Garrulous Gary
...garrulous Gary never pauses for breath
his blabbing with prattling will cause his death
he will hear a murderer sneak
for all Gary does is speak, speak, speak, speak, speak...
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Categories:
prattling, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
My Decrepit Deserted Home
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"Though old and dilapidated, one's dear home can never be empty. It will be full of memories- sweet and sour- a snapshot out of time that talks aloud of happy memories. Even amid the hovering gloom...
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Categories:
prattling, destiny, home, old,
Form: Free verse
Planet in pluvial fluvial flux
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Planet in flux…it sucks
No refuge..Scrooge rules..
Stooges subterfuge deluge..
Fossil fuel fools..
Poleaxes..then relaxes…
As the earth burns..
As it turns..on its axis..
*****...
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Categories:
prattling, nature, planet, pollution,
Form: Free verse
In Practice - Feb 24
...The present prince of Prussia prances proudly
With preaching priests, while prattling proles suppress
The primal pressure to prank the pretext
Of proper praise for the precious primate....
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Categories:
prattling, funny, humor, humorous, pride,
Form: Alliteration
Taming the Nightmare
...April Brooks was four years old, prattling a blue streak, like comets;
Or backwards walking time, seizing swiftly, days of golden promise.
April lived with parents and older sister, in th...
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Categories:
prattling, fantasy, imagery, love, mother,
Form: Couplet
Dusty Box of Memories
..."Photographs escort us to hidden recesses of memory and bring before us rare moments lost in time"... By Poet
Flitting through the pages of an old album,
Picked up from an abandoned dusty box,
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Categories:
prattling, home, i miss you,
Form: Free verse
Sappho Translations XI
...Sappho Translations XI by Michael R. Burch
Sappho, fragment 92
translation by Michael R. Burch
“Sappho, if you don’t leave your room,
I swear I’ll never love you again!
Get out of bed, ris...
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Categories:
prattling, beauty, clothes, flower, god,
Form: Free verse
The Farce Of Law
...Posters painted
By law tainted
Rosaries rattling
Prayers prattling
Police swoop
Spirits droop
Whisked away
Because they pray
For children unborn
Innocent lives shorn
In abortion clinics
Co...
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Categories:
prattling, children, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Smell of Fear - Collaboration
...Alien talk I can’t understand
A Pifflewig performed a handstand
He verbalised through his ass
Gross putrid wind he did pass
Like many blokes throughout the land!
I farted, perhaps ...
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Categories:
prattling, humorous, space,
Form: Limerick
Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult
...Inferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult
Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil nec...
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Categories:
prattling, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Friday May 13th 2022
...Friday May 13th, 2022
An excerpt taken from a lengthy tome,
written courtesy a favorite poet of mine.
Paraskevidekatriaphobia struck within a blink,
I swear yours truly never took a drink,
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Categories:
prattling, atheist, dark, destiny, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Gangly Longfellow Walled In Thoreau and Thru
...Gangly Longfellow walled in Thoreau and thru...
Well stocked with
wordsworth lxiii numbered yesteryear
born as predicted by
bubba's zayda longtime seer
while in utero premier
ultrasound detec...
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Categories:
prattling, adventure, appreciation, confusion, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult Part One
...Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil necked geek),
prattling wordsmith doth behold
nostalgic memories...
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Categories:
prattling, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Some Sounds
...Some sounds are
sinewy toes scratching drum skins,
a pigeon shuffle-dance on unseen roofs,
a clatter in the flap and coo.
Rose bushes are mute,
until they have lost their heads
then they sque...
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Categories:
prattling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Hero
...The virtue was being wronged, depicted his woeful tale of prey and innocence.
Gradually people gathered to listen to the poignant rhetoric.
blown away by the felon's aching, awful narration;
pit...
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Categories:
prattling, betrayal, character, crazy, devotion,
Form: Burlesque
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