My Old Holden Astra
...24 seven,
Eight,
Nine,
Ten to the second.
Heaven ate my pancreas,
Please pretend eleven likes me.
Twelve times its elapsed,
Survival wasn’t even likely.
Shelved minds,
And a brain co...
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Categories:
slenderly, age, color, confidence, extended
Form: Free verse
5th Avenue Sunrise
...jampacked city streets
that jangled and banged
in the raucous jarring day
shifted
from business to boogaloo
squeezing into moonlight
party lights
gin and lime-kissed
gimlet sequined dress
st...
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Categories:
slenderly, city, culture, day, new
Form: Free verse
Willows Setting
...Willow trees wave gently on the stream.
In the breeze, casting cover for hiding fish.
Thin trees float readily as if lost in a dream.
If only a breeze would bestow my wish.
The wa...
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Categories:
slenderly, analogy, appreciation, river, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Tell This Tale Tenderly
...their twin heart fires alighted
two passionate flames
one truly was excited
other full of blames
their merger was completing
disappointment too
her high hopes were depleting
she was glad the...
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Categories:
slenderly, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Magufulization
...Slenderly community
The land of sobers
Enough for plunderers
Ground of Ivory
Home of diamond and gold
Is now Magufulized
No more embezzling
Lazy are working
Respecting their roles
No mo...
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Categories:
slenderly, africa, appreciation,
Form: Ballad
Blessings For Thanksgiving
...United at the family hearth the united kindred do gather,
Heart and home filled with holiday warmth, these are the
Blessings of Thanksgiving.
Legacy’s treasured reunion, our loved ones sharing tra...
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Categories:
slenderly, adventure, america, family, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Commando Death
...Felled down to ground by a terrorist’s round,
A rendezvous with death.
Twas the destiny by fate indeed, that Unnikrishnan met,
Plucked away into his prime, gallant efforts in vain.
Had he hav...
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Categories:
slenderly, warworld,
Form: Heroic Couplet