Jofra vs Burmrah the crown jewel duel
...Is there any other sort of sport.. that can hold a candle to having to handle
Getting caught in the ripsnort onslaught scandal…as speedsters hold court
Fraught as they face a serious deleteriou...
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Categories:
riper, sports,
Form: Prose Poetry
Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy
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Jimmy put the mighty back in Blighty
Our riper sniper
Viper and pied piper
Didn't want to budge
Depravity of sporting gravity
But given the nudge
So off he did trudge
Issue w...
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Categories:
riper, sports,
Form: Free verse
Opposites
...Let’s say he wanted to live to the fullest .
She wanted to die and couldn’t wait for the grim riper to come knocking .
He saw good where it didn’t even exist .
To her good never existed .
He beli...
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Categories:
riper, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Youth
...I knew not where my riper be,
for green was yet my high:
obsessed with all reflection within~
the backside of my eye; such
self-centered youth, though often
berated...while its lose I secretly
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Categories:
riper, boy, christian, humorous, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Mighty Dawn
...Disregarded darkness acquires a recognisable form
With light, our sight deciphers
Bestowed components rewritten by reassuring dawn
Viewed essence appears riper
Signal to rejoice in sun after ice...
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Categories:
riper, baptism, blessing, courage, day,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
A Riper Day
...Like wine,
Poets age with every year
Tattered labels stained,
vintners unclear
Bordeaux, Merlot, or Cabernet,
words mellow in the dark
Where time ferments a riper day
—its richness to im...
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Categories:
riper, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Schism
...She snores under Night's somnolent veil,
Far from quiet throes of his teetering sail;
Her pulses come and go in silent throbs,
Attuned to trigger no lover’s salted sobs.
Her breath kicks in an...
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Categories:
riper, allegory, allusion, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Ode
Get a Load of This One Dad
...“BABY FACE WHAT’S YOU THINKIN’” Picture “B”
Get a Load of This One Dad !
Oh yeah! Yesterday you changed my stinky diaper ! ...
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Categories:
riper, funny,
Form: Limerick
My Three Ms
...20/04/2018.
My 3 M’s
It’s time to change the minds dirty diaper,
To think crisply, cleanly, somehow riper.
How is this cleansing feat to be achieved,
A new process of tho...
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Categories:
riper, depression, drug, endurance, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Ripening
...Why does come the ripe age?
To count the evils of it one by one
upon your note pad or diary page
when you are alone?
To speak ill of your younger ones
to your equals/
to find their mean-les...
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Categories:
riper, retirement,
Form: Blank verse
Do We Celebrate Ancient Red Rose's Well Earned Death
...Do We Celebrate Ancient Red Rose's Well Earned Death
No great fire, yet get the water hose
decayed words fall in ancient settled dust.
As they break under weight of new age prose
in modern shon...
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Categories:
riper, appreciation, art, beauty, character,
Form: Sonnet
Tribute To the Memory of John Keats
...Tribute To The Memory Of John Keats
Child of the storm-swift Hermes, lithe and strong
To Trojan tumult, had the gods thus willed,
They gave thee one short year of riper song
And more melodious ...
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Categories:
riper, art, dedication, deep, judgement,
Form: Classicism
Treating My Stutter
...The book that’s my absolute favorite
is the most effective by far
after all my years of stuttering
having left many a inward scar
‘The treatment of stuttering’ on hardback
written by the renow...
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Categories:
riper, books, life, words,
Form: Rhyme
Water Loo - Nfc
...WATER LOO
Water water everywhere*
and oh how it did stink
water water everywhere
and all my undies pink
alone amid the rising tide
of baby toys and diapers
I stand in brownish bubbling s...
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Categories:
riper, deep, humor, water,
Form: Verse
Mother Earth's Element
...Adorned by cycles in rich décor,
she refills her bounty, her lush gifts
as Mother Earth nourishes a womb ;
caressing seeds of life to unfold
into fertile roots which tend my hearth,
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Categories:
riper, earth, introspection, mother,
Form: Blank verse
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