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Date Posted	PoemTitle	# Views	Form
02/28/2023	Texas Springtime	754	Sonnet
09/22/2021	Happy Hour	509	Light Verse
09/22/2021	Fartasia	646	Rhyme
03/23/2016	One Hit Wonder	1623	Quatrain
03/18/2016	But Her Bruises Were Green	1319	Limerick
02/27/2016	Pussycat Paean	2011	Rhyme
02/24/2016	That Dog Don't Hunt	1777	Limerick
02/09/2016	Rewind World	1584	Quatrain
02/07/2016	Lucifer Gets the Gig	3373	Prose
02/05/2016	Return To the Sea	1500	Free verse
01/30/2016	Omg, That's So Cliche	1828	Rhyme
01/24/2016	And When You Look At Me	2253	Quatern
01/23/2016	Way Back Then	1696	Rhyme
01/22/2016	The Virgin Witch of Moulineaux	1774	Villanelle
01/13/2016	Table Hogs	1980	Limerick
01/03/2016	Another Trip Around the Sun	2767	Sonnet
07/06/2015	The Waning of Dreams	1589	Couplet
05/26/2015	Poetic Ambitions	1918	Quatrain
05/04/2015	A Song For Pansy	3195	Rhyme
04/17/2015	English Lit	1821	Rhyme
04/10/2015	Scratch	2523	Rhyme
11/29/2014	But I Must Stay	3210	Villanelle
11/29/2014	The Pedicure Virgin	4963	Prose
11/14/2014	One Tolkien Over the Line	2137	Rhyme
11/05/2014	Message of the Moth	2344	Couplet
10/25/2014	Pi Day	3572	Rhyme
10/15/2014	Halloween On the Dark Side of Town	4562	Rhyme
09/15/2014	The Empty Quarter	3770	Alliteration
08/05/2014	Pickett Tupp and Poteeta Whey	2865	Quatrain
07/22/2014	A Brush of Wings	2441	Verse
07/08/2014	Willow: a Fable	3585	Rhyme
06/30/2014	Ragnarok: the Storm	8235	Epyllion
06/28/2014	Dante's Path	2940	Quatrain
05/26/2014	Albert Einstein	5171	Clerihew
05/07/2014	Jonah Falcon He's Not	2676	Limerick
05/06/2014	The Well Traveled Linguist	2641	Limerick
05/02/2014	The Devil Can Cite Scripture For His Purpose	4356	Rhyme
04/01/2014	My Thunderous Wondrous Electric Toy Train	3991	Rhyme
03/11/2014	Premature Exoneration	3440	Limerick
02/10/2014	A Series of Unfortunate Darwin Awards	3487	Limerick
01/23/2014	Ancient Dance	2920	Sonnet
12/28/2013	The Whittlers	2515	Rhyme
12/19/2013	Redneck Santa	11289	Rhyme
12/17/2013	The Tomb of the China Poblana	4664	Epic
05/15/2013	The Conceit of Poetry	2569	Couplet
03/23/2013	Tiger's Wood	3326	Limerick
02/17/2013	All Hat and No Cattle	5922	Cowboy Poetry
02/10/2013	Dark Temptress	3213	Sonnet
01/30/2013	Icebox Days	3720	Rhyme
01/26/2013	The Angel Inside	14424	Rhyme
01/22/2013	Call Me Tex	7278	Cowboy Poetry
01/10/2013	Bobcat Moon	3891	Rhyme
12/09/2012	Six Man Dance	3736	Rhyme
08/27/2012	Kiss of the Eagle	4664	Rhyme
08/23/2012	Delicacy of Leaves	2819	Rhyme
08/10/2012	Keep It Turnin' To the Right	4433	Rhyme
08/10/2012	Cruisin' the Drag	7579	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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