Folderol Gallimaufry
...At the risk of coming off turgid
I offer this tale esoteric
Hoping it’s not found insipid
Nor causes one to be apoplectic
But rather received with alacrity
Without the need for paroxysm
My word...
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Categories:
tatterdemalion, funny, humor, language, words,
Form: Verse
Suspicious Upper
...
Planned a pretty picnic, yet didn’t predict
Pigs begged - please eat us
Allocated table had laid out a feisty feast
Mince never been seen since
Rolled in cracklin...
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Categories:
tatterdemalion, absence, angst, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Every January first of the new year
...Every January first of the new year...
finds me (a doggone muttering *****sapien)
to give pause for reminiscences
and to take stock (sh lock and barrel)
about mein kampf in general
and previou...
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Categories:
tatterdemalion, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
Number forty seven White House occupant against all odds
...Number forty seven - White House occupant against all odds...
regarding President elect
Donald John Trump.
As a cruel joke to self,
I imagined myself as a Republican
for that one glorious d...
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Categories:
tatterdemalion, abuse, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
The Poets Are Dead
...On days I read…
O dread
The poets are dead!
A taste of bitter
A tatterdemalion squalor
A thread
that dangles
in black death
in the abyss
The art is lost
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Categories:
tatterdemalion, writing,
Form: Free verse
A Vagabond
...Dirty, tatterdemalion in appearance
He's clothed in worn-out raiment, his hair unkempt;
Perambulating through concrete jungles with...
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Categories:
tatterdemalion, dark, life, sad, scary,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Caged
...Confined, slowly lightness vanishes
Darkness engulfed me
No longer at peace
Tatterdemalion mind,
Has curved me into shard
As I try to escape my mind raddled
Feels like I'm in hoosgow
Slowly h...
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Categories:
tatterdemalion, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Joy of the Lord
...Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy o...
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Categories:
tatterdemalion, happiness,
Form: Free verse
The Tatterdemalion Kite
...“When we contemplate the globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole unive...
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Categories:
tatterdemalion, adventure,
Form: Prose
Dosado Through a Forbidden Land
...Lemony pines spring from my Summer mind,
dangling their scent, like Christmas ornaments.
I close my eyes and follow the sapphic breeze.
My bronze feet bounce through the mossy sea.
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Categories:
tatterdemalion, flower, imagery, mystery, nature,
Form: Verse
Tatterdemalion
...Today I am Broken, Today was the worst act I have ever committed in my life and the natural painful escape he made leaving this shell of a body I could only imagine your flawless perfection for all t...
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Categories:
tatterdemalion, abortion,
Form: Bio
Attempt To Rescue Spring
...tall, proud emerald stems like the West Witch’s guards
ruby-throated hummingbirds click in a homespun garden
tornadic spin thrusts homes, hither and thither, like flying brooms
strange snow ...
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Categories:
tatterdemalion, spring,
Form: Free verse
Box of Chocolates
...BOX OF CHOCOLATES
My heart aches for those who vanish —
a variety like chocolates, melting
into vanquished existence.
First and farewell - those lucky
who have died, without having
their n...
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Categories:
tatterdemalion, farewell, friendship, heaven, love
Form: Free verse
Age
...Horatio Hornblower adored her,
from the first time he saw her.
her hair all amiss.
tatterdemalion jeans
kissed her, before his lips touched hers.
the nose ring would adorn her
before his diamon...
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Categories:
tatterdemalion, age, love,
Form: Free verse
6 To 8- Ragdoll
...Rag doll, received, ready for play, except for her tatterdemalion dress.
Yet this child, of doleful tears, hugs tight her ragamuffin, sans regret.
Sweet child, with soiled cheeks, sings sweetly in ...
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Categories:
tatterdemalion, child,
Form: Verse
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