One Shoe is On, My Truth of Instanity
...One Shoe On
One shoe is on, the other is gone.
Let’s put this majestic jester hat on—
once upon a time,
a black swan.
2018 into 2019,
my inner voice whispered:
There will be a toilet p...
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Categories:
willis, conflict, jesus, memory, political,
Form: Free verse
I cracked on the central air-conditioning on Juneteenth 2025
...I cracked on the central air-conditioning on Juneteenth 2025...
the first time this summer,
when martyrdom got chucked aside for cold comfort.
How heavenly the climate controlled apartment
unit...
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Categories:
willis, cool, environment, humorous, june,
Form: Free verse
One 2 Infinity and Beyond
...One before the why
Neutrinos dance, the tenet
Encoded gem I
Hopi hydrogen
Unified twins, Gemini
Numbers, count by staff
Divided even
Release the energy chi
Equal scales by 2
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Categories:
willis, visionary, writing,
Form: Acrostic
Sparingly Topped
...To start with I part it and sweep each side back
Tucked over each ear is this guy’s hairstyle hack
Brynner and Willis and Johnson are cool
But I keep my hair on… I’m nobody’s fool
Bald suits so...
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Categories:
willis, age, hair,
Form: Other
The Wolfman
...The old concoction, over a century ago since it was first brewed. It transformed a man into a blood-thirsty wolf-beast. Killed those that it hunted, and haunted by killers, like that of Bruce Willis....
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Categories:
willis, animal, horror,
Form: Narrative
My Copyright Space IdeasCollaborations
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My upcoming political poetry is like. my "prolovue" story in the way that it is themed by coincidebtally famous bears.
The Theme is "I Don't Care Bears"/Signs of the Times Series.
Examp...
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Categories:
willis, art,
Form: Free verse
Shots Fired - Oh So Tired
...I'm in the station when I hear the first shot
I run outside to the parking lot
Willis and Ferris are on the ground
Faces down
Blood pooling around
Blood rushes to my head
Are they alive or dead...
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Categories:
willis, body, courage, identity, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Spoilers
...Willis is a ghost
The indestructable was
Arnolds shoulders have yellow and black stripe
it's a bee back
Al Pacino is in a film with the smurfs
say hello to his little friends
Neo is an anagram ...
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Categories:
willis, poetry,
Form: Free verse
2 Lunes
...1. Kelly Lune:
silk rose under dome
opaque glass
thwarted love preserved
2. Jack Collom Lune:
the faded corsage
under a dusty glass dome—
missed spring ball
NOT FOR CONTEST
POET'S NOTE...
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Categories:
willis, lost love, poetry, seasons,
Form: Other
Detective Work Is Not Easy
...They all knew what happened, six were speaking at the same time.
I separated them out and told them to make sense and please rhyme.
One quit, unsure what I meant. My dividing skills were heaven-sen...
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Categories:
willis, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Mack Tries To Set Them Up
...One Eyed Mack remembered not what two eyes felt like
He had lost sight in his left eye when a little tyke
He has been preaching since he was three or four
Inviting all the neighbors to church fo...
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Categories:
willis, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Duke
...There was a man's man, you could say he was grand,
who blessed the cinema screen and had millions of fans.
When he swaggered into a room, men stepped aside,
their wives and their daughters they...
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Categories:
willis, hero,
Form: Rhyme
George Jefferson Got His Butt Kicked
...When everything was said and done,
Tom Willis kicked the crap out of George Jefferson.
George continuously called Tom's son a zebra and Tom was fed up with it.
George was rushed to the hospital af...
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Categories:
willis, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Constricted
...Walt Willis had a pain in the crotch.
He vowed to stop drinking so much scotch.
But that wasn't to blame
the cause was clearly plain.
His gut needed a belt with a new notch....
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Categories:
willis, pain,
Form: Limerick
The Art of Escape
...Do you still wonder
now that you’ve been washed out
into fate’s unforgiving seas
why you were sentenced to a life
you swore was in the wrong body?
Living in the wrong body is a natural crime
T...
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Categories:
willis, anger, anxiety, death of
Form: Narrative
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