DESIRE TO ESCAPE
...I have been drowned with the desire to escape
To a place where I can hide my face
When I can avoid the fire in your stares
That scotches my very being
I rush through a pool of uncertainties
T...
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Categories:
scotches, allegory, lost,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Flower Seller
...The Flower Seller
Amelia wares un- cuticled painted nails,
She hop scotches a pirate on one leg,
Tip-toeing long sun cast morning shadows,
beneath billowing hand stitched, salty sails; ...
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Categories:
scotches, africa,
Form: Free verse
Love and Hunting, Part I
...I was moving down an access trail
in my favorite Pennsylvania game land,
heading towards and open meadow,
near which I’d set up a tree stand.
Then came a rustling from some bushes thick,
a buc...
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Categories:
scotches, humorous, love, lust, nature,
Form: Narrative
Nature's Call
...Nature’s Call
Turtles hug fallen trees
blink as the flashing sun
hop-scotches amid ripples
Osprey play lumberjack
construct high rise towers
a womb with a view
Muskrat preen whiskers
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Categories:
scotches, life, nature, spring,
Form: Free verse
Elemental Flame
...You can feel the moon boil
As your rocket burns my soul
And scotches the sunspot
Of our love’s first footprint
I can feel the moon shine
Off your dust particles so fine
They are like a crashi...
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Categories:
scotches, fantasy, love,
Form: Rhyme
Crotches and Scotches
...There once was a bold prig named Wiener
who had an unsightly demeanor
he took pics of his crotch
after two shots of scotch
"Where's his wife? Well nobodies seen her."...
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Categories:
scotches, funny,
Form: Limerick
One Cigarette
...I knew a man
who smoked one cigarette each day,
mid-afternoon,
accompanied by a cup of black coffee.
Beyond feeding his ego,
control was his raison d’etre,
so he probably did smoke just t...
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Categories:
scotches, addiction, age,
Form: Free verse
Other People's Lives
...Most folks like to shower;
Some prefer the bath.
Life allows such choices;
We can access either path.
Lots of folks skip breakfast;
Many wouldn’t dare.
When we look at others’ lives,
It’s natural to...
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Categories:
scotches, introspection, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
The London Dead End
...Tis a hollowed place
This maze of hidden alleyways
Which in blackness bonds
To these rat infested cobble streets
Where the gas lit lamps betwixt the corners stand
With the lone Bobbies, statues ...
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Categories:
scotches, adventure
Form: Free verse
The Time of Love
...***Collaborative by father and son...***
I'd like to tell a story
Of romance at it's best
I'll speak to you of deja-vu :F:
And you can dream the rest
This story is not a s...
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Categories:
scotches, inspirational, loveheart, night, time,
Form: Rhyme