Red Shirt:TOS
...Red Shirt: TOS
A casting extra
No choice on shirt color
Hired for one episode
Studio did’nt want to pay them long term
New planet to explore
Beam down with phasers set to kill
Alien life for...
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Categories:
tos, humorous,
Form: Free verse
full of eager happiness
...I am full of eager happiness
Retirement has grabbed me by the hands and danced with me
Every day is a joy
I can do what I want, when I want
I have eliminated all of the have-to’s,
My life is f...
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Categories:
tos, retirement,
Form: Free verse
Sticklers versus HippyDippys
...The Sticklers are rule-followers; they do seventeen weekly have-tos.
There is no room for flexibility, or deviation from their parents’ teachings.
Have to go to church, read the Bible, pray daily, ...
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Categories:
tos, life,
Form: Free verse
my bucket list expired
...my bucket list expired
I care not
nothing in it interests me
I have poetry, cartooning, dog-raising and painting
they are my go-tos now
I do not want to travel
I can see everyplace on the Disco...
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Categories:
tos, me,
Form: Free verse
I Want to Have Joy
...her energy was going fast
there were too many have tos in her life
not enough get tos
I want to have joy, she told her mother
her mother was a sprite, a fairy godmother,
enthusiastic, the pers...
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Categories:
tos, joy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Lets Rhyme
...“Who knows what rhymes lurk in the minds of men?!
The Shadow knows!”
“Let’s rhyme”, said Shadow. Off it goes!
The challenge’s up for PS pros.
The number of contestants grows,
The cascade of...
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Categories:
tos, humorous,
Form: Monorhyme
Glorious Guilt
...On the side of a path branching off from the road
expectations of glorious guilt mount
makeshift trenches housing truants, anxiously counting
the seconds 'til school officers call off th...
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Categories:
tos, absence, america, boy, immigration,
Form: Rhyme
My Home Is My Refuge
...My home is my refuge, my castle wiggly whee wiggly woo.
I love being here the best with my cat and doggies of two.
My husband thinks it is his place, he is a lion in this den.
Walking around with ...
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Categories:
tos, age, home,
Form: Rhyme
Free Range Youth
...In those days we bought gloves with grip pads
to go with our Nerf footballs
Because our hands were not yet large enough
to pantomime dads that stood too close to the TV
and ran from commercial br...
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Categories:
tos, childhood, football, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Your Ticket To An Endless Stream of Consciousness
...Are you out of your goddamn mind?
What even is a TOS at this point anyway?
Copper meets gray matter in a stellar show!
Self-inflicted; this is what your ticket paid for!
Here's your endless str...
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Categories:
tos, death, death of a
Form: Free verse
Decide
...ponder, puzzle,
pose the tos and fros
let the options reverberate
like pebble rings coiling on a pond
sing a chorus to decide
without punch drunk mantra lines
decide
when its done, tis done, ...
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Categories:
tos, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Life Without God
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Life without God would be a big question mark ~
The whys, why nots, what nows, where tos and how wills,
If not for Him, we would miss that joyous spark;
Life is a composition of divine sti...
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Categories:
tos, god, life, perspective,
Form: Terzanelle
Am I a Summer's Day
...Am I a Summer’s Day?
By Sy Roth
Do I compare myself to a summer’s day?
I think not,
Winter’s chill perhaps,
Cold rivulets of icy waters
Coursing down a crenelated brow
Perhaps.
A dirge,
A...
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Categories:
tos, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
The World Seems Disappointed
...Unbelievable how difficult it is to see
Eyes looking in different directions,
Seeing diverse things, seeing paradigms others do not
Unbelievable confusion, as we diversify and divide.
The world s...
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Categories:
tos, depression,
Form: Free verse
Finished Almost No Have Tos Today
...So many have to’s.
I have done the minimum.
Preferring my day.
To keep as my own.
Holding on to integrity.
Tomorrow may be my last.
I might not even last the night.
I congratulate myself
Wast...
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Categories:
tos, perspective,
Form: Free verse
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