Palo Alto-Baton Rouge
...Palo Alto-Baton Rouge
Every Compliment
Is A Plea For Compliance
An Expectation Of
Rewarding Response.
ASMR With Tender Fingers
And A Pretty Stick
Across Your Bare And
Tender Supple Skin.
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Categories:
whelp, life,
Form: Free verse
I Need To Reach That Phone
...I need to reach that phone box pleaded a girl at the station.
Many adults walked around her, but no one offered help.
Along came a little boy, a rascal, a neighbor, not a friend, a whelp.
He immed...
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Categories:
whelp, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Pelts
...5/31/22
Dealt continual pelts
Leading to welts
Speed kills so always put on a seat belt
Misunderstood and not being felt
Close and far from Elk
Above fields of kelp
Whelp
I thought I needed...
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Categories:
whelp, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Oh They Are Not So Unassuming
...I went out one night;
folks say they don’t bite,
but grabbing the banister,
I slapped my hand upon one.
No, the experience was not fun
for the mantis nor me,
this painful whelp I can...
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Categories:
whelp, animal, insect, nature, poems,
Form: Free verse
Medieval Poems Ii
...Medieval Poems
Wulf and Eadwacer
(Old English circa 990 AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
My people pursue him like crippled prey.
They'll rip him apart if he appr...
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Categories:
whelp, angel, england, love, middle
Form: Rhyme
Severely Withdrawn As a Doggone Lad
...Severely withdrawn as a doggone lad...
I wanted someone to hear me shout for help
as recently recalled
when yours truly a little barking whelp.
After conversing with Amélie Beth
(yesterday F...
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Categories:
whelp, age, brother, devotion, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Dinner At Grandmas
...The pork chops were ten meters thick.
The gravy was never lumpy, always totally slick.
Grandma’s kitchen had smells found nowhere else ever.
She was fantastic with food, surprisingly witty and cl...
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Categories:
whelp, food, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
Shadow
...11/22/20
Feels like I'm on and off of Mt. Kilimanjaro
Staying happy not wallowing in misery and sorrow
Trying to make the best of each day and night, since I might not see tomorrow
I know tha...
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Categories:
whelp, dark, deep, love, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Big Enough
...Big Enough . . .
This world is big enough for all of us
If we give each other a fair thought,
Commit to living without much fuss:
Killing hate, with which it is fraught.
This world would be...
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Categories:
whelp, environment, humanity, love, truth,
Form: Quatrain
Lee and Her Assistant
...Lee marginalized her assistant’s help.
Just a beginner, a bit of a whelp.
The assistant is queen.
Admired and seen.
And Lee’s at the fish market, selling kelp....
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Categories:
whelp, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Pain Is There
...for the pain is there so i feel
i know for the cut is real
it covers the past like a blanket
for if i don't cut i won't forget it
tried drugs and alcohol
but they did not do anything at all
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Categories:
whelp, abuse, addiction,
Form: Free verse
The Big Cat
...The big cat
It was a brilliant day, summer lasted long
in the rustic landscape, I lived, when I saw a cat
in the yellowing grass, no it was not an ordinary cat,
but a cheetah, it had been running...
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Categories:
whelp, 3rd grade, 8th grade,
Form: Blank verse
Translation: Wulf and Eadwacer
...Wulf and Eadwacer
ancient Anglo-Saxon poem, circa 960 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
My clan's curs pursue him like crippled game;
they'll rip him apart if he approache...
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Categories:
whelp, animal, england, longing, lust,
Form: Alliteration
Clark Came Courting Loralei
...Loralei’s green eyes flickered in the dark,
Noticed by males, especially Clark.
She captivated him in every way.
He reminisced about her most of the day.
Truth told, she was totally unaware.
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Categories:
whelp, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Sonnet
A Smile
...A smile is supposed to be real, not fake
But instead, people think that they can just take
Even when someone takes their life, just with the hold of a very sharp knife
Once you start bleeding, you...
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Categories:
whelp, depression, sad, truth,
Form: Lyric
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