The Pied Piper
...I just want to live while I am alive,
I want you to get me out of this witless dive,
I want to drive through my memories,
You are not my subservient appetite.
I want to read you until you are a...
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Categories:
quibbles, anxiety, depression, psychological, riddle,
Form: Rhyme
Kibbles and Bits
...There’s simply no quibbles;
my dogs love their kibbles.
There’s really not much else to say.
In an instant, they’re gone,
reappear on the lawn,
changed a bit in the usu...
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Categories:
quibbles, dog, food,
Form: Rhyme
Ho Hum’s Quadrant
... Quiet quibbles with silence and hushed wind’s quackery.
Have nonsensical need for an ice cold daiquiri.
Chicanery of leafy season, coursing slowly,
before its blustery countermand u...
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Categories:
quibbles, seasons,
Form: Couplet
Helen Steiner Rice
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Writing with peace about the Avenger
She assembled words of worship
Simplicity filled her pages
Writing with perseverance for the Builder
She bumbled with joyful jubilance
With truth, sh...
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Categories:
quibbles, dedication, inspiration, poetess,
Form: Verse
A Girl With Poor Handwriting
...As The Note-Taking Girl scribbles
And absentmindedly quibbles
Her fingers are animated wriggles
Churning out eccentric squiggles:
Letters of Ever Clumsy Angles,
One like a creeper that tangles,...
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Categories:
quibbles, care, child, education, words,
Form: Rhyme
Acquittal Clock
...warrant humaneness
It's all surgeon bludgeon
equanimity stratagem
unfazed by quibbles
coarse aqueous colander
a memory pillow
bled to venture
perplexed spuriousness
throb gr...
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Categories:
quibbles, analogy, character, judgement, voice,
Form: Other
Quibbles
...I.
There's more to me than they say,
And less to me than I thought. ...
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Categories:
quibbles, 12th grade, character, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Quizzicality
...Quite
Quickly,
Quirky quotes
Quell quarrelsome
Quips.
Quash
Quibbles
Quietly,
Quench querulous
Qualms.
3/ 12/ 2019....
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Categories:
quibbles, humor, word play,
Form: Lanterne
The Quest
...None keeps its inventory
But it creeps into a story
A story of a modern society
Which is plural in nature;
Partly of a rural nurture
Partly of an urban stature
Yet must remain together
Lest it...
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Categories:
quibbles, africa, betrayal, community, conflict,
Form: Narrative
Quibbles Quashed
...Quite quickly, quirky quotes quell quarrelsome questions quietly.
12/ 9/ 2015....
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Categories:
quibbles, peace,
Form: Alliteration
Estuary
...Tidal flats reveal their light grey heads
They replacing green-grey sea in dots and dashes on the horizon,
They toy cheekily with the extracted tide, enjoying their dry sun bathing
An island of gi...
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Categories:
quibbles, sea,
Form: List
Memory
...Raging
The sea moves rapidly,
My mind does not
Move at all,
Gray feelers into the fog
Through the mist beyond,
Dew drops over my hands
And onto my cold feet,
Nothing equates as muc...
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Categories:
quibbles, life,
Form: Free verse
Behold My Pen
...Behold my pen
that writes and scribbles
and bleeds blue ink
in drips and dribbles.
That crosses paper
in bites and nibbles
and weighs my thoughts
in spite of quibbles.
Words as strange as...
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Categories:
quibbles, allusion, appreciation, beauty, creation,
Form: Quatrain
The Gods
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`The 112th congress quibbles, fickle, frizzing, drizzle of dubious dribble, while we wait, …on the sick, fickle, trickle of dribble ,from their quibbles of fizzling sizzle.
For and In Ho...
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Categories:
quibbles, funny,
Form: Alliteration