Juxtapositions of Soul
...Sponsor : Regina Macintosh
submission : 2/7/25
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Categories:
pygmies, allusion, change, character, deep,
Form: Epic
Brainstorming until figuratively blue in the gills
...Brainstorming until figuratively blue in the gills...,
and finally gung-ho with a poem title
important to yours truly
not disappointing his Facebook fan base,
which electronic affirmation,
and c...
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Categories:
pygmies, absence, africa, animal, baby,
Form: Free verse
National Geographic Redux
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Watusis are not genetically modified organisms
neither are pygmies
~ which is the long and short of it
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Categories:
pygmies, africa, people, technology,
Form: Free verse
Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed
...Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed
made fibrous threads...constituting heavy blanket
(crocheted by the missus)
on a cool Autumn like morning...
to stave off experiencing get...
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Categories:
pygmies, analogy, animal, august, autumn,
Form: Free verse
I would like to again
...We climbed into the church, which hangs behind the village on the edge of a ravine/quarry and a meadow with frozen alfalfa.
It opens its mouth at us with every incoming twilight.
Door like when the...
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Categories:
pygmies, allusion, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Et and Other Poets
...The mind is a long walk home,
dinosaurs unnamable
litter the green turf
of our travels.
Reptiles shrink to birds,
the larger birds collapse like balloons
eventually running out of sky.
Lizar...
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Categories:
pygmies, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Oversexed Pygmies
...So now everyone's waiting for my sillies
Though at times I'd like write about lilies
Have a sensitive heart
On a love I'd embark
Instead of writing about oversexed pygmies...
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Categories:
pygmies, silly,
Form: Limerick
Wee People
...What's fair and right we oft dismiss
While clinging to our prejudice.
But biggest biases of all
Are aimed at us, the short and small.
What's tall or towers people praise,
But opposites get ...
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Categories:
pygmies, discrimination, growth, humor, hurt,
Form: Quatrain
I Am Rather Pygmyish
...I am rather pygmyish
Attitudinally challenged
Not an owl or a nuthatch
Which are supposed to be pygmies
I have no idea why I am down here
Closer to the five and six year olds
Maybe it is so ...
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Categories:
pygmies, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Tearthem For Their Bad Verses
...O Cinna man,where you gonna run to?
O Cinna man,where are you gonna hide?
What's with poetry which makes us all blue?
Your verses we can no longer abide
Most of us labour on the foothills of...
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Categories:
pygmies, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Oversexed Pygmies
...So now everyone's waiting for my sillies
Though at times I'd like write about lilies
Have a sensitive heart
On a love theme I'd embark
Instead of writing about oversexed pygmies...
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Categories:
pygmies, silly,
Form: Limerick
Clashes of Religion and Culture
...From the onset you become
The supernatural puppeteer behind power
The chieftain of the tycoons
The moral and immoral nous
The sheepherder of the multiverse
Why tenuring freudalism and captivity?...
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Categories:
pygmies, abuse,
Form: Narrative
Oversexed Pygmies
...So now everyone's waiting for my sillies
Though at times I'd like write about lillies
Have a sensitive heart
On a love theme I'd embark
Instead of writing about oversexed pygmies
© J...
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Categories:
pygmies, fun,
Form: Limerick
Villanelle: Who's Not Racist, Do Stand Not Up, Please
...Villanelle : Who’s not racist, do stand not up, please
for Piers Morgan & Anderson Cooper
Who’s not racist, do stand not up, please
Isn’t S/He who put us here the biggest
S/he who asked ...
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Categories:
pygmies, racism,
Form: Villanelle
Nakedness
...Dying piece by piece in shock –
a life without a mutiny.
Walking amidst blue kraits
you never raised the stick.
Of extinct possibilities in the night
of unmanned crossing-
the blood streaked globe g...
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Categories:
pygmies, art,
Form: ABC
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