oh yesss it does happen
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mine tramp
through
thuh earth's lure (thoroughly mind ya)
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Categories:
sloven, adventure, beautiful, extended metaphor,
Form: Carpe Diem
Rebirth
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It's the weekend.
So here's a brief distraction for those needing something to read and absorb.
Salute.
Q:
What made you write poetry?
Was it an unconscious calling?...
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Categories:
sloven, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Two Besotted Beggars In Our Lives
...Prejudice and malice
Both besotted beggars
Gamboling, galumphing, griping and gripping a solstice
In limpid lives whose tigers and daggers
Stagger, simulate and strut along
Craven
Oblong, wro...
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Categories:
sloven, poems,
Form: Free verse
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
...I saw her just yesterday, the paragon
Of all that a woman could be. Tall and tan,
Proud and proper, short hair, not butch,
A beautiful woman dressed to the nines,
Dripping confidence like an emp...
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Categories:
sloven, women,
Form: Free verse
Baked Shepherd's Pie
...Poverty Slop and
jowls of ground beef.
Saliva to corn
that's creamed to belief.
Mashed silk potatoes
spread over the tongue
sealing meat in
to covered and mung.
Tin pan the Shepherd.
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Categories:
sloven, food,
Form: Couplet
Things I Happen To Like
...I like to watch skeins of geese flying in the autumn sky,
And I like the smell of frying bacon and luscious cherry pie!
I like to see the sun tinting Pikes Peak's crown in the early morn,
And th...
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Categories:
sloven, introspection, autumn, sun,
Form: Couplet
Let the Raw Drums Drum
...A misnomer … could it be?
Never! never? oh, no!
Could it be a gloss?
Devouring as it bursts my rose –
Yet! let me wash you
From the impurities far beyond
That a glimpse at my chaste gem
Shall ...
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Categories:
sloven, fantasyme, me,
Form: Sonnet