Happily Ever After
...Once upon a time long gone …
The reigning queen let out a yawn,
And stood up from her regal throne
To trample down the hall alone
She ripped the crown from out her hair
And flung it out the wi...
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Categories:
rafter, fantasy, goodbye, happiness, happy,
Form: Rhyme
Rooty eclipses Sachin's sun
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Let's toot & salute
Folks our bespoke bloke
Having a hoot..
Bearing fruit loot
English cricketing oak
Celestial extra terrestrial Groot
Can't be snooty about tutti fruity
Rooty's booty o...
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Categories:
rafter, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Tears Of A Clown
...Against a willowy wailing backdrop of inner chaos,
an indignant incendiary mask stifles the simmering cauldrons,
of a stoic stage clown post lachrymose performance wearily stunning yet stung,
or t...
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Categories:
rafter, angst, anxiety, august, confusion,
Form: Free verse
How do you find your loved ones once you get to heaven
...How do you find your loved ones once you get to the hereafter?
How do you navigate your way through the billions of souls
who fill heaven from floor to rafter?
Will an angel come and take you by t...
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Categories:
rafter, death, family, friend, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
A Bird's Eye View
...A little bird has flown the nest
to seek a world of wonder
and spreads her wings 'neath skies possessed
by lightning bolts and thunder.
She flee...
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Categories:
rafter, war, world,
Form: Rhyme
Sky of Fireflies
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In a dark sapphire night's trance
Flirtatious banter romance
Bright ray light fireflies upward dance,
Amorous scene within heaven's light
Others ignite on steeple leaves
To the moon's song in ...
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Categories:
rafter, nature,
Form: Rhyme
KRAMPUS CHRISTMAS
...KRAMPUS CHRISTMAS
All hope is lost for children
If their festive spirit dies,
The Christmas magic disappears
As they look through older eyes.
No more milk and cookies
Or a sign for Santa`s ...
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Categories:
rafter, christmas, dark, evil, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
old witch rescues Halloween
...Halloween was having a bad week said the rafter.
no trick-or-treating, no candy, no laughter
He does not want to show himself this year
no masks, no costumes, understand my dear?
Old witch was ...
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Categories:
rafter, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
My Dream Girl
...My dream girl's not a doll, no Kewpie cutie,
Or an heiress, or an actress on the screen.
She's neither nun nor acrobat,
Nor wears fine feathers in her hat,
No frump for Trump Republican,
No beau...
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Categories:
rafter, dream, humor, imagination, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Awaking from Stupor- POTD
...Like a rafter that broke under the weight it bore
Like a pupa, wound hard in a tight bind,
Like the torn pages of a book thrown into waste,
I felt trapped and broken and my life seemed...
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Categories:
rafter, endurance, heartbroken, introspection, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Giving Turkey
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rafter bred for food
a family torn apart ~
turkey putt and yelp...
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Categories:
rafter, animal, bird, family, farm,
Form: Senryu
death of art
...The Death of Art
He was an artist, a painter spending much of his time
in his mother's garage painting when not out drinking with his many friends who were art lovers too, although some were hang...
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Categories:
rafter, anger, anti bullying, bird,
Form: Blank verse
The Drug
...A notable writer in the literary Norwegian firmament was Jens Bjornebo who was the leading radical star
outspoken and a perfect spokesman for modern times in
the sixties and seventies.
Jens, let'...
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Categories:
rafter, anti bullying, anxiety, corruption,
Form: Blank verse
Rhapsody In Blue - a Musical Translation Into Words
...RHAPSODY IN BLUE (A Musical Translation into Words)
In the heart of the city, where steel and glass arise,
A melody awakens, a sapphire in disguise,
It's a symphony, a rhapsody, in shades of p...
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Categories:
rafter, love,
Form: Free verse
Satirical Euphony
...SATIRICAL: SATIRIZED EUPHONY
Hissed her path to say No
As amulet dangled on her' dandled
Tis so sweet to trail the forlorn
As no help came to a hearty hut
On the rafter was a treasure kept
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Categories:
rafter, character,
Form: Free verse
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