The One Where Our Writers Get Nicknames

No Crime in Rhymin’ — Jan 2020

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No Crime in Rhymin’

3 min readFeb 1, 2020

I’m so glad that all (well, most) of you took the first week or two of this year off. Even happier that you’ve decided to rejoin us and get rhymin’ again!

January highlights:

Henceforth, all of our writers get nicknames. See below. You can veto yours and we’ll update it.
Welcome to our new editor, Laura S!
Welcome also to our newest contributors: Somsubhra Banerjee (#69), Fire Ninja 17 (#70), Roz Liddle (#71)!
A mini flash mob around movies: Cats and Little Women.
James’s Lonely Shepherd , Christyl’s Media Madness, P.G.’s Angels, all curated into Poetry!

Here is everything we published this month:

Eco-Warrior Christyl

Pour Rain On The Post-Truth Era

A longing song for the new decade

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Media Madness Messes Up The Debates

And everything else we are trying to fix

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Higher Animals

My cat doesn’t care if the whole thing crashes He likely will be taking a nap He knows the inner working of the mind of…

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Photo Phinish Selene

My Girl

You better get to work my girl.

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No Plane Jane

Little Women, Still Growing Up

I actually did see the movie

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WHODUNNIT?

No one’s talking

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As the Fur Flies in D.C.

Wild Bobcat Has not Declared a Party, Yet

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Haiku Hero Somsubhra

Hiraeth

i keep yearning, for that smiling home, i want to go!

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Designing Woman Alison

* Alison, this is a reference to a popular TV show from the late 80s. It’s not the most inspired nickname, so if you have something better PM me.

Surmise

A tanka

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Sonnet Seamstress Laura

Faint Heart

never Won Fair Lady

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The See-Through Barber

his cuts are…ahem…always precise

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Ode to the Bard

in praise of Mr. Shakespeare

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The Doodling Dame A.B.

Reluctant Ode

For Want of Speed, the Fly Was Lost

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21st Century Bard James

Lonely Shepherd

for the passing of beautiful friends

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A tailored dawn

fanning the flames of love

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Heart of Sparta

The paean of a pained poet

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Righteous Path

the dangerous diversity of a misappropriated God

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Moonstruck

a sonnet on the guiding light of love

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Globetrotter Sylvia

Help, I Cannot Stop Rhyming

What to do, what to do?

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Snarky Mark

Gunky Fish Water

Who wants to join me?

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Cool Hand P.G.

And The Angels Lit The Candles

A Poem About Tom And The Matches

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“Not the Senator” Rand

Traditional Irish Blessing Among Medium Writers and Poets

May your pen always flow May your following grow

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Puddle-icious Wormwood

Introduction

Hi, I’m Wormwood.

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Exhausted & Aroused

10,000 poems — 1 story.

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Mus-Stang Michael

See-um

Silly boy Silly me Watcha doin so far up In that tree

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Wizardess of Roz

The Procrastinating Polka

Dancing with Oneself

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Rhymin’ Junior Fire Ninja

The Worst Things About Middle School

My daily calendar

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and your Editor-in-Chief

Low-key Smoky Joe

Cat-astrophe!?

just because I haven’t seen it, I can still jump on the love-hate bandwagon, right?

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Ode to Giacomina, Who Goes by Laura

best read as a medium-paced rap

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Palace Intrigue Limericks

Without royal stipends Must they pawn their diamonds …

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Rock, Paper, Scissors

Rock fears paper The dreaded draper

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PS: Annie, Bebe — you already know your nicknames ;-), we miss your contributions!