What the Camel Ate
A camel ate Some laminate You wonder how he made out? Well, he’s kinda now just laid out A vulture of culture Is over-indulger Turns into...
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There’s much that makes our lives seem dimmer
Joy and laughter is scarce a glimmer
Spending time in search of gladness
Escape from all this grief and sadness
Let this place be where you find
Solace and some peace of mind
There be smiles upon your face
Purging mopes, all frowns erased
Little ditties and longer odes
Limericks and beats so wode
All your blues with recommended
Daily poems will be upended
For if you have the whim and time
I offer you the perfect rhyme…
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Theresa Baxter
Apr 291 min read
The Angry Tree
*Illustration reference: “The Thinking Tree” of Ginosa, Puglia, Italy There once was a tree That grew to hate the world Hated all the...
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Theresa Baxter
Apr 281 min read
if life has got you down...
*Illustration reference: Photo credit - Tassii If Life has got you down In slough you feel you’ve drowned Would it be very nice? If you...
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Theresa Baxter
Apr 261 min read
Fine Whine
No one wants to hear me whine Go on and on, take up their time As if there’s nothing good to do But revel in this feeling blue For...
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Theresa Baxter
Apr 261 min read
Diatribe Written in Early Spring
The ground is crisp with deadened scrub, It has no rain to cure, how parched; The winter held back snowy drub, Away the frost has quickly...
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Theresa Baxter
Apr 251 min read
The Unexceptional
*Illustration reference: From the film "Napolean Dynamite" (2004) Hooray for all the second-placers Try just enough to be save-facers Put...
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Theresa Baxter
Apr 241 min read
My Gems
For all of us that see the spring That turns to summer, simmering Relief of fall, its cooling depth The chill of winter felt like death...
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Theresa Baxter
Apr 231 min read
Happy Day
*Illustration reference: "Ophelia" by John William Waterhouse I wish for her a perfect spring That birds upon her sill will sing The...
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Theresa Baxter
Apr 221 min read
I too am like the earth
I too am like the earth Swelling with abundant girth Benevolent with all my powers Giving berth to trees and flowers Congenial when mood...
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Theresa Baxter
Apr 211 min read
Slava Ukraine!
*Illustration reference: Photograph by Jose Colon Will not fall, cannot fall, Expectations, defied them all, The song of heroes loud...
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Theresa Baxter
Apr 181 min read
Long For Love No More
What happenstance did bring to thee When barely men were made One dizzy and one soothed like tea Tis wonder that they stayed But find...
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Theresa Baxter
Apr 181 min read
Off to Nowhere
No matter how the epochs change Nor how base fragments rearrange We think we grow in worldliness Quite inversely, I must confess In...
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Theresa Baxter
Apr 161 min read
May We Never Tire
May we never tire of lending hand If so? Then try again Become that thing called firebrand One of many links in chain There need not be a...
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Theresa Baxter
Apr 151 min read
somehow, we fell asleep
somehow, we fell asleep at the wheel we call democracy, taken for granted, ripe to be taken and in the cover and stealth of entitled...
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Theresa Baxter
Apr 151 min read
Worship
*Illustration reference: Lord Byron by Henry Pierce Bone Oh what an invention, social media For we that shone and blazed in shadow; Now...
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Theresa Baxter
Apr 131 min read
Feelings, Deeply Felt
Of all the things that bind us as species High in the chain, thick our love is of theses Superiority in practice, but not in the real Our...
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Theresa Baxter
Apr 121 min read
Smartphone Smartphone
*Illustration reference: William Blake engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti 1808 Smartphone Smartphone, burning bright, Forever in your hand...
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Theresa Baxter
Apr 121 min read
Offensively Self-Assertive Blues
*Illustration reference: Poet W.H. Auden Clean up this mess, I’ll listen no more Till you get off your knees and up from the floor. We’ve...
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Theresa Baxter
Apr 111 min read
How Do I Tolerate Thee?
How do I tolerate thee? I know not the ways. You vex me to my very core, I abhor you, But would I miss your daily bothers, I adore you....
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