Continental Drift, An Old Song
...Unsuppression
Exact wild convoluted digressions
Dispatched rap to re ramp tan
Hide all important novelties
As I confuse the vile
Stagnations the ball sawed dust till
Legends found tall
Balleri...
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Categories:
sawed, ireland,
Form: Free verse
Legerdemain
...The magician wore
my mother’s perfume
and conjured family
from thin air—
a brother renamed uncle,
a wife recast as mother,
a daughter vanishing
behind a tale of bees.
Each sleight of han...
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Categories:
sawed, confusion, family, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Tears of a Clown
...Inspired by the Iron Maiden Song, Tears of a Clown
Drinking, he recalled the Circus Grim,
and the strange world that ruined him.
He had done anything for a laugh.
Once, the magician sawed him...
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Categories:
sawed, death, drink, grief, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Home Ec
...Women of a certain age
Remember, when in school,
Boys did woodwork, girls
Home economics, as a rule.
The boys made houses for the birds –
They sanded, sawed and nailed
While girls both cooke...
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Categories:
sawed, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Pine sap pipe
...In the deep spiked pine forests
On a walk you forgot you took
Snow up your knees
Twenty feet away
An enormous old house
Not abandoned, smoke from the chimney
Large windows, dark woo...
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Categories:
sawed, 12th grade, flying, house,
Form: Free verse
FOR REAL
...
An Irishman called of course Mick
Was performing a conjuring trick.
Sawed a lady in half,
For real, just for a laugh.
His assistant is still off sick.
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Categories:
sawed, magic,
Form: Limerick
GRIM REAPER CAN WAIT
...
“Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can’t come.“
Quote by Jeff Goldblum.
JOHNNY SPICER
In this tomb are the bits and...
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Categories:
sawed, dark, death, humor,
Form: Epitaph
Slots poker machines unsolved murders Illinois
...Lake county music company filled with
slots carney folk real carny folk the little
pete's illegal gambling road show throughout
the Midwest gaming like your idol Frank Peter
Balistreiri the ...
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Categories:
sawed, allah,
Form: Nazm
Naughty Nicola
...Nicola was naughty,
She wasn’t very nice,
She bit her mother,
And ate her white mice,
But Nicola’s brothers knew,
Exactly what to do,
They took her to the woodshed,
And sawed her in two....
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Categories:
sawed, child, death, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Five Trees and Me
...Once there were five trees
five trees and me
Down came two
--now only three
Two more diseased
sawed down
to the ground
The last, lightning-zapped
gone,...
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Categories:
sawed, god, lonely, loss, me,
Form: Rhyme
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
...Distort of sounds strum his bow —sawed heart rhythms,
mischievous fool impels my mind's rapt boredom.
The devil's finger warns and pivots, sedates,
adrift among alleged stolen dreamscapes.
The je...
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Categories:
sawed, confusion, sleep,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Posive
...Posive
Oh you're gonna feel that
Be positive on all things
Hard to be when they
Sawed off your damn legs
Where'll you run to now?...
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Categories:
sawed, horror, psychological, satire,
Form: Blank verse
Love Attention
...I am not feeling well these days
I wish it was forever between you and me
I wish the glory of your love and mine goes to the sky
It's a pity that we are only close to each other
The road is one-w...
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Categories:
sawed, anti bullying, baby, child,
Form: Free verse
Come To This Like a Child
...Swinging watch of a hypnotist
Look into my eyes
You’re falling into a deep deep sleep
Forget who you are
In a red tie
I duck out my work backdoor
Stop
Stare
To a baby robin
Sways ups...
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Categories:
sawed, bird, corruption, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse
A Three Note Motif
...They called the Willow Bunch
they lurked around the
Ruschello Mio looking to
find jobs. They had skills
to impress and they wished to
work. They sawed wood for the
canteen, They were butchers
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Categories:
sawed, music,
Form: Ballade
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