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Matthew Scott Harris may be

...Matthew Scott Harris may be...

cunctatious, flirtatious, and unostentatious,
plus being calm, cool and collected,
but he haint disputatious!

Though by far whether alive
or posthumously repur...
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Categories: whereby, adventure, age, appreciation, atheist,
Form: Free verse

August 13th, 2025 twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events

...August 13th, 2025 – twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events

The following poem posted about a half hour before the bewitching hour that spelled calamity (which though a frea...
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Categories: whereby, abuse, adventure, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse



New Sonnet 4 'Unlike a Spurgeon, I by dull words unfold'

...Unlike a Spurgeon, I by dull words unfold
The limits of my Sarah's love for me,
But I realize that the rot and stink and mold
Are all within my mind, beneath my See.
There is no other person who ...
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Categories: whereby, mental health, silly, true
Form: Sonnet

Covered By Grace

...Covered by grace, blessed with faith, anointed with favour
Yah is all I need to get through the day 
Bless me, Yah, as I seek thee, make me your prologue
While I am building faith, hold on to me
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Categories: whereby, appreciation, courage, faith, fear,
Form: Free verse

Hiroshima eighty years since August 6th, 1945

...Hiroshima – eighty years since August 6th, 1945

About fourteen and a half years 
before my birth,
yours truly not even a twinkle  
in the eyes of his then 
young father and mother
the former ...
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Categories: whereby, age, angst, anniversary, august,
Form: Free verse



As a submissive and passive lad

...As a submissive and passive lad...

and boyish looking sexagenarian
with similar disposition,
I revel(ed) reading in general
(and spent carefree idle summer days
squirreled away with tomes
of ...
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Categories: whereby, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse

like a breath of fresh air

...like a breath of fresh air...

and all things considered,
broadcast on national public radio
Frequency: 90.9WHYY-FM,
I (a liberal democrat)
counted myself as an avid fan
particularly listening...
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Categories: whereby, absence, adventure, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Prolonged offal bout courtesy constipation redux revisited

...Prolonged offal bout courtesy constipation... redux revisited

Upteenth instance where yours truly
experienced assault upon hindquarters.

A worse hellish fate than perdition
and the closest in...
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Categories: whereby, abuse, adventure, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

Draconian measures promise to hobble future SEPTA transit riders

...Draconian measures promise to hobble future SEPTA transit riders

one of whom would be
this married sexagenarian,
who recently acquired
his Senior Fare Card
courtesy Trump's big beautiful bill
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Categories: whereby, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

July first two thousand and twenty five

...July first two thousand and twenty five...
signals the eighth year we lived
at our present location,
where fringe benefits (a plug) for perks
living at 2 highland manor drive.

Expanse of green...
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Categories: whereby, adventure, america, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Pulchritudinous virtual crime pulled off without a cocked hitch

...Pulchritudinous virtual crime pulled off without a cocked hitch

delivered me back in the dark shadows
and the underbelly of the web,
where impossible mission 
to differentiate the outer limits ...
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Categories: whereby, absence, america, anger, anniversary,
Form: Free verse

Though an atheist

...Though an atheist..
please oh lord brace and fix me with monetary salvation

After umpteen times being swindled
reducing me to abject poverty
psyche of mine
broke into a bajillion little pieces...
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Categories: whereby, absence, abuse, analogy, angel,
Form: Free verse

Summer Solstice 2025

...Summer Solstice 2025

Friday, June twentieth
at 10:42 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. 

This demarcates
most daylight hours of the...
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Categories: whereby, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHeart Stopping Showstopper

...He's a flirt with his anxieties,
Collecting tauted nerves.
She's a pen who haunts his remedies,
And with these words she serves.

He'll romanticize the painful,
And unto pleasure, gain.
Where ...
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Categories: whereby, hate, heartbreak, inspirational love,
Form: Rhyme

Yours truly like most every hominid linkedin

...Yours truly like most every hominid linkedin...

to genus and species of *****sapiens,
(who trod across oblate spheroid
since time immemorial
as well as other simians -
classed as naked apes -
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Categories: whereby, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

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