apple
...cut the apple open
you took out all the seeds
the skin was bloody red
but you thought that it was green
ate it just like adam
i pray now that you’re cursed
i let you in my garden
and now i a...
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Categories:
submersed, anger, conflict, deep, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Drunk
...Have you ever been drunk,
and submersed in a funk,
as if trapped in a trunk
but then asked to write junk
in a poem which stunk
though your mind has been shrunk
by a psychotic monk
who’s been...
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Categories:
submersed, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
The Way To When
...A million ways to spend a day
not tried them all but have to say,
that if I had the way to when
I’d quiet find and open then
the pages of the poet’s hand.
Then fly away to distant land,
o...
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Categories:
submersed, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
By the Fireworks
...marvelous, they burst.
we are immersed in the fun.
our conjugal thirst,
meeting of the minds, rehearsed.
spectacular spectators traversed
over many July holidays. some, coerced.
delig...
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Categories:
submersed, firework, fun,
Form: Monorhyme
2023 - a Rant N Rhyme
...A new year to begin with a laugh and a grin, effort put in to resolutions and
absolution for sins. Your own and your kin (though sometimes you can't win)
I burst like electrocution on January first...
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Categories:
submersed, life, new year,
Form: Rhyme
My Little Garden - Nk
...weather turned cool
light breezes
from the pool
chilled my hear...
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Categories:
submersed, garden,
Form: Haiku
Bat and Gat: Unwelcome Picnic Guest
...The picnic was set for today:
A cause for two hips and hooray.
With Split and Blueberry,
Their time would be merry
That’s if nothing got in their way…
The deviled eggs had to come first,
‘Ca...
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Categories:
submersed, animal, hero, silly,
Form: Limerick
The Willow and the Alder
...THE WILLOW, THE ALDER (& We)
The Willow and the Alder choose to stay
By river bank and margin of the lake
Their roots, content, submersed, will thus defray
A thirst, to take libation and to sl...
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Categories:
submersed, life, tree,
Form: Sonnet
The Prude
...The Prude
Someone tried to step into Rico's shoes
But came unstuck because he is a prude
He couldn't raise a titter
On Facebook or Twitter
So now the prude’s gone and taken to booze...
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Categories:
submersed, 7th grade, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Memory Lake
...I love swimming in the lake of my memories…closing my eyes and diving in headfirst…and bringing with me to the surface…memories submersed.
Take yesterday for instance…I dove in on a whim…and ended...
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Categories:
submersed, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Lifes Mysteries
...
"Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved."
Gabriel Marcel, Philosopher, 1889-1973
Listen, about a world of mystery
I can think of a few that a...
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Categories:
submersed, life,
Form: Acrostic
Little Horn Disconcerto
...
Play the bugle taps,
as the freedom flag is raised half-mast
Democracy is dystopian dead,
it’s a Greek tragedy
Hear that funeral procession drum roll,
and the coffin timbre of
bras...
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Categories:
submersed, allusion, power, truth, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Grace and Solitude
...Oft solitude's a gift I need to seek
when life becomes a circus of events.
And oh, how precious are those few unique
hours I can spend alone as time presents.
These days, this treasure...
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Categories:
submersed, inspirational, solitude,
Form: Sonnet
Folly Driven
...alone
submersed in solitude
I probe the shadows of attitude
intellect is known to query
aspirations known to roam
from unexpected mind excursions
to my final journey home
on thi...
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Categories:
submersed, life,
Form: Rhyme
Mimosa Again
...(In language of flowers, mimosa is conjuration of secret love: no one knows that I love you)
A doe-eyed blue gaze, twirl of curly tress
feisty air froth , fizz of golden champagne
crystal gla...
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Categories:
submersed, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Dizain
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