Riggs Poems

Byte Size Food Begets Best Bedeviled Egg Head Benefits

...Byte size food begets best bedeviled egg head benefits 
re: visited today April 12th, 2023

Way before aye knew 
the name Fletcherism applied 
family and friends even 
Smetana's bartered bride
...

Categories: riggs, 12th grade, adventure, april,
Form: Rhyme

Loving My Refurbished Fifteen Inch Mid 2015 Macbook Pro

...Loving my refurbished fifteen inch mid 2015 Macbook Pro

A lightning fast machine
purchased three days ago
now comfortably nestling with
said technological wonder,
where outside a cold wind how...

Categories: riggs, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Byte Size Food Begets Best Benefits

...re: visited tonight October 15th, 2021

Way before aye knew 
the name Fletcherism applied 
tummy uncommonly (recherché) atypical dyed
in the wool feeding and/or slaking thirst guide

did prece...

Categories: riggs, appreciation, blessing, celebration, devotion,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Vis-A-Vis

...Flippity Floppity
Billy Jean Moffitt King
master tennis player
career legend

Never a thought of her
ephemerality
troubled, infirmity
record destined

Slippity Sloppity
Robert Larimore Rig...

Categories: riggs, confidence, games, gender, men,
Form: Double Dactyl

Undone

...Randolph Riggs was a house cleaner
who hungered for Mrs. McGleaner.
He made an advance
and unbelted his pants.
It's been ages since he's seen her....

Categories: riggs, crush, longing, lust,
Form: Limerick

Another Day Another Accursed Blank Screen

...Another Day...Another Accursed Blank Screen

Ma wink'n and blink'n
     mind nod yet awake,
     nor insights keen,
asper ho hum usual, this
     (day-glo bull leave
     me you) after noon,
...

Categories: riggs, 11th grade, art, dream,
Form: Lyric

Byte Size Food Begets Best Benefits

...way before aye knew 
     the name Fletcherism applied 
tummy uncommonly (recherché) atypical dyed
in the wool feeding and/or slaking thirst guide

did precepts sans hungry 
     deaf eating be...

Categories: riggs, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Defaced

...Joe Riggs was a professional clown
who was forbidden to show a frown.
His smile was painted on
fans saw 'twas a con
when his makeup performed a meltdown....

Categories: riggs, humor,
Form: Limerick

Coincidental Names and Vocations

...I was reminiscing the other day about people I've known o'er the years,
And found it strange that their names corresponded with their careers.
For instance, Joseph Carpenter was handy with hammer, ...

Categories: riggs, humorous, jobs,
Form: Rhyme

Casandra Riggs

...Designed as a secret sister,
Hiding in form of a blister,
Not at all real
Becoming a pseudonym name,
Writing in stylish poet game,
Words that feel,

Caught notions of reality,
Conscious of fa...

Categories: riggs, adventure, education, imagination, introspection,
Form: Tail-rhyme

Just a Smile Is All I Need

...Just a Smile Is All I Need


Just a smile  is what I truly seek.
If you wanted more from me I would be there with the speed.
A friendship, a smile, a heavenly touch, these are the things that me...

Categories: riggs, happiness, hope, love, me,
Form: Romanticism