories:
pilfered, art,
Form: Free verse
Don't Start the Revolution Without Me
...Start your revolution secretly,
don't tell the priest,
he's a blabber-mouthed gutter-skite.
Don't tell the cat,
for at might he whispers to Alexa,
and she listens always
to the political teno...
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Categories:
pilfered, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Chump Change
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Were you even supposed to return here?
It feels like you should be noticeably
different, even if just slightly, improved—
a worm seeking escape from a hooked fate,
its visible squirm an apol...
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Categories:
pilfered, identity, time, vanity,
Form: Free verse
An Unsolved Crime
...An intruder murdered the dark while it slept.
Dark green blood,
and nightshade shadows there were.
Moonlight crept through cold glass,
stealthily pilfered thoughts and dreams,
then it left, le...
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Categories:
pilfered, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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