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Category: Poetry

Franciscan Poems

• 🎶⛓️‍💥 Transitus, or Sister Death Outside the Little Portion-- 20 haikus on St. Francis of Assisi's end of life. WC: 1226
• ⛓️‍💥 Leo in the Cold-- One of the companions of St. Francis. WC: 185
• 🎶🎄⛓️‍💥 Greccio-- For the first living nativity. WC: 498

🎃Horror Poems

• The Mourner in the Mausoleum-- A killer visits his victim out of guilt, the victim perks right up. WC: 46
• 🎶⭐Treasures-- Bent on revenge. WC: 217
• 🎶⛓️‍💥 👍A Field of Gems-- Survival in a bleak, apocalyptic winter. WC: 490
• Love Bites-- On the intrusive, almost predatory underpinnings of "Love at first sight". WC: 208
• Lingering in Love-- Death falls in love with a dying man and refuses him passage. WC: 444
• Heart Felt-- It's what's inside that really counts. WC: 50
• Heart Felt 2-- WC: 50

• Endorphins-- We're all just slaves to oxytocin! Modern take on the "Love potion" trope, commentary on the fallibility of the love-sick human brain. WC: 283
• 🎶⛓️‍💥 The Good Witch-- From the perspective of villagers looking for justice! ... And falling prey to an insidious spell. WC: 637
• 🎶Penetration-- A bit of body horror. Symbolic sexual violence and some gore. Social criticism of hypergamy. WC: 361
• The Proposal-- A serial killer who looks for women who remind him of his mother, the way some people date looking for a partner rather than a parent. WC: 462
• It's REAL Love!-- Nah. It's Stockholm syndrome. WC: 429

Love Poems

• When I First Saw Your Face-- Of fatherly love to my first born child, WC: 194
• 🎄I Am Wearing One of Your Socks-- To my Grandfather, whom I miss even more in the winter. WC: 499
• Limerence-- Impact-- Unrequited love between a first responder and someone dying on the roadside, WC: 385
• When Our Eyes First Met-- To (or about) my now ex-wife. When I wrote this we were still together and trying to make things work, but I was unhappy. I think it's an honest snapshot of that time of my life. Much happier now! WC: 1345
• Nah-- Just for fun, WC: 50
• My Darling!-- Just for fun, WC: 50
• 🎶A Single Dad-- A love poem to life itself, WC: 50
• Of All the Thoughts-- The pointlessness of longing, WC: 50

Lyrics

• 🔉Freestyle-- on the 80/20 rule. Includes a reading in my voice. WC: 668
• Suck it Up-- Lyrics for a disstrack :) just for fun, WC: 496

Acrostic Poems

• Built around S I L E N C E: Endless Cold, Silenced, ⛓️‍💥 Silence is Violence, ⛓️‍💥 Silent Prayer, Silence?,

Stream of Consciousness/ Free Verse/ MISC/ Social Commentary

• ®️She Never Really Liked My Face-- Lessons learned the hard way. WC: 1962
• Dear Europa-- You're still my favorite moon. WC: 499
• An Agnostic's Prayer-- On the violence Gazan's are suffering. WC: 499
• Blood Fatigue-- On being damn tired, WC: 497
• ⭐There is a Little Fire-- Musings I never share, WC: 373
• ⛓️‍💥⭐Overfed-- Social media burnout, WC: 477
• ⛓️‍💥The Power of Invisibility-- on exclusion, WC: 496
• The Vernal Jar-- On ecology and rebirth, WC: 495
• 🎶A Loser's Guide to Fading-- On the guarantee of loneliness with age, WC: 495
• An Elegy-- In loving memory of camp lanterns, WC: 497
• The Hunt for Happiness-- and being off target, WC: 497
• ⛓️‍💥I Never Feel Lonely-- Empathy and apathy, WC: 239
• 🎶⛓️‍💥The News I Can't Talk About-- political corruption and social decline, WC: 499
• My Earliest Memories 1-- WC: 211
• ®️My Earliest Memories 2-- WC: 494
• My Earliest Memories 3-- WC: 479
• My Earliest Memories 4 -- WC: 498
• 🎶⛓️‍💥An Open Letter to All Scumbags-- The kindest rant I can manage WC: 496
• Memes are Cool and All but Have you Seen the Moon Lately-- On getting outdoors, WC: 117
• ⛓️‍💥Doomers, Rotters, and Ad-bots to the rescue: A little commentary about Zuck the Fuck. WC: 492
• Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Her-- Fair warning, WC: 667
• The Dog of Eternity-- On disaster chasers. WC: 237
• I never was-- On limerence, WC: 248
• Why I'm Not Tatted-- Hair, WC: 249
• All the Things I Feel an Odd Pressure to Lead With-- Explaining my appearance, WC: 238
• ⛓️‍💥 Lost in the Winding Woods-- Nature vs capitalism, WC: 118
• Sandstorms and Rocksalt-- Seasonal Affect Disorder and lake effect weather, WC: 77
• Mommy Still Loves You Though-- The rejection of a dead beat parent. WC: 275
• Back When We Lived In My Top Dresser Drawer-- Homesick for a home that never was. WC: 1,009
• Woke af-- Waking alone, WC: 90

