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The Belly's Reign

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For Oliver’s: The Bard’s Birthday Contest
03/30/25

Julius Caesar – Act 1 Scene 2 Verse 190-195

Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond Cass...

Categories: plodder, appreciation,
Form: Burlesque

The Wandering Spirit

...Lost on us, this wayward spur
In the wanderer.
As vague to the mundane plodder
Hill-haunting; and o'er.

In his or her own element
Absorbs, in the free
Life. Hot or cold, unchangeably
Accepti...

Categories: plodder, freedom, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Big Cat Circle Slasher

...The reflex of ego is to go toe to toe with evil
the more mental bloodshed the better...
But ego is a sloppy plodder with ill-conceived plans.
its artwork is far from perfected.
Too often the vict...

Categories: plodder, anti bullying, cat,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Easy Sonnet

...I usually resort to cold sonnets
because of their easy convenience. 
This fact was discovered by sly poets
on days the muses were in denience, 

and all the good phrases refuse to come.
A sonne...

Categories: plodder, allusion,
Form: Sonnet

A Funny Thing, Perception

...A funny thing, perception
Up the hill towards twenty-one
The dawdling clock seems never to run
Only its movement belies deception

After twenty-five, an odd exchange
No pace of a sluggish plodd...

Categories: plodder, introspection, perspective, time,
Form: Quatrain

I Am Not An Eagle

...I Am Not an Eagle

Majestic, streamline,
bold symbol of power.
No way a fat, old guy
represents a country.

Soaring to great height,
the breeze his plaything.
I am a ground plodder,
gravity...

Categories: plodder, allegory, animal,
Form: Free verse

Deeply

...My body is shaking,
Hearing my own voice breaking,
Through my lungs,
Breathing hard,
My eyes see blur,
To the truth thats there.

Should put my guards high,
Not to trust no one but God,
I fe...

Categories: plodder, trust,
Form: Rhyme