Stay of Execution
...Everything in my life was going down
I lost hope for my country, my state, my town
A black dog followed me, I was weighed down by care
Saw a neon tiger in the dark, at day a spectral mare.
Offe...
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Categories:
screenwriters, death, health, recovery from,
Form: Lyric
The Ascension--with Rewrites
...(Author’s note: This poem is a humorous satire on how a modern media mentality would view the story of Christ’s Ascension.)
The Ascension (with Rewrites)
By Mark D. Stucky
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Categories:
screenwriters, humor, jesus, miracle, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Friday Afternoon In Fifth Grade
...They are raging with excitement; one is twerking. I ignore it.
Their voices are increasing in volume now, it is the weekend.
Enthusiasm keeps their spirits high; they are thrilled it is Friday.
Hi...
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Categories:
screenwriters, 5th grade, school, teacher,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Bachelor Spectacular
...The Bachelor Spectacular
by Michael R. Burch
One heart? Tossed aside.
The other? A bride’s.
In all his great wisdom, the bachelor decides.
Eeenie, mean-ie, mine-y, mo’,
one gal must stay an...
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Categories:
screenwriters, engagement, funny love, heartbreak,
Form: Verse
From the Marsh Monster
...THEY FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO LOVE HIM
THEY FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO CARE
THEY SEEMED PUZZLED TO SEPERATE
ANY DIFFERENCES
AND TOO FRUSTRATED TO CARE
SOMEBODY WANTS ONE THING
SOMEONE ELSE WANTS ANOTHE...
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Categories:
screenwriters, betrayal, career, celebrity, clothes,
Form: Bio
Assalaamu Alakum-May Peace Be Upon You
...The secret of a happy marriage is finding a right person. You know they are right if you love to be with them all the time.
The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone with...
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Categories:
screenwriters, cinderella, daffodils, family, princess,
Form: Romanticism
Have the Natural Tendency of a Benign Dictator
...And yet Affleck’s Bruce Wayne is an arrogant bully whose disturbing sexual comments towards Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman mark him out as a man with a problematic moral compass. And did you swallow the bi...
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Categories:
screenwriters, crazy, universe,
Form: Free verse
In the Absence of a Cliffhanger
...as our congregation of lying nitwits & corporate whores
beat the drum incessantly
BAM BAM BAM BAM
bringing pain to the eardrums of the
american people,
with all their fingers in the pies of the media...
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Categories:
screenwriters, life,
Form: Free verse