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...The Killing Field”

Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it d...
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Categories: sanitary, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse

4x10

...The Killing Field”

Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it d...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: sanitary, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse



Adoptee Victim of the Holidays

...Adoptee Victim of the Holidays by Corey Quinn (Chaotic rhyme scheme to match my emotional state)

As I enter the home to over salted deviled eggs, loud dogs and poisonous side conversations,
the a...
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Categories: sanitary, depression, family, feelings, holiday,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Smell of Fear - Collaboration

...Alien talk I can’t understand
A Pifflewig performed a handstand
He verbalised through his ass
Gross putrid wind he did pass
Like many blokes throughout the land!

I farted, perhaps ...
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Categories: sanitary, humorous, space,
Form: Limerick

Nigerian Police Station

...Once, I was there to check a tall Zaki
And it became reason to meet khaki,
Very clean but most offices tacky:
A cop could turn one into a lackey!
 
I know The Police is for the Nation
But I sha...
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Categories: sanitary, africa, allusion, corruption, cry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberI Hear He's a Winner

...Bolsonaro was president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023.
Former army officer and right-wing nationalist who revered Brazil's 1964–1985 military rule.
Jair Bolsonaro sought to arm a disarmed...
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Categories: sanitary, analogy, bereavement, celebrity, international,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberIn Sickness and In Health

...healthy, 
            hale, able-bodied, 
  exercising, healing, mending
sanitary, hygiene, infirm, illness
   puking, regurgitating, dying
            afflicted, queasy
                       ...
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Categories: sanitary, creation, poetry, words,
Form: Diamante

Premium MemberBomp

...Bottom of my poem 

standing at the bottom of my poem
laying down at the top
you hit bottom
can’t believe it 
you stare
waiting for a visit
when he speaks his words of madness 
words taken f...
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Categories: sanitary, prison, religious,
Form: Free verse

Growing Up and Liking It

...At 13 years of age, a pamphlet
Showed up in my home.
My mother bought it, not to be
The subject of a poem.

It was intended to explain
(A lecture would be worse)
The facts of menstruation,
Of...
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Categories: sanitary, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Up At Ryder Cup

...Reservations are made years in advance of the event.
Provisions from suppliers worldwide are globally sent. 
Sponsors enthusiastically devote their resources spent. 
Attendees eager to share stori...
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Categories: sanitary, appreciation, business, golf, society,
Form: Rhyme

The Last Hurrah of An Idiot Box

...Call it a requiem, dirge or elegy,
Lament, funeral song of eulogy,
On failing, dying light and last hurrah,
Maybe the last polite vah vah!

Once, a focal point of a family,
A device that brough...
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Categories: sanitary, farewell, technology,
Form: Elegy

Bitter About Obnliterator

...we became bitter
his cat box would obliterater
need a cat sitter

my face would turn green
what does a cat meow mean
maybe something obscene

bad word did predict
With cat from Connecticut
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Categories: sanitary, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku

Vulture

...I can on you bestow a life-time happiness
By demolishing your physical funniness:
With water colors and a compliant paint brush
Making your avoiders at you rush:
Your bad-looking coat of triple s...
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Categories: sanitary, beauty, change, hope,
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: sanitary, allusion, humanity, philosophy, world,
Form: Free verse

Waiting In a Line

...waiting in a line


In front of the multi-bank window
an older man was transferring money, and like me he got 
confused by all the numbers and had to do it again.
I was patient thought of lofti...
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Categories: sanitary, absence, anger, best friend,
Form: Blank verse

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