Stories tagged poetry

Leaning

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Miles in common and little else, the rivers collide rather peacefully, embracing the other just the way it came

Summer Bop & Some Are Not

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This is Bop even if you think it doesn't sound like that.

Neruda's Answer

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A fist against a table made of sand

On news of your demise

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The news just now that you are dead

First sonnet

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Shit, I guess I'm gonna hafta

Four hearts and a vase of jonquils

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Yankees call them daffodils.

Starstruck

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He called it Rosebud, this chocolate starfish orb Of jacksy ring To rectify the back door thing His brown-eyed, elementary cleft did sing For Venus, Mars and more Considering the sun don't shine So much on Jupiter, but for The Plutoid bung of Saturn's rung…

i went to raves & wrote songs

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A short poem.

Orpheus and Eurydice

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This is hell amongst the bloom and grow. Spring's warmth is cruel, a feast of unrestraint...

Bullfrog Prince

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Santa took a long drag on the joint and exploded in a paroxysm of coughing. Smoke plumed from his mouth and billowed around his head. Still coughing, he passed the joint to Grinch. The weed smelled dank and skunky. Elf laughed and shook his head. “Dude, I told…

Texas Route 29

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Texas Route 29 is not a straight line.It traces the perimeter of our own Georgetowncompelled west kicking off shit-stained bootsgreeted by green and yeller' John Deereignored by motley cattle, heads bowed weighed low with marrow-filled horns.A Jack Nicklaus golf course…

The tuner

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yielding wood song

No paths this side of the river

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It, all in the head too much I feel not the arms and legs thrust on me at birth I do not talk to them enough they're always going out. Some dog eared and mugged by its fellow kind rocking over the pathway's anima like a wolf winding to the river's bow…

Winter in the Hague

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There is only me and the crooked pavement that leads to your dim tower.

Executive sweet

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So