the illusion
...The illusion
In a small park ringed by gloomy trees near where the factories used to be, was the bust of a man on a splint
made of bronze, a mesen, she liked to use words like
that in a despe...
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Categories:
tinned, abuse, age, blue,
Form: ABC
Tinned Fish
...A little fish in a little coffin
i find my self indulging so often
burried in a sludge of oil and viniger
so much flavour packed into this small cylinder
i love the fishes in the ocean
but fishi...
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Categories:
tinned, desire,
Form: Free verse
the grocer dreamer
...The Grocer and Dreamer
The local grocer calls his shop
The best supermarket in town
Although his shop is small
He has big dreams, sells jam
tinned beans, bananas, lemon
and chocolate cakes
H...
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Categories:
tinned, anger, anti bullying, brother,
Form: ABC
Masqueraders
...Masqueraders
The YTC & Praise
Disguised in their ways
They came gnawing
At the peace of my heart
Leaving nothing
But a charade of turmoil...
Imposters to my mind
Masked in garbs of shame...
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Categories:
tinned, betrayal, break up,
Form: Free verse
sardines in olive oil
...Sardines in olive oil
A shop in Lisbon exclusively sold sardines
this interested me since my Norwegian mother
had worked at a factory selling tinned sardines
I asked if they had sardines from ...
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Categories:
tinned, absence, adventure, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Non Labor Relations Day September 1st 2023 Poem
...Non labor (relations) day September 1st, 2023 poem
Aye dream of Genie (as a lad din)
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania -
keystone state abbreviated as Pea Yay,
this stupid non huge poem
deployed cou...
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Categories:
tinned, 12th grade, adventure, angst,
Form: Rhyme
A Definite Bonehead Moment
...A definite bonehead moment
since revised when das scribe
made laughing stock of himself
(circa ~ 8:30 post meridiem
December twenty eighth, 2022).
A retrospective account
revisited court...
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Categories:
tinned, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Mother Zamia Tree
...A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue.
...
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Categories:
tinned, analogy, appreciation, mother, tree,
Form: Rhyme
How Glue Me On Lacking Sticktoitiveness
...How glue me: On lacking sticktoitiveness
Most of my iv + Lix spittle existence
found me figuratively
(primarily academically, emotionally,
psychologically, sexually, socially...) adrift,
and m...
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Categories:
tinned, absence, betrayal, devotion, education,
Form: Rhyme
Misquoted Childhood Apples
...When I grew up there was no such thing
as microwave or t.v dinner's they hadn't
even been inverted yet
Come 6 o'clock we had to gather round the
dinning room table for evening meals and
parent...
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Categories:
tinned, 1st grade, childhood,
Form: Free verse
I'M Having a Fart Attack
...My cousin’s just earned his degree
He majored in fartology
Now he can impart
What foods make me fart
He’s obsessed by scatology
I confessed that beans give me wind
(It matters n...
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Categories:
tinned, body, humorous, wind,
Form: Limerick
Serendipity Soup
...Take a pot, heat it hot.
Scratch it dry.
Scrape up any brown, dry left-over bits.
Check the sides as well.
Sniff the seance of conjured smells.
Imbibe the well-up of wafting aromas.
OK, now, dr...
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Categories:
tinned, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
The Groceryshop
...The grocery/ wineshop
Once when he lived in Faro (Portugal) and walking about
he came across a grocer shop that was new in 1950.
As window display a packet of washing powder, fossilized
the na...
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Categories:
tinned, best friend, cinderella, devotion,
Form: Blank verse
Brisk Cold Winds of October
...The threshing floor divides the brisk cold winds
and too gentle zephyr of mortality.
I choose the rose-red blush where death rescinds.
My mind reels with the thrill of whiteout blinds
buffe...
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Categories:
tinned, autumn, october,
Form: Villanelle
Virus
...VIRUS
There’s a billion ways to die and those privileged enough to focus on one.
Slow down human race, there’s nowhere to run.
A lesson to be learnt for those who believed life was successful ...
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Categories:
tinned, conflict, death, environment, nature,
Form: ABC
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