Swimming a Pond
...I know I shan’t try it, again:
Plunging into water of any sort
For the thrills by the crazy sought:
The Obviously Robbed of True Gain!
The last time I did
Drank two liters I didn’t need,
The po...
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Categories:
vouchsafing, adventure, anxiety, bereavement, character,
Form: Rhyme
Ode On Old Virtues Ii
...Let me not play tuneless in today's time,
Some purists sure get praised as Gandhian,
Yet, crass nevertheless is no more crime,
Old values are hailed may be in heaven.
Whilst weighing values for...
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Categories:
vouchsafing, life, truth,
Form: Ode
Auld Lang Syne the Most Sung New Years Eve Song
...“Auld Lang Syne” - the most-sung New Year's Eve song
Courtesy Robert Burns
circa (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)
the National Bard,
Bard of Ayrshire
and the Ploughman Poet.
Two hundred si...
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Categories:
vouchsafing, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
V For Vendetta
..."Who am I?
Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask,
but on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to...
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Categories:
vouchsafing, film,
Form: Free verse
Paternal Grandfather Aaron Harris
...Paternal Grandfather Aaron Harris...
Lovely bones long since disintegrated
into dustbin of genealogical history,
if still alive would rank as oldest person
clocking another one incremental incr...
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Categories:
vouchsafing, 8th grade, birth, family,
Form: Prose Poetry
Ode On Old Virtues
...Virtue, thou art old wine of vague value
Admired even by vintners nary more,
Nor by the adherents taking time’s cue,
Ye decorate archaic ancient lore.
Watch new high-fliers that surface from sh...
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Categories:
vouchsafing, good morning,
Form: Free verse
A Spate of Cool Temperatures
...How refreshing to experience
a reprieve from sultry weather
when hazy, hot,
and humid warm front
unleashes a very short sweaty tether.
Man hat tin dar overcast skies
hint ...
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Categories:
vouchsafing, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Yes, I Pier Irma Donned To Crush Mar a Lago Estate
...To Crush Mar a Lago Estate, and lower the Economic debt ceiling...
Now that DACA docked amidst
marshy tidal outskirts of Poker flats
(readied to be sunk) off shore
(beach combing divers – ec...
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Categories:
vouchsafing, america, anger, anxiety, crush,
Form: I do not know?