Rat Race
...7/11/21
Never been the smoothest talker
Got to make the best of it before I need a walker
Had a lot or nothing to offer
Wasn't always worth the bother
4 days a week I work with and help doct...
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Categories:
squawkers, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Coming On
...Morning is pale now, late to the starting
Softly in brisk air a year is departing,
Trees burn with colors, leaves fall and flutter
Hiding the lawn fringe by roadside and gutter.
Sharp scornful sq...
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Categories:
squawkers, nostalgia, seasons, thanksgiving, winter,
Form: Sonnet
S To the I To the N
...the pinion of penetration which is pounded into your
skull at birth if you are ever so lucky enough to be
born into one of those families which hold the instrumental
notion of guilt production throug...
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Categories:
squawkers, life, life, life,
Form: Free verse
The Saving Power of the Letter S
...speak softly soothe skeptical soldiers.
solicit sages solemn solace sombre soliloqy.
silence sinister speakers speaking
spiritless slogans spiting spightful signs
sift spontaneous sincerity sig...
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Categories:
squawkers, faith
Form: Alliteration
Birds
...They've come again, my feathered friends
to bob and weave amid the seed.
Kamikaze bombers they
who swoop down feet first to land,
munch some seed, swoop again
and fly away.
Silly squabbling...
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Categories:
squawkers, animals
Form: Free verse