Impossible mission for systematization to be wrung out of entropy
...Impossible mission for systematization to be wrung out of entropy
Which lame excuse I exclaimed,
when my dear old mom asked
rather told me in her scolding voice
to tidy up my bedroom,
cuz this...
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Categories:
whipsawed, 7th grade, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Brainstorming until figuratively blue in the gills
...Brainstorming until figuratively blue in the gills...,
and finally gung-ho with a poem title
important to yours truly
not disappointing his Facebook fan base,
which electronic affirmation,
and c...
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Categories:
whipsawed, absence, africa, animal, baby,
Form: Free verse
January 13th 2024 Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris
...January 13th 2024 - Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris
date of conception:? ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, emi...
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Categories:
whipsawed, age, appreciation, birthday, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Happy National Friendship Day - August 6th, 2023
...Happy National Friendship Day - August 6th, 2023
The idea of Friendship Day originated
in the United States in 1919,
proposed by Joyce Hall,
the founder of Hallmark cards.
It gained offi...
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Categories:
whipsawed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Happy Lxiv Birthday Matthew Scott Harris
...Happy Lxiv birthday Matthew Scott Harris
date of conception:? ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, eminem.
A gangly, meas...
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Categories:
whipsawed, appreciation, birthday, boy, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme
Argh Daylight Savings Time Ends Two Am November 6th 2022
...Argh daylight savings time ends – 2:00 AM November 6th 2022
Hour hands of o'clock get set back
sixty minutes gaining extra hour of Autumn
round about this same day of November
every year, wha...
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Categories:
whipsawed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Only Son Forsaking His Filial Promise To Father On His Deathbed
...After papa succumbed
to congestive heart failure
October 7th, 2020 yours truly
neglected fulfilling promised score.
I did shirk maintaining bond
with youngest sister
who when a boy especially...
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Categories:
whipsawed, absence, age, allegory, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Happy Birthday Matthew Scott Harris Parturition
...Yours truly an aging baby boomer
long haired pencil necked geek
trademark disheveled characteristics
whipsawed ever faster around sun.
He (best buddy and alter ego of mine)
snapped, popped, a...
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Categories:
whipsawed, anniversary, birth, birthday, creation,
Form: Free verse
Circa October 7th 2020 Papa Passed Away
...Professed paean pronounced
and adroitly produced
upon spirit of deceased
named Boyce Brandon Harris.
First year anniversary since
cremains distributed across four winds
his soul remains alive...
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Categories:
whipsawed, absence, death, eulogy, father
Form: Free verse
Maintaining Marital Covenant Bailiwick Wife Doth Master
...which prime mate affectionately called buttock blaster
alimentary explosion ofttimes causes global disaster
upon such gaseous debacle run for your life ever faster!
Yours truly (humorously dry h...
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Categories:
whipsawed, adventure, break up, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Quarterly Report - 2020
...The world is waiting
waiting and watching
watching and wincing
wincing and wounded
The world is weakening
weakening and wilting
wilting and waning
waning and withered
The world is...
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Categories:
whipsawed, health, hope, world,
Form: Alliteration
December 2019
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December 2019
Written: by Miracle Man
12-26-2019
December, for me, is a month of bad memories,
But self worth has survived, once more, course emery’s.
My holidays are depressing not ...
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Categories:
whipsawed, anxiety, christmas, depression, god,
Form: Rhyme
Ever the Gracious Recipient of Largesse
...Ever the gracious recipient of largesse!
Estrangement swiftly harries stylishly tailors
mine psyche courtesy family of origin, plus
eldest daughter, whose doth rage against this
human machine, ...
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Categories:
whipsawed, abuse, anger, childhood, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Lifelong Discrimination As Lowest Man On Totem Pole
...Born shackled with globe sized
yoked millstone around my neck
rivaling the world Atlas shrugged,
or outsize boulder Sisyphus
eternally obliged to toil uphill
steepest mountain side
in concert...
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Categories:
whipsawed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Bio
Green Eyed Monster
...Hent my heart from wandering concepts of affection.
Recant the murmurs of insecurity that riddled my temple.
Like a slow wound toy awaiting release from a child's grasp and attention.
Toss and bir...
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Categories:
whipsawed, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
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