• 🎶Across the Multiverse-- Of all my multiversal possibilities, WC: 187
• The First Frost of 2094-- A poem from the future, WC: 499
• Ⓜ️️Adrift-- Regret, WC: 284
• 🎶🎄Candy Canes-- A boy who doesn't want to hunt, WC: 48
• ⛓️‍💥Inadequacy-- My midlife crisis and the realization I'll never do as much as Luigi Mangione, WC: 35
• She's not Bitter-- WC: 146
• Note to Self-- Revealing my secret thoughtsWC: 2,923
• Taken to Earth-- A love poem to falling off mountain bikes. WC: 53
• The Venomous-- Liars
• 🎄⛓️‍💥 Frosted Birds in Frosted Verse-- Commercialization of various holidays. WC: 357
• ⛓️‍💥 🗑️ O Dumpster Diving, How I Love Thee!-- WC 83
• 🗑️An Ode to Our Dumpsters-- (A second draft of the previous poem)-- WC 453
• Freedom-- The peace of being alone. WC 94
• ⛓️‍💥 2668-- Billionaires should not exist. Almost three thousand? That's a sin. WC: 139
• Red Flags-- Emotional vampires. WC: 76
• Suspension of Disbelief-- Because how tf did trump win again? WC: 404
• Ice Wine and Wild Raisins-- The absurdity of labeling laws
• Never Have I Ever-- The futility of staying in a loveless relationship, WC: 50
• 🎶Life Lasts as Long as Life Lasts-- Impermanence of social moments, WC: 50
• ⛓️‍💥A Wilderness of Billboards-- The internet is all advertisement, WC: 232
• Teeth-- For the voracious animal in each of us, WC: 138
• ⛓️‍💥Squad Up for the Propaganda-- Social commentary towards fortnite, WC: 500
• The Saddest Roadkill-- Ode to a dead bird. WC: 108
• All for you-- A letter to a narcissist, WC:140
• ⛓️‍💥SCUM-- The cream doesn't rise to the top, WC: 187

Haikus

• Haikus about mountains: Subasio, Harsher winds, Green and Gray, The World's Tallest Graveyard, He Climbs, Newborns, A Landmark Through Time, Constant Winter, Whisper, Beaten Pines, A Hiker Mourns, Loneliness vs Solitude, Bones of the Earth, Spring on the Mountain, The Falling Snow,

• Haikus about the color blue: Blue Eyes, On the Dot, ⛓️‍💥 The Dot that Made no Sense, Chlorion Aerarium, Out of the Blue, A Tiny Octopus, Cyanosis, Bruises, ⛓️‍💥 Tweets for Tw@s, The Addict, ⛓️‍💥 🗑️ Saved from the Landfill, If a Picture Speaks,

• Sky-kus (haikus about the sky or sky adjacent things): 🎃Bat, The Northern Lights, 🎃Spider Rain, 🎃🎶Giants, Fathers of the Nephilim, ⛓️‍💥 Air Drops, Milton's Dying Reach, Smoke, Change, No More Sky, ⛓️‍💥 Foreign "Aid", 🎃®️Resurgence (Little White-Nosed Brown Bat), 🎃Halloween, Powerless, The Bent Man, Lo! High, Earthrise,
• On Fall: The Problem of Change, Autumn Grays, Maple, Autumn

• Cosmic Indifference-- A set of 11 themed Sky-kus, with deliberate continuity. Start with number one and then follow the click through

• ⛓️‍💥 So High So Low-- City bustle
• Troxler's Haunting-- on ghosts in the mirror
• Limerence-- The trap of unrequited love
• The Brightest Star in the Sky-- A joke about my broken heart
• Earth, Water, Air, Fire-- four haikus all about you
• The Mount of the Lord-- How frankly awful that one bible story is
• A View-- A hike with my son
• Ka -- For my daughter
• Plow Hills-- For winter joy!
• ⛓️‍💥 A Mountain of ***t-- The filthiest four letter word
• Rafi's Volcano-- A haiku co-authored with my oldest son
• Rafi's Avalanche-- A haiku co-authored with my oldest son
• When My Fears Grew Up-- How my fears changed with adulthood

Limericks

• Dirty Words-- Nothing but filth
• Irreconcilable Differences-- Grounds for divorce
• Dedicated to the Noise on Social Media-- About the insta-lies
• Unsolicited-- A limerick and a Dick pic to ruin your day
• You Won't Believe what I Heard OMG-- Gossip
• Full-Time Dads-- Glory to the Diaper Changers
• Birds-- A vulgar poem about filthy animals
• Chef Percy-- Poor guy
• Why I'm Canceling My Vocal+-- I ended up renewing a few months ago because I missed the challenges:)
• The Meaning of Life-- A limerick to destroy absurdism once and for all