Smugded Face paint and a bruised ego
...The Merger of Clowns
where the two are out
performed by amatuers
Sorrow the pains of
birdseeds that
were thrown at the
frowning two
cursing and swearing
they ruined the moods of
many in att...
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Categories:
stashing, adventure, analogy, celebration, dance,
Form: Ballad
Chicken Splash
...Let's do the Chicken Splash,
More than just the Monster Mash,
Fingerlickin' chicken hash,
Swingers do the Chicken Splash.
Chicken, chicken, chicken chow,
Makes me want to dance somehow,
Chick...
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Categories:
stashing, 7th grade, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Autumn Is On Her Way
...I hear the honking of geese overhead:
there is a chill lingering in the air.
And I see scarlet and crimson flames spread
across canopies of green, everywhere.
Night keeps getting longer...
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Categories:
stashing, autumn, beautiful, change, color,
Form: Sonnet
Mary Ma Gargano Boys
...Mary Gargano the key player in covering the drug monies and drugs that ran from Milwaukee pitstop in Chicago Antioch Danville Marietta Georgia straight to palm beach blvd. Ciro Gargano his business p...
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Categories:
stashing, allah,
Form: Manqabat
Palatable Conversations at Night
...We,
with the geometry and evening
balance of our midcentury hands—gently
lower the cloche over the day between us. It is a
nightly ritual, gravity-driven, habit built over time, the g...
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Categories:
stashing, extended metaphor,
Form: Concrete
Nod To Greed
...His was a lifetime
spent grabbing
storing
stashing
garnering
stealing
collecting
depositing
amassing...
try-try-trying to fill
his soul hole carved deep
from a youth
fr...
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Categories:
stashing, death, growing up, happiness,
Form: Free verse
For the Love of Money
...For The Love of Money!
For the love of money, some will reap what they sow,
Get all that they can, even sell their own soul.
They’ll gather their things, and count their possessions.
Forget ...
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Categories:
stashing, money,
Form: Rhyme
Cold Weather
...Cold morning announces fall is here
I layer my clothing carefully,
Stashing away everything sheer,
Recognize some greet it with glee
Already enough cold weather for me!
We’ll still...
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Categories:
stashing, autumn, clothes, weather,
Form: Quintain (English)
From Uss Arizona To Gate a 51
...All I've seen is a black star in the night sky,
We fell asleep after our cross-country awry.
In my dream, I saw weak, cynical starlight,
Subtle as a map packed toward the plight.
C...
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Categories:
stashing, america, analogy, appreciation, community,
Form: Rhyme
Shattered Me
...SHATTERED ME!
Scintillating splendor of stars
Stimulated me, gazing by the window,
Hugging the bars, feeling the freshness
My mind just a wanderlust!
Far away from my window
Under the bough...
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Categories:
stashing, abuse, beauty, betrayal, depression,
Form: Free verse
Magic
...Genuine dollars from just shredded papers!
Risked bloodless jumps from sky scrapers!
A repeated mad stabbing of one’s bowel with a dagger,
one amusedly looking back at the waiters for a stagger;
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Categories:
stashing, beautiful, evil, hero, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Maroon Afternoons
...Before iron winter commands the land
The brown ground sparks a bittersweet blaze
Bonfire breezes cross in smoky strands
Where nut stashing squirrels pause to gaze
On museums of leafy orange haze
...
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Categories:
stashing, appreciation, autumn,
Form: Quintain (English)
God Is In Everything
...GOD IS IN EVERYTHING
Whenever I go to the forest,
I see God stands like a tree,
waving from the distance
on the world majestically.
I watch Him in the busy squirrels
stashing nuts away;
then...
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Categories:
stashing, blessing, christian, encouraging, god,
Form: Rhyme
Save More
...Stashing away is my resolution
and extra thousand or two
valuing each paycheck that I
earn, saving for a time when work is through.
Mutual funds, IRA’s, annuities
options for saving everywhere...
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Categories:
stashing, money, new year,
Form: Acrostic
Follow the Folly
...
There’s a monkey tag-team of mo-rons
running things ~ Polly Would Pinocchio style
Dumb and Dumber dolts
got dim a dullard king Dumbo
dunce chair directing
Elephant Man, with t...
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Categories:
stashing, humorous, perspective, satire, word
Form: Alliteration
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