Take Me To Nirvana
...enlightened oblivion
paradox of fulfilled nothingness
the vacant treasure of passing on
in an air balloon without vulcanized rubber
all earthquakes extinguished
no fault lines exposed
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Categories:
vulcanized, death,
Form: Free verse
Trump's Vulcanized Hard Head
...Trump's Vulcanized Hard Head
Trump's very hard head had been vulcanized,
And lost all of his brains we still often realized;
Often mean;
We turned green,
While Trump whole countryside, he te...
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Categories:
vulcanized, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Inertia Frigidity
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Step into the date-stamped time DeLorean,
move forward
on backward spinning nostalgia rims
Centrifugal hourglass ...
short hand and long
Distorted view of time,
kinetic highway roma...
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Categories:
vulcanized, allusion, metaphor, time, visionary,
Form: Free verse
The Game of Hockey
...The Game of Hockey
By Government decree, lacrosse
Is Canada’s national sport,
But in the hearts and minds of Canadians,
Hockey rules supreme.
Hockey is a winter sport enjoyed by Canadi...
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Categories:
vulcanized, hockey, sports,
Form: Verse
Steel Heart of Time
...Beyond the glass
To the silvery foil—
All is not given back
In the way of light—
The mirror
Somewhat of a thief,
Coveting a bit of warmth
For itself--
The secret flaw
In reflected image…
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Categories:
vulcanized, allegory, allusion, memory, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Consanguinity
...The augury of him in Crimea was so
That Ekaterina said she was tired of sandwiches
But I did have black tea, black Latvian bread with her black Ikra near Black Sea
Hundreds of kilometres from Kiev...
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Categories:
vulcanized, conflict,
Form: Chastushka
Spring's Perfumes
...SPRING’S PERFUMES
Oh, to be in East Lansing
Now that spring is there !
And to see the view entrancing
And drink cool Miller beer.
To be in East Lansing’s main street,
Downwind of the rubber-t...
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Categories:
vulcanized, funny, urban,
Form: Quatrain
Vicarious Mold
...Hewn with story untold
Towering mass cut then rolled
Bared, stripped leaving majestic mold
Surrounded with ringed truths manifold
Cored, its residual value poled
Branchless foil whose tender hat...
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Categories:
vulcanized, nature
Form: Rhyme
I'Ve Had Enough!!
...I'm sick, I'm tired,
I've had enough.....
of "truth" and of lies....
I've been poked, prodded,
tested and bested,
festered, rested,
sequestered, requested,
wester'd, vested,
pestered, wrested...
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Categories:
vulcanized, art, funny, on writing
Form: Burlesque