Stagger Street Sonnets
By ice rivers
iambic often but always pentameter with couplet ending
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Perchance to Dream
I'm listening to my muse sighing lies A voice so sweet could never tell the truth So if my typing takes you by surprise Or illuminates the notions of...
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- 615 reads
Department 1535
Dear unhappily married Rubenesque Woman, kind and still waiting for Godot, Try the breaking rules guy, he needs good sex; He sounds like he's ready...
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- 312 reads
On Stagger Street
From the highway where teardrops are the toll We hear the wailing of lugubrious souls Tuned with those too silent to recover From the siren song of...
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- 268 reads
A Caw After Eating Egg Rolls
Finished eating egg rolls and fried wontons Celebrating months of celibacy Wondering while sitting on my futon Where bald faced coincidence would...
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- 282 reads
Bunk Bark Grub
I got wool in my mystery meat. Big Sam yells out, "Mine musta been a blonde". We don't know what the hell it is we eat. I'm certain that it has been...
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Stilletto Life On Stagger Street
At the end of the play, the truth remains, The authority of female insight An invitation for masculine change. Stiletto steps puncturing; feather...
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Winter's Last Bark
Southwesterly Winds blew through Stagger Street. We drove to the airport to say goodbyes. Cold temperature rendered teardrops to sleet. Blue sleet...
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- 487 reads
Seth Thomas Clock Ticking
I wrote this morning until five to four On the ornate hands of Seth Thomas clock, I could have stayed up and written some more, Instead hit the rack...
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- 590 reads
Celebrating Midnight Mary
He got him some cigars and some scratches For the price of a Yankee Budweiser. Some chips full of horses and radishes To remember a birthing, oh yes...
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- 427 reads
Serene
Don't get me wrong. I am happy with my writing "career"/ compulsion I've always had the readers that I want to have. I imagine all of you when I...
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- 771 reads
Bezo
My daughter has a pet snail named Bezo. He's managed to survive several weeks. Bezo the snail makes life look so ease-o. He comes out of his home...
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Shadow Box Pleasure
Every day It becomes easier Not to write Perhaps someday it will become impossible to begin when the deceptions and distractions That frolick...
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- 265 reads
Regifting in 9 Minutes
A Christmas Gift Jonathon Swift Satire Parody Paradiddle Ringo Starr Keith Moon Month of June swoon soon maroon Looney Tune Elmer Fudd Daffy Duck...
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- 270 reads
Shades of Blue
I thought every kiss was precious I used to count them Until I lost count at over a thousand times each of them meaningful if meaning is love and...
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Her Smile
Like most husbands, I am captivated and beguiled by the smile of my wife. I'm not much of a smiler so she's got to do the work for two as we tango...
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- 225 reads