Baboon Monkey
...Baboon monkey often snatches kids, children, and the elderly's food...
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Categories:
snatches, adventure,
Form: Monoku
Bite Me, Lady Luck
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Doggone it, I used to make a killin' at casinos,
R o l l i n g sevens; killing em' all softly
The way The Rolling Stones kill it on the stage.
Brimming with confidence, I ma...
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Categories:
snatches, fun, humor, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
The Crushing Crash
...I got crashed; I became crashed;
There must be some reason;
I endured when I was lashed;
Still, all slandered me of treason.
I get flown by the Pilot,
Who, too, succumbed with me;
Tooth and n...
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Categories:
snatches, cry, death, destiny, farewell,
Form: Quatrain
An Addled Alphabet
...A is for gasoline and matches
B is for Las Cruces, Lincoln County and Natchez
C is for zebras wearing stripes
D is for frozen broken pipes
E is girls with long ...
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Categories:
snatches, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
JAZZ
...Nail walking down the street
Carrying a bagful to fix something
For the master who owns my dreaming
Storefronts lolling sidewalks asleep
Night quiet jazz, Erie, PA
The endless road breaking cart...
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Categories:
snatches, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Great Divide
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Of tears through the years, we had traveled long
Remembering snatches of childhood song
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Categories:
snatches, cousin, death, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
How much phosphorus in a human body
...How much positive phosphorus is in a human body?
I hear the facts in tiny whispered scientific snatches
Stated by a biologist named Mr. John T. Roddy
Each of us has enough to make twenty-two hundr...
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Categories:
snatches, body, science,
Form: Free verse
Blue Eyes - 02
...Blue eyes
The beads seller
Snatches the heart of love
Girl of the Ascetic Kumbh Fair
Warmly
©Mahtab Bangalee...
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Categories:
snatches, girl,
Form: Cinquain
The Person I want to be
...Swirling my eyes around and ‘round
Into a pile of leaves,
I see my assemblage point swirl, too.
I'm looking back at me in a tornado of thoughts
Assembling the ground around below me,
My suppo...
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Categories:
snatches, desire,
Form: Free verse
REALITY IN TRANSITION
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Thought crystallizes. Its edges become sharp and hard.
Soon we begin to believe the illusion of its boundaries.
We forget it is a wave of energy, in flux, pulsating,
Reaching out to every glo...
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Categories:
snatches, change,
Form: Dramatic Verse
In the Shadow of Sunlight
...In the Shadow of Sunlight
It is one of those glaringly bright days that
make your eyes water painfully.
You can't see everything at once but in short glimpses and peeks. Between blinks, half an ...
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Categories:
snatches, death, dream, sunshine,
Form: Free verse
The Tooth Faerie, Unhinged
...Oh, how you brushed and washed me,
And lovingly dental flossed me -
How tragically you lost me,
When I was extracted from your skull
By an overzealous faerie,
Toothless, hideous and scary,...
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Categories:
snatches, humor, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Shared Torch Lake
...I rock in this outdoor cheap chair
Its cushion foam like ice cream
Half-eaten by the winter mice in storage
I don’t mind
Don’t need a full seat to see before me
The drop off on Torch Lake
I...
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Categories:
snatches, earth, father, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse
The melancholy Of This Mysty Rain
...I hang on the small
umbrella, but I fail;
a whirlwind snatches it away,
it's more violent than a hungry eagle
swooping down to catch its prey...
all is in shambles, it scares the beagle
that f...
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Categories:
snatches, death, emotions, fear, hope,
Form: Rhyme
The Melancholy Of This Misty Rain
...I hang on the small
umbrella, but I fail;
a whirlwind snatches it away,
it's more violent than a hungry eagle
swooping down to catch its prey...
all is in shambles, it scares the beagle
that f...
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Categories:
snatches, death, emotions, fear, hope,
Form: Rhyme
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