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Date Posted	PoemTitle	# Views	Form
02/28/2023	Texas Springtime	842	Sonnet
09/22/2021	Happy Hour	556	Light Verse
09/22/2021	Fartasia	714	Rhyme
03/23/2016	One Hit Wonder	1673	Quatrain
03/18/2016	But Her Bruises Were Green	1380	Limerick
02/27/2016	Pussycat Paean	2119	Rhyme
02/24/2016	That Dog Don't Hunt	1821	Limerick
02/09/2016	Rewind World	1632	Quatrain
02/07/2016	Lucifer Gets the Gig	3407	Prose
02/05/2016	Return To the Sea	1549	Free verse
01/30/2016	Omg, That's So Cliche	1880	Rhyme
01/24/2016	And When You Look At Me	2305	Quatern
01/23/2016	Way Back Then	1754	Rhyme
01/22/2016	The Virgin Witch of Moulineaux	1814	Villanelle
01/13/2016	Table Hogs	2058	Limerick
01/03/2016	Another Trip Around the Sun	3103	Sonnet
07/06/2015	The Waning of Dreams	1636	Couplet
05/26/2015	Poetic Ambitions	1983	Quatrain
05/04/2015	A Song For Pansy	3264	Rhyme
04/17/2015	English Lit	1869	Rhyme
04/10/2015	Scratch	2599	Rhyme
11/29/2014	But I Must Stay	3269	Villanelle
11/29/2014	The Pedicure Virgin	5072	Prose
11/14/2014	One Tolkien Over the Line	2189	Rhyme
11/05/2014	Message of the Moth	2382	Couplet
10/25/2014	Pi Day	3663	Rhyme
10/15/2014	Halloween On the Dark Side of Town	4691	Rhyme
09/15/2014	The Empty Quarter	3825	Alliteration
08/05/2014	Pickett Tupp and Poteeta Whey	2899	Quatrain
07/22/2014	A Brush of Wings	2504	Verse
07/08/2014	Willow: a Fable	3636	Rhyme
06/30/2014	Ragnarok: the Storm	8396	Epyllion
06/28/2014	Dante's Path	3001	Quatrain
05/26/2014	Albert Einstein	5316	Clerihew
05/07/2014	Jonah Falcon He's Not	2733	Limerick
05/06/2014	The Well Traveled Linguist	2772	Limerick
05/02/2014	The Devil Can Cite Scripture For His Purpose	4429	Rhyme
04/01/2014	My Thunderous Wondrous Electric Toy Train	4071	Rhyme
03/11/2014	Premature Exoneration	3532	Limerick
02/10/2014	A Series of Unfortunate Darwin Awards	3544	Limerick
01/23/2014	Ancient Dance	2978	Sonnet
12/28/2013	The Whittlers	2567	Rhyme
12/19/2013	Redneck Santa	11412	Rhyme
12/17/2013	The Tomb of the China Poblana	4732	Epic
05/15/2013	The Conceit of Poetry	2620	Couplet
03/23/2013	Tiger's Wood	3418	Limerick
02/17/2013	All Hat and No Cattle	6054	Cowboy Poetry
02/10/2013	Dark Temptress	3256	Sonnet
01/30/2013	Icebox Days	3799	Rhyme
01/26/2013	The Angel Inside	14577	Rhyme
01/22/2013	Call Me Tex	7421	Cowboy Poetry
01/10/2013	Bobcat Moon	3947	Rhyme
12/09/2012	Six Man Dance	3813	Rhyme
08/27/2012	Kiss of the Eagle	4741	Rhyme
08/23/2012	Delicacy of Leaves	2863	Rhyme
08/10/2012	Keep It Turnin' To the Right	4533	Rhyme
08/10/2012	Cruisin' the Drag	7693	Rhyme

Quotes

Quote Left How deadly this sweet drink of praise, that sipped, decays the thing it lauds. A sly deceiver, 'tis, oh yes, this chronic craving for applause. A first place prize, the kiss of death, to art that once roamed free. But now is surely lost, I fear, in mires of mimicry.
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