As Clean as a Whistle
...As Clean as a Whistle
The park is a dance of colour
as leaves pirouette and waltz
around brazen, undressed trees.
November, and the sun sits weakly
even rather streakily in the sky
while I fo...
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Categories:
skedaddled, dog,
Form: Free verse
Surreal cartwheel sublime PANTomime time
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No channel skipping ..no flannel...it was so gripping…hearts melt…Pant's ripping svelte pelt and belt..stripping and whipping..the fab never drab Rishab lab..was it real..felt like I was tripping… ...
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Categories:
skedaddled, sports,
Form: Free verse
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part i
...Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine
("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered
after assassinating Julius Caesar.
Alte...
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Categories:
skedaddled, 10th grade, adventure, allah,
Form: Free verse
Uneven Distribution
...A Lombardian young man nicknamed Stan;
delivered Amazon stuff in his van.
They didn’t pay very much
being so out of touch;
so he skedaddled back home to Milan....
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Categories:
skedaddled, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Bug On a Rug
...Large black hairy spider on a black rug,
trod on it with a bare foot.
Did not see it, felt it though.
skedaddled over to a chair to take a look.
Yellow spider pus, stiff broken spider legs,
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Categories:
skedaddled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Equestrian First-Class
...To become an equestrian first-class
Jerry had to learn to ride on the grass
He took off the saddle
The equus skedaddled
Poor Jerry! He thought 'bareback' meant bare-hass...
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Categories:
skedaddled, horse, humor, success,
Form: Limerick
Booth Made Famous On April 15th Mdccclxv
...Booth made famous on April 15th, MDCCCLXV...
Sic semper tyrannis ad mortem
("Thus always I bring death to tyrants").
Ever since early forerunners
of twenty first century
mankind (sprinted
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Categories:
skedaddled, animal, confusion, family, fear,
Form: Free verse
Circa Sixty One Years Ago July 6th 2001
...Circa sixty one years ago July 6th, 2001 -
birth of dear beloved wife
We now get along swimmingly
analogous to this bro and his older sis
on the cusp of our gifted silver married years
if her ...
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Categories:
skedaddled, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
An Epitaph
...The days of happiness skedaddled
And made a grimace out of the wrinkled face
Which in a drunken stupor , saddled
With the burden of desires , unlike a sage
Broke into a lugubrious psalm.
Spurs...
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Categories:
skedaddled, death, deep, emotions, endurance,
Form: Epitaph
Death Is Ugly
...Oh death,
You are ugly!
Get away from me!
Each time you laugh
Your guttural laugh,
Like a Python,
I know you have devoured
Another poor soul
I know because evil forest
Lives next door
Ever...
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Categories:
skedaddled, art, death, hyperbole, poetry,
Form: Personification
Turtle and the Wintu Maiden
...A beautiful Wintu girl reached puberty. Her sisters were sent to find
maple bark to make her an apron.
It so happened that Turtle, the mischievous son of the mighty ‘Sky
Turtle’ stopped at th...
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Categories:
skedaddled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Being Dauntless
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Being Dauntless
Written: by Miracle man
1-20-2020
When younger I was dauntless,
and in thought yet remain.
But due to time passing,
things aren’t quite the same.
The times are lo...
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Categories:
skedaddled, fear,
Form: Lyric
Depressing Thoughts For Today
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Depressing Thoughts for Today
5-29-2016
With aging came a bad attitude,
The things I enjoy, I can no longer do
The few things I can do,
I have no interest in.
Little pleases me,
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Categories:
skedaddled, anxiety, depression, god, health,
Form: Free verse
The Onset of Old Age
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The Onset of Old age
Written: by Miracle Man
1-20-2019
Was when our get up and go,
Had suddenly skedaddled.
And with serious health issues,
We suddenly found ourselves saddled.
Bu...
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Categories:
skedaddled, age,
Form: Lyric
Skedaddle
...Skedaddle
Sneakily
incognito
Tip-toe
to her chamber door,
Whereupon
it was ajar,
Never ajar
was it before.
Cloak and dagger
I did intrude
Across her
chamber floor,
Thereup...
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Categories:
skedaddled, betrayal, love hurts, murder,
Form: Rhyme
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