Mr Mustard Comes Tonight
...Rig rag
Shaggy rag
Rip, rip, rip,
Wrinkle in the water
A wilder whisper
Crepuscular crème brûlée.
What is madness really?
Have I not a wordly thought?
Wordly jumble,
Words, words, words,
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Categories:
rig, confusion, imagination, memory, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Draconian measures promise to hobble future SEPTA transit riders
...Draconian measures promise to hobble future SEPTA transit riders
one of whom would be
this married sexagenarian,
who recently acquired
his Senior Fare Card
courtesy Trump's big beautiful bill
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Categories:
rig, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Thirty Knots an Hour
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His very bones smell of ocean
beard lashed with its salt
On land, rubber legs awkward
he gapes and he gawks
But rig him up a mast
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Categories:
rig, boat, identity, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Lost
...Since long ago, in this cold world,
I feel I don't belong.
I'm here and there in corners curled.
It is so strange and wrong.
Repressed memories, you say?
I can't remember, ...
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Categories:
rig, lost, mother,
Form: Verse
Where Are They Now?
...In this country
Politicians line their pockets from back-door deals
Sports figures kneel with raised fist, and protest our flag
Hollywood celebrities exclaim they will leave our country
Sil...
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Categories:
rig, corruption, humanity, march, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
The Year of Quadrants
...The beginning of Experience
starts with proper planning
By:Wiggon Galgrinner
From zones to zone
they looked to find
if planting olives would
be profitable
the olive tree
or Olea Europaea
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Categories:
rig, culture, food, music,
Form: Ballade
A Tough Nut to Crack
...Violet Smith lived in Center Kingdom. Her neighbors were Jack and Jill;
Like orange sun, of a pink morning, when it's just peeking over blue hills.
With Mother and Father and sister, Ava,...
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Categories:
rig, fantasy, farm, imagery, magic,
Form: Couplet
The Epic Tale of Immortal Al
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Immortal Al, the poet.
Yes, and don’t he know it
And forget me not, his imaginary friend, Mortal Lee, that’s me!
He has a Masters in Authorship. Me, his penmanship.
He’s not just any or ord...
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Categories:
rig, computer, world,
Form: Epic
The Trybullyst
...Gold! Gold! Dassel screamed: he had found gold! And so what we were told, he stuffed his pockets and told the fellas to pull him up.They had straddled a well rig used to clean shallow wells to lower ...
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Categories:
rig, adventure, betrayal, film, money,
Form: Ballad
Moomy, Smoke and a Pancake
...Sweet mother, Virginia Slim wedged between your fingers,
that last light willed to die at the rig
of a darkened room.
You—half-goddess, half-ghost, pinioned in some still-life setting
of tumb...
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Categories:
rig, appreciation, introspection, mother son,
Form: Free verse
Holiday Fun
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Frosty the snowman needed therapy.
There's a problem with my olfactory.
No matter what scent wafts by,
Or what cologne that I try,
It's only carrots I smell, don't you see?
There once ...
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Categories:
rig, christmas, humor,
Form: Limerick
Crib In I
...I think his iris is timid in sight,
Find him his cig, its light.
Its lit tip is in its crib,
I did right to fight with his timid skin in sight.
Sight this lid, I dig, I did.
His nick is with him...
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Categories:
rig, addiction, life, light, stress,
Form: Other
Crystal Ship
...On the balcony of a hilltop home near Santa Barbara California, late, on a warm, clear summer night, forty years ago, looking out over the ocean, with good friends, after hours of partying, stars tw...
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Categories:
rig, friendship, ocean, stars,
Form: Haibun
Dreamland
...In Dreamland's dazzling domain, where fairytales unfurl, A youth yonder yearned, with heart that hoped to hurl, Himself into the hinterland, a hero's journey to embark, To chase the chimeras of chang...
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Categories:
rig, dream, Lullaby,
Form: Alliteration
Deliver Us From Evil
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Overcome by hurricane or tornado?
Ran over by a train or a big rig?
Will I be flooded over or burned out?
Avalanche or mudslide? Which will it be?
A friend boarded a plane when close to 80....
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Categories:
rig, god, prayer,
Form: Free verse
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