Violins
...Violins plucking strings
of horsehair, satin ribbons
violet violate a dark
foresaken world
like a beautiful dream
romance unravels
the sweet pain
comes undone
then those wild horses
dance...
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Categories:
sybil, muse, sensual,
Form: Free verse
A Comparative of Soups
...It's true that pork 'n' beans have
chunks that are winning
And Indian spiced pumpkin
sets your heart spinning
Pho bo's delightful, cod soup's disarming
jjamppong, French lentil --charming
...
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Categories:
sybil, food, fun, funny, poetry,
Form: Lyric
Tap Out Your Syllables
...syllable
one two three
tap tap tap
clap clap clap
sybil
two
tap tap
clap clap
sib
one
tap
clap...
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Categories:
sybil, word play,
Form: Light Verse
In a World of Princesses Be a Witch
...I will be the princess of the dynasty
The princess of the corkscrew
The princess of the underwear drawer
There is a lot of laughter
Sybil does not understand the others.
She is not amused or l...
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Categories:
sybil, women,
Form: Narrative
Aye Chalk Lot, a Boot the Latest Scoop
...As a lactose intolerant
cow whirring lion eye zing
dual (Banjo playing) Manichean
("FAKE") keen man womanizing,
faux nymphomaniac wannabe,
I cone only scream about visualizing
ni...
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Categories:
sybil, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Sybil
...This frail squint eyed woman
She wears the crown
She goes around town
Her hair matted and coiled
like entrails.
Pass her on
She’s your brother’s hand-me-downs.
This dark-skinned immigrant ...
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Categories:
sybil, analogy, body, feelings, sick,
Form: I do not know?
He Must Have Been Big
...Sybil Madison
(her stage name)
And Bernie Dodds
(real name)
Weren’t nobodies.
She had been in pictures,
He directed
And wrote a few.
You remember-
Those great lines in
Down In Th...
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Categories:
sybil, death, relationship, together, ,
Form: Blank verse
Sybil
...It was said I was born of quenched love,
almost vanquished by a storm along
the Red Sea in a din of gray November.
Wandering around dunes, a Maiden
kind housed me comfortably--
O she, lau...
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Categories:
sybil, character, mystery,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Mail Order Personalities
...I'm checking the post daily
Can't tell you how exciting this is for me
Since I called the 1-800 number
From that mail order magazine
While one day sitting at the dentist
I picked up said magaz...
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Categories:
sybil, funny, humor, inspirational,
Form: Light Verse
Balzac and Robespierre
...Balzac is beading,
Robespierre is reading,
Introversion I am needing,
Reflections I am heeding,
In old bat cave central,
Like an ancient Sybil, hypothetical,
Wisdom is supposed to come with age...
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Categories:
sybil, blessing, books, funny, hope,
Form: Free verse
Compare the Term Plans In 60 Sec-Contest
...COMPARE TOP TERM PLANS IN JUST 60 SEC!
I am the soul of all the Grecian Gods you have revered and penned
I know no matter what happens to you, you will come back to us in all ardency
The gods al...
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Categories:
sybil, allusion, dance, flower, food,
Form: Classicism
Reflections By Commodore John Barry
...“He fought often and once bled in the cause of freedom, but his habits of War did not lessen in him the peaceful virtues which adorn his private life.” Doctor Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaratio...
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Categories:
sybil, adventure, autumn, dedication, history,
Form: Epic
The Sybil
...THE SIBYL
If sometimes I have waited on your word,
Do not forget there is an empire
Out to the east, where freedom is muffled,
Where the autonomous cry, the great discovery
Of a soul to itse...
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Categories:
sybil, abuse, anger, angst,
Form: Sonnet
Brookbrooke
...BrookBrooke
[The Sybil]
i don't drink
she said
looking at
the red and
blue flashing
beer sign
mesmerised
still and small
on an ordinary
stool
spool
spool of thread
about
to fall
from
her
half hip
op...
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Categories:
sybil, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Prolific Sumbitch
...but I'm gettin' the goods on you
three faces of eve and sybil fade
when held to the light
of brilliant imagination
tender-heartedness
never fore imagined
shining soul shines into dumps of
stuff that ...
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Categories:
sybil, thank you,
Form: Lyric
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