Goodbye Poetry
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Oh poetry,
why do you not feel me.
I was once your poetic percolate,
the assonance to your consonance,
spilling in silver ink,
upon Earth's raw fibres,
but in your quest for perfection,
wa...
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Categories:
alliterate, analogy, angst, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
I’m Pulled into the Dream
...“And the proud dreaming king who flung the crown
And sorrow away, and calling bard and clown”
—W. B. Yeats (The Secret Rose)
Yeats rambles on; and I say rambles;
I can’t make heads no...
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Categories:
alliterate, beauty, feelings, poetry, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Ink is the Mistress
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Her heart was
whirling,
swirling,
twirling
inside the eye
of a
whirlwind,
...
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Categories:
alliterate, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Soul’s Cry
...Another lost noon,
engraved as unforgettable
memoirs within my mind,
I’m rethinking of rewriting
and rewinding revoked
reflections of a love rekindled.
My eager heart
is now hanging i...
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Categories:
alliterate, angst,
Form: Free verse
ANOTHER FANTASTIC FOUR
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alliterate
emagi
clerihew
broken -monoku
...
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Categories:
alliterate, poetry, word play,
Form: Bio
Colour Alliterate
...bursts of
creativity
colourful
caberets
crafting
sensibilities
compositions
....incarnate...
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Categories:
alliterate, art, color,
Form: Couplet
Clerihew Swinburne
...Algernon Charles Swinburne
with intricate poetry did earn
He loved to alliterate
& lyrical verse to create...
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Categories:
alliterate, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
An Inflammatory Condition
...Hours nibble at a back strain.
Tenuous strings were tugged
lifting water bottles.
You wonder how weak and fragile
you are. How vulnerable to
those ancient red tides within
that can bend...
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Categories:
alliterate, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Rhyme On My Mind
...To head rhymes or alliterate,
to find a word for its mate,
perhaps a rhyme to please the eye,
peut'etre French,I'll give a try;
Then vary it with a rime riche
and harmonize to find a niche;
One...
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Categories:
alliterate, poetry, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Common Sense Succinctly Stated
...Why waste words when a haiku will do.
When rhyme and limerick make music redundant.
When meaning and message mean more to you
than twaddle and tripe, and rants arrant.
Words we love, for the...
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Categories:
alliterate, poetry, poets, words,
Form: Rhyme
Wordplay Finesse
...Acrostic dream
Watch happy stream
A mosaic rhyme
Watch collage chimes
A lyric trance
Watch feelings dance
A sonnet flash
Watch thoughts now dash
A pregnant ode
Watch deeper m...
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Categories:
alliterate, allusion,
Form: Couplet
I Got a Rhyme
...I, GOT A RHYME
To head rhymes or alliterate,
to find a word for its mate,
perhaps a rhyme to please the eye,
peut'etre French,I'll give a try;
Then vary it with a rime riche
and harmonize to...
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Categories:
alliterate, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Once Upon a Time My Poetry Story
...re-post inspired by Eve contest
To alliterate
or not
it all began
then
to rhyme
perchance
in time
to find
a cinquain
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Categories:
alliterate, journey, poetry,
Form: Free verse
To Rhyme Or Not
...re-post inspired by John's contest
To head rhymes or alliterate,
to find a word for its mate,
perhaps a rhyme to please the eye,
peut'etre French,I'll give a try;
Then vary it with a rime rich...
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Categories:
alliterate, poetry, repetition,
Form: Rhyme
Eager
...""Papa" "What about Spring ... ?
"I don't know Son?"
Killdeer' draw you away from their nest, Bluebirds holler to all about it, hungry Father Fox he knows about it ... .
Kinder yes ...
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Categories:
alliterate, crazy, cry, dog, earth,
Form: Prose Poetry
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