money lines and ropes
...Two or too provoking thoughts
A safe place i write of and at
We both travel throught
And in the invisible line
I am not found
The civil rights protests
Doth though forge ahead
Inside the build...
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Categories:
slumming, books, dark, education,
Form: Free verse
My Road
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My Road
By: Miracle Man
9/26/2024
My road in life, by choice, I have traveled,
without any vision of where it might end.
Many miles were smooth, some were graveled,
with unforeseen ...
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Categories:
slumming, cancer, god, health, jesus,
Form: Quatrain
PS Male Poets: Six Years Later
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6 years ago, I wrote limericks about 5 PS poets. Today, I've posted
about another 5 and will continue to add more... before 6 years.
I tickled funny bones of five Souper men
So, I gave though...
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Categories:
slumming, how i feel, humorous,
Form: Limerick
the days of our lives
...O’er March 14 pie crusts we kissed
On 4/20 joints we could twist
It’s hardly slumming
When your date's coming
May the 4th be with you for this tryst...
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Categories:
slumming, appreciation, blessing, day, dream,
Form: Limerick
Christmas in the Sixties
...Christmas day seemed to always land on a Sunday, when I was a miss.
Weird, but church is what I always remember every single Christmas
We would wake up too early, and get sent rapidly back to bed.
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Categories:
slumming, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Someday
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Someday
(I’ll Tell You How I Really Feel)
Miracle Man
October 27, 2023
Protesters are cowards who get things by force,
they scream and holler until voices are hoarse.
They game our...
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Categories:
slumming, america, change, how i
Form: Quatrain
She Don'T Really Need Ya
...You're stone cold in your heart man
Hard as solid steel.
And the love she has for you man
Is on the spinning wheel.
Cause you've been bumming around, slumming around,
You've thrown her...
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Categories:
slumming, angst, emotions, feelings, for
Form: Rhyme
Wokes Told To Folks Were a Hoax
...when we will see wokes when Trump had lusted
they mentioned to folks he would never be trusted
that was all a hoax with him were disgusted
a point must have missed...
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Categories:
slumming, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
The Villanelle Story of Junebug and Taten
...A Villanelle by Jelsr
Junebug couldn't stop thinking about the hood the house
It was just so slumming and urban
Never had he known anything so robust
That morning, Junebug was sh...
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Categories:
slumming, analogy, anxiety, funny, hope,
Form: Villanelle
Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 4
...Steve: This sounds like the traditional Hindu caste system. I get it; all that Kama Sutra stuff.
John: You mean Kama Sutra IPA? It’s a local brew. Not bad.
Steve: Douche bag say wha?
John: W...
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Categories:
slumming, allegory, society,
Form: Prose Poetry
One Mans Opinion
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One Man’s Opinion
(Take From Some, Give To Others)
Written: by Miracle Man
9/11/2021
For those who are wealthy, many show disdain,
talk of income redistribution drives me insane.
As...
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Categories:
slumming, blessing, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Two Lovers Xi - Carefully Chosen Words
...He is looking at her a bit sanctimoniously
He is about to mansplain again
"Am I spooking you?" he asks grinning
"I'm not trying to propose, Cutie.
God no. Could you imagine?
I just think it's ...
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Categories:
slumming, discrimination, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Bizarre
...unusual worker
the placid mundane run when they see her coming
berserker
off the wall weird
office great but now we’re slumming
so smeared
she’s flawed
quickly dumbing
odd
unusual work...
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Categories:
slumming, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Madame Catherine Fancy Cat
...Madame Catherine with her bouffant so big and mighty
She wears her blue silk frock and pantaloons with attitude all righty
We see her in the garden, putting on airs, for she is the queen.
If you d...
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Categories:
slumming, cat,
Form: Prose Poetry
Suggestible Me
...Suggestible me
I had ended up in a country with a strange pub culture
and obsession with the class which I found restrictive.
No posh pubs if the working class and not slumming it
if you we...
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Categories:
slumming, anger, blessing,
Form: Blank verse
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