Happy Birthday to BB
...Sunday 6th July 2025,
On this day. B turned one year older than last night.
I sent him best wishes through XMPP Apps.
However, he would never receive that,
Because he ended our friendship August ...
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Categories:
wares, birthday, celebration, for him,
Form: Free verse
I'm A Captive
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Minds stratify in webbed design
In lone life’s strata snares align
Psychic slide patterns ratify
In webbed design minds stratify
Within mind’s wares dark secrets hide
Patterns ratify psyc...
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Categories:
wares, i am, self,
Form: Quatrain
The Virgin Dead
...The seeds of war are planted
in the soil of greed
within the garden of an unholy trinity.
Children of the poor sent off to war
to weave the satin feathers
of a murder of political crows.
The w...
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Categories:
wares, war,
Form: Rhyme
Latakia
...Latakia, Syria
My ship berthed there when Bashar al-Assad, the vile
When a dictator was in power, I found a peaceful town
Dressed in a European manner, there were many shops
selling all sorts...
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Categories:
wares, allusion, best friend, betrayal,
Form: ABC
Craft Market at Pyree Fields
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Each month a craft fair,
is held at Pyree Fields in the open air.
All the local crafters are there,
proudly showing off their homemade fare.
Behind each stall, a pair of eyes stares,
hoping...
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Categories:
wares, community,
Form: Rhyme
Sexually explicit meme more real day
...Sexually explicit meme more real day
originally written May 31st, 202_
humorously, posthumously,
and tempestuously expressing woes
from the top of my talking head
to gnarly nails of
(this ...
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Categories:
wares, 11th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Free verse
Death came a stalking
...In the realm of the heart which served as our guide
For vanities sake we cheated and lied
And all of the signs that lighted our way
Now darkened and silent had lead us astray
In our haste to proc...
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Categories:
wares, culture, death, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
The Fifty-Seven Firestorm
...They met back in school when perms were in style..
Now they’re fifty-seven and wickedly wild.
A sisterhood forged in detention and pranks..
Now fueled by cocktails and cackles and tanks.
Dera...
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Categories:
wares, friendship, fun, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Doing absolute zero endeavors
...Doing absolute zero endeavors
Earlier today March 28th, 2025
(thee hour now fifteen minutes
after eight o'clock at night, cuz
yours truly & wife paced back
and forth from one room to the
othe...
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Categories:
wares, absence, adventure, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse
Feel the Merchant's Wrath
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‘If you prick us, do we not bleed?
If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If you poison us, do we not die?
And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?’
~ (The ...
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Categories:
wares, humor,
Form: Sonnet
Ordinary married sexagenarian mortal feted as savior incarnate
...Ordinary married sexagenarian mortal fêted as savior incarnate...
Courtesy a plethora of marriageable females
dogging, hounding, and lowing the living daylights
forcing yours truly to go underco...
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Categories:
wares, absence, adventure, allegory, analogy,
Form: Free verse
What Is Christmas
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What is Christmas?
Written: By Tom Wright
1999
A time of many sights to see,
Of tinsel, garland and wreath's so fair.
Of hundreds of bulbs upon a tree,
With twinkling...
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Categories:
wares, christmas, god, how i
Form: Lyric
Cross My Heart and Hope To Die
...{Three o'clock on a December afternoon,
the sky is opaque as my nature has stood out, the rain drizzles down my windows and I am distinctly reminded how it once drizzled down my back; the lacquers o...
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Categories:
wares, absence, abuse, addiction, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Time Traveler - A Message for Humanity
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(Day 1)
"O Wise Raven, Sage of the Skies, tell me what you have seen from your perch set on high."
"Mortal Man, I feel no compulsion to reveal to you that which I have witnessed wi...
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Categories:
wares, symbolism,
Form: Prose Poetry
Friends of frogs
...Written for the contest: Alliteration Nursery rhyme
Sponsored by: Eve Roper
Contest Judged: 11/6/2024 12:00:00 AM
Placement: 1st
For friends and folks of foolish forests' frogs!
Darkne...
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Categories:
wares, analogy, animal, dark, mental
Form: Alliteration
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