Old Man's Bar and Gym
...They called the "Buff Boy" to clear my table.
He winked, said I'm ready, willing, and able!
I was eating kumquats after a couple squats,
And ran screaming back home to my wife Mable!
The ...
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Categories:
squats, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Seijaku
...As the sun goes west of my school building
day's tiring trying work starts to windup
ears tremble mildly to hear school bell ring
Joy quickens to brush away lesser thing
My own loving heart her...
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Categories:
squats, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Next
...It only hurts until you cry.
The slammed door quietens,
your baby eyes grow old,
in the dark, where no one sees
or cares.
"Life!" She said,
"You blink and it's still there,
waiting for your ...
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Categories:
squats, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Fitness Fight
...Resolved was I to exercise,
To utmost try to slenderize.
From flabby bod I'd poundage peel
To Grecian god beneath reveal.
But soon my straining torso frail
Becomes complaining, moaning male...
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Categories:
squats, body, change, fantasy, health,
Form: Quatrain
sky blue pima
....
'twixt the
Spruce's sluggish
draped 'bout hern
already clothed
she squats
to engage the
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Categories:
squats, beauty, extended metaphor,
Form: Romanticism
Laugh through 2024
...“Every year is a chess game. New Year is a new chess game! You make the right moves, you win the game!”
Mehmet Murat ildan
Questions of resolutions for new years day.
It's a c...
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Categories:
squats, fun, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Sho-Me Your Guns
...Sit-ups, planks, and crunches
My push-ups done in bunches
Deep heavy squats from the rack
Deadlifts are good for my back
Just pumping up my biceps
And cutting up my triceps
I'm swea...
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Categories:
squats, health,
Form: Rhyme
Haven
...his lean equine face with dust-brown eyes
defines hardship
a gaunt frame
undernourished
he squats on city pavement
there in the crook of his neck and shoulder
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Categories:
squats, bird, blessing, city, life,
Form: Free verse
Already Spent Nonsense
...At first I wondered if all things have been said
already, spent
by poets of the past. They stole our words.
We found them stashed. We rearranged, often
deranged the lines with slash marks and non...
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Categories:
squats, writing,
Form: Free verse
The Strange But True Story of the Lincoln Imp
...Down in hell, that stronghold of sin.
strange things stir, but let me begin.
I'll get to the point. Some details I'll skimp.
I tell the tale of a mischievous imp.
Of two imps in fact, to be more ...
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Categories:
squats, gothic, mystery, places,
Form: Narrative
The Town
...I can remember passing through
this town as a child,
stopping for a pie
on our way north.
Now it’s bypassed – barely more
than a clot lodged
in the spidery veins of a map.
Most of the houses ...
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Categories:
squats, history, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
The Gym Rat
...Another day at the gym,
Pumping iron for the swell.
Aching muscles feeling grim,
As I put myself through hell.
Boneless chicken that I bake,
Egg whites keep me lean.
Protein powders in a shak...
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Categories:
squats, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Working Out Isn't Working Out
...I used to like barbells, enjoyed pumping iron,
my Nautilus* gym was one happy environ.
Those posters of 6-packs and marbled biceps
inspired me to start counting carbs, pounds, and reps.
M...
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Categories:
squats, humor,
Form: Rhyme
God Knows Chemistry Proper
...sitting indian style underwater
learning to breathe easier
when i float back up,
she greets me with a smile that is all her own
she squats down to kiss me
i smile and pull her back for another
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Categories:
squats, appreciation, for her, god,
Form: Free verse
Kookaburra
...This feathered comedian
sits perched on a suburban fence
scanning for what crawls the ground
or pokes a careless head up to break
the surface of a backyard pond,
stropps its beak to clean off
...
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Categories:
squats, bird,
Form: Free verse
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