Hunting Trust In Adversity
...Written: September 07, 2023
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I can't sleep at night, so I stay alive.
I am awake, and I search and strive.
I'm no warri...
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Categories:
scrambler, allusion, anger, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
County Fair
...The hum of the motors that run the rides,
watching cars on tracks going up and down.
Squeals and screams from all those children that ride,
scrambler, octopus, and merry-go-round.
From the exci...
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Categories:
scrambler, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
1969-1971
...California Dreamin…
Momma Told Me Not To Come
By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Will Anybody Really Know What Time Has Spun
Hotel California…
Its Chain Gang wearing thin
Searching for an American ...
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Categories:
scrambler, time,
Form: Rhyme
Footles On Folks Less Seemly- Spelling Edit
...Student Procrastinator
Grammar
Crammer
Multiple Casino Guy
Scrambler
Gambler
Casino Loser
Lamer
Gamer
A Playboy’s Malady
Fun guy
Fungi
Slasher in Prison
Knifer
Lifer
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Categories:
scrambler, humor,
Form: Footle
The Day I Saw the Elephant
...Pile drivers have replaced gandy dancers
And Mayflower trucks the circus, open-cage parades
Horse drawn down Main Street U.S.A.,
But overnight canvas bosses still command
Roust abouts to raise ...
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Categories:
scrambler, america, growing up, humanity,
Form: Free verse
At Western Washington State Fair
...After traffic backup and teen crack ups,
my friends and I park and toward today’s lark,
through gate, stamp and bracelet I race
greeting other friends with new to make.
Amid fried onion reek an...
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Categories:
scrambler, autumn, desire, drink, for
Form: Free verse
Zilch, That Is What I Got
...After watching the news my stomach was in a knot
my brain on a hiatus leaving my creative juices to rot
imitating the thinker wondering why my muse had suddenly left
finding a note from her saying...
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Categories:
scrambler, adventure, humor, muse,
Form: Light Verse
Sound Off
...If I am holding on to nothing it is the forecast weather of her,
If the words come out a little slower just know every word is necessary,
Yawning of thoughts it is all between me and you,
Hi...
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Categories:
scrambler, art, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Boy At the Fair - Well, I Declare
...I watched, fascinated, as the tall lone boy
in line to ride the Scrambler
stuffed handfuls of peanuts in his mouth.
This was the same boy I had spied just an hour ago
further down the way
where ...
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Categories:
scrambler, child, boy,
Form: Narrative
Carnival Night
...Colored lights
radiated dull
skies’ darkness;
Laughter mounts,
organ pipe resounds joyous,
drawing in more crowds.
Scrambler whirls
head spins all around;
Tummy flops
bright lights fade
hot ...
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Categories:
scrambler, adventure,
Form: Shadorma