A Stranger's Prayer
...Silly wisps of her raven hair flutter
In the winds of the long-short corridor of summer;
They snivel with the whims of cosseted sots,
Sinking in the futile harmony of winking beasts.
Pretty whisk...
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Categories:
sots, anxiety, life, prayer,
Form: Free verse
New Sonnet 1 2025 'You Are Become a Dodge of Love My Dearest'
...You are become a dodge of love, My Dearest…
Or there are arrows other than my own,
That would entendril you once they have pierced,
That will deprive you of a higher throne…
Yet, I'll not Queen y...
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Categories:
sots, confusion, heartbreak, love hurts,
Form: Sonnet
I Refuse To Mourn
...I refuse to mourn
Your death
Mr. Dead President!
I refuse to sit here
And pretend to have forgotten
How much your own people
Waited to experience the sweetness
Of a time like this!
I ...
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Categories:
sots, anger, political,
Form: Lyric
The Answer To Complaint Part 3
...You split yourselves in countless sects, In classes high and low;
Think you the world its gifts will still on such as you bestow?
Who now forgetfully neglect My Rasool’s Law sublime?
And whose liv...
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Categories:
sots, allah, faith,
Form: Heroic Couplet
The Land of Purple Thunder
...When the world is cross and dreary
There’s a place to calm the weary
I find the secret door down under
To seek the land of purple thunder
On sands of time, the beach ...
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Categories:
sots, beautiful, beauty, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Couplet
Covered Dishes Part 3
...Your sullen muted whispers,
wafting in this dank whiskey inn,
are falling on wide-open ears, except,
your mousey annoying voice lacerates my brain
with claws that rip and tear and impale,
yet,...
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Categories:
sots, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Mini Dubai
...My town nicknamed, ‘Mini Dubai’, burgeoned and branched
on the bank of Kanoli canal like a tamarind seed.
Now the silvered canal sprawls on its death bed.
Busy pedestrians walk down
an ancie...
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Categories:
sots, city,
Form: Free verse
A Fine Line
...A FINE LINE BETWEEN DEVIANCE & PASSION
There is a fine line between deviance and passion
The same line borders love and lechery
The barrier is not to be crossed, not even for a second
It is n...
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Categories:
sots, addiction, forgiveness, universe,
Form: Free verse
Dad Died
...You left me when I was small
I felt you didn't care at all
You sold your love like a cheap whore
And turned into a fat bellied bore
You betrayed my childhood trust
Exchanging it for Alcoholic Lu...
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Categories:
sots, abuse, addiction, dad, death,
Form: I do not know?
Copla Veintiocho This Bad Guy World
...COPLA VEINTIOCHO : This Bad Guy World
Bad Guys with bad girls squirt at will
Since sexual revolution:
Plague emotion
The intellectual love kill
Learn from Left-drilled safe permission:
Drug...
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Categories:
sots, conflict, drug,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Bukowski
...Was it said before? Sure.
Was it said this way? I doubt it.
Perspective is in no way obscure,
And his works are nothing without it.
His motivation’s observed in daily life,
Misery, not just some vag...
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Categories:
sots, abuse, addiction, america, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Skaaaagway
...Skagway, Alaska in the late 1890s was sure a rowdy place alright!
It was seethin' with humanity a-raisin' hell all through the day and night!
'Twas the gateway to Chilkoot Pass beyond which lay Klond...
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Categories:
sots, adventure, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Medieval Camelot
...I’m sure you’ve heard of the Great King Arthur and Lancelot’s well-known fame.
But there was yet another knight, of great glory and great fame, never named.
His name was whispered constantly, everywh...
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Categories:
sots, adventure, celebrity, character, fantasy,
Form: Light Verse
Cleveland
...Once a man of steel,
cuckolded by foreigners,
made to bear a rusty belt
And belch hapless smoke in shame.
Once a spiderweb of commerce-
now a conglomerate of strangers,
united by dementia-ridden str...
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Categories:
sots, home, life,
Form: Ode
English Weather Forecast
...I pored over my weather maps contriving a prognostication,
Of the weather forecast for the consumption of the British population.
It comprised all the towns, villages and shires from A to Zed,
To ...
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Categories:
sots, funny, weather,
Form: Rhyme
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