Caricature Of Drama Trilonnet
...Quiet porch and a lazy chair,
sitting for a while is a song.
A blue collar stereotype.
Highlights visible from the air,
bold italics will show up strong.
Iconic, working that pinstripe.
Du...
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Categories:
pinstripe, emotions, fashion, feelings, home,
Form: Other
Skeleton Cat And Pinstripe Mouse
...Canon Beach Oregon
Present Day
Silver rain wrapped her following fingers around Douglas Firs.
Ocean was the ballerina dancing.
Flash after flash she took pictures of nightfall landscapes while...
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Categories:
pinstripe, children, courage, death, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Rudra and Me
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Those intense eyes, imposing aura;
The warrior pose;
atop the snow-clad peaks,
among the floating clouds
still, radiating heat!
The serpents, the hair,
The alluring fear,
The magical hues,...
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Categories:
pinstripe, appreciation, blessing, devotion, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Hot Rod
...If I was a race car,
I’d be shooting gasoline.
Red hot throttle,
Ice cold chrome
Built to speed
I’m a wild man
Baby, I’m a hot rod
Hey there jellybean
I got a thing for you
I’m going to ...
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Categories:
pinstripe, deep, extended metaphor, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
2021 First Saturday In May
...Derek
Will you be able to bear it?
First weekend in May
And who the Yankees will play,
Bringing slugging Louisville woods
Tigers score if they could.
In the Bronx
Bo...
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Categories:
pinstripe, america, celebrity, horse, race,
Form: Rhyme
The Canary On the Wharf
...There once was a canary who hung out at the wharf
It was his fort of sort
Where there were boats
A float
Tied up at the dock
Waiting for laborers on the clock
But this canary on the wharf...
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Categories:
pinstripe, appreciation, boat, business, england,
Form: Rhyme
Inches Apart and An Honest Heart
...They stood inches apart
Both having a racing heart
Gazing into the eyes
With absolutely no reason for lies
They met weeks ago
Very busy and on the go
A date with a drink
In front of a...
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Categories:
pinstripe, celebration, emotions, engagement, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Reasons Fore the Sporting Seasons
...There once was a General who had an investment in the swamp
He had many ways of getting what he wants
Including making things great again when he stomps
While in the marsh land
The General ha...
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Categories:
pinstripe, america, history, image, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Barbershop Quartet
...THE BARBERSHOP QUARTET
The barbershop quartet, mustache brushes in hand.
A Capella joviality, with torquing wrists, snapping fingers.
Bristles foaming, silky white and smooth, voices gr...
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Categories:
pinstripe, music, song,
Form: Sestina
The Greenfelt Jungle
...The pool hall was dimly lit
smelling of cigarettes and money
the regulars sitting around telling jokes
which none of them are ever funny
over the next twenty-four hours
the jungle will have many...
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Categories:
pinstripe, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Apple
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Saturday's Pub garden,
littered with a thousand twisted cigarette butts,
the scattered smouldering tombstones of last night's drunken dreams.
Here birthed the Friday madness wild,
thirs...
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Categories:
pinstripe, appreciation, irony,
Form: Free verse
Things That Go Beep
...Sixty years ago, Autumn was the season,
Seven minutes was all it took that dark night
Like a freshman, a little short of reason,
I had no clue what the future held in sight.
Maybe I would teach...
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Categories:
pinstripe, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
False Profit
...I've been misled by my opprobrium again
Stuck in this continuum until the bitter end
Elysian fields beckon me like a moth to flame
Halcyon days gone like 15 minutes of fame
Coal black devil in a ...
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Categories:
pinstripe, analogy, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Thanksgiving
...Thanksgiving 1930
Mama was running around the house trying to make space for everyone to lay their heads when the night draped the day.
The house was jovial and laughter bang against th...
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Categories:
pinstripe, holiday,
Form: Narrative
Finance
...Who are these?
Pinstripe assassins,
That stride; self satisfied,
The world is theirs,
To do as they wish.
Sipping coffee,
From little white cups
Guardians of the system.
Soldiers of c...
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Categories:
pinstripe, men, money, society,
Form: Free verse
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