A Lot of Nerve
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I prefer raw dates to most candidates
Robert to Bill Gates
Watching mine to lifting weights
fewer versus more states
Some call me a rock-ribbed conservative
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Categories:
ribbed, humor, me, political,
Form: Rhyme
Japanese Beetles
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Don’t be fooled, they carry
nothing of the Orient’s allure.
These voracious beetles,
if they had the appetite,
might easily bring down
the loftiest sequoia.
Depraved sexual deviants,...
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Categories:
ribbed, insect,
Form: Light Verse
Chamber of Becoming
...We laid our breath
in the cold dish of morning
not to warm it,
but to watch it vanish.
The way ghosts do.
You struck the match inside me
with a tremor,
like forgiveness
forgot to be kind.
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Categories:
ribbed, dark, love,
Form: Free verse
Floral Gifts
...ceiling-to-floor stone fireplace,
uplifted with Mother’s Day gifts:
amidst the painted flower trio,
sunny bright and purple mums,
yellow glad-iolus, ma-gen...
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Categories:
ribbed, flower,
Form: Free verse
Galore of buzzfeeding, needling and scamming female hustlers
...Galore of buzzfeeding, needling and scamming female hustlers...
with a scheming, loving, and enticing guise
alive and well seeking gullible guys
(once upon a time just like me),
who experiences...
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Categories:
ribbed, adventure, age, anger, anti
Form: Rhyme
Lost libido as rez erected cockamamie Shtrungool haint no prickly fallacy
...Lost libido as rez erected cockamamie Shtrungool haint no prickly fallacy
The following pastiche
poetically pricked prick,
whereby fantasy courtesy Eros
(????) cow licked
country bumpin vide...
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Categories:
ribbed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The feel-good road
...More often than not I chose the feel-good road
the road of instant gratification
the lazy man's road
it was short and lined in devil's blood and pyrite.
The other road was long and tedious
it ...
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Categories:
ribbed, life,
Form: Free verse
Transylvanian Gothic
...A marvel of architectural grace
Needle-ended arches touching the space
Vaults that look imposed and superimposed
Ribbed ends that kiss the corners, hawk-nosed
Ornate spires like jewel fabrication...
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Categories:
ribbed, art, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
The First Date
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Let us momentarily contemplate
The discourse on the very first date
Adam: Father You've been busy lo' these six days
Would it be too much to ask for a help mate?
(From a rib Eve...
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Categories:
ribbed, creation, emotions, family, father,
Form: Couplet
Literate lettered latitudinarian looms larger than life
...I feel honored, and flattered to acquaint myself (a married youthful looking sexagenarian solitudinarian from southeastern Montgomery County, Pennsylvania), yet feel awkward at jump/kick starting a r...
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Categories:
ribbed, adventure, autumn, celebration, fun,
Form: Free verse
I feel in fuhrer rated and envious
...I feel in führer rated and envious...
entrapped within webbed wide world
weft as a rump pulled stilts skein
at warp speed exhibiting
my heroic trumpian wiles
cuz he (johnny come lately) a then...
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Categories:
ribbed, adventure, america, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Floral Farewell
...Velvet red roses stand
cheek to cheek
with daisy faces, ringed
in petal fringes,
sweetly scented
by creamy bubbles
of double jonquil popcorn blooms
beside a starburst
yellow chrysanthemum,
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Categories:
ribbed, farewell, flower, grief,
Form: Free verse
Hartshorns' Silver Moon Grass
...They write in the language of perfume
flowery powdered words all layered
colours rising and lowering
in different light spectrums
as if the reader could discern
without wisened translator
th...
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Categories:
ribbed, heaven, romance, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Wing of a Hawk
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The signal to leave is called out urgently.
Blue jays spin, whistle, and gurgle.
Heralds of the gray days of winter.
We climb Hawk Ridge Observatory hill.
The rough benches, wooden table, a s...
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Categories:
ribbed, appreciation, beautiful, bird, endurance,
Form: Free verse
LOUD SILENCE -
...Loud
Explosive soundings
Environmental vibration eradicate motion
Bombarded sensory thee volumed
Dropped focused turn down
Ribbed quiet
Silence
12/10/23
Written words by Ja...
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Categories:
ribbed, allegory, cheer up, destiny,
Form: Diamante
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