soirees
...The last three weeks have been a seemingly endless series of welcome parties, get-togethers, receptions, meet-and-greets and cocktail parties - every kind of cheesy or ostentatious soirée my Grandmèr...
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Categories:
tacky, family, fun, grandmother, humor,
Form: Free verse
A Warning for the Recently Widowed
...When my ashes are brought home
don’t place them on a mantel
between the tacky Hummel figurines.
Tip them out onto the backyard
to nourish the cabbages.
I am not coming back,
but check the w...
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Categories:
tacky, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Buying Clothes
...When choosing clothes, some people buy
Whatever seems to catch their eye.
They always pay the asking price
No matter what, and don’t think twice.
That isn’t me, for without fail
I’ll check t...
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Categories:
tacky, clothes,
Form: Rhyme
Japanese Beetles
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Don’t be fooled, they carry
nothing of the Orient’s allure.
These voracious beetles,
if they had the appetite,
might easily bring down
the loftiest sequoia.
Depraved sexual deviants,...
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Categories:
tacky, insect,
Form: Light Verse
Things Doesn't Always Have To Make Sense
...Things don't always have to make sense because no one makes the rules
I can say and do things the way i want because i do what I choose
God has given me free will so who are you to take that away
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Categories:
tacky, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Gilty!
...One man’s opulence another
Might consider tacky,
Especially when catered to
By every spineless lackey.
Yet those who rake in riches
As their empire’s being built
Should, if empathy at all exi...
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Categories:
tacky, america, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Epic Tale of Immortal Al
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Immortal Al, the poet.
Yes, and don’t he know it
And forget me not, his imaginary friend, Mortal Lee, that’s me!
He has a Masters in Authorship. Me, his penmanship.
He’s not just any or ord...
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Categories:
tacky, computer, world,
Form: Epic
block'n mine blue
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The nymph's tressez
Tacky
left overs from
this morn'nin'z
tussle 'bout the oak's
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Categories:
tacky, allusion, beautiful, blessing, fantasy,
Form: Romanticism
Shadows
...“When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives.”
– Lauren Eden
born to the purple
no one to guide or support
love sought cold comfort
in all that surro...
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Categories:
tacky, emotions, feelings, heart, life,
Form: Suzette Prime
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...
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Categories:
tacky, beautiful, color, humanity, vanity,
Form: Free verse
The Fine Art of Keeping Distance
...Into the deep- green hearted forest
far removed from man's raucous tangle
the many tacky hues of self-centeredness.
There's only herbivores and carnivores
doing their thing in primal time harmony...
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Categories:
tacky, life,
Form: Free verse
The Young and the Dress Less
...Yes I said it - The Dressless, cause what are they really wearing?
It’s practically nothing. Should it be called “Clothes for Hoez?”
But why do they dress less? Is it for attention, is it insecurit...
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Categories:
tacky, children, clothes, fashion, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Ordered discord
...Smeared In a pattern.
This Rorschach abstraction.
Flowing like satin.
In cascading fashion.
Symmetry, mimicry.
Mirroring the mind.
Coddling, throttling.
Either or is fine.
Full to burstin...
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Categories:
tacky, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Prunella DeVil
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Her name is Prunella DeVil-
Prunella DeVil, Prunella DeVil,
Ugly and scary with a loud voice ... SHRILL,
The very sight of her gives me a chill,
Prunella, Prunella-
With her shrivele...
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Categories:
tacky, song,
Form: Lyric
A slice of harmony
...Slouching, sleepy in the little arm chair, eating cake,
Our country on the screen, there isn’t much at stake.
Drowning out the tacky tunes with our laughter,
It’s harmony,you see, that everyone ...
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Categories:
tacky, music, peace,
Form: Couplet
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