Call it Bazball or just Test Cricket
...We knew from the get go after Brendon accepted the call…jettisoned old school for new cool..the Kiwi on the balcony who looks like he’s smoked some bud..having a kip..let slip..quick to quip..almost ...
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Categories:
plumping, england, sports, summer,
Form: Rhyme
A Season of Smiles - Updated x2
...In January, the kaboom of fireworks
Redefining glitter above us: What if
The sky was pink, should purple rain besmirch us
Yet, don a cheer for New Year.
In February, the appearance of bouquets,...
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Categories:
plumping, appreciation, celebration, family, life,
Form: Free verse
Adored Lord Broad
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Let's applaud our
Adored Lord Broad
Fame and awards
Crossing swords &
Bossing visiting hordes
Name in the frame
On Lords boards
Cooing..wasn't it grand
Tanned boy with h...
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Categories:
plumping, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Vacation All I Ever Wanted
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Crystal waters plumping the honeydews
and cascading through amusement park ride.
As tourists engage in espionage
in Duckburg at Knottsbury farms.
As graves of self sufficiency,
Communes of ba...
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Categories:
plumping, art,
Form: Free verse
Plumping Iron
...An anxious tick anticipates a drop;
if it is thick, he knows he’ll have to stop.
But if it’s thin, a thought to make him smile:
plumped up again in just a little while…...
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Categories:
plumping, angst, insect,
Form: Quatrain
Cold Springs
...I was an army-brat town boy
of ten when we moved to the country.
I recall arriving in a village
called Cold Springs.
My dad bought
a century-old house
with five and a half acres.
But i...
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Categories:
plumping, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Lost September
...I lost September somewhere in the sadness
lost track of shadows in the sun
mourned not fading warmth nor shortened days
shivering in a crystal cloak of frost.
Lovers, sated on a Summer’s sweetn...
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Categories:
plumping, seasons, senses, sensual, september,
Form: Blank verse
Watching Raindrops Drop
...It's a beautiful day
For waving leaves to fall
A day for watching
Raindrops drop
It's a beautiful day
For apples to blush red
A day for plumping
Pumpkins, large and orange
It's a beaut...
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Categories:
plumping, autumn,
Form: Free verse
My Grandmother's Hands
...My Grandmother's Hands
My Grandmother's hands told many tales
Of scrubbing steps and broken nails
Hand-washing clothes in enamel sink
Red football socks turned white towels pink
When not bak...
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Categories:
plumping, age, grandmother, meaningful, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Absence
...My cells are plumping up
my mind in a cage
the absence so strong
it fills up my existence
hanging by a thread
the only thing that keeps me sane
a furry skin that touches mine and warms the
p...
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Categories:
plumping, absence,
Form: ABC
Fall Never Waits
...( FALL NEVER WAITS )
Grasping, gently, I feel you today,
Stingingly cold, you take my breath away,
The green hue is fading,fading quite fast,
But, Your Majesty pours colors that won't last.
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Categories:
plumping, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
A Poem of Trickery and Fun Lol
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Fat or skinny
Short or long
There is no way to go wrong
When their put inside your buns
It becomes a lot of fun
They can squirt stuff from inside
They are moist and sometimes dry
Plump...
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Categories:
plumping, funny, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
From the Parting Pages of Shakespare
...Long I left this room of rhymes
Where verses bought my pens
A Price-tool that seems priceless
But full of ink-prices-dress
Where a lord, a noble and a king
Read of the rhymes I bring;
Where t...
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Categories:
plumping, father, history, me, time,
Form: Narrative
Wistful Aging
...Age gracefully…that’s what I’ll do
Going to ignore the lines, how about you?
Inner beauty is what really counts
I happen to love my drooping mounts
Absolutely no Botox or fillers for me
Anothe...
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Categories:
plumping, passion, visionary, beauty, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Baby Shoes
...So cold…black cold…old cold,
wind burns through the cars broken window
as it speeds down the black ribbon into the onyx night.
Tears of cold seep
from the corners of my auburn lashes.
Th...
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Categories:
plumping, childhoodme,
Form: Narrative
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