Over our collective figurative eyes commander in chief pulls wool
...Over our collective figurative eyes commander in chief pulls wool...
because you watch
and see that democracy will unspool
military (intelligent)
industrial complex tool
at Trump's beck and ca...
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Categories:
toady, abuse, age, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
FORGE AHEAD
... FORGE AHEAD
Forge ahead, spines are steel
anger, tragedy, treachery heal
betrayal merely a step on ladders
Golden Age arises, Kali Age passes
fragrant oysters in Bloomsbury Blue
man...
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Categories:
toady, age, blue, change, character,
Form: Couplet
Scarcity created by Those that Steal Our Abundance
...Abject poverty it is said,
must actually be honed,
Then cultivated and even forced bred,
This necessarily includes paper money of course, since they print it for free, offset by our taxes a mea...
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Categories:
toady, betrayal, community, society,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Happy Anniversary
...Happy Anniversary…
one year on the Soup for me!
Technically, a few more days,
pretty close though, anyway.
Made some friends and learned a lot;
what you see is what I’ve got.
Wonder what next y...
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Categories:
toady, anniversary, poetry, writing,
Form: Couplet
Toady Sang a Silly Song
...Toady sang a silly song
Sang it underneath the oak
A song to kill, old Toady joked
Silly as the day was long
Song was over, Toady croaked
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Another Emmett: an abbab quintain using ...
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Categories:
toady, silly, song,
Form: Other
Taking Today's Tumblerful Tea Time
...Taking Today's Tumblerful Tea Time
This teetotaler turns to tea
torquing temptation
towards tippling
thankfully, though
that tremendous tugging
teasing tendency thirst trumped,
thru teachi...
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Categories:
toady, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Early Morning: Breccbairdne 1
...Froggy is croaking
Somewhere where it’s boggy
He’s steering them clearly
A lighthouse, that froggy
Yearlings are frisky
Delightful, these dear things
But dawn is right risky
So fly, flee, yo...
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Categories:
toady, morning,
Form: Quatrain
Toady Sings the Moon
...O, the old toad talks
To the equinox,
But he sings to the harvest moon.
Cuz his little pollywogs
All swam off in the bog,
And they’re getting gobbled up by a loon.
The chance is remote
For a...
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Categories:
toady, nursery rhyme,
Form: Ballad
Two Cents Worth
...Lest I be guilty of grossest negligence
I feel like I must put in my own two cents
As I watch and evaluate strong evidence
We owe a debt of gratitude to Mike Pence.
I know, I know, ...
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Categories:
toady, perspective, political, tribute,
Form: Political Verse
Malevolent Mental Maelstrom
...inside me cranium
toady, an amphibious December 19th
twenty twenty one sinisterly drum
intonating forty five orbitz one bum
graduated as hard school of knocks alum.
Fiendish and gruesome...
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Categories:
toady, age, angst, conflict, crush,
Form: Rhyme
Bare Up
...Both Kamala and Newsom confess
California is in a big mess
Pelosi has found
Elephants abound
And their flatulence causes distress*
* Trump's childish attempt to replace
California's G...
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Categories:
toady, humor,
Form: Limerick
Sun Day Holiday
...No Sun toady
Saturday
Doubt,tomorrow
Sunday
Holiday...
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Categories:
toady, sun,
Form: Free verse
Franklin Graham
...F ranklin betrays the spiritual values his father, Billy,
R eflected in the deepest part of his being, a man
A dored around the world for his
N oble speech and god-fearing behavior
K indling ...
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Categories:
toady, celebrity, character, religion,
Form: Acrostic
Maurice the Frogs Outing
...Maurice the frog was q###r; of this he had no doubt and all the lady frogs just made him yawn.
He sat all day on his lily pad, flicking his tongue at passing flies, with never a thought of ever want...
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Categories:
toady, animal, fantasy, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
toady, birthday,
Form: Free verse
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