Categories:
shrugs, conflict, drug, society,
Form: Rhyme
We Speak the Same Shrugs
gorilla studies me
I study him
he smirks
so I do too
a mind melding
do we speak the same language?
no
but we speak the same shrugs and grunts
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Categories:
shrugs, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Oceans Rise - Fish Shrugs
The fish swam around
curious what he found
A brand-new ranch house
floating in Puget Sound
Nothing for him there
so he just shrugged
Unlike the poor humans
their home waterlogged
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Categories:
shrugs, fish, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Autumn Shrugs
Autumn shrugs off summer
like Alzheimer's shrugs off
wit, slowly and methodically;
purposeful and nonchalant.
This dire deterioration
welcomes dank darkness,
chilling and finite,
long-winded and overbreathed.
October winds shake and stir
the very foundations of our
civilizations, and rock the
metaphorical boat of blissful
nesciance; eventually capsizing
the bleeding vessel, until its
veins run dry with
suffocation.
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Categories:
shrugs, life
Form: Free verse
God Shrugs
"It's time to shut it down, my Lord,
the experiment has failed.
They just get crueler day by day
and thousands more are jailed.
And jail just makes them meaner,
their hearts are filled with hate.
They're cesspools filled with violence
and racism and rape.
Some fourteen million children
in America alone
go hungry each and every day
with no place to call home.
The government has
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Categories:
shrugs, faith, father, people, lost,
Form: Rhyme