Soup Creeks Butcher
...“Butcher Bob” a good guy but you never can tell
Delivers my steaks at my new place by the well
Meet the gals Smith and Wesson
Here to teach y’all a good lesson
But Bob's resolve’s so strong he ca...
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Categories:
roun, humor,
Form: Limerick
Roun the City
...I asked the government to help that day
and got the sidewalk ginned
But soon the train took all attention
and now the budget's thinned
So I can say I've seen the world
but had to leave my town...
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Categories:
roun, appreciation, community, happiness,
Form: Quatrain
She Took Death Hard
...She took death hard
She gave up on living.
Though hoping for a miracle
She was praying for a blessing.
Seemed all her future plans.
Washed-out with tides that rolled away.
Though her realitie...
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Categories:
roun, anger, childhood, death,
Form: Ballad
Memories For Sale Not Cheap
...at for your money,
you think you're not getting much.
But in spite of hard times,
It's always had, God's, touch.
That cradle that you're "rockin",
was used by little Emma Leigh.
That rusty old "double gun",
Johnny kept as shiny as could be.
At night "roun" the hearth,
we had lots of good times.
Thanking, God, for His "blessins",
and just making up rhymes.
So don't think you are "buyin",
only that which you see.
Fact is, what I'm "sellin",
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Categories:
roun, age, death, family,
Form: Lyric
Hillbillies Bybillies and Blowbillies
...Notta easy grasper – days back I cross ole Jasper
neath the olden ground’s crooket pine tree
and, oh, bless be, things he tole there to me!
He wanna’d me to hear all bout watz truth –
he say he...
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Categories:
roun, funny, humorous,
Form: Narrative
The Bird
...THE BIRD
all dat jazz
no one but cool
unerstan
an cool be playin
playin it fast
rest on us jis sit lisen
bird don wave roun
eyes don even move
but he be burnin up tempo
he be in ...
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Categories:
roun, music,
Form: Free verse
A Procrastinators Day
...A Procrastinators Day
by Robert (Bob) Moore
So now it takes me twice as long, to do half of what I did
the joints will creak, and muscles ache, not kidding you our kid
when I get up in’t mornin...
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Categories:
roun, funny, motivation, work,
Form: Rhyme
Agape Love, Or Lie
...that paper— void of agape love— is like a hand without a glove
who told that blame lie?!—sweet as pie....
preacher crack open the "Good Book" and pretend words he or she took— NOT!!!
who told t...
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Categories:
roun, freedom, truth,
Form: Rhyme
A Top a Highland Hill
...A Top A Highland Hill
A top a windswept highland hill above Locheil land
Clansmen gathered roun and shook the princes haun
They raised the standard high cheered till they were hoarse
Followed t...
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Categories:
roun, allegory, cry,
Form: Ballad
December Harvest Fest
...Silent sighs as a remorseful tear taps the ground
Babies mama be sure to do it differently if theres ever a
second go roun'
Lets start decoratin' next years tree
Plump pumpkins for the world ...
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Categories:
roun, daughterlove,
Form: Ode
Nightman
...The dark crept with its black humor
Rallied at the little girls feet
Dared her to move by casting his shadow
Made of a witches broom and a boogeyman
He screamed at the trees and made the tremble
Whil...
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Categories:
roun, childhood, fear, mystery, dark,
Form: Personification
Smiling With Angst
...Watching my love from afar
He never once noticed my happiness with him
Couldn't even call
When I feared in the late hours
Death might have phoned his soul
No reconciliation for the female adore
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Categories:
roun, angst, fear, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost
Form: Free verse
I Wish
...I wish, i could be there
with you baby on
beach ,
counting and makin
shapes out of those big
black clouds....
I wish, i could be there
with you baby, playing
up with your wet mess...
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Categories:
roun, girlfriend-boyfriend, romance, kiss,
Form: Imagism
Early Dreary Morning
...graying unto the skyline
past confusion blues and misty mountaintops
way up high, where the fowls play for hours on end
I breath out and watch the smoke swirl and dance roun' each letter
The fros...
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Categories:
roun, nature
Form: Free verse
Tempted By a Fruit of a Younger
...Tempted fruit too young to peel
Juicy in hormones ripe qith heat
A time has approached of the wild fruit
Farmers nourish but can't keep vines from growing
Roun' melons on high,
Bananas too long,...
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Categories:
roun, love
Form: Free verse
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