August 13th, 2025 twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events
...August 13th, 2025 – twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events
The following poem posted about a half hour before the bewitching hour that spelled calamity (which though a frea...
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Categories:
vim, abuse, adventure, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Tandoori or Tangerine Tan shorts no5 final jive
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Still hope we can cope
With the nope
Don’t give a damn plan
From that Tandoori tan
Obscene Tangerine dope
Jackanory Mandarin Man
That trope..like to be Pope
Go out on a limb....
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Categories:
vim, community, power,
Form: I do not know?
Tangerine or Tandoori Tan Man - full version
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Tandoori or Tangerine Tan?
Mister rich lister Blister
Sinister Mandarin Minister
Sin..Spin & Chagrin Talisman
Jaundice scrotum prejudice totem
Podium pandemonium
Needs Imodium....
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Categories:
vim, education, political, society,
Form: Free verse
The Rise of Fall
...In the hour when senile summer breathes her last,
The vim of her ego births a somnolent child.
Rising forth from the yawning pit of newness,
Dyed with shades of seasonal confetti,
Fall rises with...
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Categories:
vim, autumn,
Form: Free verse
The Festival of African Rain
...The natives have
(since the seventh month peeped
through the lean crescent eye of the moon)
worn cloaks of festivities.
They dance the rites,
squelching proudly in mud and green pools
of wate...
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Categories:
vim, africa, culture, rain,
Form: Free verse
No Ego Joe Show
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On every outing…no touting or fostering of pouty louty shouty postering…
No flouting of the definition of classical ebb and flow rendition…
Yet boundaries scouting…Rooty sedition routing th...
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Categories:
vim, spoken word, sports,
Form: Ballad
Dangle A Backdrop
...Fountains sprinkle summer city rising steam spiral,
wet dispersed and raucous shrieks from children,
pavements, streets. lanes, byways imbued,
with that June to September jubilance,
jovial spiri...
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Categories:
vim, adventure, art, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
The Festival of African Rain
...The natives have
(since the seventh month peeped
through the lean crescent eye of the moon)
worn cloaks of festivities.
They dance the rites,
squelching proudly in mud and green pools
of wate...
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Categories:
vim, africa, rain,
Form: Free verse
Baobab
...Night’s lingering silhouette no longer
Shields my restless shadow, which clutches me
With gusto and haunting trauma.
My naked thorax seeks raffia clothing;
My ribs rebel against enchanting shiver...
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Categories:
vim, africa,
Form: Free verse
red rover red rover send mary right over
...We used to play red rover red rover send NAME right over.
Send Billy, he’s frilly, his skin’s white as vanilly.
Send Jackie, she’s whacky, let’s give her a smacky.
We were ruthless in our run, sla...
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Categories:
vim, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Raising Pony Dogs inside a House
...they race in and out chasing each other with gusto and vim
oops spoke too soon two dog tails just ran back in
one jumps on the couch, and the other is up there too
they are pony dogs, one weighs 8...
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Categories:
vim, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Baobab
...Night’s lingering silhouette no longer
Shields my restless shadow, which clutches me
With gusto and haunting trauma.
My naked thorax seeks raffia clothing;
My ribs rebel against enchanting shiver...
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Categories:
vim, africa,
Form: Free verse
Brian Charles Lara
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Have to admit.. do have a bit
Of a trenchant penchant
Alright adore southpaw purveyors
Dabbles..pique aroused..rabbles in the stands roused
Unique sleek cheek of their chic espoused
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Categories:
vim, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Virat Kohli
...Virat..never ersatz..fat cat with the bat
Look at record book stats in every format
Kerching bling King of tats
Vicious & pernicious in the ring
Kohli kidology methodology thing
Tit ...
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Categories:
vim, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Harried Harris heir still feels horrid courtesy heist he doth declare
...Harried Harris heir still feels horrid courtesy heist he doth declare...
Earlier this merry month of May
a goniff who possibly did gossip
about his/her surreptitious exploits
when he/she brazen...
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Categories:
vim, absence, abuse, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
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