PassionFlower
...
Tickle stamen dances with the dew.
Released, scent in the air,
fragranced sweetly K-new.
Bubble your brew of pheromone v-aperture
My attention from your look of capture ...
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Categories:
syndication, art,
Form: Ballad
Au Revoir Oh Perilous Freedom
...Au revoir oh perilous freedom...
Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated mein kampf with disequilibrium.
Ever since the notions
of life, liber...
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Categories:
syndication, age, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
For the Moment
...Dear unanswerable creator.
Oh, merciful and carelessly brutal lord.
We are alive for a moment.
We have our pleasures and despairs.
We seem but episodes in a series.
A question whispered, like ge...
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Categories:
syndication, creation, destiny, fate, god,
Form: Free verse
Whatever Happened To the True Art of Practicing Forgiveness
...Whatever happened to the true art of practicing forgiveness? There seems to be a zero tolerance towards making human mistakes even after the guilty party says they are sorry. They lose their Hallmark...
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Categories:
syndication, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
He Was Going Somewhere, Part I
...Jack and Oliver were identical twins,
born way out there in Nebraska’s Sand Hills,
from the beginning everybody said Jack
was possessed of a remarkable will.
They said his small town would not ...
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Categories:
syndication, addiction, brother, life, meaningful,
Form: Narrative
You Cannot Beat Cop Fireman Doctor
...A cop a fireman or a doctor the novice writer tried.
Been done someone countered quickly, and way too much gore.
Look at what people watch the confident writer replied.
It would have to will last...
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Categories:
syndication, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Felt Like a Contestant
...always felt
like a
contestant
on a game
show
entitled
prove you love me
in which i was
on a quest
trying to win
the grand prize
your heart
felt as if the
show was on
rewind
s...
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Categories:
syndication,
Form: Lyric
The New Modern
...Friction
Dereliction
Tattoo addiction
Drones
Bunk loans
"You're fired" immune deficiency syndrome
Boatloads
Troll roads
Hipster mustachioed
Deadlock
Rhetoric squawk
Locker room talk
...
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Categories:
syndication, life, world,
Form: Free verse
Epiphany Part 2
...(continued from part 1)
But we’re all witnesses here,
Right from the very start,
Veiled from conception,
Driven by Heart.
Dieu vivant grâce à vous et à moi,
You ever think to wonder,
Who...
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Categories:
syndication, angel, blessing, dream, faith,
Form: Epic
Apathy
...Such an ideal is the syndication of cynicism.
For in this indictment of others, they can do anything,
but they cannot escape the uncaring.
Such an ideal is sagaciously inept at showing.
For they ...
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Categories:
syndication, allegory, allusion, analogy, grief,
Form: Prose Poetry
To Tell the Truth
...
It happened to be several decades ago,
when Goodson and Todman came up with a game show.
Two imposters appeared with someone who was real.
An interesting story one contestant would revea...
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Categories:
syndication, games, remember,
Form: Rhyme
The Gallery
...THE GALLERY
Another day goes by, outside influence on the outcome
Tearing the heartstring in two
And in my mind, strange topics pop up again
Without your love in my life
I don’t know what I would d...
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Categories:
syndication, introspection, life, love, god,
Form: Lyric
Mash
...From Seventy-two to Eighty-three,
I took a rest from reality
To watch these doctors laugh and cry.
(And some of them would even die.)
It was a story of Korean War
Which had ended twenty years ...
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Categories:
syndication, history, war, war,
Form: Couplet
21st Century Myth Fabrication-H
...Once Jessica Lynch of states army division
The sweet young soldier girl of twenty one
Served in Iraq invasion
Never fired her weapon
Honored first prisoner of war woman.
Wounded with bullets ...
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Categories:
syndication, political, myth,
Form: Burlesque
All In the Family
...A family lived in a little row house in Queens.
When we saw them each week, there were numerous funny scenes.
The household head was adamantly opinionated.
This loading dock foreman was grossly un...
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Categories:
syndication, nostalgiafamily, family,
Form: Rhyme
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