Legal Eagles
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'Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! all stand,'
said the bailiff before remand,
as legal eagles had looked for loopholes,
flaws in the law,
large enough to lose a lorry,
is that what they became lawye...
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Categories:
trice up, fun, humor, judgement, silly,
Form: Rhyme
O, for a Fortune
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What are riches but silver and gold
yet silver and gold can go away
What is wealth but good health
that can vanish in a trice
What greater trea...
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Categories:
trice up, endurance, god, men, money,
Form: Free verse
Burning Twelve Times Bright
..."When stars align, and you're on track, she's all signs of the Zodiac"
~ the author, after a twelve-pack
If in your heart (a paradise) I'd delve,
'twould multiply my love for you by twelve.
I...
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Categories:
trice up, love,
Form: Couplet
Katmandu
...Young Bobby Tucker chats the whole day through
His teacher said, “That's all you ever do.
Today is geography,
what you can do for me
Is form a sentence using ‘Katmandu’
“I’m pretty ce...
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Categories:
trice up, childhood, school,
Form: Limerick
Just A Moment
...She said she’d be a minute, that she’d be there in a mo
She called down stairs, “Give me a tick, then I’ll be set to go.”
She said she’d be down shortly, that she’d be down in a flash
She said, “T...
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Categories:
trice up, humorous, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Happy Returns
...I turn off U.S. 30
at an exit for Ames
and see Jack Trice
Stadium expanded.
Memories stir
of football games
the jubilation and sorrow
found on the field
more than forty years ago
where campu...
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Categories:
trice up, appreciation, remember,
Form: Free verse
The Satan’s Daughter
...The ‘Satan’s Daughter’ always knows the way she ought to go
There’s no-one left alive aboard to haul her rigging so
Her crew and Cap’n flounder on the seabed far below
But the ‘Satan’s Daughter’ s...
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Categories:
trice up, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Hope Fulfillment
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Written: September 24, 2024, For Mohan Chutani Minichu Contest
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My fate brilliance award
I'm stuck on a small path, getting wick...
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Categories:
trice up, analogy, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Ad Infinitum
...The brevity of time in space
a moment may trice an instant
in your lifetime can't be measured
nor your species, your world, nor of
your sun's lifetime, for tis the absolute
measure of infin...
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Categories:
trice up, analogy,
Form: Imagism
A Place Not Meant To Be: Part I
...A Place Not Meant To Be
PART: I (810 of 1487 words)
#1: A Day Begins
Sand grains station elevated for want
in the cool starless relics spell of dark
a sun behold horizo...
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Categories:
trice up, analogy,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Blessed Advent Cores His Great Divine
..."Blessed assurance glory divine ..."
Supine haze swiped tall grass wooing shadows,
as chimes of wren's feathers a float parade,
begs a trace with leaves sought resting barrows,
the...
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Categories:
trice up, beautiful, blessing, creation, earth,
Form: Sonnet
In a World where I do not Exist
...Non-Existence and its elementary properties as I move about freely as you can plainly see
Matter is a tangible entity: meaning that it can be physically handled making it m...
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Categories:
trice up, analogy,
Form: Imagism
Tortoise and the Hare: NEW Poetic Format COMPLETED
...Tortoise looked, couldn't see, hare disappeared.
Only him, tortoise win, hare reappeared.
the sportsmanship that
honesty competes often
eludes the cheaters
The Word of Life is joy everlastin...
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Categories:
trice up, analogy, animal, character, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Tortoise and the Hare: Part III of a NEW Poetic Format
...B-The Word of Life is joy everlasting-a
E-In the game of life, we win, lose, and die-b
T-patterns reasoning, be glad we're living-a
T-living for th...
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Categories:
trice up, analogy, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Plagiarize I Own
...'Twas midday in mid-Manhattan
I was with the lunch crowd
then a voice sounds like platinum
drove me to turn around
of course, the color of your threads
amongst the bland, spread out
poetry in m...
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Categories:
trice up, analogy, inspiration, love, sweet,
Form: Rhyme
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