I possess an unusual knack for making women bristle
...I possess an unusual knack for making women bristle
hence immediately this birdman
wishes to escape into his eyrie
or seriously considers joining a nunnery
mainly for the less common slang defi...
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Categories:
spluttering, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
PAINTBRUSH
...PAINTBRUSH
Fingertips the bristles of a
pagan paintbrush
painting a Tree of Life
on pacified cheekbones
instead of in liver
from whence it sprung
now it burns to feed
HeartSpace with wi...
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Categories:
spluttering, allegory, art, body, color,
Form: Alliteration
The Bitter Bite of Night
...The Bitter Bite of Night!
Night creeps in sotto voce
melding with the mellowing village life.
Night, a seemingly mischievous cat,
slips along incognito in its prankish mood,
teasing any light ...
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Categories:
spluttering, imagery, night, winter,
Form: Free verse
Yours truly me just got acclimated to writing 2024
...Yours truly (me) just got acclimated to writing 2024...
whenever I needed to append the date to a document
Though the situation infrequently arose
for me to incorporate the year (2024 in this ca...
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Categories:
spluttering, adventure, age, allusion, america,
Form: Free verse
Labrador Bus Stop
...On a whim a black lab waited
where other people do.
At a bus stop man created,
he smoked a cig too.
His paws outstretched ready to pounce
onto the shuttle of spluttering fumes.
He'd ran away ...
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Categories:
spluttering, death, dog, nature, pets,
Form: Rhyme
Accidentally: THE END
...Sand scrapes my skin as I wake,
Warm water around my shoulders break,
Spluttering, I shake my head and open my eyes,
Palms and dunes to my surprise.
Shock constricts my body as I cannot regist...
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Categories:
spluttering, adventure, beach,
Form: Free verse
Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga
...Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga...,
crafted when Wallace and Gromit
returned from their trip to the moon,
which I can prov-olone huck curd
(within Trump con feta ration) –
as...
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Categories:
spluttering, adventure, age, animal, blue,
Form: Free verse
Baseless incriminations heaped upon head of missus
...Baseless incriminations heaped upon head of missus...
courtesy evil ferocious wraithlike grimace
Acrimonious scurrilous words
flew out the mouth
of vicious nasty shortish brute
leaving yours t...
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Categories:
spluttering, abuse, analogy, anger, april,
Form: Free verse
TRANSMUTATION
...Once I had harbored complexes many.
I thought I wasn’t beautiful or wise.
With my spluttering tone and broken speech,
I feared, my words fell flat,
Never leaving an impact or impressi...
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Categories:
spluttering, baptism, birth, change,
Form: Free verse
Morning Symphony
...Written: June 26, 2023
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The morning's rising sun looms above the hills.
My breath catches in my throat and fulfills.
Wa...
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Categories:
spluttering, analogy, appreciation, beauty, morning,
Form: Rhyme
A Field Day Shoe Fit For Mother Goose
...A field day shoe fit for Mother Goose
Fruitless effort squeezing figurative juice
Pandora called triggering
helter skelter to get loose
necessitating Bullwinkle J. Moose
to usher at yours t...
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Categories:
spluttering, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Storm
...Flashes of lightning at dusk
in dark dank distant clouds
heralds the storm brewing.
So far, its too far away to
hear or feel the claps
of thunder rattle the
windows in their frames.
The storm ...
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Categories:
spluttering, storm,
Form: Imagism
Mother Goose Would Find Her Tail Feathers Ruffled
...Mother Goose would find her tail feathers ruffled
Hey diddle diddle
the cat and the fiddle
when off to see
a crooked man and woman,
whilst cowards jumped
over moo ving little
pair of mis...
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Categories:
spluttering, abuse, allusion, anger, animal,
Form: Rhyme
No Dearer Faithful Old Friend
...It was a day when the crowded avenue of wizened oak trees
Loosened its first spluttering of yellowing leaves;
And far out across the stubbled fields, devoid of the
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Categories:
spluttering, best friend, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Tales of a Hero
...After a long drought, it started to rain.
Breaking the spell on the parched plain
Rainfall fell steadily at the begin.
Quenching the land and everything within.
Many hours later of continuous r...
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Categories:
spluttering, child, hero, rain, water,
Form: Rhyme
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