Putin Purloined
...Prompted by Tom Cunningham's poem 'If Only Dreams Came True.' A reverie about the demise of Putin. Thanks for the inspiration, Tom.
Tis true that sometimes history is repeated
Pu...
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Categories:
tail bone, angst, death,
Form: Limerick
Putin Fell and Couldn'T Get Up
...News: Putin had fallen and couldn't get up
The one who found him there looked down and said, "'Sup?"
He'd stumbled down the stairs
And it seems no one cares
Would I have laughed out lo...
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Categories:
tail bone, humor,
Form: Limerick
L'Enfant L'Oie Revision
...Goose and purple i saw it strung up in a window in chicago
I saw factories written in your eyelashes and hair and industrialization vomited
Limp and edible bruised and calling
Geese sing every mo...
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Categories:
tail bone, 9th grade, anger, animal,
Form: Free verse
A Bucket List Rewritten
...To climb a mountain, but I ran out of steam
Sat down on a boulder to wait for the team
To learn to ski, but that did not go well
Cracked my tail bone when down I fell
To learn to dance, in my...
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Categories:
tail bone, humorous, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Faith
...I'm halfway down your spine- ready to reconcile my non existent faith in you.
I'm done hiding from the stupidity I call my brain, but what about the writers out there?- they expect me to shine bright...
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Categories:
tail bone, girlfriend-boyfriend, science, me, faith,
Form: Lyric
Long Day
...Long Day
It's been a long hard day in the saddle
I'm really tired of fighting with cattle
My hands are all blistered
My leg is injured
My tail bone is raw
My feet need to thaw
My stomach is...
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Categories:
tail bone, cowboy-western
Form: Rhyme
A Ghost Story (For the Ghost Story Poem Tag Game)
...In a old old rambling structure
Down on the street called Broadway
Upper floors that had been deserted
For many and many a day
Lighting a fire
Starting to pondering
Things from long ago
Rem...
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Categories:
tail bone, fantasy, funnyfire, fire,
Form: I do not know?
What Got Tom's Broke Back Broke
...There ain’t never been much love ‘twixt them two out on the range—
Seems cowmen has always thought that them sheepherders were strange.
Then one day in rides a poke by the name of Tom Campbell—
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Categories:
tail bone, confusion, cowboy-western, funny, social,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Riding Down the Decline
...The plains have their moments of wild beauty
As you ride with morning wind in your hair---
The sage and wide open spaces thrill you
As you ride free on that celestial stair.
But the hill countr...
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Categories:
tail bone, cowboy-western, death, introspection, sad,
Form: Cowboy Poetry