The Trybullyst
...Gold! Gold! Dassel screamed: he had found gold! And so what we were told, he stuffed his pockets and told the fellas to pull him up.They had straddled a well rig used to clean shallow wells to lower ...
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Categories:
scrammed, adventure, betrayal, film, money,
Form: Ballad
Watch Out
...My watch required a battery;
My husband took it to
A brand-new shoe repair, whose sign
Said that’s one thing they do.
He called me on the phone, upset,
To ask me if I knew
That the watch’s cr...
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Categories:
scrammed, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
18022 Tin Types
...At the time he wasn't being bothered
his help was long gone
they were on the look out
and he stayed away got away
for them never wen't as planned
he wouldn't ask for help necessities
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Categories:
scrammed, animal,
Form: Free verse
Day At the Beach
...beach day
I play
no turf
go surf
offshore
no oar
ocean
motion
I took
a look
I saw
a maw
sharp teeth
unsheathed
bright white
large bite
shark bait
my fate
I swam
I...
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Categories:
scrammed, animal, beach, environment, fun,
Form: Footle
Farmer Fred Regrets What He Said
...Poured a wee dram for my friend Farmer Fred.
He just kept on shaking his head.
What’s with the head I inquired of Fred?
Sit down laddie for ya might just swoon,
When I tell ya what happened to ...
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Categories:
scrammed, abuse, bullying, crazy, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
The Endge
...The E(n)dge
I leave damp mudprints
there where I met the shore.
The dragonflies' dances,
the goslings scrammed,
and I for now (or 'lo, for once)
exhaled. Edges do that.
A turt...
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Categories:
scrammed, death, memory, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Man
...4/8/17
Across the land
There was a man
Whose journey had just began
And due to a decision that was bad
He lost all that he ever had
While feeling his most prized plan
Slip through the palm...
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Categories:
scrammed, poetry, rap, word play,
Form: Rhyme
A Coin For the Beggar
...The beggar’s slippers were new;
And the turban around his head too,
So I still kept the coin.
Strange was the woman; strange was her beggin’,
With no word, but munching nuts ...
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Categories:
scrammed, anxiety, confusion, culture, depression,
Form: Free verse
Closely Observed Train
...A glacial breeze drifted off the headland of near death,
And she breathed a breath almost as though her last,
The rat tailed airwaves scrammed her moistened cheek
For she pin-wheeled and spun when...
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Categories:
scrammed, death, life, loss, sad,
Form: Verse