Changing Tack
...Enrolling as a pirate is much harder than it seems,
You’ll need to speak in present tense and chase your wildest dreams.
Well, once you’ve trained a parrot and been measured for your hook,
You ha...
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Categories:
pulleys, anger, boat, endurance, pollution,
Form: Rhyme
Eat All You Want
...Chinese trollers
Cranes and pulleys motor oil saliva
Fishhook cockroach antennas dipped to the oceans
Thousands of sailing creepy crawlers
Bandits with razors
Cross the boundless seas
Devours...
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Categories:
pulleys, abuse, betrayal, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse
butterfly messengers
...from above a hum, a gentle pop and they appear out of thin air
large as Right whales out of the sky they pour in like colorful dreams
gliding down on papered metal wings, the airborne clan desce...
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Categories:
pulleys, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
BELOW AND ABOVE THE SEAS SURF FACE
...BELOW AND ABOVE THE SEAS SURF FACE
Gone are the fishers pulling Lugs; the Gull its gizzard rusty hooked;
and barbed, limit its shelled Limpet supply as blown sand creeps;
smart gulls dunk and d...
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Categories:
pulleys, beach, fish, fishing, sea,
Form: Free verse
Changing gears
...When mankind has been using gears, levers and pulleys,
For thousands of years,
To speed things up,
Or slow things down,
To make it possible to take heavier loads uphill,
And to go faster on stra...
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Categories:
pulleys, 9th grade, addiction, america,
Form: Carpe Diem
UNDERBELLIES
...UNDERBELLIES
What underbelly is this
containing quiet grasping greed for
my magical sword gifted to me by St Michael ?
What underbelly is this that
deciphers my Heart thro...
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Categories:
pulleys, 12th grade, courage, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Lillith's Passing
...What is it called?
When thousands of bats
Come pouring out the mouth of a cave
For the black gold of sunset?
Like that
The late autumn leaves tear from their branches
In a spooky warm gale
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Categories:
pulleys, appreciation, autumn, death, earth,
Form: Free verse
Chicken Gullet Destiny
...CHICKEN GULLET DESTINY
(or "The Trouble With Radishes")
The memory of things that will be
usually fades into the haunting melody
of a life reduced to picking the easy fruit
of future h...
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Categories:
pulleys, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
On Words
...Let me speak of words
Those machines of evil!
The cogs and pulleys of influence,
drumbeats of the longest march
called the human endeavor
First heard as motherese,
later teaching the ABC'...
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Categories:
pulleys, wisdom, words,
Form: Free verse
Today - a Bit Rude
...I’m not a great fan of metric
A system of which I am sceptic
To the young it’s ethereal
But I learned imperial
And so I still speak it...
Today
I went down to the hardware store
I’d better...
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Categories:
pulleys, allusion, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Goodbye and Good Riddance Former Ersatz Trumpeting President
...Joseph Robinette Biden
now commander in chief yay
manning ship of state
tossing anchors aweigh
heavily pierced tattooed
donning sheepish pirate(s)
at heady roiling waterway
fending off trollin...
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Categories:
pulleys, 12th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme
Yobos and Bullies
...To those who harrass; the yobos we call bullies
I'd gladly string you up by the seat of your woolies
Then from a barn rafter
You would hear my laughter
While swinging overhead from ropes and pull...
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Categories:
pulleys, bullying,
Form: Limerick
The Clock
...Gramps had a Sunday rite,
It was quiet, perhaps trite.
In his chalice a Bloody Mary,
As solemn as a seminary.
Took the goblet and a crank,
To his great Big Ben clock.
Slowly wound as he dran...
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Categories:
pulleys, dad, daughter, granddaughter, grandson,
Form: Rhyme
Bully On the Pulley
...Only Bullies are pulleys pulling people down to pride themselves up
to the mountains high, for better view of our sky.
I’d rather lower myself for love to be lifted
since love is low because bully...
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Categories:
pulleys, abuse, bullying, for teens,
Form: Verse
Morning Musing
...I remember that day
a early spring day
cold snow melted away
and grass turning green
long cold winter gone
days of shivering cold
dormant brown grass lay not
beneath crystal blanket cold...
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Categories:
pulleys, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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