The Frog That Became King
...He took an oath beneath the chandelier palace,
tongue lapping at furtive moth wings.
A crown of collectible bottle caps
balanced on his warty brow.
Lilith bowed as he passed,
her petals mutter...
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Categories:
warty, muse, mystery, myth, nature,
Form: Spoken Word
Cold Sore
...The oligarchy but an orgy
We’ve never kissed a toad so warty
Hoping for a prince
Puckered with a wince
While they make the sieg heil sporty
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Categories:
warty, america, kiss,
Form: Limerick
The Halt and the Lame
...Some old guy on a park bench
looks like Jesus,
if Jesus had lived to be some old guy.
I'm old, not really, really old
but I look older than that guy on the bench.
From his coat pocket
he scat...
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Categories:
warty, poetry,
Form: Free verse
- Imagine -
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An late ebony night with trembling notes
gurgling sounds from moist throats
Where pickled cucumbers shrink in a ja...
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Categories:
warty, dark, death, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Witch
...Wicked aged woman,
wreaking harm with cauldron,
warty nose, crafty eyes;
Wisdom sees through dark guise!
When riding purple broom,
wild crone cackles at moon.
Warblers on crimson skies....
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Categories:
warty, age, evil, moon, night,
Form: Pleiades
A Witchy Bait and Switch
...When a woman I yearned for would not return my emotion,
I consulted a witch for a magic love potion.
She said there was an elixir that would suit my request,
Time-consuming to make, but was by far...
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Categories:
warty, halloween, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Halloween Anthology
...Trouble, trouble stirs the wind
ghastly ghosts rise and ascend
warty toads croak
vile spells are spoke
witches’ covens evil intend
Burbling, gurgling cauldron hot
with purple vein, red bloo...
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Categories:
warty, celebration, funny, giggle, halloween,
Form: Limerick
Sinister Voices Heard
...Sinister voices heard...
and ethereal disembodied spirits seen
from the other side of the woods
said phantasmagorical sound and sight
particularly experienced every Halloween.
Though dog tir...
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Categories:
warty, adventure, allegory, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Toad In the Hole
...Though I'm ugly and I'm old,
And I'm fat and I'm bald,
And I'm grey and I'm cold;
I've still a story to be told …
I've never been a handsome prince
As far as I can tell;
Unless I lost my memo...
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Categories:
warty, angel, animal, character, cute,
Form: Rhyme
We Have Kept the Toads
...Once we shared
the same swizzle stick and paper plate,
ate the casserole no one else wanted,
but then there were the toads.
The Atlantic flushed, hands were washed,
the toads stayed to be reas...
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Categories:
warty, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Natures Lost Words-
...lost warty, watery words in horizons, coastal lost worthless, warm words shine~
4/5/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2021...
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Categories:
warty, analogy, conflict, confusion, nature,
Form: Alliteration
Antebellum Elegy
...Prologue
Abandoned and in disrepair the mansion
Is dark now; a story behind every stanchion.
An unwitting monument to a way of life,
Since foreclosed through bloody civil strife.
Antebellu...
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Categories:
warty, history, native american,
Form: Elegy
Havoc At Halloween
...Blackie mounts my broomstick every Halloween
With her silky coat and eyes of emerald green
We’re silhouetted in the moonbeam's gleam
Kitty meows so loudly if ever we are seen
Children...
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Categories:
warty, cat, fantasy, halloween, humorous,
Form: Monorhyme
An Invitation of Blessing From the Lord
...Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. You too, be patie...
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Categories:
warty, autumn,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Not Just Another Fairytale
...Hopalong was a frog
Who dreamed of a better life
Dreaming of a kiss from a princess
Who he could take for a wife
Now, dreams don’t often come true
But this was his lucky day
It just so ha...
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Categories:
warty, children, fun, funny, hilarious,
Form: Rhyme
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