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Leaf

...
Viceroy butterfly, remarkable
dead ringer for the Monarch
eggs overwinter, a rolled-up leaf
displaying their mother's motif


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Categories: alikes, 11th grade, butterfly,
Form: Verse

Identical Twins

...Identical twins, they have a crisis
Look-alikes, neither is known for niceness,
Terry writes his poems
While his brother ho-hums,
And neither one has joined up with Isis.

Categories: alikes, humorous, tribute,
Form: Limerick

The Tongue Ever So Young

...An eggplant need not taste nor look like egg,
Nor in a hamburger ham need be there,
Where's pine, apple in pineapple, I beg?
Nor yet french-fries in France invented were.
They native are— America...

Categories: alikes, language,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Such Does Exist

...I ran out of breath on the road to Mumbai ...

    Not for sake of dust or smog or even health. I had rounded a curve on
    my motorcycle, and all at once could see in the same view, the skyl...

Categories: alikes, appreciation, beauty, imagery, travel,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Broken Water Faucet

...Broken Water Faucet
©2017by Susie Krauter
A poem written for children to demonstrate personification

My cold silvery shiny metal 
handle no longer moves 
to the top of ...

Categories: alikes, children, destiny, emotions, children,
Form: Personification

Shun

...Like
the poles
on magnet ends
north and south alikes shun,
unalikes beckon, engage, bind.
While likes gather in flocks,
seeing self clones
repels
shuns...

Categories: alikes, friendship, social,
Form: Free verse

Whittled Down

...Purposely, intentionally
enter out my reluctance and enter in a nose dive back into the past
a Samurai Jack experience
It has to be here somewhere
these long forgotten memoirs pieced together yet...

Categories: alikes, missing you,
Form: Free verse

Viva La Zaftig

...Models on a runway
Look like skeletons in clothes.
Skinniness is what’s expected
At the fashion shows.

So mannequins reflect that trend
And thus are thinly shaped,
Conforming to how we expect...

Categories: alikes, clothes, people,
Form: Rhyme

Torture Chamber (Something the World Needs To Know)

...in your own backyard
people being tortured by a game
of making your life unfair
without breaking any laws
people like charles manson have proved it
a manipulative emotional blackmail
of lies th...

Categories: alikes, historyworld, food, life, drug,
Form: Free verse

Unfurnished Mind

...Oblong,
curved,
rectangular,
squared,
circular,
spherical,
hexagonal,
cubical,
and traingular,
these were and several others,
the shapes,
of millions,
of partitions in my memory,
I was l...

Categories: alikes, inspirational, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse