An All Night Rain
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An all-night rain: the smell
of sogged-down leaves and woods
stirs up feral urges: to tramp
the wetness like a snouted creature,
kicking up dead leaves, poking
deep for squirming things, sni...
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Categories:
spongy, rain,
Form: Narrative
Water Margins
...Dawn, a bed comes ashore,
dripping and fog laden.
Tuna sandwiches float
on foaming waves of nausea,
aqueous globs of salty oils,
surface. Punctured sea-dreams
float; flabby and flatulent.
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Categories:
spongy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Fungi
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I like my fungi
sauteed in butter
in a pan with a chopped clove
of garlic, parsley and plenty
of salt and pepper.
Or sliced and simmered
in chicken stock
with arborio rice
and topped wit...
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Categories:
spongy, nature, poetry, senses,
Form: Free verse
Flower Chide VIII, Listening Leaf
...Beneath the Nefaryes timeless, tangled roots.
where dreamscents rot and anger hoots,
Pokenose stirs with a spore-slick grin
not to charm, but to drag you in.
"You reek of want without refrain,
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Categories:
spongy, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
violets soldier
...violets soldier
spongy moss tickles her feet
she drops her acorns...
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Categories:
spongy, tree,
Form: Haiku
beginning of April
...violets peeking up their gentle heads
delighting the spongy moss
april is beginning...
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Categories:
spongy, april,
Form: Kimo
Birthday Cake
...It's the sweetness that
visits once a year
To let loved ones realize,
They are celebrated, my dear
Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry cream and carrot
Without them it feels we have no merit
Spon...
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Categories:
spongy, birthday, celebration, chocolate, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Sensory
...The human-felt sensations, in no particular order.
Through touch, sight, sound, smell, and taste. But also pain and occasional misbehavior
Gentle, hard, rough, loud, hot
Brittle, bruising - fee...
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Categories:
spongy, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
MULBERRY TREES AND BUTTERFLIES
...MULBERRY TREES AND BUTTERFLIES
Don’t go back to heavy sleep
dwell in the wakefulness
of I AM THAT I AM
here mulberries and butterflies
beckon across filtered fences
which you can comely cl...
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Categories:
spongy, butterfly, change, color, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Looby Loo - Christmas 2024
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Dear Santa, it’s Looby Loo, I’m still here
It’s a miracle, have been ill all year
I don’t want you to forget to stop by
As this old gal would then break down and cry.
I need decent...
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Categories:
spongy, character, christmas, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Lily And Billy Collab
...Lilly And Billy
Street cat Billy's spongy scraggly and cool
So, so edgy-sik, he's a grunge-dusky jewel
House cat Lily purrs he's so fine
Billy scoffs just get in line
But he knows deep...
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Categories:
spongy, cat, cute, humor,
Form: Limerick
child invents instant creative hairdo magic
...I have invented instant creative hairdo magic, the child told the mama
When you awake from sleep, your hair will change colors, with high drama
Mama woke up and her hair was blonde with curly ringl...
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Categories:
spongy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Omitted Rumble
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Written: March 2nd, 2024
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Wingbeats on warm whisper wavelength
wasteland, waves of wasabi writhe
with wilting, whimpering, witless wri...
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Categories:
spongy, appreciation, beauty, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Your Hearten Heart Love Solid Coconut My Fruit
...What is a coconut heart made of?
O’ the distal taste of love for me
Hardening of my left side no longer bleeds
The heart of coconut the coconut palm
So sticks in my breathe
Close to the...
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Categories:
spongy, analogy, appreciation, flower,
Form: Rhyme
My Reincarnation
...Whatever I did last time didn’t work
because here I am again.
Before I died I was Me
after I died I was Me
today I am Me.
But also now I am me, the spongy ego
that was fattened up on Catholi...
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Categories:
spongy, faith, religious,
Form: Free verse
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