All We Can Abolish
...Horrid hellion hunger that rips apart the soul
Sadly starving siblings where death takes its toll
Crippled children crying a mother lives in hell
While wicked ways of man making money for their se...
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Categories:
vassallo, abuse, anger, corruption, death,
Form: Sonnet
Happy Seventy First Anniversary
...The Alphabet Contest
Sponsor: Alfred Vassallo
A Is For Anniversary
Their love story began on April twenty-third, nineteen forty-five,
two young lovers vowed eternity before the...
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Categories:
vassallo, anniversary, children, grandparents, happy,
Form: Couplet
Apple To Eat and Compute
...In its bite and byte I find cheer
having it, my life is sweetish
active and agile you get sheer
In its bite and byte I find cheer
between eat and compute I steer
Apples in these place I relish
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Categories:
vassallo, happiness, health,
Form: Triolet
Treason - Doppelganger
...Doppelganger
Treason
Creeping in total darkness,
No wait for any sunshine,
Day he betrayed my true love,
passion bled to death.
All yearnings laid to rest,
bliss was only a deceit,...
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Categories:
vassallo, betrayal,
Form: Dodoitsu
Trouble Maker
...She seems to come from nowhere...
she appears just like a song...
It seems she somehow knows the
other side of me
I see her in rain puddles
and I'm troubled, just to know
that I am never alon...
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Categories:
vassallo, introspection,
Form: Dodoitsu
Jekyll and Hyde - Doppelganger
...bright eyes gleaming with mischief
gentle compassionate views
determinedly ambitious
me sober and free
glazed eyes full of hate and fear
anger mixed with self pity
high drama - no coping skil...
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Categories:
vassallo, addiction, anger, fear, how
Form: Dodoitsu
Dodoitsu Doppelganger
...A man stood there at mirror
Mirror gave him the horror
Himself and his duplicate
He saw two images
So he replaced the mirror
And then stood with his head down
The result remained the same
Im...
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Categories:
vassallo, identity,
Form: Dodoitsu
Homemakers Alterego
...Homemaker's Alterego
Me sincere,she creative,
I have routine work to do,
she demands paper,pen ,books
balance is ...
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Categories:
vassallo, deep, devotion, dream, self,
Form: Dodoitsu
Vampire-Dodoitsu Doppelganger Contest
...Dodoitsu Doppelganger Contest
Sponsor: Alfred Vassallo
Vampire drinks blood in the night,
Lacking sensitivity,
...
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Categories:
vassallo, evil, humanity, murder, violence,
Form: Dodoitsu
Doppelganger
...
me and my doppelgänger
always fight with each other
one is reasonable and
other - eccentric
one is drunk - in poetry
other - sunk in business
the fight continues - but still,
both go ...
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Categories:
vassallo, conflict, self,
Form: Dodoitsu
They Should Meet
...A middling, one-eyed person,
yet one thinking she's sexy,
seen cussing a too fast car
in Carson City.
A one-eyed, middling person,
yet one thinking she's sexy,
seen cussing a too slow car
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Categories:
vassallo, humorous,
Form: Dodoitsu
''Unwanted''
...
There was just one time I felt unwanted,
It was after my big sister was killed;
I can still hear my mother screaming,
Poor father with his weeping that chilled.
Chilled any hear...
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Categories:
vassallo, childhood, family, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Alfred Vassallo
...With controversial words he writes
Doesn’t give a **** what he thinks
I read of him last November
Not well loved his subjects stinks.
From what I heard he drinks a lot
Shown explicitly in his ...
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Categories:
vassallo, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
Poet's Tribute
...(Dedication: For Freddie, aka Alfred Vassallo,
RIP, dear departed prolific PoetrySoup poet.)
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At PoetrySoup, we each pen verse;
Voice in a troupe as poets obser...
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Categories:
vassallo, angst,
Form: Couplet
Torn, Dedicated To Freddie Vassallo
...I don't want to
No I don't
Want to do it
Your way
Your way
Or the highway
That's what
I hear you say
So I'll pack my bags
I'll soon be on my way
You tell me
You don't
Mean it
"Ple...
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Categories:
vassallo, dark, lost,
Form: Rhyme
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