Being nice isn't as complicated as engineering
...Too skinny, too fat that's all i keep hearing
Those insults are like a thrifted piece of furniture
As much as you want to cover them with paint
The original painting keeps appearing
Maybe word...
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Categories:
pioneering, africa, anti bullying, body,
Form: Rhyme
Headed to the call
...The future called and I responded, armed with scars my years of acquired wisdom and rife experience, declared with voice of reason, a projection of matter, called for fellow age group, but trend and ...
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Categories:
pioneering, change, character, confidence, courage,
Form: Free verse
In My Deepest Fantasies
...Sunday cockcrow nascent promulgate aural essays reveal,
laissez-faire luscious lustrous buoyant raptures,
radio behemoth prompt to that untamed erudite fantasist,
me the one possessing rippled ra...
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Categories:
pioneering, celebration, character, confidence, destiny,
Form: Free verse
What the Highest Bidder Forgot to Consider
...The witch sees green. She sets sail from door to door.
Her wake fells trees. “What the highest bidder forgot
to consider” was the black and blue broom in her grasp.
—Poet (sponsor words i...
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Categories:
pioneering, tree,
Form: Free verse
Revealed
...
In Battery Point, two centuries stayed
Settlers’ cottage, compact, sandstone stoic
Paired attic windows see civility made
From grim past pioneering treachery awoke
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Categories:
pioneering, animal, april, business, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Starry Night
...Composing thoughtful song about Van Gogh
strikes the soul how with strokes of his brush (bright
with suffering he knew) he used life to show
fields of wheat; countrysides; a starry night...
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Categories:
pioneering, art, inspiration, irony, life,
Form: Sonnet
His Place
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He is on his riding mower.
He looks like me,
only he owns a rich man's house,
a garden measured in acres -
his skin is better.
No picket fences: this is upscale America.
Long drives and o...
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Categories:
pioneering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Pioneering
...Rolling clouds over rolling hills.
Kentucky is winding it roads out in endless curves.
No hurry,
this journey drives me
through its curling landscape
as a self-reading picture book of racial mem...
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Categories:
pioneering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Lemon Yellow Lightbulb
...You left at the first flicker of dawn
as the pioneering rays of Sun
diluted the chaotic dark of night
and the morass of words exchanged.
I would have, if not for my dead legs
followed, at least ...
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Categories:
pioneering, break up, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Blended Bliss
.... for public domain
At first the Light was overwhelming,
no sense of self was found there dwelling,
no sense of end, and no beginning,
bright whirls only of endless spinning.
Gradually, a se...
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Categories:
pioneering, growth, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Saxumpet
...Charlie and Louis
John and Miles
Bebop to Modal
Two different styles
Soul passions blowing
Harmonically through horns
Notes and chords flowing
One world and two forms
Two different times
...
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Categories:
pioneering, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Clerihew Nolde
...A pioneering Expressionist Emil Nolde
whose is uniquely bold
Painting with artistic flair
simple & sana a care...
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Categories:
pioneering, art, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
Clerihew Roberts
...William Robertsan individualist
yet a homely art modernist
Originally doing poster design
so pioneering Vorticist was just fine...
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Categories:
pioneering, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Mark My Word
...Mark my word...
Das führer Donald Trump will return with a vengeance
Trump wracked up an impressive
$122.00 million war chest
accumulating $82.00 million
merely proffering impish grin
betwee...
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Categories:
pioneering, 12th grade, abuse, america,
Form: Rhyme
Panglossian Perspective
...The following initially crafted approximately three and a half years ago and presently brought a much sought after surge of satisfaction while meandering along the information superhighway.
Pangl...
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Categories:
pioneering, age, appreciation, atheist, beauty,
Form: Free verse
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