Fliers - Flight With Words and Letters
...I love vocabulary games, and these odd words came up in English words games, recently: Bute ( I know "Butte" but not BUTE) & "abseil," "landau," and even "Bourne" (identity?).
A poem about a simp...
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Categories:
abseil, 12th grade, africa, america,
Form: Didactic
Letter To My Bitter Tears
...A gorgeously dressed “tears” in unknown fears.
How dare you abseil my cheek-beards
in horror of cheers my rictus is smothered to share?
It is clear to glare how bitter your wares are.
You decl...
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Categories:
abseil, 12th grade, america, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
So Long Sammy Snail - Nursery Rhyme
...My new best friend was Sammy Snail
I found him slithering in my pail
I tried to keep him without fail
But from my pail he did abseil!
Our kitchen wall he tried to scale
Dad took him ...
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Categories:
abseil, child, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Endlessness of Nothing
...The start or St.Art?.
but where?
on the corner by the neon sign?
under the clock at Waterloo when it's
striking nine?
the third eye is my guess
but I improvise and
devise ways to bolt
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Categories:
abseil, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Tempting Death
...My heart pounding
The rocks crumbling
I look back over the edge
The steep slope looming down
As horrifying images of falling pound through my head
I take a step back
Then another
And then......
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Categories:
abseil, fear,
Form: Blank verse
Leaves Fall In the Fall
...Leaves fall in the Fall.
Leaves flump in the Downtick.
Leaves flop in the Glide.
Leaves founder in the Comedown.
Leaves descend and drop in the Tumble.
Leaves nosedive and lurch in the Downflow.
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Categories:
abseil, nature,
Form: Free verse
Abseil Bride
...It's not her style to walk down the aisle.
Father and parson its sure to rile.
But all of the people
down under the steeple
will smile at her elegant abseil.
*Abseil - rappel down a rope...
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Categories:
abseil, wedding,
Form: Limerick