Twilight
...The corn has ripened.
With it is the wizened laughter of a
Mirthless age, showing ashy teeth
Of dappled cowries.
A flavescence so bantered by the courage
Of wilting bloom!
Sadly, sea waves tr...
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Categories:
truss, life, time,
Form: Free verse
In Playground of Imagination
...In Playground of Imagination
Us being kids with no boundaries
Just feeling the warmth
Caused by sun for us
Thanking god for his creation
For bearing our clowneries
With guts to face any stor...
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Categories:
truss, best friend, care, courage,
Form: Rhyme
CREATION, INNOVATION AND FIRST NATION
...
It was only 120 miles from our motel in New Hampshire to our Air B & B in Bangor’s front door
which means today we had a lot of time for new adventures to explore.
So we took a little detour in...
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Categories:
truss, creation, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Raindrops 2
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Lugubrious blue mood skies funereal and morose shed raindrops,
they unleash tableau vivant torrent’s wet tranche,
blessing, bane or boon from vault of heaven,
damp pearl blob bewitching...
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Categories:
truss, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, celebration,
Form: Grook
Green Hell
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As I fall into the buzzing altar of heavy
metal shifting sand, maw, swirling sheets,
illness drools plus plus halcyon?
drawn too many wrinkles obfuscating drooling
stic...
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Categories:
truss, art,
Form: Rhyme
The Potion
...First, you need to mix the potion.
You must read the instructions very carefully
You don’t want to be summoning up any old witch.
So make sure it’s the October manual.
Especially as we know what ...
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Categories:
truss, halloween, hilarious, humor,
Form: Free verse
The Ice-Jam Cometh
...Creaking, cracking, booming…
You hear the sounds before the bridge,
mountain quiet amplifies it,
step out on the old iron truss,
and a mess unfolds before you.
Creeping, slipping, shearing…
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Categories:
truss, imagery, river, seasons, senses,
Form: Blank verse
Bridge
...I think of my ancestors building you,
Tying and placing tree-trunks, like girders, in queue;
They constructed you, then, with stones,
Twisted, turned, criss-crossed, hung, dangled in zones;
Road ...
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Categories:
truss, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Clearing Metaphors
...Hay is crinkling in various places
The candle stump stares solemnly
Beyond the moon nocturnal vault
A groan floats in the air, rewon by gag words.
The trees climbed the hill and over it
Golden...
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Categories:
truss, analogy, metaphor, tree,
Form: Free verse
Modern Living
...Which social travail must we suffer
Food banks and rampant inflation
Hunger and energy poverty
go hand in hand
We have our Hitler beasts again
Putin in the Ukraine
and discordant Politicians
C...
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Categories:
truss, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Christmas 2022
...Christmas 2022 is fast approaching
Where has the year really gone
Well after two years of covid isolation
Boris resigned his prime minster position
He got us through brexit
And a pandemic
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Categories:
truss, christmas, december, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Amelie Beth Harris Mcgeehan
...Amélie Beth Harris -McGeehan
Acknowledgment of birthday gal,
whose invaluable priceless worth
exceeds more'n a bajillion dollars.
First born of Boyce and Harriet
(both long since deceased,...
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Categories:
truss, adventure, age, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Liz
...A Brit politician named Truss
Became the PM, without fuss
What a fun thing to be
She could go on a spree
Throw all of us under a bus...
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Categories:
truss, political,
Form: Limerick
Ode To Truss
...Politics
B*llocks t*ts
Who's in charge
It's all in bits
Democracy
policy
Who da boss
It's all silly
Economy
The whatomy
Finance for dummies
U-turn Lizzie
Oh dear oh dear
It's near it's ...
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Categories:
truss, political,
Form: Free verse
A Prime Minister Everyone Hates
...Let the people vote for our leader
show Liz Truss we do not need her
a position of power growing weaker
can you dream if you’re not a believer
What if the people have lost confidence
and ...
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Categories:
truss, england, political,
Form: Rhyme
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