Planet in pluvial fluvial flux
...
Planet in flux…it sucks
No refuge..Scrooge rules..
Stooges subterfuge deluge..
Fossil fuel fools..
Poleaxes..then relaxes…
As the earth burns..
As it turns..on its axis..
*****...
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Categories:
ratchets, nature, planet, pollution,
Form: Free verse
Funny You Say Feminism
...Cultured, refined, and polished gentlemen?
A thing
of the past.
Vulgar, brash, and shameless hooligans?
Welcome
to the modern cool.
Elegant, demure, and graceful women?
Controlled,
impr...
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Categories:
ratchets, beauty, family, silly, society,
Form: Free verse
Useless Emotions
...I took a course to manage stress
When I began to teach,
A goal which seemed impossible
And which I’ve yet to reach.
Yet there was just one thing I learned
Which makes a lot of sense –
Regret...
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Categories:
ratchets, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Smoke
...Have you ever gone out to the garage, slid behind the wheel of that Bowtie, twisted the key and lit off that big Rat …
Rolled out to the middle of the culdesac, two clicks down into low, left foot o...
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Categories:
ratchets, car,
Form: Free verse
Schvitzing For More N Sixty Hours Without Electricity
...Schvitzing for more'n sixty hours without electricity
(visit https://www.aol.com/?ncid=
crosssellusaolc00000003 - for further details)
Courtesy rare derecho
killed four people
nearly forty eig...
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Categories:
ratchets, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Automobile Blues Fuels Exhausting Lament
...Automobile blues fuels exhausting lament...
Indicator light signaling door(s) ajar
least significant issue concerning
2009 Hyundai Sonata car
applauded craftsmanship darn exemplar,
thus said v...
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Categories:
ratchets, 12th grade, analogy, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Uneasy Mantra of Brinkmanship
...Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces
(INF) Treaty nixed, asper (gasp) infinite
wisdom (quite unsettling) trumpeting
commander in chief de facto gave green
light, thus signals fasttrack, sans ar...
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Categories:
ratchets, 12th grade, blue, crush,
Form: Political Verse
Email To Republican Bob Corker
...lemme git down to figurative and virtual brass tacks
and risk introducing this veritable unknown citizen,
who feels Trump stacks
odds against supposedly “making America great again” -
...
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Categories:
ratchets, anxiety, dark, environment, evil,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Screened-In Porch
...The thunder booms; the rain, it pours.
We're half inside and half outdoors.
A screened-in porch brings Nature close
But not enough to overdose.
And so we sit and mix our tiles*
As Nature ratch...
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Categories:
ratchets, home,
Form: Rhyme
Trees Talking
...A widescreen angle of a steel rimmed fish is rumored to be rhymed with the stark motionless spectacles which are glimmering on the small oak table akin to spare ratchets or a rusted piece of metal. I...
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Categories:
ratchets, blessing,
Form: I do not know?
Poem Xxii - Chameleon
...Black. White. Blue. Pink. Orange. I'll blend in. Tall, short, cold, warm. I'll blend in. She likes to remain calm, she likes to scream or maybe even lean. I'll blend in. People always playing cautiou...
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Categories:
ratchets, adventure, girl, lust,
Form: Free verse
Just Around the Bend
...Just Around the Bend…
by Odin Roark
Make-believe knows
Hand in hand
Guardian and child
Never ceases to be
As words meet words
Sentences find paragraphs
Pages turn new disco...
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Categories:
ratchets, faith, endurance,
Form: Free verse
The Last Time Part 2
...She pounds the door once, as hard as she can with her fist;
Mugging, trying to see through her watery eyes, the mist.
She hesitates... then walks in like someone who won't admit defeat;
As she takes ...
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Categories:
ratchets, abuse, addiction, cry, fear,
Form: I do not know?
Anger
...Born passive
Anger born with clashes
With people never indured poverty but act like they grew up in poor
classes
Screamin clap $hit where in the middle class yo ass sits
My own cousin question...
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Categories:
ratchets, life, people, urban, me,
Form: Lyric
Breaking Glass
...Razor-ed Pain
stroked into might
heaving a scream
throwing respite
Aches to be bleed
wound turning green
mauling a body
who’s insides reamed
Soaked into rags
misery Dazzled
break in...
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Categories:
ratchets, imagination
Form: Rhyme
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