TATTOO DEPORTATION
...TATTOO DEPORTATION
I’d almost forgotten that damned tattoo
A small symbol that years ago, I had got
It was a couple of lads, drunk on vacation
The tattooist did it in red on my shoulder
I’m a ...
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Categories:
plaintively, adventure, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
POINT ZERO
...POINT ZERO
Birth slipped into fast flowing
rivers of patterned fissures
her arching brows brazen
searching sagaciously
microscoping every moment
tangoing across thorny
thickets
Ho...
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Categories:
plaintively, 12th grade, birth, death,
Form: Alliteration
Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom
...Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom
Otherwise titled – my poetic impressions of Helene
All la names bespeaking deity froom
Noah Mo' Room India Arc
of Covenant to crypt tick Blood
(swea...
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Categories:
plaintively, analogy, appreciation, beauty, crush,
Form: Rhyme
Bank rolled by billionaires
...Bank rolled by billionaires
No matter Tuesday, November 5, 2024
still one hundred and eight days away,
(thank you Julian Date Calendar -
FOR LEAP YEARS ONLY),
I believe a foregone conclusion
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Categories:
plaintively, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
...I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re:
long in tooth sexagenarian
nostalgic for the following imagery
ev...
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Categories:
plaintively, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Free verse
A Halloween Tale 2 - Potd
...To Kill a Wild Rabbit - FICTION
The small winding valley was cold and dank.
Nothing stirred as darkness descended quickly.
Dusk brought an ominous cloud of evil fog
that, like a black s...
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Categories:
plaintively, abuse, anger, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Inevitable Death Defines Life
...Inevitable death defines afterlife
I mull mortality
thru lens crafted occipital orbs
regarding a better future
experience sing a space oddity –
whar incessant yaks
exuding a big hurt
emana...
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Categories:
plaintively, absence, allah, angel, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Acrostic
...Sun spurting senselessly.
Pull pulleying plaintively.
Really ridiculous roundhouse rhymes,
Each eating enough of its environs.
And don't get me started on the in-laws.
Dine ahh near the shore, d...
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Categories:
plaintively, happiness,
Form: Acrostic
No Roof For Reindeer
...No Roof For Reindeer
The celebrated sailing frog
from Montgomery County
went a courtin, or so the tale iz toad
to a grand ole mansion built around 1910,
and e'en 'pon
being razed ~2012 ah
n...
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Categories:
plaintively, absence, adventure, animal, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
For Jose - In Memoriam
...“Help me, Papa,” little Jose so plaintively said
As Deb placed his little body next to mine in bed,
He was so sick, and I had done everything I could
The vet had said he was coming dow...
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Categories:
plaintively, death of a friend,
Form: Personification
Futile Escape Out Clutches of Penury Rattle Tin Can Twice
...Yours truly dug deep with bony strength
in tandem with fantasy notions know
king around in figurative heady
toboggan noggin like cranial carapace
to muster every ounce of strength
in an effo...
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Categories:
plaintively, absence, abuse, addiction, america,
Form: Free verse
Manhattan Rhapsody
...Merciless movement
Atonal antipathy
Nonsensical noise
clarinet crescendo
soaring above
the collided cityscape
Harried hordes
Aggravating...
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Categories:
plaintively, city, music, new york,
Form: Acrostic
Apart My World
...I sleep, abrupt awakened,
by stroke of fingered word.
A wide and lingering voice
plaintively whispering
so much view my eyes cannot digest,
so much ache, my soul cannot find rest.
You are ...
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Categories:
plaintively, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Raw Bits of Heavenly Tasty Healing Power
...Raw bits of heavenly tasty healing power...
Sown by Norwegian bachelor farmer
in tandem with baked powder milk biscuits
courtesy your guardian angel
(otherwise known as Matthew Scott)
Writes...
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Categories:
plaintively, allusion, blue, cry, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Stimulus Checkup Visited Mine Local Gastrointestinal Economy
...Stimulus check(up), visited mine local gastro-intestinal economy
Around high noon
today March 19th, 2021
fecal impaction I did plaintively croon
until effect courtesy amitiza, which
prescripti...
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Categories:
plaintively, abuse, betrayal, conflict, dark,
Form: Rhyme
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