Mixing Paints
...I paint a smile on my face, mid-poem the smile
begins to crumble.
Who are these dark angels that cast such shadows
over my laughter.
The brush falls from my hand, now I sketch in charcoal -
teet...
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Categories:
snatch up, poetry,
Form: Free verse
144 - Shedeur Sanders
...Let’s talk about it.
The projected disrespected was selected! Yes selected, not by man, but by God.
144, yes, that’s the number it took for Shedeur Sanders to be drafted.
Let’s talk about these ...
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Categories:
snatch up, america, betrayal, confidence, evil,
Form: Narrative
Budget Ship
...Mid-day vibration is coming to town and the people are running around getting ready for a big party to celebrate their musical history.
More than a hundred ships are docked at sea
And my beau i...
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Categories:
snatch up, america, community, environment, farewell,
Form: Narrative
The words you could not say
...How often do you meet someone who (almost) never apologises? Or admits they're wrong? And if you show compassion and empathy towards them, the greater their unyielding behaviour?
Remember that if ...
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Categories:
snatch up, emotions, feelings, humanity, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Two Floors High
...The books, two floors high,
levitating toward my upper limbs.
Not costly. Worth every penny.
Spread out by the tablefuls.
Grateful for this claustrophobic,
pyrophobic atmosphere.
Pages fingered...
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Categories:
snatch up, books,
Form: Free verse
Seafood Sundays
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*Been posting some heavy stuff lately. Time for a bit of levity.
"Hey babe, you're never gonna believe this. Crab fishing in Alaska has been cancelled for 2023."
"I don't understand, dear."
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Categories:
snatch up, humor,
Form: Narrative
Her Jewelry Box
...When I asked my wife to marry me, ‘neath a golden moon,
I said I could not give her the moon and the stars, but,
“Each special day I will give you a piece of jewelry,” I said,
Then, jokingly, “...
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Categories:
snatch up, for her,
Form: Free verse
The Road To the Super Bowl
...The Vikings and Bills, two teams that
share a feat, four trips to the Super
Bowl all ending in defeat.
A feeling of such sadness, that's
hard to put in words, creating deep
emotions, that are ...
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Categories:
snatch up, appreciation, devotion, football, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Petsmart Stratagem Employed To Generate Business
...Upon Googling Petco
regarding purchasing gift card
for eldest daughter
(she tends two beautiful female felines)
Petsmart website appeared right and center
innocuously distracting purported inten...
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Categories:
snatch up, animal, appreciation, cat, creation,
Form: Free verse
Over and Over and Over Again
...Picasso sold only one painting to his brother.
I have sold at least ten to my best friends, maybe fifteen.
So can I die happy? Not yet.
Never understood Monet’s consistent drawings of tree afte...
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Categories:
snatch up, art,
Form: Free verse
Wild Country Abundance
...Wild as ivy vines climbing up pines,
in the outskirts of nature
where mountain lions purr,
my lungs expand like the open land.
Breathing in peace, as rippling as a creek,
watching an eagle sna...
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Categories:
snatch up, animal, creation, growth, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Gypsy Soul
...Gypsy soul
you thought you was something well said. Hypocrites
as long as my heart pumps and my brain works my feet still grounded firm
i will always fight and chase after my other half of my...
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Categories:
snatch up, beauty, care, caregiving, child,
Form: Free verse
Zany Zoo
...the Zany Zoo
The awakening of the dawn like a butterfly busting through the cocoon.
The rhino's thyroid condition was exacerbated as the cheetah conflict
continued.
As I drank in and tasted the...
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Categories:
snatch up, adventure, cheer up, day,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Ideas Begin To Percolate
...Ideas begin to percolate
They pop out of me in bubbles
Floating out the window
Stopping traffic
One hesitates
Apparently feels badly.
Changes directions and floats back.
I pop it and reptile, ...
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Categories:
snatch up, imagination, inspiration, perspective, poetess,
Form: Narrative
All You Have To Do Is Fly
..."This is no place for you!"
She woke from a sound sleep.
The message was from her sister.
It had made its way into Pink Faerie's dream.
She looked around.
Bluebird was grinning at her from the...
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Categories:
snatch up, bird, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
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