one kiss
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* This was the first poem I ever entered into a contest, and it won! (Thank you to poet/judge John Hamilton). It is about a very brief moment, and all that our minds can process in an instant, espe...
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Categories:
affix, analogy, kiss,
Form: Free verse
Poetry
...Everything we experience in life
shows in our poetry -- both shallow
and deep – weeds and blossoms~
words come forth oscillating bitter/sweet
harvest, from, hopefully, an honest
sowing --
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Categories:
affix, creation, language, poetry, spiritual,
Form: Prose Poetry
Sweet Love at Twilight- POTD
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“When you find someone who can turn your world around for better, tell him/her everything you wish to say. Perhaps your dreams that never came true may be realized. Who knows”~ By Poet
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Categories:
affix, celebration, love,
Form: Verse
Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust
...Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust
Warning: The following material no worse than getting cooties. I remember them way back in grade school, whereat everyone ran away f...
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Categories:
affix, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
RECIPE FOR HATE
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There is a simple recipe for hate…you may have run across this recipe before…
Hitler used it in Germany…to create a Holocaust…and war.
First…you pick a group within your country…and you convinc...
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Categories:
affix, hate,
Form: Rhyme
Scotch Tape Sweepstakes
...Scotch Tape Sweepstakes
The easy to handle
sticky sided material
made of a variety of materials, including
cellulose acetate, polypropylene,
PVC, and adhesive
(alluded to in the title)
appli...
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Categories:
affix, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
My World
...A world seen through open eyes,
No one is wearing a disguise,
Sharing a part of their prize,
As their love starts to rise.
Silencing hungers cry,
No longer slaves to their demise,
P...
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Categories:
affix, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Will wonders never cease!?
...Will wonders never cease!?
Alternately titled: Last of the fluff
belonging to a Mohican
Norwegian bachelor farmer wannabe.
Any resemblance between said unnamed individual
and living persons ...
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Categories:
affix, absence, adventure, analogy, angst,
Form: Free verse
protests
...If you’ve read any of my delicious, hand-crafted vignettes and listened to us talk, you’ll know that my roommates and I are critical thinking swifties who spend hour after hour talking about anything...
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Categories:
affix, appreciation, celebration, education, freedom,
Form: Free verse
The Sun is Shining Again
...The sun is shining in the east with petals opening bright, spreading its fragrance into the light and an epiphany of hope resting on the branches swinging from limb to limb while my heart entertains ...
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Categories:
affix, america, body, change, community,
Form: Narrative
How to attach a shower curtain
...How to attach a shower curtain...
I revisit rather than write from scratch
a poem crafted May twenty third
two thousand and twenty
since the following words apropos
and amply serve a duplicat...
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Categories:
affix, abuse, angel, appreciation, business,
Form: Rhyme
Tiffany Brocade Taffeta
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Written: November 09, 2023
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An allegedly assured affix
distracted by wistfulness
to assess arousal of anguish,
wherewith...
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Categories:
affix, analogy, betrayal, emotions, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Boston Kites and Memories
...We loved when dad would call
For some paper, string and sticks.
He'd ask for flour in a cup
And show us other "tricks."
He'd take a simple grocery sack
And lay it on the floor,
Then mark a bo...
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Categories:
affix, adventure, boy, childhood, children,
Form: Rhyme
Scrounging For Boogers Wrought My Damn Nostrils Nearly To Bust
...Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust
My humblest apology if the following account
doth gross thee out forlorn childhood of mine
found further ostracization of me tant...
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Categories:
affix, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
The Ties That Bind
...zip ties what a wondrous thing
to think how much closer they bring
that joyful noise gleeful clicks
heard as you with your hands affix
swift to use they are a cinch
till things can't mo...
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Categories:
affix, appreciation,
Form: Haiku
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