California Dreamin'
...Transmission lines found underground
Ain't cheap wires that cause fires when downed
Zounds! For these we'd pay
And kneeling we pray
LA's not a gray buried mound...
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Categories:
zounds, environment, fire, natural disasters,
Form: Limerick
A Merrie Discourse Betwixt Two Ducks
...Upon the pond, where lilies float,
Two ducks did meet, each fine of coat.
Their feathers gleamed ‘neath gilded light,
And thus began their feath’ry fight.
Quoth Drake to Dame, with pufféd chest,
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Categories:
zounds, bird, cool, education, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Simply Beyond Help
...Zounds!
longing for a
merciful descent into
the terminal ground
where smoky eyes
semi-watch
streams of
semi-(dis)information
exhaled from
smoking brains
on a mission
to search &
decons...
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Categories:
zounds, dark, nonsense, surreal, word
Form: Free verse
I'M a Muffin In a Cupcake's World
...Look
Just take a page out of my book
Call me Captain Hook
Because my hooks have you hooked
And don't you dare give me that look
You know you looked
Call me a spook
Because they dropped a nuke
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Categories:
zounds, fun, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
Swear Words
...Swear words are just simple sounds
That explode forth as a grunt,
Words like ****!, or ****!, or ****!, or Zounds!
Or far worse words like ****!
And if by this little rhyme
Your senses are of...
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Categories:
zounds, humor,
Form: Quatrain
Zounds
...If a tree falls in the forest
and no one is around
Does it make a sound?
Yesterday a tree split in half
falling on our front steps
and on our landing
No one was around
to hear the ...
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Categories:
zounds, thanks, tree,
Form: Free verse
Alphabet Poem Ii
...Ascend Zion
Believers Yearn
Collective X-Ray
Deserted Wells
Egocentric Vanity
Forgotten Unity
Gifted Talents
Hollow Service
Integrated Reality
Jewels...
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Categories:
zounds, education, heaven, inspiration, perspective,
Form: ABC
City Girl-Country Girl
...City Girl-Country Girl
I swore I would never live in a small town.
I wanted noise, people and the
roar of the crowd.
Crowded restaurants, highways,
Exhaust fumes galore.
Sounds of police car...
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Categories:
zounds, america, city, how i
Form: Free verse
The Day the Muse Kicked Clyde
...Why did mares eat oats?
Mares ate goats!
And did does eat oats?
Nah! Dose oats never don' be eaten!
And how did little lambs eat ivy?
Little lambsy divy is what it is!
Just like Louie did...
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Categories:
zounds, muse, music, nonsense, nostalgia,
Form: Light Verse
Detritus
...Detritus
Sitting there, honey,
Cleansed and bathed,
Scented with lilac and rose,
Glistening at your dressing table, and
Eyeing yourself in the chrome mirror;
I, as your guest, sit by and wat...
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Categories:
zounds, passion,
Form: Free verse
Hug Drug
...Hug drug, hug tight
Zounds surrounded the societies
Stream stringer the blood blew
By the bombastic center watts
Humbled earth is entitled by the entered en clair
Hug drug, hug tight for tomorr...
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Categories:
zounds, life,
Form: Alliteration
Alone With You -Sicilian Octave
..."This time alone with you is precious, maid.
Could I but keep the moments sweet with you
from fleeting time’s demand that be not stayed.
All I’d give making veritas less true.
Since I lac...
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Categories:
zounds, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Being Tired
...When being tired knows no bounds,
It's time to make those zeeing zounds.
Zzzzzzzzzzzz........
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Categories:
zounds, sleep,
Form: Couplet
Halloween Story
...Quatrain Poem (23 Stanzas)
Halloween Story-by Trevor McLeod
As a child I remember well
how Halloween would interest me.
When school would end and I'd head home.
The leaves ground low and cha...
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Categories:
zounds, character, child, childhood, children,
Form: Quatrain
Blithe Spirit Company
...My daily walk for exercise has changed;
for there are souls along the path
I have not seen before. Oh yes,
the regulars are there,
and smile at me, too often share
my miseries from ice and snow
and ...
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Categories:
zounds, allegory, me, old, me,
Form: Free verse
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