Categories:
shifty, adventure,
Form: Monoku
Shifty Eyes
Shifty eyes, hidden agenda
Voice of conscience stifled
Endless desires, new addenda
Worthless objects rifled
Spiralling confusion
Dungeons of delusion
Until head-heart fusion
Our heart sighs
Shifty eyes
12-March-2022
Quietus
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Categories:
shifty, desire, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
'shifty' Lars
He was known by his nickname 'Shifty' Lars
Who specialized in stealing brand-new cars
He'd never get caught
(Or, that's what he thought)
He's now serving ten to life
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Categories:
shifty, career, humorous, prison,
Form: Limerick
Shifty
Shifty was my friend
Shifty was my lover
He lived not to very far
A day's drive in a car
Empty promises were his
But let me tell you this
When he lay beside me
Not another would I see
His caress and touch
Gave me such a rush
Puddles and pools
Like to intertwined fools
Moans and cries
The neighbors none to wise
Aroma of sex
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Categories:
shifty, funny love,
Form: Limerick
Six Simpering Thick-Skinned Shifty Spinster Sisters
Six simpering thick-skinned shifty spinster sisters stiffly sit
Stitching sticky skid-marked scivvies of sixty sick stingy sailors.
Six sick from stitching scivvies of sixty sick scrimping sailors
Stickle over nickels; those insistent six thick-skinned spinster tailors!
For Joe Sandler's Tongue Twister Challenge Poetry Contest
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Categories:
shifty, funny, sick,
Form: Alliteration
Ol' Shifty Eyes
Never thought
I’d see you here
Perhaps somewhere less noisy would have been the better option
This will all all start with a sneer
and the clouds seek us for fear
that the effortless job bestowed by the angels
who dwell in their angles
will deem them useless another year
Dipped in smoke screens
we will revive
Draped in gasoline
we will
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Categories:
shifty, art
Form: Free verse