The Answers Rebuffed
Can you own the present,
while renting the past
Can you steal back the truth,
from the future at last
Will the reasoned excuse,
ever be reason enough
For all questions to merge
—with the answers rebuffed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)
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Categories:
rebuffed, time,
Form: Rhyme
The Answers Rebuffed
Can you own the present,
while renting the past
Can you steal back the truth,
from the future at last
Will the reasoned excuse,
ever be reason enough
For all questions to merge,
with the answers rebuffed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2106)
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Categories:
rebuffed, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Rebuffed
It was a first trip to Europe for Maiden Hews
Who was shocked by the statues of nudes.
She thought it a sin
To show so much skin
Some of which obviously struck her as news.
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Categories:
rebuffed, humor,
Form: Limerick
Parable of the Rodent Rebuffed
His offer of friendship and close affinity derided,
disowned as a kin by the bat, the rebuffed rat retorted:
"Snobbish acrobat, you're so rude, unschooled in civility;
with nocturnal queers like you I hate to have affinity.
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Categories:
rebuffed, parody
Form: Rhyme
Rebuffed Rodent's Lessons
His offer of friendship and close affinity derided,
Insultingly disowned as a kin by the bat, the rat said:
"Snobbish acrobat, you're so rude,
unschooled in civility;
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Categories:
rebuffed, animals, life, people,
Form: Tail-rhyme