The Road
...I started toddling at seven months,
Walking the roads as from twelve
Shaping my feet from sands and mud upon bumps
Frequenting the paths to hell and into which I delve
From the spittle of the s...
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Categories:
schlepping, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Clocks Go Back One Hour
...Time changes with life and life changes with time.
October grows too old,
Hobbling backwards
With the burden of years,
On the sinuous alcove of time,
Tenebrous and feathery,
Her hidden lamps bl...
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Categories:
schlepping, march, october, spring, summer,
Form: Free verse
A Bird's Eye View
...A little bird has flown the nest
to seek a world of wonder
and spreads her wings 'neath skies possessed
by lightning bolts and thunder.
She flee...
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Categories:
schlepping, war, world,
Form: Rhyme
Zealous untiring repentance
...Zealous untiring repentance
Fleshed out as poetic confessional.
Profligacy prevailed pricking psyche
precipitating pandemonium.
I wrought havoc courtesy aegis
of paramours picadillos, your...
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Categories:
schlepping, absence, adventure, africa, anger,
Form: Free verse
I feel in fuhrer rated and envious
...I feel in führer rated and envious...
entrapped within webbed wide world
weft as a rump pulled stilts skein
at warp speed exhibiting
my heroic trumpian wiles
cuz he (johnny come lately) a then...
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Categories:
schlepping, adventure, america, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
I leave buying food at the market to the spouse
...I leave buying food at the market to the spouse...
one helluva comparative
humdinger savvy shopper,
who can rattle off the best buy
for most any given item,
at the drop of a hat
analogous to ...
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Categories:
schlepping, adventure, angel, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
A fanta see overrides reality
...A fanta see overrides reality!
Hello?
I like to get positioned for sixty nine.
Are you looking for a scheming,
schlepping, and schvitzing writer?
natural body and laid-back vibe??
I'm al...
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Categories:
schlepping, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Convalescence of Richard McGeehan
...Convalescence of Richard McGeehan
Spouse of my eldest sister
marital bond fixed in place
strong as mortise and tenon,
he hales of hearty Irish stock
genes of said septuagenarian
analogous to ...
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Categories:
schlepping, absence, america, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Argh, I never got muffin top before why now
...Argh, I ne'er got muffin top before - why now!?
Once upon a time yours truly did allow
himself to consume anything in sight
eats of mine in the mein
included an assortment of chow.
Impossib...
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Categories:
schlepping, adventure, age, angst, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Impossible Mission To Sleep On Opposite Side of Marital Bed
...Impossible mission to sleep on opposite side of marital bed...
Oddly enough even
when frolicking in the autumn mist
with seasoned super tramping
cheaply tricked out goo goo dolls
some resemb...
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Categories:
schlepping, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
I Loathe Feeling Under the Weather
...I loathe feeling under the weather...,
especially when nasty elephant
(named Thomas the pachyderm)
stomping to break loose courtesy tether,
where antibodies of mine
struggle to band together...
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Categories:
schlepping, 12th grade, adventure, animal,
Form: Rhyme
November Second Two Thousand Twenty Two
...November second two thousand twenty two...
abuzz with Autumnal thrum
Approximately six weeks since August sum
er re: lazy dog days witnessed lolling about
sipping cocktails, whose primary ingr...
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Categories:
schlepping, 12th grade, adventure, animal,
Form: Rhyme
How Flying Feels
...This is how an airport feels -
Crowded, hot and teeming.
Lines that wrap around and ‘round;
Babes and toddlers screaming.
Masks on every face except
So many noses showing
And no one to remind...
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Categories:
schlepping, flying,
Form: Rhyme
Wordsmith's Veneration
...Wordsmith's Veneration...
Methinks, I post literary endeavors inxs
but tis with blood, sweat and tears
in case ye did not guess,
who struggles to craft reasonable rhyme
ideally read by a pleas...
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Categories:
schlepping, 12th grade, america, books,
Form: Free verse
October Twenty Third Two Thousand Twenty One
...October twenty third two thousand twenty one...02:44:06 PM
Eastern Standard Time abuzz auld Durin
(ya know whit I'm Tolkien about
Elder days long regarding) Autumnal thrum –
The perfect balm ...
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Categories:
schlepping, america, appreciation, autumn, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
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