Long Suffering Angel
...My angel I have heard on high.
I'm lost. I don't know who I am.
You seem so high up in the sky,
and I am really in a jam.
By the tinkling of heaven's chime,
I ask myself, suppress a grin, ...
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Categories:
shrilly, angel, humor, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Matthew delivers his latest bullet tin
...Matthew delivers his latest bullet – tin...
from the Harris-Walz front
where liberal minded socially progressive
electorate doth agonizingly grunt
targeted in crosshairs scoped out
eager and ...
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Categories:
shrilly, absence, america, angel, august,
Form: Free verse
THE GANGSTER, Spoken by the popular SILENT ONE
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Appreciation:
A big thank you Silent One for your splendid narration of this poem.
THE GANGSTER
Through foreboding, whispering,...
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Categories:
shrilly, art, conflict, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
With Apologies to Mister Poe
...Late at night I hear their screeching,
Feel their evil arms outreaching
Like some minister a-preaching
In a temple made of light.
How my poor ears get to ringing,
As a band of angels shrilly si...
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Categories:
shrilly, anxiety, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
A Halloween Tale 2 - Potd
...To Kill a Wild Rabbit - FICTION
The small winding valley was cold and dank.
Nothing stirred as darkness descended quickly.
Dusk brought an ominous cloud of evil fog
that, like a black s...
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Categories:
shrilly, abuse, anger, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Sad Life 1-10
...Sad Life
At three years old my parents divorced
Father got full custody
Mother, visitation rights
My sister and I were too young
yet still we understood
Into our life another came
and she...
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Categories:
shrilly, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: I do not know?
Summer Sounds
...Superb the sounds of summer’s soliloquy
So sweetly singing the sparrow’s song,
Sometimes she sounds suddenly sonorous
Since startled sparrows sing shrilly strong,
Summer sounds so sin...
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Categories:
shrilly, bird, sound, summer, word
Form: Alliteration
Dance of Doubt
...As I write my brain whispers
wicked words of doubt
soft as a newborn’s sleepy sigh
the babbling of a bubbling brook
before it suddenly begins to shout
screeching like the ear piercing
feedbac...
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Categories:
shrilly, anxiety, confidence, dance, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Hawks and Doves
...Did you shout out in shock that day as she suddenly stuck
her spiked heel into your spine kicking you to the curb
through the open car door before slamming her foot
on the gas and speeding away...
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Categories:
shrilly, betrayal, bird, break up,
Form: Rhyme
A Shout Into the Void
...I encounter ebbs and flows, a peaceful solace sigh.
Wedged on the cusp of a cliff to endeavor a descry.
I'm heading somewhere to ascertain a fair minding.
Although I've ultimately a...
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Categories:
shrilly, analogy, bereavement, caregiving, community,
Form: Rhyme
Her Parting Song
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Overshadowed by the green canopy of trees,
My heart finds its peace amid the singing of birds...
The cuckoo calls out to me shrilly,
I raise my head and look her in the eye,
She a...
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Categories:
shrilly, bird, nature, peace,
Form: Verse
Sister Sarah
...Sometimes Sister Sarah seems subjugated
Sometimes she seems simply silly,
Sometimes she suddenly screeches shrilly
Sometimes she sounds sophisticated,
Sometimes Sister Sarah shrugs surreally.
...
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Categories:
shrilly, word play,
Form: Alliteration
Star Struck Or Star Stuck
...Star struck or star stuck?
I visualize a star point piercing her forehead
Shrilly she shrieks and screams.
Is there a difference? She asks.
This question turns her into a unicorn.
The point is g...
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Categories:
shrilly, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Willy Milly Dilly
...I know a boy named Willy Wolly Way
Parties all night and sleeps all day.
He is a boozer. He is a shmoozer.
Like a tomcat,he must stray.
He is a layer.He is a player.
I know a boy named Willy Wol...
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Categories:
shrilly, anger, betrayal, change, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo Levi
...World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi
Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch
You who live secure
in your comfortable houses,
who return each evening to find...
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Categories:
shrilly, evil, holocaust, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
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