As a submissive and passive lad
...As a submissive and passive lad...
and boyish looking sexagenarian
with similar disposition,
I revel(ed) reading in general
(and spent carefree idle summer days
squirreled away with tomes
of ...
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Categories:
plodded, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
HO HO WHOA Second Chance algorithm drawing for January 17, 2025
...HO HO WHOA Second Chance algorithm drawing for January 17, 2025
No matter I kept fingers and toes crossed,
and waited with bated breath since January 2, 2025
even converted from skeptic to ortho...
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Categories:
plodded, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
plodded, memory,
Form: Rhyme
38th Milestone!
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All by HIS Grace and Mercy till today on the 38th door,
The twain souls set in with their third soul,
And their journey to progress in HIS Will is blessed.
Their first step looked simple but wit...
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Categories:
plodded, family, marriage, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Cock Robin's Song
...I was a capable, urban professional, quite eagerly living the high life;
Like pink robin, of the saffron noon zenith, afore shadows bloom rife.
My daily work was very challenging, and it ...
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Categories:
plodded, bird, fantasy, home, morning,
Form: Couplet
Cheese Wars
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I followed milky and mouldy scents,
down cobbled and narrow paths,
only to see it riddled with rats,
feasting on Feta and Camembert,
whilst the wine sipping Uppers prepared to
clash against th...
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Categories:
plodded, allusion, conflict, society,
Form: Free verse
Dicing with Death
...“Death, life’s old nemesis, comes unbidden.”
~ Quote by poet
It was a soft knock barely discernible
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Categories:
plodded, death,
Form: Free verse
I also feel blase today February 19th 2024
...I also feel blasé today February 19th, 2024
Linkedin to being lax,
and shirking house cleaning tasks,
which negligence cost us
(yours truly and the missus)
a golden opportunity
to relocate to...
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Categories:
plodded, angel, appreciation, blessing, crazy,
Form: Free verse
A Hospital Vision
...Dusk was growing into the night.
She moaned in pain and boredom.
She looked upwards towards the window.
Seemed dirty, she thought.
Headstrong, she turned on her side.
In a sitting position, s...
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Categories:
plodded, sick,
Form: Free verse
Muck Spreading
...This was the way it was
In my childhood days
With ancient and tried
Crop farming ways.
Up to the ankles in slurry,
Muck fork in hand,
Ready to spread manure
To fertilise the land.
No tractor ...
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Categories:
plodded, farm, father, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Billy Bulsons Farm
...My mam used to clean at Billy Bulson’s farm,
A magical place of mystery and charm,
With geese that cackled and hissed and every day.
Without my mam I’d have run away
As they charged with flapping...
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Categories:
plodded, childhood, happiness, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Desert Noon
...Burger and fries
At a roadside stand
Constant buzzing of the flies
Under an angry yellow sun
The mustard dripped down from the hamburger
Onto her brand new dress
She stared down at it
Wh...
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Categories:
plodded, angst,
Form: Free verse
Bandits From the Woods Nursery Rhyme
...
Always together, they played
Never alone, lost or afraid,
They trudged through the woods
And all the surrounding neighborhoods,
Piercing the darkness with shiny flames,
Their eyes neve...
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Categories:
plodded, animal, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Backbones Rising
...I saw them,
there were so many
young and old
sick and broken
a sea of black bodies
hunched over
and shuffling through
a thick dense fog
of worry and bewilderment
their he...
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Categories:
plodded, america, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Heart-Shaped Clouds
...Clouds playing around
In the sky tramping above the ground
Dangling in merry-go-round
Smiling at you year-round
One cloud zoomed outbound
Glittering ice flakes fall in mound
Flowers and trees...
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Categories:
plodded, dance, happiness, heart, imagery,
Form: Monorhyme
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