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Last Words

...Let's be kind with our words and the hearts of others. Live, love and learn. No regrets. Blessings. 

Last words
By Michelle Morris
08/05/2023

If these are our last words
Let them be words of...

Categories: play down, break up, heart, love,
Form: Lyric

Funkalicious

...There once lived a prankster; that was a skunk
Dressed like an elephant with a huge  trunk
'Till one day there's a loud yell-
"What's that horrendous smell ?"
That poor fella could not play down ...

Categories: play down, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Uncle Sam

...Sam, Sam, the drunken man
Hiccup, hiccup, stagger
Sprayed by the skunk again
Stench replaces swagger

Uncle is a rebel
Standards sinking lower
His Lust rings the death knell
Evil hands him ov...

Categories: play down, america, bible, faith, judgement,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Music

...It’s a sweet sound an artist makes
That we receive wave after wave. 
But it’s never made much sense to me
Why a track changes how people behave. 
After all, it’s just music. 

I’ve heard it’s a...

Categories: play down, romance,
Form: Free verse

A Critical Review

...You get to have a life review when you die -
or so I am told.
The hope of a do-over has me living here still
on this tiny blue planet on the far edge of nowhere,
with the thought of endless secon...

Categories: play down, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Waiting For Olaf

...When I was three or four
I asked my mom whether snowflakes are true
Hearing they are not to us
My heart sank in deep sorrow dust

I see on TV snow falls on land
I also watched until I could sta...

Categories: play down, beautiful, change, cry, fate,
Form: Rhyme

Bigots Assumers and Wallies

...Your nose looks like it’s avoiding the smell coming up from your toes, you stick it in my business assume half the show and there you go ranting in an unctuous fashion slideshow of passion as you sta...

Categories: play down, anger,
Form: Rhyme

As You Wish

...When we were young my parents would take us
Every spring to run and play down the forest
Lined lane.
Now when they come our dad has his arm
Wrapped around our mom and he uses a cane.
Our father ...

Categories: play down, appreciation, beauty, care, education,
Form: Kyrielle

Theatre

...How exciting, it’s getting closer, 
The night is almost here,
For the play that’ll play the play that’s written,
By our favourite Will Shakespeare.

There’ll be rage then shock to fear to sad,
...

Categories: play down, confusion, psychological,
Form: Quatrain

Rainy Night Spills

...When rainfall spills on crystal night, 
The damp brick halls and lamps' soft light
Make me slip-slide though I’m alone 
Into  the lanes of cobblestone, 
Allowing free movement  on flight....

Categories: play down, joy, rain,
Form: Rondeau

Elections

...Elections yield 

idiosyncratic bloodthirsty gods, demons, lemons, liars, and fleas
full of prayers
that most are just tricks in twists and turns
of emptiness 
that only endeavor to veil the ro...

Categories: play down, political, words,
Form: Free verse

Ps Play Down

...a

foot note

in music...

Categories: play down, music
Form: Light Verse