Stringy Poems

Waltzing Galinda - A Quokka Aussie Cheeky Bush Ballad with a Twist - A Musical Video

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Move over Matilda… Waltz with Galinda.
There’s a new Aussie bush ballad in town! Introducing Waltzing Galinda — a cheeky, heartwarming tribute to Aussie folklore, with a twist! Starri...

Hair Composition Poetry Contest

...My hair is a whimsical canvas my crown
It’s so versatile pinned up or flowing down
An expression of my natural creativity 
Hair is a blessing of my femininity 

Sometimes I let the pillow style ...

Breathe spilled like bone

...Ariana shrugged facing Josh’s mocking clap
the stringy harmonica rang acrobatically on the streetlights. 
He handed her a firebomb, 
eyes sharp as vinegar. 
They ran across the hot asphalt, 
wat...

Breathe Spilled Like Bone

...Ariana shrugged facing Josh’s mocking clap
the stringy harmonica rang acrobatically on the streetlights. 
He handed her a firebomb, 
eyes sharp as vinegar. 
They ran across the hot asphalt, 
wat...

The Abandonment

...It was full of long stringy grass which had grown out, all over the back of the house. It hung over the bare walls. The briars were everywhere and they would prick you clean red blooded. The shed wid...

Night Tastes Like

...Night Tastes Like

Night tastes like:

Hot, black coffee
freshly perked.

Dark pumpernickel bread
fresh out of the oven.

Sweet black licorice
stringy kind of course.

A thick slice of
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Smuggler's Boat

...Migrants on the move from violence
their only possession
breath-space on a smuggler’s boat
secured with back-bent harvests 
in pretzel-bent systems
weight of crates of strawberries 
hoisted on ...

The Lights

...I am going to see the lights.
The glow of the city will make a perfect backdrop to the painting I am envisioning.
Far enough away to see the twinkle of headlights and the shine of skyscrapers, but ...

Hair

...Don't make a difference, gender/sex
Strands of different textures
Styles so profound with variety
Stiff, sticky, tacky, wet, or dry
Products keep it tamed for styles
Wavy, curly, straight, strin...

Windy Words Within

...A silent storm rages on in my head
winds whisking into a symbolic swirl.
Though all alone, I lie here in my bed
spinning wound up words twisted till they twirl.

Peel off outer layers, see deep ...

Ode To The Snake

...wiry wily 
snakily snake
like a load of spaghetti
all coily not straight

roundy and writhy 
curly with flow
like stringy all knotty
and cotton to sew

a scribble of dribble
all longy in l...

The Cost of Living

...A faceless man is standing in produce.
He’s crying. No one stops.
No one asks him why.
He says the sky is falling
He says it again and again.
He grabs a passerby’s arm
and tell them it’s fallin...

Miezer Man and the Scarecrow

...I live in a "Mean Peoplez Zone"
soou
leave me alone: I'll introduce
to you to my dad Miezzer.
So stringy is he
and I'll let you see: he's
so
cheap he waits for clothes to go
on sale at goodwi...

A Luxury Anyone Can Afford And Priceless

...There are times in our lives
We see something others don't see
Or don't want to see.

Many years ago 
I was sat in a park enjoying the warm weather. The birds were chirping
The trees and grass ...

Avuncular viscosity ::Graphic content::

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(Probably more a short story than free verse
In any case it’s true, 
seen through my eyes as a child)

He was a heavy smoker sat by the fire 
Coughing and wheezing hacking up phlegm 
spitting...

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