The Journey
...He always brought the subject up at the most inappropriate time, usually when someone was trying to kill us.
Are you a believer now?
If I get out of this, I’ll think about it. We got out of it....
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Categories:
prosy, death, faith, god, war,
Form: Free verse
Meter Minding
...Poets count on fingies
To get the meter right.
Scribes of prosy thingies,
In randomness delight....
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Categories:
prosy, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Hp Lovecraft
...H.astily I traipse “amidst these tombs,” “untainted eye…”
P.reparing the way for the “hidden world of yore.”
Luring lovers in, “lost Nevermore…”
“O’er the midnight moorlands crying,”
Verily to ...
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Categories:
prosy, appreciation, celebration, feelings, growth,
Form: Acrostic
Ode of Famine
...A prosy prose for deity to mourn,
As the hunger stricken wobbles the ground.
Oh! the old retinues that feed besides our ribs.
Come again with their unbearable tax payers,
While the labourers' st...
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Categories:
prosy, society,
Form: Blank verse
Teachers Hate Cheaters
...An English teacher named Rosie
Thought one of her pupils was dozy
He’d cribbed off the web
From a man in Zagreb
The language he’d used was too prosy!
In false glory he’d tried to...
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Categories:
prosy, humorous, school,
Form: Limerick
Week 1 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Jack Gilbert'
...A Brief For The Defense
Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies
are not starving someplace, they are starving
somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils.
But we enjoy our lives...
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Categories:
prosy, joy, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Old Houses of Charlottenburg
...betroth yourselves
to old houses of Charlottenburg
let yourselves be mollycoddled
by the petrified rain king
buy yourselves a shiny armour
of a former seraphim
call yourselves bourgeois,
dear...
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Categories:
prosy, dream, imagery, surreal,
Form: Free verse
An Apologetic Prosy
...There was a time, when I felt totally undesirable
unjustifiably [I now know] and you being in your infancy
felt so.. un-understood, writhing in a man’s body, seemingly a child
with the heart ...
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Categories:
prosy, growing up, love, time,
Form: Free verse