Michael, My BrotherYour smile is like the moon all silver lined,
I wanted to be by you, time after time.
Your love for sports was quite unreal,
But you never gave up that rid and reel.
Your humour was loved, loved by us all,
But your laugh was the best, best of it all.
I watched when you became a man and you...
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Categories:
absence, brother, cry, death,
Form: Rhyme
Freight train TimeTime seems to be picking up speed
a freight train without engineer
a careen into infinity...
Time is picking up speed
children born yesterday
are off to college the next.
Time used to be gentle like
bike bells on a summer breeze
somewhere along the line
time became an indifferent brute
lacking any sympathy
it is a taker=a grave maker
whisking everything, you...
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Categories:
time,
Form: Rhyme
Young and gullibleThere are a lot of myths we have been told
Like at the end of a rainbow there's a pot of gold.
Things I was told turned out to be lies
Like if you watch to much television you will get square eyes.
If you eat the crust of the bread you will
Get curly hair.
Don't look to long at...
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Categories:
4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Choose to LiveDon't believe the lies that have been said,
Do you truly think you're better off dead?
Shake that thought out of your head,
Let me tell you what is true, what is real,
My friend, you should choose to live instead.
Why do you meet the mornings with dread?
Wake up, come on, rise from your bed,
How about some breakfast so...
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Categories:
encouraging, good morning, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Look In Loves EyesThe day seems so right,
then comes the dark night.
Love brings happiness,
and the loss sadness.
Mothers raise their young,
the rest left to Jung.
The news sells the lies,
for the lord of flies.
The look in loves eyes,
when grey turns blue skies.
For life is the lure,
and death... is the cure!
...
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Categories:
life,
Form: Rhyme
EVE'S NAKED PLEA -CLOTH IN KNOWLEDGED-She wore nothing but herself;
Her crown was flowing radiant black;
Electrifying was her mind sweet as roses;
And she hears with ears of velvet clovers;
And she sees with the eyes of a cat beams;
And she's naked her vessel skin hue;
Like a flowing water pouring down streams;
Graced in beauty of visaged view;
Carmel is her angles;
She sings amidst the...
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Categories:
analogy, beautiful, engagement, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
All Talk, No Action
They are now but cash cows
(a trough in which to quaff)
for the many attendees
who sit on long-winded
Government-funded investigation committees
no one around to hear the sound
(of what falls in the woods)
while their coffers swelled
for all the papers printed on the ecology
more than several trees were felled
the fracking drilling boring too
(found underground)
wastes water in copious quantities
releases greenhouse...
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Categories:
animal, corruption, earth, how
Form: Rhyme
And The Cat Crept In
Motion-activated caught on camera
while cookies for the kids I was cooking
a collared cat crept into the kitchen
when I stepped outside and wasn't looking
his potty break was well-timed
as, sadly, I'd left the door unlocked
onto the counter by the sink he climbed
bared his butt and crapped in the crock
tho' he gave new meaning
to vanilla chocolate chip
if I...
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Categories:
animal, cat, fish, food,
Form: Rhyme
SufficientBefore there’s an auction,
I visit the site
To check out the artwork
For my own delight.
I don’t plan on bidding,
With prices so high,
But look to see what,
In my dreams, I might buy.
Today, saw a sculpture
By someone whose art
Is familiar and always
Brings joy to my heart.
He’s Tom Otterness – please
Google him for a peek
At the various people
He sculpts...
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Categories:
art,
Form: Rhyme
The Things I Never BuriedI never buried certain names,
They lingered like a scent in air.
I whispered them through window panes
And found them waiting everywhere.
I never buried childhood roads—
The ones I walked with bleeding knees.
They live inside the softest odes
And bloom like ghosts among the trees.
I never buried what she said
The night the silence broke our bed.
Her voice still echoes...
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Categories:
childhood, emotions, mirror, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Oh, What A Tangled Interweb We Weave
Don't like the look of what's going on
seems to you something's wrong
the smell of corruption in the air
look around it's everywhere
can't place the feel of what's happening here
could it be something to fear
the sound of conniving on the wind
a warning call for all thin-skinned
so round and round and round we go
where it stops no one...
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Categories:
internet, word play, words,
Form: Rhyme
Take Back The Streets
There used to be a time I can still remember when
but times have changed they're not the same
we have to roll the rock turn back the clock
things are going wrong something's gone astray
the streets are yours and mine
let's make them safe for kids to play
the good old days do you still remember then
those days are...
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Categories:
children, city, how i
Form: Rhyme
Anything Goes
Perhaps he's crackers
to embrace glitz
(to paraphrase Irving Berlin)
'Putin on the Ritz'
tho'
'Sometimes something is better than nothing'
went the writing on the wall
yet
'Too much of nothing'
(wrote the Zimmerman)
is really no good at all
and
'Everything comes to those who wait'
an optimist put in prose
but
Cole Porter said it best
when he wrote, 'Anything Goes'
...
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Categories:
fun, humor, music, silly,
Form: Rhyme
EverydayEveryday
My beautiful forever, where do I begin,
Not having you in my life would be a sin.
Every waking moment you’re on my mind,
You my love, are truly one of a kind.
For every morning when I wake,
My very first thought is to send a text.
Good morning dear I say to you,
Days cannot start without a response from...
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Categories:
crush, cute love, first
Form: Rhyme
In the wilderness of bewildermentIn the wilderness of bewilderment,
Sculpting different sorts of thoughts,
Where intent fades, needing no interment,
And truth exudes from all its rots.
There lies the stark resolve for my future,
A slender hope of life ahead,
Bound together by a catgut suture,
That time corrodes until it's shed.
All kept away from prying eyes,
Ever before my intent was conceived,
Just to keep all...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Rhyme Poems
Read wonderful rhyme poetry on the following sub-topics:
animals, christmas, death, dog, family, flowers, food, friends, funny, halloween, kids, life, love, music, nature, nursery, parents, school, spring, sports, war, winter
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