The Gewgaw Witch
...she conjured up a cunning rasp
a gewgaw lyre-like harp in clasp
to crooked teeth held in their grasp
then twanged at midnight with a blast
this higgled haggled haggly crone
did dance on graves...
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Categories:
twanged, dance, dark, fun, magic,
Form: Monorhyme
The Bow Maker
...Quickened senses
catch the smell
and sticky bleed
of bark
stripped
from a branch,
the cane
fire blackened
to a spring
of polished rod
then bent
into a bow,
the taut string
twanged
t...
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Categories:
twanged, bird, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Night Vom 1
...Lick a bar of steel.
Did I need to say it was cold?
Did I need to say the tongue twanged with a metallic twinge?
Did I need to describe the grey? The way the moonlight lit the fibers of the grai...
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Categories:
twanged, anger,
Form: I do not know?
Talented Stratosphere
...Caressing the clouds, I felt sky’s heartbeat.
Stratospheric song; I heard;
It twanged my silver cord.
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Categories:
twanged, appreciation, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Kimo
Yemen Slaughter August 9, 2018
...If one is hungry
And bored
Of watching over Mecca,
What better place
To steal an apple
Than from another country’s orchards,
With fighter jets
Twanged in the sky
Like flying bottle openers,...
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Categories:
twanged, evil, grief, international, political,
Form: Free verse
Glue Bill Whar Ming Dublin Down
...Court hiss sea hove The Irish Times,
this hum mere ruck can bloke
kin esse spy climb mitt till impact
desiccation ravaging with choke
hold thee aim rilled isle,
which haint ok k...
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Categories:
twanged, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Cherub Without Wings
...A little cherub, perched on high,
twanged on her harp all day.
She felt a little lonely,
though "bored" I would not say.
How happily those children play!
she thought as she looked down,
and ...
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Categories:
twanged, baby, beautiful, cute love,
Form: Rhyme
Songstress Buelah Wood
...There once was a songstress named Buelah Wood
Who aimed to make it big in Hollywood.
I once suffered through her show;
She twanged like Robin Hood's bow!
Use...
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Categories:
twanged, humorous, song,
Form: Limerick
Old Time Appalachians
...Old time Appalachians deep within the hollows.
Self-sufficient, hard working, fine mountain folks
With farming, barn raising, and crafting skills,
Logging, mining and music to pleasure the ear.
Devo...
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Categories:
twanged, dance, dedication, devotion, faith,
Form: Free verse
The Call
...In comes the call
From far down the hall
A cheery voice with a Texas
draw twanged out a saying
starting with "Y'all".
Oh it was the end of it all!
I packed up my bags
Left those n...
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Categories:
twanged, funny
Form: ABC
Heart's Adore
...Can the more be for the less
As panting love being beset - succumbing to what is best
Why must the mind endure for the heart
As emotions become unstrung by the dark
Be it offensive to love?
Be t...
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Categories:
twanged, depression, devotion, hope, life,
Form: Romanticism
That Is the Name of My Bottled Water
...Ok, I do not know if I should be telling you this,
It is somewhat embarrassing and you will probably laugh and hiss.
I went on holiday to the land of the free
Actually, it was America to the bea...
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Categories:
twanged, funny, holiday, me, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Eighth Grade
...1960 and the world was changing
A time for living and rearranging
Baseball in the school yard with a sponge ball and a fist
Donnie Brooks sang Mission Bell and Chubby did The Twist
Bobbie sox and...
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Categories:
twanged, childhood, music, nostalgiaschool, world,
Form: Narrative
He Strums Guitars Over My Head
...He strums guitars over my head
While my cheeks are flushed pink
Like the sheets on my bed
Stolen glances will never come back
The pulse of my body
Screams loudly, “Heart attack!”
Oh, how the pi...
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Categories:
twanged, friendship, life, love, music,
Form: I do not know?