Snow On Foliage
...Walk outside onto the scene,
pre-dawn gray, all is serene,
slivers of a morning bright,
on the pasture do alight.
October, but early snow,
came with night and winds that blow,
flakes strewn fro...
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Categories:
showerhead, appreciation, autumn, beauty, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
The Unpresidential Man of the Hour
...A man unpresidentially known for the showerhead
Msholozi, the man in charge of singlehandedly running a nation into crisis
With him at the helm the public anxiously watches as the state of things d...
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Categories:
showerhead, anger, corruption, deep, freedom,
Form: Free verse
My Saturday Morning Job
...Saturday mornings my list was quite clear,
Pull out the comet and toilet bowl brush.
Windex, perfect to polish the mirror,
Finish the toilet with one final flush.
Scrubbing the sink till faucet...
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Categories:
showerhead, child, childhood, memory, work,
Form: Sonnet
Cookie Cutter Day
...On a whim,
a demon will grab a fist full of mind.
Slap it down- roll it out- sprinkle it with lye.
Then pull out its cookie cutter heart.
press down hard...real hard...
Feed pieces of sanity t...
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Categories:
showerhead, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Grandma's Bathroom
...Fragile paper, white and quite a shaper rolled into a round
On a rod of plastic, tumbled gently draping to no abound
In the toilet room; a violet bloomed where stray peddles were found
Upon the wi...
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Categories:
showerhead, childhood, family, children, life,
Form: Free verse
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugh, So Darn Ugly
...G;Geico commercials B;(you knew this was coming); Billy Mays commercials U;
hour long imfomercials
G;Big, juicy homemade hamburgers B;White Castle belly burners
G; Best fast food place;by far;...
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Categories:
showerhead, funny, imagination, inspirational, life,
Form: List
My Life Is a Sink
...My life is a sink
Yours is the toilet
We both wash we both throw away
Nothing is rejected
You are porcelain
And your skin is hard
As hard as my eyes
Which are the faucet
And metal like the d...
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Categories:
showerhead, angst, on writing and
Form: Free verse