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Poetry by Stanley Victor Paskavich
The flux
Should I write couplets, double rhymes, or free verse?
I think the poem should decide without a lyrical nurse.
So many try to force each word and every letter,
these are the...
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The Fried Toad
This is a story I've never told,
it's about my albino pink eyed toad.
One day I found him under a log,
I'd never seen a pure white frog.
So I...
Total views: 3,425
The Genie's Promise
I'll grant you your wish,
it will be like the wind,
it will go where it goes,
but you can't wish again.
Total views: 2,390
The Green Battle
I just took a bath,
I feel so squeaky clean.
But, when I looked in the tub,
there was a lime green ring.
"Where did this come from?
Why is this green ring here,"...
Total views: 8,857
The Guild
What is a psychic made of
I'll tell you it's not love.
It's pain and grief and lots of frustration,
and total chaos from isolation.
Their friends and their family think...
Total views: 1,332
The Human Breed
Many years back when the whips did crack
and the poor slaves broke their back
There was always one or two white men with a whip,
In charge of the slaves with it on their...
Total views: 2,740
The Internal Verse
A Blacksmith, Goldsmith a Silversmith and me,
try to share helpful things for humanity.
Some call me a Wordsmith, some call me a quack,
some say my poems are to merely attack....
Total views: 2,697
The Intrinsic Guide
Astrologers, pathologists, and seekers of time,
mystical mesmerists without any rhyme,
hopeful theologists and ministers of nay,
living by a book, all play by play....
Total views: 1,599
The King
My mind is my kingdom, the Earth is my home.
My body is healthy, yet I often roam.
The sun is exploding in nuclear bliss.
The moon goes through quarters and the stars it does...
Total views: 2,474
The Last Cannon
Everything is gone, you’re the last on the earth.
Could you leave a message that had future worth?
In this message you choose to do, or do not,
would you talk about what you...
Total views: 1,782
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