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River Tales
...His canvas boots still tell of the mountain, yet Old Man River has changed, grown or dwindled - hard to say. Maybe the ragged winged carrion birds have spirited him away? The newly painted riv......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
scummy,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Scummy Gummy Bears
... "How about it daddy," show me the way, how you roll that paper, you make it slay. "How about it daddy," you smell so funny, is that the reason, you look so crummy? "How about it daddy......
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Vickie Hurtt - Thayer
Categories:
scummy,
addiction, character, christian, destiny,
Form:
Rhyme
cruelty to toads
...the toads do not dive they plop into the scummy pond pale green bellies floating beneath them like airbags they paddle and back-stroke through the weedy water as slow as inflatable boats whe......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
scummy,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
My Murderers
...I didn't know him as a serial not exactly at least not at first even though I'd overheard the plotting of arson from a dim lit restroom searching for tissue only to find several guns rifles gr......
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Yolanda Nicholsen
Categories:
scummy,
allah, chicago, literature, peace,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Cruelty To Toads
...the toads do not dive they plop into the scummy pond pale green bellies floating beneath them like airbags they paddle and back-stroke through the weedy water as slow as inflatable boats whe......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
scummy,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Ballad of Charlie and Molly
...(This is a parody of "Frankie and Johnny") Charlie and Molly were playmates. Golly, how they could play. Mornings they'd meet at a corner to plan how they'd spend summer days. He was her pal, ......
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Andrea Dietrich
Categories:
scummy,
parody,
Form:
Light Verse
Destination
...Where are you going when the sun is shining? Where are you going when the tempest is raging? The shadows are burnt out of the sky; and the clouds are rolling by with a strange message from the grand ......
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Christine Phillips
Categories:
scummy,
america, community, courage, death,
Form:
Free verse
The Egg Is Broke
...The egg is broke; the yoke scummy. I speak of the mind and its mad belief in its thoughts. The wind is mindless, it thinks not and so it is more conscious than we. The b......
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©
Eric Ashford
Categories:
scummy,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Scum
...Scummy waters slow lap an ill-defined edge. Broken Spider-tangles drift like torn wedding veils. The surface of the pond is thick with rot bracken, slime soaked weeds, the yellowing seep o......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
scummy,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Once Upon a Scummy Pond
...A skinny black girl, her torso submerged, long neck holding her head up like a swimming Anhinga. I should not know what a ‘snakebird’ is --- I am eleven years old and have lived in the same dirt......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
scummy,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Kelso At Anchor
...Kelso has a boat smeared to the gunnels, with cawk and greasy weeds. Kelso is old enough to be free of care, his dog don't care neither. At the prow of dawn he hauls dripping lobsters in ......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
scummy,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Call To Arms
...There didn’t have to be a reason no one thing no trigger it was always boiling just beneath the surface always. It could have been the number of soldiers lying empty on the desk next to t......
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©
Rob Levasseur
Categories:
scummy,
fate,
Form:
Free verse
Same Sinner Same Sin-
...Same silly secret sin novelty new spiffing slender sinner same slow scummy sin news single slippery sinner same sin strong heart sinner same stupid stunning sin news secret sin choice s......
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James Edward Lee Sr.
Categories:
scummy,
absence, anxiety, conflict, endurance,
Form:
Alliteration
A Cold Summer-
...so cold, silly summer a cold, smart, scummy summer so cold, strong, sultry, sunny summer Yet cold, cold, slow, smooth summer such a cold,sad, soft, sweaty summer cold, just so swe......
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James Edward Lee Sr.
Categories:
scummy,
analogy, environment, summer,
Form:
Alliteration
She's My-It Was a Beautiful Scene She's My Beautiful Scene-
...it was a beautiful scene her loyal imperfect heart her spirit and soul was filled with the love of God it was a beautiful, smelly, scummy scene it was a beautiful, super, stunning scene ......
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James Edward Lee Sr.
Categories:
scummy,
analogy, appreciation, beautiful, blessing,
Form:
Alliteration
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