primroses
...I could stay for hours under the sun
to contemplate bouquets of primroses,
to listen to the buzzing of insects,
To contemplate their petals, the shape of hearts,
I could stay for hours if no on...
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Categories:
absorber, beauty, flower,
Form: Free verse
Upon the precipice of an abyss
...Upon the precipice of an abyss
I stand able, eager, & ready to jump
impossible mission to swallow lump
muscles primed analogous to pump
prayer for soft landing on mine rump
bereft this johnny ...
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Categories:
absorber, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
Brusa Crom
...She discovered why he smiles
so pleasantly towards her.
But she couldn't allow him to
think anything permanent or
futuristic. simply due to her lack of
not being anywhere attracted to him.
His...
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Categories:
absorber, car, care, character, cool,
Form: Ballade
Figurative Paralysis Laid Waste Body Electric of Mine
...Figurative paralysis laid waste body electric of mine
This is Spinal tap
bamboozling, binding, bleeding, bombing...
ripped from every dog eared
and book marked page
recounting latest ill fat...
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Categories:
absorber, absence, adventure, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Embarrassment
...Last week, I walked up to a woman,
My arms encircling her un-notified waist,
After stiffly pointing out to some man
His not- funny miscalculations from childish haste…
Only yesterday was traili...
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Categories:
absorber, character, emotions, hate, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Oven Mitt
...Minutes in, days out, I would succumb
To an electric wave of heat: this once
Tidy dress lined in cotton and quilt now appears
Scratched like a hand-me-down cloth;
My upper ribs tossed into a f...
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Categories:
absorber, food, identity,
Form: Personification
Desperation Fuels Go Fund Me Campaign
...Desecration, desertion, designation,
yours truly doth poetically dislodge
destabilization, destination, description
I auto deftly, but did not dodge
regarding destitution, hodgepodge
compris...
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Categories:
absorber, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
2009 Hyundai Sonata Funereal Lament
...Unaffordable, yet valiant speeding,
tailgating, and zooming Pep Boys, I cannot dodge.
Yours truly grief stricken
(sob... sob... sob)...
wheely hard to bear
this anticipatory anxiety
riddled...
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Categories:
absorber, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Human Sack Gruff Ice Agonizingly Glommed
...Human Sack Gruff Ice Agonizingly Glommed...
Murderously Skewered, And Torturously Zapped
Directv linkedin to accentuate
piddly money crisis, tis zen uneasy fate,
I imagine dragons gyrate
ting,...
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Categories:
absorber, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
My On Call Uncle Muse Never Sleeps
...My on call (Uncle) Muse Never Sleeps
(aunt that title niece – ???
in this context pronounced nice)
Well...hm...I really did not wanna
let the cat out of the bag,
and souffle, parfeit...
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Categories:
absorber, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Brutal Sport
...Football is a brutal sport
It's boxing without pads
Bone-jarring collisions rattle the head
Collect too many, and you'll be dead
It also takes its toll on the knees
Scar tissue, art...
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Categories:
absorber, america, death, football, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Embark On the Journey Out of the Dark
...Writings moving through me with the Holy Spirit,
Inviting exquisite artistry like Hebrew so I write it automatically,
Transmitted and sent with rugged style of construed truth,
To induce question...
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Categories:
absorber, destiny, identity, meaningful, self,
Form: Free verse
A Rock I Once Climbed
...He traipsed toward my face.
My grey, imperious majesty.
Impervious to strong fingers
and rubber-soled feet
His face set, hard as my stone,
bearing a load as heavy as avarice,
hungry comes my...
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Categories:
absorber, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Love Hate Love
...i've been telling myself to stop
i've been trying hard to escape
i've been loving you all my life
but do you really care?
there's a little piece of heaven, inside this hell with you
for only ...
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Categories:
absorber, death, goodbye, grave, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Suffering Transforms Us
...Suffering is to be found in every phase of life
Will be evident in the life of anyone who follows Father Christ
It is not a punishment or penalty
But an ordinary part of earthly existence
Pati...
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Categories:
absorber, black african american, christian,
Form: Light Verse
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