Two legged Toxins
...When they become a toxin in your mind
when they steal, lie and threaten your life
even if their blood it's time to cut ALL ties.
Your heart was not meant to be used as a spittoon
your mind was n...
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Categories:
spittoon, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Fear of the Unknown
...
A crack in the pavement
Does it portend
a death in the family
an untimely end
Is it an opening
for widow’s weeds
or just a spitt...
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Categories:
spittoon, death, fear, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Equal Time for Ladies
...When asked to write Limericks about ladies
I said, "Oh, no. There's no way in Hades!"
Too many are my friends
I'd have to make amends
Not even for a brand new Mercedes
Then, I gave the matter ...
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Categories:
spittoon, humor,
Form: Limerick
A Hat Full
...*Image of Ten Gallon Stetson by IBA.
A Hat Full
A cowboy with a ten-gallon hat,
Seen a spittoon and gave it a spat,
A girl screamed, "That's my vase!",
She then frowned in his fa...
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Categories:
spittoon, character, funny, western,
Form: Limerick
Mister Sunshine
...He’s a broken leg performer with a crooked second act.
Went from Brooklyn to Las Vegas with his sarcasm intact.
Does a Smith and Wesson stand-up, voice as sweet as antifreeze.
Tells you how he los...
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Categories:
spittoon, allegory, sunshine,
Form: Lyric
Bite Size
...Cerise took a bite of the cherry
ground her teeth on the pip
a kernel of truth searching salvation
conditioned to drivel and drool
Salvador handed her a spittoon
to release the rest of...
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Categories:
spittoon, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Advice To the Earthling, From What You Would Call An Alien Being
...From all worlds and time’s eternal outer reaches,
Where the Creator is perceived to dwell.
You try to learn what your told He teaches,
Regarding Life, the Universe, Heaven and Hell.
The soul is...
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Categories:
spittoon, allusion, analogy, earth, extended
Form: Rhyme
Are Horses As Brave As Cowboys
...Their bridled haunt, each day may be their last; yeehaw.*
The narrow way, down mountainside, and clop of shoes.
The saddlebags dip left and right in gait and gnaw.
The spirit wind and pouring r...
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Categories:
spittoon, animal, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Saint Nick
...Sloppy Santa spent his Christmas jolly
Until in folly he sat on holly
Yet Old Saint Nick laughed like a loon.
Bright eyes twinkling, his cap did doff
Watching a rich eggnog run off
With his dea...
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Categories:
spittoon, christmas, humor, silly,
Form: Rhyme
It's Tradition
...Is there a reason why all ballplayers spit
Can they get to the majors, if a spittoon they can't hit
Twenty paces while chawing
On tobaccy, while jawing
At the ump, methinks its likely tra...
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Categories:
spittoon, baseball,
Form: Limerick
Padre Has a Gun
...Mary Six Pack Pistols staggers through time portals drunk
Pretending to be a priest but she is not a mister or a sister
To the old west saloon through double doors she glides
Drunker than a nun o...
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Categories:
spittoon, conflict, death, murder, sin,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Too Much Fiber In the Diet
...I never knew that most monkeys will swoon
To eat bananas in a real saloon --
They'll snarf down bunches
After monster lunches --
Then vomit up the peels in the spittoon...
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Categories:
spittoon, animal, food, nonsense, sick,
Form: Limerick
God Sees the Courageous At Work
...Strangers are attacking me;
ruthless men seek my life—
men without regard for God. Selah
Psalm 54:3
GOD SEES THE COURAGEOUS AT WORK
Wild-eyed disregard for God —
The moc...
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Categories:
spittoon, abortion, christian, dark, murder,
Form: Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Xlvi - Tongue-Twisting Epigrams
...UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: XLVI - Tongue-Twisting Epigrams
An aborted foetus never stops growing in the mind of the aborted mother. She never tires of making more babies to nurture the memory of the ab...
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Categories:
spittoon, humor, irony, people, satire,
Form: Epigram
Kanoli Kaaka
...He rolls up and
down on life’s
surface as a
droplet on the
*colocasia leaf.
He never walks
with his life
hand in hand.
While heaping
up yellow metal
and rupee on the
side-walk, green
...
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Categories:
spittoon, life,
Form: Free verse
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