Short Attributing Poems

Momma's stockings she made hanged on cherry wood
Attributing back to the days that she could
Nevertheless filled them with treats as she should

Tickled us with stories by the hearth Christmas eve
Enchanting us with smiles, playing traditional "Greensleeves"
Loveable mother I sit, looking at the mantel and grieve...

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Downfall of Lucifer from heaven having sinned
Against God or is it the planet Venus at dawn,
Yesteryear’s mythology or today’s scientific fact?
Story of man is made up of myths and folklores
Tainted with superstitious shenanigans and mumbo jumbo
Attributing natural phenomenal events to acts of gods
Racing against the coming onslaught of Kaliyuga. 
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Ah, you are attributing virtues to the wrong things.
The touch and kiss of the past are no more,
The bedroom curtain protects nothing,
Helicopters are not dragonflies,
The lights that trace the sky spew blood.
Why don't you put your shoes?
Why don't you get up and go look
The sinister candlestick of the stars,
The compact fog that hides the truth
And the ruined street, open in pain....

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Triolets have an interesting pattern ABaAabAB
It is a mystery to me how this pattern evolved
With some attributing it to a lazy poet, you see,
Triolets have an interesting pattern ABaAabAB.
A Triolet has no C, and, clearly no need for a D
If the poet makes it through line 6, problem solved
Triolets have an interesting pattern ABaAabAB
It is a mystery to me how this pattern evolved. 

Written October 5, 2022...

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