Spoken Warriors
...Spoken warriors, with rhythm words as their sound swords/
A poetry slam where words and body language put the audience in a sweaty heap/
the spectrum of a creative sound off between spoken word poe...
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Categories:
slant rhyme, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Mahogany And Ebony
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An absolute fantasy, a cure for reality;
Mahogany and ebony;
It seems to go on endlessly,
a pirouette through eternity;
Mahogany and ebony,
the slant rhyme of each other’s poetry;
Blood...
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Categories:
slant rhyme, emotions, feelings, magic,
Form: Free verse
MOTHER SAID
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Divine counsel marked by wise comment
Came from our Mom with love’s caring depth
Along cautions to which we obliged.
“First, do your best in every task’s breadth
Always enjoy chores m...
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Categories:
slant rhyme, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Didactic
This Whole Thing Could Be Upside-Down
...Don't even think about the title.
Just wait a while.
Be yourself.
Look in the mirror.
Universes are flooding through your eyes,
Back-and-forth.
It's a pleasure to be read at all.
Would you r...
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Categories:
slant rhyme, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Tale of Supply and Demand
...Tale of Supply and Demand
Some sloppy light has fallen down,
Where checkered mice drive kittens mad,
And all the cheese is owned by dogs
Who ride all night on giant slugs.
Into this ...
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Categories:
slant rhyme, fantasy,
Form: Light Verse
White Sands and Temporary Oblivion
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White Sand and Temporary Oblivion
For an aching moment
I faced dazzling
Gypsum and glass as splinters
Of sunlight pierced the air
Bouncing bright off the landscape at
Alamogordo ---fat...
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Categories:
slant rhyme, angst,
Form: Blank verse
Showdown Slam Short Version
...I bathe myself in the madness of rhyme
I save myself for the insanity of time
Whether it's internal rhyme or slant rhyme
I hope you'll find that I'll never mind
Because my verse is defined by my ...
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Categories:
slant rhyme, confidence, slam, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
Garden Party
...All dressed in green, the rose bush beams
like a child's blushing cheeks and pursed lips;
these debutants jilted by bees
forever wanting to be kissed.
A carpet of phlox giggles like a young lady
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Categories:
slant rhyme, garden, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Persimmon Whiffler
...(A Slant-rhyme Sonnet)
As autumn treads across our piebald patch,
she drops her frost to shelter, soft as wool,
but brilliant blossoms curl in moonlight watch
and shrink beneath the snap of hoar...
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Categories:
slant rhyme, animal, autumn, food, weather,
Form: Sonnet
Soon All Things Will Owe Themselves To Progress
...Soon all things will owe themselves to progress
and nature will neither wane nor wax
accosted by bulbs and cog-laden streams.
Children in god-awful Christmas jumpers
gather around the May-pole to wat...
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Categories:
slant rhyme, science, visionary,
Form: Sonnet
The Deep Ocean of the Mind
...THE DEEP OCEAN OF THE MIND
The warm pebbles touch my foot, my sole,
In the turbulent shallows of tide and wave.
My waking self feels the moon and sun pull.
And hidden in shells are beauteous...
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Categories:
slant rhyme, allegory,
Form: Verse
Jonson's Ghost
...The inn had gone to waste: I’d sold it off in haste.
Awaking in the gloom, as orbs lit up the room,
I recognised the ghost of Jonson, the old host.
I said, ‘I thought you’d come’ - and poured myse...
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Categories:
slant rhyme, business
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)