Felix Culpa
...We quarreled to bitter, burning degrees
(you)loving me
as a tender trespasser
a chew toy
boy
demanding compliance
forced feedings
down
to sock selection
(your)cons...
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Categories:
tintinnabulation, allusion, blessing, freedom, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse
Standing With And For Liberty
...If you stand strongly with and for Liberty
I will fearlessly join you
If you stand firmly for Freedom
I will cheer the noble gestures of your kingdom
If you stand enthusiastically for ...
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Categories:
tintinnabulation, america, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
The Chromatic Christmas Conundrum
...In antediluvian times, so pluviophilian
Red and gold adorned the grandiloquent pavilion.
With circumlocution's mellifluous elocution
Yellow frankincense sparked a yuletide revolution.
Colors of...
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Categories:
tintinnabulation, beautiful, christmas, color, december,
Form: Lyric
An Illusion
...We are a species gnawing at the roots of existence, hellbent on self-immolation, our every endeavor a funiculus of futility. The argent legacy of our forebears, squandered by imbecilic hands that mol...
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Categories:
tintinnabulation, dark,
Form: Free verse
Those Bells
...Those bells, those jubilant, jaunty clangers
Vibrating chimes dancing across meadows
Cavorting through town
Are gone.
Stolen by a rogue poet
Abetted by a teacher
Who played a recording
Of Poe’...
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Categories:
tintinnabulation, high school, humor, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Along Windy Way
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Written: November 28, 2023
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Beneath the sweltering luminescent sky.
A thunderbolt flared over the silent firefly.
Oak-smoke tone...
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Categories:
tintinnabulation, analogy, appreciation, betrayal, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Utterly Charming
...Written: June 20, 2023
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In the realm of words, where wonder weaves
A tapestry of dreams and beliefs
A poet seeks to p...
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Categories:
tintinnabulation, analogy, appreciation, blessing, cheer
Form: Rhyme
Fantastic Words
...A closer look at a fantastic word
And no, I’m not talking in bafflegab
To not repeat this speak is just absurd
To absquatulate like a fracas herd
Throw a foofaraw over a little jab
A closer lo...
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Categories:
tintinnabulation, fun, words,
Form: Villanelle
Bells and Whistles
...bells
loud, silvery
announcing, resounding, warning
chime, tintinnabulation, referee, shriek
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Categories:
tintinnabulation, creation, poetry, words,
Form: Diamante
They Took Him
...They Took Him
By Sy Roth
They took him and squirreled him away.
Those Sophists,
Deniers of the terror they could construct
Where he no longer saw the human side of himself.
Half man, Quasi...
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Categories:
tintinnabulation, angst,
Form: Free verse
Would the Merry Sound of Bells Make One Forget
...A gloomy morning is arising,
the monotonous rain of December
makes soothing, relaxing sounds
for those soundly sleeping.
This unexpected rainy day
causes a cozy feeling,
and pelting on roofto...
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Categories:
tintinnabulation, anxiety, appreciation, emotions, november,
Form: Free verse
Viral Verbosity
...Deliberately debating a debilitating disease,
Excruciates and exacerbates existential ease.
Loquaciously lugubrious her lacrimonious wailing,
Instilled in me an ignominy of incongruous assailing.
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Categories:
tintinnabulation, humor, nonsense,
Form: Acrostic
Thunderstorm
...Thunderstorm
a midnight lightning
My monsoon, I could not awaken
thunder, I could not forsaken
Thundery tintinnabulation tinkling
A sudden, sonic boom
The thundery thunderhead thunder...
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Categories:
tintinnabulation, analogy, dark, sky, storm,
Form: Free verse
The Tell-Tale Bells
...The bells! The bells!
My looney, tuney pals!
The bells! The bells!
They curse and vex and howl!
The bells! The bells!
I must escape them somehow!
The bells! The bells!
The clanging, banging ...
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Categories:
tintinnabulation, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
The Drums of Time
...The ceaseless beating of a drum,
fast marks our days ‘til we are done.
Our time will come, our time will come.
Listen, listen, can you hear it?
Growing louder as you near it,
as men of courage...
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Categories:
tintinnabulation, death, flower, life, universe,
Form: Rhyme
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