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Seesaw Bear

Posted on 07/08/2025 by admin

I saw a seesawSawing through the airTumbling inside tornadoWith an angry bear.The bear had no oneOn the other seatTo help them go up and downFor a flying seesaw treat.Headed for the tornadoI took a very fast runHope to swim to the seesawTo make the bear not so glumHe looked a bit surprisedAt this turn of…

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AI Girlfriend

Posted on 07/08/202507/08/2025 by admin

My new girlfriend is AInot really made of flesh and bone.She’s always happy and never sighsor ignores me, spending hours on the phone.Its not that that I’m truly toxicor my masculinity is burgeoningI’ve come to follow a form of logicwhere I crave her joyous personage.The problem being, she always learnsand has calculated all my foibles,which…

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Summer Scents

Posted on 07/05/202507/05/2025 by admin

Each mote of dust that floats airborneeddies on the light cool balmy breezeushered from wide open windowfragrancing the house with summer scents. Eddies on the light cool balmy breeze,posies perfuming and performingpetals swishing by outside, free and alive. Ushered from wide open windowpollen clouds wafts and wanessettling a scintilla of ochre magic, sill deep. Fragrancing…

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Hail Storm

Posted on 07/05/202507/05/2025 by admin

Grey streaked sombre darknessLashing vicious vapours togetherPainting sky in ashen tempest.A frightening flotilla cast out on seaCovering heavens with pitched flotsam,Decorating ravening rolling wavesBlackened ferocious cloud.Erupting engorged crystals poundA demonic tempo on empty streets.Bouncing bombs, hate filled temperamentRime shrapnel in cascade.Storming throughout the cityPelting pain as icy fingers snatchWarmth, happiness in equal measure.Mini glaciers tumble…

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Dead Inside

Posted on 07/05/202507/05/2025 by admin

My soul simmering in the mirrorReflecting back raggedSlash, cut, cleave and damage.Perceived, deceived a subtle illusionBathed in a scintillating confusion.An image borne of diaphoretic dread,relentless poisons, sanity’s shredInequity fills me to the brimTake it on the chin, sink or swim.I’m nothing but the image insideThe one that society told me to hideIn ascendancy depression takes…

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Prism

Posted on 07/05/202507/05/2025 by admin

Prism perception purposefully projectsA cascading truth, rainbow illusionThe image of which I cautiously confects. Inked and drawn as if to confessA jigsaw personality sown with confusionPrism perception purposefully projects A Dickensian waif, a boy who’s a messSomeone with words who paints with emulsionThe image of which I cautiously confects. or man with sanity lacking who…

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Romance

Posted on 07/02/202507/02/2025 by admin

Finally clothes shedunder duvet fledsnuggling in bed.Bodies entwined,whisper mouths openmaking love’s token,a gesture spoken.In sheets confines. Nothing to cause harmbathing in your charmlying arm in arm.Awaiting pauseJust ourselves confideno horrors to hidelying side by sideRomance assured.

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Sun has got his hat on [reprised]

Posted on 06/27/2025 by admin

The sun has got his hat  onHip hip hip hoorayThe sun has got his hat onAnd can fuck right off today I’m sweating like a gibbonOr a black latex clad gimpI’m sweating like a gibbonOr maybe a perspiring chimp And now I’m needing waterI’m as thirsty as can beI’ve drank a camel’s worth of waterAnd…

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Were sloth

Posted on 06/22/202506/22/2025 by admin

It’s hard being a lycanthropeSpending time up a treeBut being a savvy were slothI’m as happy as can be. All I do is eat and sleepI sometimes do a pooI couldn’t draw any parallelFrom being me or you. Luckily it only happensOn those 3 days each monthThat I go from someone industriousTo a furry lazy…

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Swipe Right

Posted on 06/19/202506/19/2025 by admin

I thought I’d try those dating appsThat glisten upon the internetTo prove I’m not “on the shelf”So for a coffee I readily went You chose me from the tireless throngA poet who had no fish or gymnasium picBut wrote lyrics which hopefully outshoneAnd didn’t seem like such a dick. I nursed my coffee and pensively…

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