Stations
...STATIONS
Hark! Oh, Angels, where art Thou?!
'Tis here that thou art needest now!
Before Him does the burden lie
To bear the Cross to Calvary!
While crowds all gather, He is not alone
Though...
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Categories:
swabbed, easter, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Dying For a Smear
...The medic said lie on the couch
She swabbed my cervix , I said OUCH
It's checking for cancer
So I can’t be a chancer
For cervical smears I can vouch
I lay there with my legs akimbo...
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Categories:
swabbed, health,
Form: Limerick
Mr Ratman
...Hello,
my name is Mr. Ratman
I've been injected twice
with an experimental vaccine
get nasal swabbed three times a week
i wear a rag on my face consistently
i get temperature screened
get sym...
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Categories:
swabbed, abuse,
Form: Free verse
David Is Livid With Covid
...“I am David not covid”, tell my wife,
She says "keep two meters, save a life"
I say “this virus is such a curse!”
She says,"Try being an IPC nurse!"
She makes me wash my hands so often,...
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Categories:
swabbed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Such Testing Times
...I had my covid 19 test today
Twas uncomfy that’s all I will say
Swabbed my throat then my nose
Nose was clean there’s no crows*
I’m happy that it’s out the way
Need another test at...
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Categories:
swabbed, health, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Course of the Tradewinds
...*Image of Sailing Ship by Pixabay.
Course Of The Tradewinds
Fair winds nudge the sails, as thoughts wane the souls,
talks start out its trails, whilst the crest waves rolls,
whils...
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Categories:
swabbed, boat, men, sea,
Form: Quatrain
Meanwhile Back At the Ranch
...Visibility's dropped to near-zero
Thermometer's plummeting too
Ocean tempest tossing and turning
Spraying the nerves of the crew
Deck swabbed by torrential rain
Passengers hunkered do...
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Categories:
swabbed, joy, ocean, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Pushed
...Oops, they pushed their captain off his own ship,
made sure the deck was slick, black-boot polished,
waited ‘til great white sharks surrounded it,
until sharp sword swells upended its w...
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Categories:
swabbed, sea, sin,
Form: Verse
Really, Understand My Face
...I had a face transplant
'cos I was off my face, as was.
I trolled the book of faces
till I found one I liked.
We did a face swap, swabbed -
me and my friend that was.
Now I am her, she is me,
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Categories:
swabbed, goodbye, social,
Form: Free verse
I'Ve Never Been To the Isle of Man
...All my life I’ve had this plan, to settle in the Isle of Man
I tried to swim like all good sports, but three miles out I lost my shorts
Floating, lost among the driftwood, the sad remains of shri...
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Categories:
swabbed, adventure, boat, giggle, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Chateau Pl
...Chateau Pl
A sleep walk guided by reflections
Although somethings were real
Not the front entry way
Or the stair case
Or the garage for that matter
Scrubbed and alcohol swabbed shoes
Eating ...
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Categories:
swabbed, class, food, jobs, satire,
Form: Prose
Powder, Perfume, Hormones
...Neck a smooth, cylindrical mold
As sheathe with fibers carefully rolled
Pale, satin sheen artfully scrolled
Grace on soft, silky strands doled
In light, silted hologram to behold
Calamus breathes thr...
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Categories:
swabbed, beauty, body,
Form: Rhyme
Soothing, Shore Breeze
...On balmy beach blithe commodore
Without ship, rudder, or rowing oar
Striding gusts, waves only chore
Soothing breeze girdles the shore
Sidling along, currents to explore
Mind's tranquil base to resto...
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Categories:
swabbed, beach
Form: Rhyme
Falmouth
...He's a disgrace to the Red Duster someone said:
don't say anything or he will slash you, he warned,
puking over you like a sea of spray upo...
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Categories:
swabbed, war, red, red,
Form: Free verse
You
...I stared into the mirror today.
I saw you -
a needled zealot
hovering around my left shoulder;
Adolph Hitler dressed in
opium-perfumed swatches.
You smelled like her.
You acted like him.
Y...
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Categories:
swabbed, on writing and words
Form: Free verse
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