The Pompous Ceremony
...The lightly fizzing mood
I've felt all day
and fenced within a grin
is at odds
with the stoppered
solemnity of this pompous
ceremony I've had to attend
and is becoming harder
to hold, slow...
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Categories:
stoppered, humor, satire,
Form: Free verse
Getting a Hair Cut
...As a small boy
the barber would sit me
on a wooden bench
placed across the armrests
of his chair.
Mirrors in front and behind
imprisoned countless copies
of me stretched out
as far as I cou...
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Categories:
stoppered, childhood, hair,
Form: Free verse
Free Association Comprises Ratiocination
...Free association comprises ratiocination...
Bonafide catatonic doggedness,
nevertheless this stubborn stoic poet writ
afore and another feeble effort courtesy
exhaustive mental effort
he brewe...
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Categories:
stoppered, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Free Association Comprises Ratiocination
...Free association comprises ratiocination...
Bonafide catatonic doggedness,
nevertheless this stubborn stoic poet writ
afore and another feeble effort courtesy
exhaustive mental effort
he brewe...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
stoppered, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Congested Without Psychological Rheum
...No antihistamine can
unblock the lifetime
accumulation of stoppered emotional gunk
zapping, undermining, and polluting *****
mine early life in retrospective avast flunk
stripped mined wastelan...
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Categories:
stoppered, abuse, analogy, anti bullying,
Form: Personification
Est'Bel Strolls
...Urges ushered Est’bel out of her abode –
a cottage cobbled together from cobwebs and clapboard –
and she scuttled forth,
her nesty hair tousled
by a leaf-laced breeze
In her bony hands she cl...
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Categories:
stoppered, magic, moon, night, woman,
Form: Free verse
The Bottle
...The Bottle
Frank Halliwell
Aunt Prudence wasn't ugly, but she certainly was plain,
And beaux had never lined up for her hand.
She...
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Categories:
stoppered, world,
Form: Rhyme