Root Of All Evil
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Isn't it funny how people see money
pieces of metal so very small
there's not a lot you can do
with a penny or two
money itself has really no uses at all
it used to be beads and once i...
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Categories:
wafer, how i feel, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Something Sweet
...Something Sweet
I want something sweet
Pestered by my brain
It’s like a recurring tweet
I am trying to refrain
Something sticky like toffee
A gooey dessert of delight
To eat with a cup of ...
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Categories:
wafer, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep
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“Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep”
Following the Babel paths,
where footprints progress
like rough-hewn braille,
temptation shows i...
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Categories:
wafer, muse,
Form: Narrative
Nightingale and Roses
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“Nightingale and Roses”
the heart burst open
like a canary cracks open its cage with a song
listening to the nightingale with roses
flying like a throatful soul escapi...
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Categories:
wafer, muse,
Form: Free verse
Friday and the Weekend
...It always rains on Friday
Its off to the Care Home
with wafer thin biscuits
for delicate teeth
and a bag of cheese and onions
At the corner shop
some commonal drinkers
start early
2 cans of...
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Categories:
wafer, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Upon a dark and stormy night
...Upon a dark and stormy night...
as jagged bolts of lightning
tore thru the the midnight clear
and figuratively ripped the sky to shreds
(analogous to jumping Jack flash),
and ear splitting thu...
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Categories:
wafer, absence, america, animal, character,
Form: Free verse
Nose
...Nose
Once a year my
long ears and long snout, exhausting to
tolerate, disconcerting, are lined with
mother-of-pearl.
I can convert my
long nostrils into
wafer.
I reprimand painfully ...
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Categories:
wafer, humor,
Form: Free verse
Revel In A Luscious Glimpse
...Deep blood red orange cloud’s,
ethereal dream float,
Satin wind carrier of luscious mint,
green hymnody’s deft transport,
Spring hues random loitering,
between gray peeled branches,
Chirpy echo...
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Categories:
wafer, appreciation, beauty, celebration, color,
Form: Narrative
Found Heartily Exuded
...Is my notepad a blank space,
canvass or image-ridden spot,
thoughts of aqua bead elation,
mesmerise beyond the fence,
they jump gaudy traffic lights,
but runaway relish cuts wild shape,
when fa...
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Categories:
wafer, art, birth, care, color,
Form: Free verse
Lilies Of Lucent Light
...Lilies of lucent light,
single file walking along
the cloudless pathway of
the songbirds' garden kingdom.
How fair the child lilies,
a gathering of the guiltless,
in snow-white
First Holy Co...
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Categories:
wafer, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Catholic Boy
...Push me in the door once more.
Scrub me for the alter.
Return me to the sacraments,
the rituals,
the wafer and wine.
Place me, dazzled
among votive candles,
that are such fat bones
for the ...
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Categories:
wafer, poetry,
Form: Free verse
- Victor's Fairies -
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Lovers
Fairy Dust
gently vibrates in the air
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Categories:
wafer, beauty, magic,
Form: Verse
Thoughts of a Table
...When all is but
dark and dreary,
and coldness wraps the
silhouette of
my wooden surface,
I listen to the
wafer thin whispers
echoing in whimsy tones-
when the moon
wind-chimes sway ...
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Categories:
wafer, deep, giving, loneliness,
Form: Personification
Coeur De Lion
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"Cœur de Lion"
what makes a hero?
the hero heart
doesn’t beat
it roars,
calling in all
the shrouds
ears and eyes open
eventually,
they all hear
the call
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Categories:
wafer, dark, humanity, light,
Form: Narrative
The Very Weird And Wonderful World Of Place Names: UK And US Edition
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I: THE UK
Poling, Patching, Nether Wallop,
Matching Tye and Droop
Plumpton, Lickfold, Puddletown,
Westward Ho! and Throop.
Hole of Horcum, New Invention,
Boghe...
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Categories:
wafer, america, crazy, england, humor,
Form: Rhyme
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