Good, Isn't It?
...When Cheech and Chong evaluate,
they do not say, "this stuff is great."
A fly, too, expresses merriment
when landing on fresh excrement.
Using his best English diction,
he doesn't rankle, nor ca...
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Categories:
rankle, silly,
Form: Rhyme
The Worst Kind of Impossible
...
Simply say
yes
It’s all you need to say
yes in agreement to anything
if anything can have an agreement to
it would be better to be
beyond a doubt
so just say yes
and although the molehil...
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Categories:
rankle, riddle, truth,
Form: Free verse
Creativity
...The bible
our pure poetry
Divine voice
art -- gallery imagery
Father’s expanding palettes of time
space infinite –
shadows of unframed
formless canvas -- man's freedom
to light, sha...
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Categories:
rankle, christian, creation, imagination, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Cordolium
...Perhaps you're apathetic to my ministrations
fatigued by my futile attempts at suturing
the suppurating wounds inflicted by others
who came before me much like those I suffer
both of our spiri...
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Categories:
rankle, abuse, heart, hurt, love,
Form: Free verse
Battle With Impurity
...I forged a fistful lance for my battle.
I shield and fortified my faith whilst I forced my feeble to fracture..
My lance punctured my adversaries to fall..
I forbid fornication and forget my...
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Categories:
rankle, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
From a Childless Father
...None rankle me like a parent so blind,
he or she that see what they choose to see.
O readers, I beg of that rudest kind
must they breed so damn prolifically?
A time to be seen, a time to ...
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Categories:
rankle, children, parents,
Form: Sonnet
The Remote
...The remote
It was a terrible hallucination
an old hex came out of her grave and raped me
I was lame paralyzing fear she sat on top of me
and reeked of semen of a thousand men
left to rankle in...
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Categories:
rankle, cinderella, evil, flower,
Form: Sonnet
Convenience Afforded Microwave
...Especially one courteously wrapped ably
anonymously gifted to
an aspiring gourmet Chef Boyardee
i.e. not surprisingly... revealing mystery
person none other than...
yepper namely me.
Moost an...
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Categories:
rankle, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
They Rankle Me
...zealots annoy me, not much more to say other than, please go away...
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Categories:
rankle, how i feel, people,
Form: Monoku
Structures
...structures of our existence
rankle like fire spewed by a volcano
figurative patterns form by natures way
elements of destruction thought beautiful
mesmerize in formed flight...pathways labeled
...
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Categories:
rankle, inspiration,
Form: Blank verse
The Bane of Facebook Poetry Group Administrators
...This erstwhile avid poet stir "boy"
prone to hyperbole in a "man" newer
(manure) of writing about his foie
gras bulls, (which matter of fact
happen tubby Ruby red)
redirects his gripe, how
he...
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Categories:
rankle, anger, appreciation, courage, father,
Form: Free verse
Ad Hoc
...So, I still
have miles to go
and poems to save,
and time to rant and rave
and snort and shout
and let it all hang out.
I’ll fuss and fume and
act the part expected, ad hoc.
I'll smooth the ra...
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Categories:
rankle, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
The Restorative Power of Quality Sleep
...Asper sweaty palms,
and other physiological ills
nothing beats infusion of
spine tingling electrifying chills -
experiencing psychological nirvana,
(nope NOT even
prescription medication pill...
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Categories:
rankle, 12th grade, appreciation, dream,
Form: Bio
My Little Heart Is Heavy
...my little heart is heavy
with its burden of unspoken words
feelings needing expression
are not allowed to be freed
they remain in stately chambers
pampered and spoiled
to keep them complacent
...
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Categories:
rankle, emotions, fear, pain,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
To My New Grands and Great Grands, Et Al
...To Winkin’
Blinkin’
and of course nod.
In terms of
symmetry
prose and
shish kabob.
The tricks and twirls
and polar light;
the flip and flare and star
of kiddy sleepless night
can rip a...
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Categories:
rankle, love,
Form: Free verse
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