I dreamed I was drinking with Toulouse-Lautrec
...I dreamed I was in Café Terrace with Toulouse-Lautrec.
We were downing glass after glass of orange triple sec.
And quite drunk, he muttered something that shocked me so ~
he slurred he'd eaten the...
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Categories:
sec, confusion, dream, drink, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
Bunch of limericks and other funny tricks I
..."Okay, tell me, who's gonna be next?"
said the writer of the too-long text.
"No, please, not me," said the lean noun.
"Cut that fat verb there, two lines down."
And they all watche...
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Categories:
sec, crazy, funny, giggle, howl,
Form: Limerick
Manifested our deepest connection
...Baby, just take a sec
Put everything down
Look me deep in my eyes
Block out all of the sounds around
Let our souls intertwine
Don't be afraid
Weve loved one another
Since the beginning of da...
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Categories:
sec, deep, i love you,
Form: Free verse
Life in the Country
...Someone is wielding an axe or a hammer
It’s the only other noise beside a crow’s yammer
Dogs look down the hill, interested for a sec
Woods are thick, I see no pick or peck
Above the fog I hear...
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Categories:
sec, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Candle Tip
...I use my grandma’s cookie shapes
For Chanukah each year.
They’re plastic and so very old
They might not persevere.
The candle cutter’s broken
So it’s hard to get a grip
On the pieces (there a...
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Categories:
sec, chanukah, food,
Form: Rhyme
In a World Where I Do Not Exist
...Does my butterfly wing flap
matter to matter?
Does my life extend
beyond my fleeting, feeble steps
in the dirt?
Even the genes I pass on to my progeny,
though uniquely mine,
are unchanged by m...
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Categories:
sec, earth, life, my children,
Form: Free verse
My eyes don’t smile anymore
...
Bob that guy at table five
He’s kinda giving me the shivers
Did he say something to you.the grease from the heat of his grill causing droplets of sweat to form on his nose his old hand graspi...
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Categories:
sec, poems,
Form: Free verse
an emotional wreck - more or less
...I have been missing your peck
On my cheek, I put it on check
I’m an emotional wreck, wreck
And it’s barely July 2nd, 2024, gimme just a sec!
Gimme a sec, gimme a sec, sec, sec
Stuck in a thous...
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Categories:
sec, angst, appreciation, deep, emotions,
Form: Lyric
famous literature
...Famous literature?
This Saturday, like many others, I got up late
it was almost ten, my hands trembled,
low blood sugar
I can live with diabetes while keeping the balance
watching what I ea...
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Categories:
sec, adventure, appreciation, art,
Form: Blank verse
RIP Junior Pope
...R.I.P JUNIOR POPE
~~~~~~~~~
In sombre silence & mournful melody,
A threnody for one who passed on sadly,
Who lost his life without a life jacket,
Crashed without precaution on a speedboat.4
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Categories:
sec, 1st grade,
Form: Elegy
Slavery: lamentation of young auction lady
...Drop of tear
Splash the floor
She remain still
Until the gush of wind tilt
Oh my goodness
Why I have to face such freak
No one deserve to be treated
Like this
Holy moly even the season
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Categories:
sec, 7th grade, anger, anti
Form: Free verse
Blarney Stone Collab-MORE ADDITIONS
...If anyone would like to have some community fun,
please send me a limerick(s) in a comment or soup mail.
The famous Blarney Stone, some can't resist
When in Ireland, it's on tourist's che...
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Categories:
sec, humor,
Form: Limerick
He waits in Ambush
...
My soul eternal
wrestles the devil infernal
he waits in ambush
perpetually, for me
to forget, and disconnect
from God Almighty
then rushes in to ruin and wreck...
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Categories:
sec, crush, emotions, god, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Tory Cabinet Reshuffle II
...David Cameron
Skull you could hammer on
Back from the Lords as Home Sec
Shows the UK has just gone to heck....
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Categories:
sec, giggle,
Form: Clerihew
Aladdin's Lamp
...I light my precious oil Aladdin’s lamp
As I poured some wine, in a split sec
A genie appeared, as if by command:
“You’ve lift the lid, just put it back
I don’t perform anymore, better try
Anoth...
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Categories:
sec, drink, magic,
Form: Rhyme
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