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A COLD WINTERs STEAMY

...The staticky-stars climax under intense blanket of Winter glow.
Your spouse can’t see your spirited green eyes that burn slow.

The friction of campfire sticks, the satiny slipperiness of moon.
F...

Categories: vaingloriously, metaphor, sensual, winter,
Form: Couplet

Natural Soporific Narcotic

...Natural soporific narcotic

Recurrent suicidal thoughts 
vaingloriously wend along winding road
within windmills of my mind
(o'er a death cab for cutie weeknd)
yakking, yanking, and yawking zea...

Categories: vaingloriously, addiction, adventure, age, analogy,
Form: Free verse

A Tale of Ancient Times

...This is a tale of ancient times
And a knight of valiant heraldry
Who followed true his knightly code,
The weight of righteousness his load,
All sheathed in heaven's grace he rode,
And practiced ...

Categories: vaingloriously, faith, history, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative

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Bolero Mi Amore

...Bolero builds in intensity,
the interplay of instruments
crescendoing; soft to loud.

Ravel’s music haunting my dreams
Chimera of swells crashing, Everest
ever-reaching for God’s pa...

Categories: vaingloriously, music,
Form: Free verse

The Honeymoon Plot

...teach me, virgin-groom
and correct me if i’m wrong  ~

                   only if you dare

tears fall vaingloriously 
upon your befuddled grave

9/10/2019 
light verse via tanka...

Categories: vaingloriously, humor,
Form: Light Verse

The Rapunzel-Princess of the Flying Trapeze

...Suspended with roses, a garter and courage.
Her wispy white costume blows in the breeze.
Silky vibrations as she sways her bodice —
the Rapunzel-princess of the swinging trapeze.

Br...

Categories: vaingloriously, beauty, imagery,
Form: Rhyme

Unite To Peacefully Overthrow Trump Administration Part I

...Though no advocate of radical mass stick tummy, 
there must needs be 
some nonviolent modus operandi and/or 
modus vivendi spelling abandonment, 
whereby two party bicameral political  
system i...

Categories: vaingloriously, allusion, anger, corruption, fate,
Form: Political Verse

When All Seemed Lost

...WHEN ALL SEEMED LOST
(A SLEEPING BEAUTY TALE)

Sewing machine, long idle, gathered dust.
The needle, jagged, waiting patiently
for the princess-in-hiding.  Wicked lusts,
smacking cruel lips...

Categories: vaingloriously, dark,
Form: Quatrain

Choose a Topic: Love and Romance

...SUNFLOWER BEE

She’s illuminated in a garden of sunflowers.
The sun sways, with her charming momentum.

He loves to see her far off, like a twinkling star,
...

Categories: vaingloriously, romance,
Form: Couplet

Why Vote Mate

...Why vote for governments
That uses you
That abuses you
Confuses you and refuses you

Why vote for governments
That doesn’t respect or defend your rights
And fight with all their might’s
Why v...

Categories: vaingloriously, abuse, political, society, voice,
Form: Free verse

Arrogance

...Vaingloriously
reluctant,
in the words
yet
for self the words of wisdom
with a faint shadow
of a guilt hovering across
the cloudy dull sky
as the noisy birds
sings above
the voice i loathe
...

Categories: vaingloriously, life
Form: Free verse

Diary of a Twisted Primate

...a scandalous secret gnaws
at the epicenter of my being
threatening to unearth
score pillars of dirt
upon which my world is built

gilded in reverence,
vaingloriously lauded
and parlayed to as...

Categories: vaingloriously, political, satire
Form: Free verse