Hooray for Captain Spaulding
...Hooray for Captain Spaulding...
though he played only a cameo role
helping me secure corrective eyewear I sport
mucho gratitude to all parties involved
including the missus,
cuz she needed to ...
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Categories:
shortsightedness, 2nd grade, adventure, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Nature
...Dear January.
I don't deny that there are days of beauty;
days of temperate tones and warm blue skies.
I don't think I'm confused; so allow me a bit of muse.
Perhaps it's me and my shortsight...
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Categories:
shortsightedness, january, winter,
Form: Personification
legend's last moon -
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* I always felt like “Nessie” got a bad rap, being called a monster and a beast and all that, so I think this little piece of mythic imagery grew from that. I hope you enjoy. *
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Categories:
shortsightedness, fantasy, moon, myth, nature,
Form: Free verse
Shortsightedness
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Shortsightedness
8-10-2016
Many times, after thinking my adversary
Was another entity or individual
I have discovered that it was
The horse I had hobbled in my barn.
Tom
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Categories:
shortsightedness, me,
Form: Free verse
Tunnel Vision
...On hindsight
my eyesight
could be called narrowmindedness
due to periods of shortsightedness
Any stubbornness
or obsession is
called a one-track mind
due to my blind side
The myopia
and ...
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Categories:
shortsightedness, irony, light,
Form: Rhyme
Excuses For 'Dick-Ta-Tor-Ship' - the Short Man Syndrome
...Height is not an issue
But today I got introduced to a nasty verbal stew
It was this one bullish kind of comment
Of odium and torment
Initially I thought, it was human nature
Coming from a rel...
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Categories:
shortsightedness, anger, christian, discrimination, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
The Stirrings of a Bug
...I have trodden many a creature under foot
A few, unbeknownst
The bug has an intolerably short life span
And shorter yet, under foot
Do I traipse out of spite or cruel wonder?
No, it is just my disreg...
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Categories:
shortsightedness, death, life, loss, lost,
Form: Free verse
A Worthless Support
...The sands of time has put us
in a
world apart.
Every phase of my existence
opens
the penultimate chapter of
your
inestimable worth.
For being true in my salt
My rejection nurture love
a...
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Categories:
shortsightedness, adventureme,
Form: ABC
On the High Ways
...So speedy again on the high ways
Trees and shrubs glancing through my eyes
As if they were ever in motion
With this wireless whooping sound like a rumbling thunderstorm
I closely observed the backw...
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Categories:
shortsightedness, nature, me,
Form: Verse