Holy Roller
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There once was an old Pope from Rome
who had the Good Book a huge tome
an altar ego and mass appeal
so he made the Vatican home
2015 he addressed the environment
on climate change caus...
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Categories:
soft soap, fun, humorous, silly, word
Form: Rhyme
Gretna Green
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Under eighteen
hot tears spilling
nowhere near serene
at the end of your rope
cannot cope
need fulfilling
please don't mope
there's always hope
here's the dope
find someone thrilli...
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Categories:
soft soap, funny love, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Friendship is like a well baked cake
...As with a well baked cake,
That will not be palatable,
If one does not have a recipe to follow,
And take too may shortcuts,
A well baked friendship will need the right amount of patience,
And ta...
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Categories:
soft soap, analogy, best friend, care,
Form: Didactic
Frost's Forever Joke
...Have you not felt that subtly zany urge
That blinding flash of wonder’s pulsing surge
Rippling across your tingling hairs
that silent shout “go on, nobody cares”
Then leapt across the chasm of ...
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Categories:
soft soap, humor, life,
Form: Verse
City Jump
...Gaggles of ghetto girls mollycoddle, dandle cranky babies;
some cradled on arm and hip, some hustled along
on low-rolling rides. Granma’s noodle their talk
together with headshakes, busy body elbo...
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Categories:
soft soap, poetry,
Form: Free verse
City Jump
...Black girls mollycoddle,
dandle cranky babies;
some cradled on arm and hip,
some hustled along
on low-riding wheels.
Brown men lounge outside bodega’s,
some soft-soap, play imaginary guitars,...
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Categories:
soft soap, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Soft Soaping
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Soft Soaping
Written: by Tom Wright
3/15/2016
Don’t soft soap me attempting to gain my favor,
Or use abrasive words thinking they might sway.
After time dedicated to thought, I will ...
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Categories:
soft soap, integrity, me,
Form: Lyric
Fairytale Beginnings
...Edenic-winds release brash Autumn’s kiss
— a mellifluous flutter of gold leaves.
The confetti-glitter surrounds their hearts,
a-shimmering around the swoon of bliss.
The fall of rushing birds a...
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Categories:
soft soap, autumn, love,
Form: Rhyme
Domestic Violence Survivor
...i'd allowed you in again even thou my soul
was shattered god was quite displeased as you
hammered your dark fist against my rib cage
senseless i thought an yet you were forgiven again
even mo...
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Categories:
soft soap, abuse, america, faith, home,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Nights In White Satin
...Next to each other on a fabric of satin-
I'm floating on air with the richness of sin
Grappling yarns with our version of Latin
Helps passion along, helping feelings within
Trying positions ...
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Categories:
soft soap, lost love, love,
Form: Acrostic