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Unitarian Church returnee
...Unitarian Church returnee After a hiatus of countless years plus an additional almost three months since a major makeover, (I experienced the magic wrought courtesy a bonafide big hearted ......

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Categories: thereabouts, 3rd grade, age, america,
Form: Free verse
On becoming a night owl
...On becoming a night owl..., no matter whether or not ya give a hoot especially after feeling super charged watching the second night of Democratic National Convention conclave ushering a hint......

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Categories: thereabouts, age, animal, august, bird,
Form: Rhyme



Awaiting a growth spurt that never happened
...Awaiting a growth spurt that never happened When a boy, I wanted to be as tall as my father (he passed away October seventh two thousand and twenty linkedin to congestive heart failure), who ......

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Categories: thereabouts, 12th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
Me very late mum, a funereal day
...Me very late mum, a funereal day... courtesy latitudinarian, nonestablishmentarian, sexagenarian, and Unitarian son and modest mastermind maven maverick. Another anniversary of her death occ......

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Categories: thereabouts, absence, age, america, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
Cowpoke
...Cowpoke by Michael R. Burch, circa age 16 Sleep, old man... your day has long since passed. The endless plains, cool midnight rains and changeless ragged cows alone remain of what once was.......

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Categories: thereabouts, evil, heart, home, poems,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Relic
... It looked like a bleached tongue pulled from a mouth, petrified and incapable now of letting a word slide over its calcified silence. I picked it out of the wet sand and held it in my hand. ......

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Categories: thereabouts, life, poetry, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Colin the Caped Cabbie
...Colin is a cabby with a proper taxi cab He drives for all the passengers an Uber didn’t grab Which means he has a lot of time to kill most every day And lots of evil folk to deal with if they come......

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Categories: thereabouts, hero, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Mnemonics
... What a strange word is mnemonic far easier to say than to write or spell! It sound like a disease or nonsense incensed to mislead But after you get over that it makes sense to use phase......

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Categories: thereabouts, language, nature,
Form: Free verse
Chicanery Grabbed Lustfully Repeatedly Yup
...Chicanery grabbed lustfully repeatedly - yup! While merrily bobbing along the boulevard of broken dreams, which in truth measured no more than a furlong think envisioning myself top banana an......

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Categories: thereabouts, abuse, age, america, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member At the End of the Street
...There was a paddock at the end of the street locals called No Man's Land. It was a few acres of wild let loose inside a suburban brick and asphalt order. Plenty of open grass, trees to climb, ......

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Categories: thereabouts, nostalgia, places,
Form: Free verse
Under Autumn's Spell
...Are all these eyes imbued With a magic of Soft awed insightfulness Under Autumn's spell. To note, in both apple And what thereabouts Old carted, rusty leaved Alike fair does swell.......

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Categories: thereabouts, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Two Thousand and Twenty Two
...Four Billion years or thereabouts Earth has orbited its appointed place Slowly and surely developing into A safe and hospitable living space What a strange year this has been Year Two Thousan......

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Categories: thereabouts, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fall Harvest
...The sky is falling, orange and round In quantities that do astound Collecting morning, noon, and night Even in dark, with a flashlight And all of this from one main tree Thank God we don’t have ......

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Categories: thereabouts, fruit,
Form: Couplet
The Blue Planet
...Heavenly body spinning around Through a Solar System as the 3rd one down Are we the only ones with their own planet As life grows in and on it Beautiful blue sky spreading out As we trace arou......

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Categories: thereabouts, earth, earth day,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Myrtle Beach
... Camping on the sandy shore of the beach Getting bored by the waves and their screech Sitting around the camp after cooking out It was so much fun just talking at our hangout Soo......

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Categories: thereabouts, beach, fun, hilarious, humor,
Form: Rhyme

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