Ronda Rondelet
...Ronda’s a town,
but this rondelet rankles still:
Ronda’s a town
(a placename is a Proper Noun).
Between Malaga and Seville,
you’ll hear the very sparrows trill,
Ronda’s a town.
Ronda exists,...
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Categories:
rankles, places,
Form: Rhyme
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome
...I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome...
Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor
nothing short of an imminent civil war
dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021
oddly enough e...
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Categories:
rankles, abuse, america, anger, animal,
Form: Free verse
BELLS
...
From the smallest of handbells to bells that are heavy,
bells of all types make a large bevy.
Small bells are often the tinkling kind
like decorative ones in some stores we find.
There are ...
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Categories:
rankles, analogy,
Form: Couplet
Unwritten Absence
...
She came into our lives unbidden,
A pleasant surprise,
Her open heart was never hidden
From her soulful eyes;
She won our hearts with her gentle love,
Always filled with grace...
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Categories:
rankles, dog, missing you, pets,
Form: Rhyme
Sally Doolally
...This is the story of Sally Doolally
A young maiden farmer from down in the valley
She kept a keen eye out for Thomas McNally
And dreamed of the day he would say, ‘Can we marry?’
Sally Doolally ...
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Categories:
rankles, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Sense of Reprieve
...yes madness no
i cannot -
hear
for all the talk talk ...
see
for the smile displays a horror
the
odoriferous stench
of the inevitable inimical political scientifical
is a rough toughie
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Categories:
rankles, language,
Form: Ballad
Purpose
...Purpose
By Sy Roth
Woke this morning to a sodden sky
Stretched to the limit of my arms
And could hear the crack of my back and the crick in my neck
To bespeak an existence.
I think.
Mean...
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Categories:
rankles, introspection,
Form: Free verse
The Golden Years
...Rain showers in the summer heat
Elevating the oppressive humidity rankles
The biggest reason it does not excite me,
It aggravates my painful arthritic ankles.
Old age would certainly not be compl...
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Categories:
rankles, age, humorous, hurt, old,
Form: Light Verse
Dereliction Possibly Fake News Read All About It
...Dereliction (possibly "FAKE NEWS") - read all about it!
2020 presidential election
already promises seat of pants suspense
hint of (post apocalyptic) coming attractions
see – https://www.aol.co...
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Categories:
rankles, abuse, anger, bullying, corruption,
Form: Free verse
A Birthday Letter
..._______
Well now this is sad and tragic
For both of us to hear
You and I at cross purposes
Ever our fate, my Dear
I just found your correspondence
Last letter that you sent
It was, I t...
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Categories:
rankles, lost love, love, pain,
Form: Rhyme
I Can Hardly Wait Reading Welter of Books
...I can hardly wait reading welter of books...
courtesy Karen Windle a gift horse
ponied up late afternoon May18th, 2020
over roan nay bore lee volition.
Unbeknownst how she raised (cane),
and ...
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Categories:
rankles, 12th grade, addiction, character,
Form: Free verse
Perfect Rhymes Do Not Poetry Make
...The larger the bird, the larger the turd
The bigger the tart, the louder the fart
The more beans he ate, the darker his fate
The more he drank, the more he stank
All the lines above rhyme...
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Categories:
rankles, how i feel, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Foremost On My Bucket List
...Foremost On My Bucket List?
Yo yo ma...though your absence
doth suddenly cause me woe,
no matter parting with
many bittersweet sorrows
long since consciousness unstrung
more'n fourteen plus y...
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Categories:
rankles, absence, anxiety, august, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Manifest
...Filthy fraud's wrong ride rankles...
Funny feigning felon...
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Categories:
rankles, allusion,
Form: Couplet
A Christmas Story From Germany
...‘Twas the night before Christmas in the little town of Oberflugelschweinsaxenmitcracklingewurst.
(There are some that are much longer; it isn’t the worst)
Now hier ist ze haus of ze happy family ...
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Categories:
rankles, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
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