on meeting ruminants
...On meeting ruminants
My mother had tuberculosis, and my sister and older brother
sent to a children's home, where the idea was strictness
My brother didn't come he had an accident with
a hand...
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Categories:
ruminants, anger, autumn,
Form: Blank verse
The Mud
...I can hear the voices calling out beneath as they plunge further into the deep, a large body of water swirling around them like quicksand falling out of the heaven and desperate voices of sorrows, cr...
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Categories:
ruminants, arabic, bereavement, caregiving, confidence,
Form: Narrative
The Wanderer Falls
...Shadow souls flying across the sea
Of my senses they knew, what a mockery,
How do I write the song says the dream?
Whereupon the wanderer falls
In the scribbled pines
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Categories:
ruminants, corruption, culture, dark, death,
Form: Verse
The Sun
...I am the sun, I energize your day.
I speak expressly to the humid air;
'dry up for a day that is bright and fair.'
I command moisture to dry the lush hay
for non-ruminants to be well nourished.
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Categories:
ruminants, nature, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Quiescence Pervades Medulla Oblongata
...Outward brain stem hummock
analogously, (asper bound
minuscule magnum opus)
figuratively paginated with drowned
atavistic animal instincts
roar back to life upon found
perceived or real threa...
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Categories:
ruminants, appreciation, blessing, encouraging, husband,
Form: Rhyme
Cornwall Explored
...Coastline, rocky, rugged, proud,
Crumbling cliffs in ozone shroud,
Sun-kissed drifts of desert sand,
Golden frame of a sea cradled land.
Fishing village, atmospheric hub,
Brass band playing, o...
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Categories:
ruminants, beautiful, earth, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Trumpasaurus Extinction Highly Unlikely
...Huge life like mockup
rigged up to bark
dare buzzfeed outsize monstrosity
diet coke, McDonald's and meatloaf
pet banality, execrable, and misogynistic words
greets visitors at formerly named
M...
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Categories:
ruminants, allusion, anger, animal, anti
Form: Rhyme
Untitled
...today is not a day for rumination
cows are ruminants
contemplating the subtleties of grass
nor is it a diary where Whitmanesque
observations are woven into truth
this is just an exercise ...
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Categories:
ruminants, allusion, humanity, philosophy, world,
Form: Free verse
Rock and Roll Rebel
...what could have set the stars in motion
a hard boiled egg thrown at the Heavens
is as good a tack as any among the ruminants
an often officious offering of hopeful effect
made during a time of dr...
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Categories:
ruminants, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Poetry That Isn'T
...What wafting of wisdom! Such saccharine sound!
Deft diction’s depictions, opaque and profound!
So ruminants rumble and mumble and seek
To mine out much marrow, obtuse and oblique.
My constant c...
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Categories:
ruminants, funny, humor, humorous, poems,
Form: Light Verse
Winter's Rise
...as wind slowly, silently, stirs dry grass
forest ruminants eye darkening skies
sniffing for the scents of Winter’s warning
watch the fading “V’s” - distant disguise.
once dappled fawns stand ta...
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Categories:
ruminants, nature, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Save Humankind From Human Madness
...Sometimes with neither rhyme nor reason
We chew insanity and regurgitate vanity
Ensnaring our souls in a pesky prison
Where we trap humanity in an insidious inanity
With a passion so overwhelmi...
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Categories:
ruminants, poems,
Form: Free verse
Quiescence Pervades Medulla Oblongata
...outward brain stem hummock
analogously, (asper bound
minuscule magnum opus)
figuratively paginated with drowned
atavistic animal instincts
roar back to life upon found
perceive...
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Categories:
ruminants, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Of the Earth - Earthy
...Of the Earth - Earthy
Of the earth….”earthy”
Hell, he was filthy,
a veritable organic “Pig Pen”
complete with dust trail.
The trees “high fived” him
as he walked, quietly,
respectfully, am...
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Categories:
ruminants, children, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse
The Alta Dena Cow
...There is, in the Los Angeles area, a well-known brand of milk, called Alta Dena. Near also,
is the city named Alta Dena, and my grandson lives there. I asked him if he had seen the dairy there, an...
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Categories:
ruminants, humor,
Form: Free verse
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