Grandpa the Master Magician
...Grandpa the Master Magician
Grandpa was old and creaked
like a well-worn floorboard
but he always carried a smile with him
which generally won the day or the situation.
He had just spent time ...
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Categories:
queuing, fun, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
The Dance of Jealousy
...
Daisy danced the wild dance of jealousy
Her dancing was her revenge weaponry
She did the can-can
To excite her man
Whom she had caught enjoying revelry.
She had been queuing at the ...
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Categories:
queuing, anger, dance, jealousy,
Form: Limerick
Tic Tac Toe
... *This poem will make more sense to Americans
who watched t.v. in the 1970’s
TIC TAC TOE
the board real tidy. today Tiger would hold
together the family photo. how old the queu...
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Categories:
queuing, america,
Form: Free verse
Queuing the Doing
...QUEUING THE DOING
Who would care what people write
It’s what they really do that matters
Despite the fancy poetic metaphors
Nor thinking it may give one pause
Fearing one’s words are all in ta...
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Categories:
queuing, words, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Life
...When the dead become insane
The tramps the down, the ill-arranged
The junkies burning over flames
The fools who couldn’t be renamed
Where do they go to shoot the light
Eat the bread
Kill the ni...
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Categories:
queuing, deep, irony,
Form: Free verse
Thursday Memory
...Shop bells tinkling from eight 'til late
queuing customers having to wait;
Thursday,closing at noon
opportunity to court and spoon.
Collection boxes built into walls,
gossiping ladies in their...
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Categories:
queuing, life, nostalgia,
Form: Bio
Homeless
...Homeless
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh what fun to decorate
The Christmas tree today
Hanging coloured baubles
Plugging in the lights
Hoping that the fuse box
Doesn't ...
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Categories:
queuing, blessing, change, community, december,
Form: Rhyme
British Traits That Ain'T So Great
...We as British people are known around
the world for our own individual traits
Such as we are supposed to be and
thought of as polite
Love ever so saying and apologizing
for anything and ever...
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Categories:
queuing, slam,
Form: Free verse
A Sombre Reality
...Floods, earthquakes, hunger,
Worldwide strife,
Severe drought, dire thirst
Reality becomes apparent.
To stay alive
And to survive,
For many, will perish.
Humanity will be rationed,
Life as w...
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Categories:
queuing, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Fans and Swindlers Issues
...It barely vanquishes my quenchless spirit of inquiry.
To what exactly reason have I sledded so wildly?
Boasters and swindlers sprang up a treaty vigorously.
People are queuing to sw...
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Categories:
queuing, analogy, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
On the Outer Edges of Space
...Some say there are aliens living on the frontiers of space
Who've traveled beyond the boundaries of the known universe
Gotten very near the gates of heaven, spoken face to face
With God in their...
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Categories:
queuing, god, space, travel, universe,
Form: Terza Rima
King of the Jungle
...King of the Jungle
Queuing with my homies
Houdinis every one.
No sharpened tongues, but scissors,
To calm the shaggy throng
Not all blokes in this queue,
Despite lockdown's grooming bloo...
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Categories:
queuing, hair,
Form: Rhyme
Neurons
...I’ve sat here all night just trying to write
But nothing would spring from my brain
I looked in my mind and what did I find
I think that I’m slightly insane
I’ve been unaware of things that li...
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Categories:
queuing, nonsense, surreal, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Ink To Paper An Un Quatrainal 19nov17
...On an empty page, my quill
Does not sit to quench
Its thirst to lessen this quandary
To let, nay make, quintessential
Inroads, biding thy quiver
Of lexiconical bolts; queuing
And firing for...
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Categories:
queuing, inspiration, metaphor, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse
The Night
...Leaping light in dull darkness
Moonlight mambo in nightfall nets
Mediative minds in spurring spaces
Vocal visions in vacant vicinities
Enlightened eyes in doubtful decisions
Queuing quietness in...
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Categories:
queuing, beautiful, feelings, night, silence,
Form: Free verse
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