Brain Food
...
My well-meaning doctor said
my brain is close to dead.
Lay off meats and fats, he said,
eat fish, all you want, instead.
Fish is high in omega-3,
great for rebooting mind deficiency.
But...
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Categories:
skeptically, humor,
Form: Light Verse
friend
...Can you make a friend— like a craft project?
I know, I hear this parental voice, “just be yourself.”
All of my classes this semester will be in one building, but I’m a control freak, I wanted to ...
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Categories:
skeptically, friend, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Convoluted Conscience
...
Rhapsody of rainbow
morphs into morose mélange
of shredded exuberance,
bleeding colors
bleached from collapsed cloud
of twilight zone
embroidered by sunset spectrum,
profoundly permeate...
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Categories:
skeptically, analogy, imagery, life, sad,
Form: Free verse
the US election
...The USA Election
The near future is catching up
the American presidential election
is looming
This time, there is talk of a woman,
who has charmed many with her
furious laughter
Th...
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Categories:
skeptically, abortion, abuse, adventure, anger,
Form: Free verse
That Robin
...Female, I felt! Chirped differently than on other days!
As though crying and screaming in many ways
It might not be owing to the change of weather, I know.
Nor, due to the drizzles, visited its ne...
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Categories:
skeptically, bird, nature,
Form: Free verse
Brother Whosoever
...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To a dog, an empty hand's cause
even a well-intentioned one
flinches an involuntary jaw..
your neighbor's just the same.
Have you grown leery the open palm...
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Categories:
skeptically, brother, people, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
My God, Thank You For Commanding Me To Be Strong
...February 13 Scripture Meditations Based on Joshua 1-5
Key Verse – Joshua 1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy G...
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Categories:
skeptically, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Behind Sunglasses
...I was at a friend's pool after school.
She loaned me this impossibly tiny bathing suit
I looked at it skeptically but I didn’t ask whose it was.
It smelled faintly of chlorine.
we were supposed t...
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Categories:
skeptically, 10th grade, brother, desire,
Form: Free verse
With Jaundiced Eye
...With jaundiced eye I look at the politician’s vow
To make our world a better place in four years,
Cure all our ills, and provide calm for our fears,
And I say to myself, skeptically, exactly “How?...
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Categories:
skeptically, angst, character, political, religion,
Form: Quatrain
A Small Interlude Between Writing
...Popular Mozart melodies are playing on a low loop.
Five people tense as a clinic nurse
calls us in or leaves us hanging.
I know the drill,
she’ll lead me reluctantly to the scales,
the usual s...
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Categories:
skeptically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Small Interlude Between Writing
...Popular Mozart melodies are playing on a low loop.
Five people tense as a clinic nurse
calls us in or leaves us hanging.
I know the drill,
she’ll lead me reluctantly to the scales,
the usual s...
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Categories:
skeptically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Morning Joy
...Awakening near the new dawn full of joy,
[this inexplicable sense of happiness]
feeling that all is well within my soul when
gladness, like soothing water, rolls over me,
bathing me in the fr...
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Categories:
skeptically, joy, morning, sunshine,
Form: Free verse
His Master's Voice
...dog hears
His Master's Voice
music to a dog's ears
iconic RCA Victor's
Nipper
December 29, 2020
Contest: Trademark ~ Quintain
Sponsor: Sara Kendrick
AN: After he had finished his famou...
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Categories:
skeptically, 11th grade, dog, music,
Form: Cinquain
Credit Ads, Which Sweet Like a Songs of Robins
...Credit ads, which sweet like a songs of robins,
Should be read skeptically, not as it shown.
Not "Just take a loan! No any problems!",
But as, "No any problems? Just take a loan!"...
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Categories:
skeptically, business, money,
Form: Quatrain
Barney's Song
...As I awake this morning
I remember a Barney song
for my more oppositionally misaligned daughter.
I love you
and you love me
even if I couldn't realign my four B's,
Brain,
and Branches,
and...
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Categories:
skeptically, day, dream, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
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