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my mother shouted 'do you want a coffee?' just as a bloke was teeing off on the first hole

...bizarre stuff
in fact, she'd never visited a golf course before

in fact, as i took my daughter to the clubhouse toilet
i held the door open for her 

the contents of the coffee was
all over t...

Categories: shanked, absence, anger,
Form: Free verse

Love Is Not Always Love, Part I

...I hear folks say it, “Love is love,”
a mantra they like to repeat,
it’s said with such vapid sureness
you’d think it was bleatings of sheep.
But if you stop to think of it,
turn the thought over...

Categories: shanked, emotions, evil, humanity, love,
Form: Rhyme

Memory Therapy, Part Iii

......Jack couldn’t believe such nonsense,
said, “You’re not a shrink, you’re insane.
I’ve been a farmer all my life,
And no one has cut on my brain.”

Johns handed him a new picture,
it was Jack ...

Categories: shanked, confusion, dark, memory, mental
Form: Narrative

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Pomegranate

...Arid, bony-shanked carapace.
Shiny, weathered patina
tells of desolation,
Belies any promise of richness;
Yet when inverted,
Becoming regal.
A tatty, crown implies 
The ancient purport.


T...

Categories: shanked, desire, fruit, life, passion,
Form: Free verse

Family Remembers, Part Ii

...II-Marie

It was two full days after this charade
when Marie was told the grim news,
her ex-husband had been shanked in prison,
killed by two illegal alien youths.

When she went down to the f...

Categories: shanked, anger, dark, divorce, family,
Form: Narrative

Ah, Golfslangadang

...Grip it, rip it, stick it.
Bombed it, flopped it, topped it too.

Stay, sit, slice, scoot,
Run, kick, roll, draw,
Carry, fly, die, spin,
Watch the little ball go in.

Hop, get up, get down,
...

Categories: shanked, fun, funny, golf, imagery,
Form: Light Verse

Styler 2

...She was born from the belly of Mother Nature 
And kept to become 
A mother of many moons and many stars
The whole solar system shanked by her existence
From the Gods Igigi’s Anunnaki’s Titians an...

Categories: shanked, creation, crush, universe,
Form: I do not know?

I Must Kill My Monsters

...Surrounded by hate and negativity
This world is cruel only because they shape it to be
No one ever said life would be a breeze
I must kill my monster
I MUST KILL THESE MONSTERS IN MY LIFE

They...

Categories: shanked, anger, conflict, dark, how
Form: Free verse

In

...Doesn't matter what my name is. Certain types of men do certain types of things. Like join a terrorist group coz they believe they're right. I've been inside with them.                               ...

Categories: shanked, conflict, courage, political, prison,
Form: Free verse

Requiem For a Dram

...Most common folk may know of this
To be an act of despicable excess
A wasteful plea of conjured sin
A loathing grouse peppered with joy and the sting of relentless ugly
The dignity of the soul wh...

Categories: shanked, drink, eulogy, funny love,
Form: Free verse

Our Abandoned Theme Park

...When we first met here, it didn’t have such a dead feeling like it does now. This place used to have a soul, it used to be alive. Now it stands alone like a nameless grave. Forgotten and empty. Isn’t...

Categories: shanked, adventure, angst, life, loss,
Form: I do not know?

Broken Hearts, Broken Things

...This Poem Was Written In Math Class Passing Notes Between My Best Friend Jess (Rain) 
And I...Its Dedicated To John Hauser And Justice Hoffman. The Savages Of Our Hearts. 
It Starts With Her And Go...

Categories: shanked, lost loveheart, pain, heart,
Form: I do not know?

Broken Hearts, Broken Things

...This Poem Was Written In Math Class Passing Notes Between My Best Friend Brooke 
And I...Its Dedicated To John Hauser And Justice Hoffman. The Savages Of Our Hearts. 
It Starts With Her And Goes To...

Categories: shanked, heart, pain, heart, love,
Form: I do not know?