Manners Maketh Man
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The premise goes everyone knows
before entering the premises
while still outside yet on the mat
it's no gentleman who forgets
to doff his cap or remove his hat
if dining out or at a pr...
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Categories:
unmannerly, drink, food, humorous, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
It Would Not Be Lady Like
...Would not be lady like
I smirked
Would be unmannerly
I snorted
Milk came out my nose
I farted my way across the floor into the living room
where my potential date was instantly horrified...
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Categories:
unmannerly, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
A Cenotaph Would Speak Out Loud
...A CENOTAPH WOULD SPEAK OUT LOUD
There is, in my still heart, room for you,
Despite the unmannerly way you have behaved
I have managed to conserve a bloom or two.
You smiled, and said love was...
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Categories:
unmannerly, angel, betrayal, sad,
Form: Villanelle
The Ocean's Reverie
...Imagination ‘pon a massive, vast,
And boundless harbinger depends. One that
The sea, unequalled in adequacy, may serve.
Within the ceaselessness of its supreme
And transcendental flux, phantasmat...
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Categories:
unmannerly, adventure, allegory, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Blank verse
Beloved
...In the twilight of my life i weep;
Life is more complex stir, mine is deep.
Much as I have shed some essentials,
I'll not unknow a love convivial.
I low,"God, my dolor be muffled
To a fat lango...
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Categories:
unmannerly, happiness, inspirational, life, loss,
Form: I do not know?