THE MOON
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See the full moon's bright eye,
Use her as guide.
Imagine her sclera, pupil, and iris
Capture in colors you see fitting on a clear evening.
Cut out her yellow yolk of an egg
Reveal just albume...
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Categories:
albumen, change, fantasy, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Eggs Mirror Image of Earth
...Soft-shelled things by their sources laid
On spots assuring them no raid:
In my poultry picked up by maid,
With care handled or her upbraid
“Boiled or Omelets but with bread,
For my breakfast do...
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Categories:
albumen, animal, creation, imagination, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Refurbished Nursery Rhymes: Humpty Dumpty
......Look, Ma, I'm flying!
When fat, stoned Humpty Dumpty tumbled off that high wall,
He was laughing so hard he scarcely noticed the fall.
He cracked his shell, I'm assumin'
'cause out leaked hi...
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Categories:
albumen, humor, nursery rhyme,
Form: Light Verse
Wild Goose Chase
...Pursuit for elusive prey
teases yours truly
into treacherous catacombs
dangerous mentally
challenging pitfalls,
sets small hairs of back
on camp creeks edge
of night, where dark shadows
evo...
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Categories:
albumen, adventure, allegory, america, animal,
Form: Free verse
Modern Democracy
...Modern democracy
Think of an egg hollow it out drink its albumen and yolk
the empty shell cracks easily and we call it democracy
and free expression which is subjected to unwritten laws.
Y...
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Categories:
albumen, anger, assonance, corruption,
Form: Blank verse
Monopoly Poetry Contest
...There once was a poet named Neumann
whose bile went as white as albumen.
He emailed a missive,
his ire derisive,
attempting to yoke fellow humans.
His target would not come to heel,
so then...
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Categories:
albumen, anger,
Form: Limerick
Wild Goose Chase
...Pursuit for elusive prey
teases yours truly
into treacherous catacombs
dangerous mentally
challenging pitfalls,
sets small hairs of back
on camp creeks edge
of night, where dark shadows
evo...
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Categories:
albumen, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Cracking Eggs
...crackin' eggs into
clean glass mixing bowl, beating....
clear albumen drips
housewife observes scene
as light reflects on egg whites....
senryu in there? ...
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Categories:
albumen, funny,
Form: Senryu
A Scholar Romance
...Finding acquaintance with women
has put me on a wild-goose chase,
making my mind so water-logged
with gross and unbearable lack of confidence.
Your presence has cancelled these memories
and caus...
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Categories:
albumen, graduate, love, romance, romantic,
Form: Romanticism
No Title
...I have slept but I have not slept
I have not slept but I have slept
For the first time in two years
I slept without a word of care
No codes, no crossroads
No railroads, no shiploads
No lizards ...
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Categories:
albumen, america, betrayal, character, emotions,
Form: Narrative
We Are the Eggs They Are the Knife
...we are the egg they are the knife
the egg shell
like the body
the egg white albumen
like the spirit
the egg yolk like the soul
all others lies in between
so is the connection of hu...
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Categories:
albumen, abuse, africa, caregiving, cheer
Form: Epic
Free Form
...Eternal granite, crystalline scree, agates, boulders, rise
to hills, towering tors,* mutinous mountains, endlessly growing
rising, lifted, then toppled by the fiery rebirth of draconic lava**
L...
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Categories:
albumen, life,
Form: Verse
Signature
...Signature
Append the seal on the opening glee
Of performance agog with clapping drums,
The cylindrical bell calling to spirituous mundi
Screaming flew about in the air;
Perched on ears
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Categories:
albumen, work
Form: Free verse
Amen Ra
...The sunrise was like a fertilized egg
golden of yolk and flecked with blood,
it crowed to the mist filled morn.
It ran over the hillside frying the vegetation.
The brilliant white albumen...
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Categories:
albumen, imagination, nature
Form: Free verse
Moon Mirror
...The sun, going about her daily chores,
glimpses a new star in the sky,
one smaller than herself,
yet strangely familiar.
Used to catching her image first in puddles,
then growing larger in...
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Categories:
albumen, life, nature, science, moon,
Form: ABC
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