Bedlam When Storm Finds You Out
...We heard the alert!
Big storm coming!
Batter down the hatches.
Tie down the loose stuff.
Board up the windows, sandbag the doors.
Remove any debris that may fly around.
We did it all, in plent...
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Categories:
sandbag, innocence, storm,
Form: Free verse
Lovely weather for Dunners' ducks
...Lovely weather for Dunners' ducks (tongue in cheek peek at Dunedin's historic deluge)
"Stares upstairs..
Angels’ weeing above..
Be a good chap..
Show some love bruv..
Turn off the ta...
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Categories:
sandbag, environment, nature, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Recluse
...heart of compassion, stifled by rejection
concealed with conscientious imperfections
marvel mind mortified by man made mistakes
confined in constraint, no mental escape
flunking society's sup...
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Categories:
sandbag, depression, hurt, mental health,
Form: Free verse
A Fiendish Destitution
...While we dwell to this dreidel,
I seek to know before a sear,
Even in the most ineluctable dandle,
The fruit to which may indeed bear;
In the imbue oblivion, I tell a riddle,
Most morass yet mer...
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Categories:
sandbag, 3rd grade, africa, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Class Act
...6/27/22
They move in packs
A bunch of gnats and rats
Too much crap and cap
All across the map
It's happened to Jill and to Jack
Endlessly people yap and chat
Obsessed with apps and fraps
Th...
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Categories:
sandbag, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Sandbag of Dreams
...Dreams surge in and out with the dozing.
Some are new, some are repeats and series.
It's hard to control what's played remotely.
It's hard to understand what pops up, and when.
It's hard to switc...
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Categories:
sandbag, dream,
Form: Free verse
Hid 'Em Up
...Dancing to Sisqo
like a dad at a disco
that ain’t the diss though
you’re a straight up pissed ho
handbag on the dance floor
where your sandbag **** fall
straps see you trip fool
your ugly fa...
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Categories:
sandbag, appreciation, freedom, rap, rude,
Form: Rhyme
The Vicissitudes of Life
...And
in the end
I sandbag
my life
as much
as I can....
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Categories:
sandbag, life,
Form: Free verse
7 Minute Reply, Battle Rap With Brenda Chiri
...Battle Rap With Brenda Chiri
Brenda Chiri don't try me
It's not old and told,
same gun, bullets roll,
pull it hole
strolling rhymes,
quick time,
literally laying these words at pace
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Categories:
sandbag, funny, giggle, hip hop,
Form: Rhyme
Sniper
...SNIPER
A yell “ man down;” then zing, pock, pock,
pock, pock against the sandbag revetment.
Down on the plain is a man in a spider hole,
he is well hidden and armed well enough,
smokeless po...
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Categories:
sandbag, war,
Form: Free verse
Lonely Night
...It's so hot outside, I feel hot inside.
The heat of the day is on it's way.
The heat inside is an angry fire,
Stoked by fear,hate and distress,
Consuming love,joy and happiness.
Why do we allow ...
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Categories:
sandbag, anger, fear, war,
Form: Rhyme
Fat
...Doubled over like a sandbag
I examine the scars of gluttony
And the leftovers of
mistake cake
Little blistered trails litter
My infirm white skin
Like little red tears in my heart
They shame me, ...
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Categories:
sandbag, depression, grief,
Form: Free verse
Mellow Noon
...days of benign stealth
lawns, gardens, orchards drink to my health
the road's been unkind
well it's gone, it's flowed on behind
let me recline in this boon
mellow noon
the bell might ring
spiteful a...
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Categories:
sandbag, forgiveness, friendship, happiness, health,
Form: Rhyme
Slaughterhouse
...comets strike terror
bombing nations rapid fire...
a slaughterhouse roasts
spiked towers pierce flesh…
drenched with blood of raw corpses
like clotheslines on trees
from skies taint...
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Categories:
sandbag, confusion, time,
Form: Haiku
Cyril Brown
...What to Submit?
1 original, poem on the theme of ...Give me your zaniest funniest Poem you can Muster up~~Be Silly
Cyril Brown
Oh his name was Cyril Brown ,
An he weighed 300 pound,
An the Sand g...
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Categories:
sandbag, adventure
Form: Ballad
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