The New Yorker
...The New Yorker is having a birthday –
It’s made it to one hundred years.
With each story, cartoon, poem or essay,
It’s jump-started many careers.
Despite what it’s called, you can buy it
At n...
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Categories:
prattles, appreciation, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Brownie
...Battered tattered
Worn and torn
Her joys and fears
Pain and tears
Throughout the years
Across the sands you helped her carry
Over water you helped her ferry
All her worry all her ca...
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Categories:
prattles, best friend, child,
Form: Rhyme
Lofty Doppler Trimeric
...Lofty phrases echo the quagmire,
labyrinthine there’s no easy exit;
Treading water but still feel I’ll sink,
intricacy leaves me meandering;
Labyrinthine, there’s no easy exit
for what prattle...
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Categories:
prattles, emotions, feelings,
Form: Other
Man wants
...The paradigm of endearment,
less expressed, less explained.
Our tales of delusion,
Prattles of “what ifs”.
What does a man want?
A healthier morning,
more loving than nights,
pointing const...
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Categories:
prattles, love, romance, romantic, romantic
Form: Free verse
Disassociating Dissonance
...Lost -
Through an Eagle's eye
Over Fields of plenty
Where rivers and creeks
Never run dry
But I can't feel it
Mountains rising up
Touching the pink, blue,
And rustic orange skies.
I just d...
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Categories:
prattles, depression, lost, mental health,
Form: Free verse
The Bargaining Wench
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Bustling Tavern, din of thieves,
prattles sounds, like mini battles
of Sorcery, at mosaic of vomit tapestry.
Endowing all sorts in your bosom
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Categories:
prattles, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Lament of An Unbiased Breeze From a War Field
...Cutest prattles of children I adore
Are now the loudest cries I bear
Oh, No! The grieves of these abandoned souls
The worst sounds I have ever heard
Mesmerizing songs of endemic ...
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Categories:
prattles, angst, conflict, soldier, war,
Form: Free verse
Tax Payment and Tax Payers
...This many guys dislike its mention
Including an owner of mansion,
From avowed lover walking away
And next time block his coming their way…
For even the steadfast tax payer
Regular payment not ...
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Categories:
prattles, business, hate, integrity, people,
Form: Rhyme
Empty Nest
...Time crawled silently on soft paws.
After years of anxious waiting,
Our little nest became alive,
With childish pranks and prattles
Two adorable boys ran round playfully,
Making our...
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Categories:
prattles, absence, home, how i
Form: Free verse
His Bona Fides Unstained
...Mr. John Kerry is not to blame
As he prattles on about climate change --
"Much more important!" he warns, "than Ukraine"
Thus keeping his woke bona fides unstained --
Forgett...
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Categories:
prattles, humor, rain, satire, sick,
Form: Rhyme
The Patrol
...We booked on the radio as was the way
And out the station we drove away
The radio prattles its continual banter
As we policed the streets at a slow canter
There were disturbances some loud but ...
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Categories:
prattles, life,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Madness Changes All
...the earth cannot live without mad!-
someone said
the earth is alive for the madness of her dwellers
I say
sometimes I think –everyone is mad
in breathing, in speaking, in writing
in walking...
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Categories:
prattles, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
My Blood Runs In You
...Suddenly I came like a wrecking ball
Breaking all the bonds that binds your soul
I’m like the earth, the wind and the rain
Washing away your pains in pain
You couldn’t help the afflicted because ...
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Categories:
prattles, africa, beautiful, strength,
Form: Free verse
Pretty Talker
...I watch her lipstick mouth; it never stops
its movement as she prattles on and on.
And now another famous name she drops,
her daddy’s latest client, known as John
by only his close friend...
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Categories:
prattles, woman,
Form: Sonnet
The Withered Dream
...Darkness, darkness everywhere
Like a warm blanket in winter
Like the shell of an oyster
Darkness, white and grey and blue and red
Darkness makes me wildly mad
The old banyan tree has ...
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Categories:
prattles, age, loneliness, old,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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