No Ego Joe Show
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On every outing…no touting or fostering of pouty louty shouty postering…
No flouting of the definition of classical ebb and flow rendition…
Yet boundaries scouting…Rooty sedition routing th...
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Categories:
scouting, spoken word, sports,
Form: Ballad
Candlelight
...Lighting the candle
To step forward with luster
To reduce the darkness
Passing over blindness
Like the night fireflies
Long scouting in the sky
A trip to the moonless land
A queue of blinki...
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Categories:
scouting, dark, earth, heart, light,
Form: Rhyme
The Slopes of Kilimanjaro
...From the lofty snowcapped peaks
of Kilimanjaro
The morning mist envelopes its verdant foothills in a tight embrace,
No need to hurry, this is not a race,
Beads of sunlight dancing across the glis...
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Categories:
scouting, adventure, animal, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Spacemans Report
...Earthlings are pink and furry, they look like yetis spaceman said.
The king of Utombbiblia rolled his three eyes under his head.
That’s not the report I got from the last two missions, weirdly enou...
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Categories:
scouting, science fiction,
Form: Rhyme
Aftermath of Flood
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Damaging winds whip and slash, whirling wild, drenching rain,
Roads decimated come to standstill, as gushing floods reign,
Inundating swollen terrains, roiling deluge of a tenebrous day,
As tree...
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Categories:
scouting, grief, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme
The Romantic View
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Honeysuckle breathes in the shallow wind,
Life's lapel, with a side of ground scouting gopher.
Great rusted machines peak the interest
of the flower children who blossom
in t...
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Categories:
scouting, angel,
Form: Free verse
Ramblin woman
...So what was it you wanted?
I need you to be honest,
I'm tired of all the pouting,
So I'm getting geared up and going out scouting.
In bound and determined,
To stop all this damn hurtin.
Stand u...
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Categories:
scouting, humor, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Silent Thoughts
...Right here and there
I never wanted to be alive
This living thing traps my emotions
Turning them into devotion
I can never tell
If this is really what I planned for
Or something that everyone w...
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Categories:
scouting, allusion, dark, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Good Day to Die
...(A little slice of paradise, 2021)
A Good Day to Die
Every time I go climbing I think, “This could be the day I die.”
I also think this when driving in really bad conditions
or when fl...
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Categories:
scouting, appreciation, death, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Self Help Addict Needles Unsuspecting Reader
...Self help addict needles unsuspecting reader
Expounded late today April 27th, 2023
since being written
countless years ago
maybe a baker's dozen
as thee doodling cock doth crow
scouting abo...
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Categories:
scouting, 12th grade, abuse, anger,
Form: Rhyme
War Versus Peace
...War
Devastation, pessimism
Scouting, hunting, killing
Country, hate, self, love
Meditating, praying, relaxing
Goodwill, optimism
Peace...
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Categories:
scouting, peace, war,
Form: Diamante
Vultures Circling
...The ancients honored you in their cultures
Mythology crowned Jataya, King Of Vultures
Obligate scavengers, you conduct your foray
Toward putrid carcass of what will be your prey
Dead bodies, ...
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Categories:
scouting, bird, dark,
Form: Couplet
On-Off Old Glance Flashing Its Hint
...I gat no ing job
All I do is place a daring bet
Sometimes I hit the big stone with my toe
While if luck gat my back, it catapults me like a jet
Madness permits corncob
Yet remain hopeful to h...
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Categories:
scouting, art, class, creation, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Gun Violence Blues - Corrected
...GUN VIOLENCE BLUES - corrected
They built a gun-violence memorial
in a god-forsaken corner of my
struggling city
A collaborative effort of a few academics,
a handful of neighbors, a preache...
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Categories:
scouting, community, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Gu Violence Blues
...GUN VIOLENCE BLUES
They built a gun-violence memorial
in a god-forsaken corner of my
struggling city
A collaborative effort of a few academics,
a handful of neighbors, a preacher or two,
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Categories:
scouting, community, conflict,
Form: Free verse
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