WORD MATTERS
...Letter by letter
Sentences to fill
Alphabetic A to Z
The need
The present
The compose
Emotions straight out
Tears and pain
The mind to worry
The need for sorry
Think and transcript
Words w...
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Categories:
alphabetic, care, change, character, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Give birth
...Come,
Come with thyself
Take the fertile seeds of the existence
Implant and water,
Spread the alphabetic breaths of these
In the subtle grain of the living sentences
And take care in the veins ...
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Categories:
alphabetic, poetry,
Form: Free verse
My Thing Is This
...As hapless vapors of decay, surround us, suffocating the fecund earth. A blanket of suffocating grey, born from the diseased aspirations of humanity. We, the self-appointed masters of a planet in sha...
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Categories:
alphabetic, corruption, education, environment, extended
Form: Free verse
Poetica Delicata poetry soup
...Better than a stone souper a melting pot of the super ...
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Categories:
alphabetic, art, blessing, celebration, creation,
Form: Grook
Beloved
...Oh my beloved
unlock yourself from my mind
and appear before my eyes
whenever I think about you
so that I can see you
when I long to be near you
When my mind's stream of yearnings
s...
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Categories:
alphabetic, love, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Variations On a Theme
...Variations On A Theme...
of hodgepodge strewn helter skelter
wonky inviting reader to mentally swelter.
Ach'n (ache Ken and burn'n)
kickstarting existential and proverbial struggle
me species...
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Categories:
alphabetic, abortion, absence, abuse, age,
Form: Rhyme
Personification
...Holding the tail of alphabetic stream
I came to the pen of words;
Nothing was there except
The invention of uprooted sentences
Holding the root of the synthetic learning
I came to the book of ...
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Categories:
alphabetic, life, riddle,
Form: Free verse
Abracadabra
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“Abracadabra, brass candelabra”
Bright, white light, to dark succumb
Ring the ears, trip tongues to slur
Annul sight, dim cornea
Cast your magic, mayhem, havoc
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Categories:
alphabetic, fantasy, magic,
Form: Verse
Ah Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep
...Ah...Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep
Aye sandman, I surrender to yar supreme governance
surreal spectacular soiree gifts subconscious sphere
soothing (analogous to natural pallia...
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Categories:
alphabetic, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Brine of the Anxious Marinator
...Come sit and I will serenade
A sad, colossal flub,
A tale about a marinade.
(Well, truthfully a rub)
It is a long and sordid tale;
Not sure where to begin.
My sensibilities assailed,
Yet I m...
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Categories:
alphabetic, anxiety, silly,
Form: Ballad
Reviewing Mine Writings of Yore
...Reviewing mine writings of yore...
(today February nineteenth
two thousand and twenty two)
helps me to become more adept
crafting literary endeavors.
Remembrance of past circumstances
and/o...
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Categories:
alphabetic, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Silence of a Poet
..."When the Grim Reaper asked for my spirit,
I told him to take my poetic pen.
He walked away smiling, leaving me illiterate."
In the mystical wilderness of virtual poetry,
surrounded by metaphor...
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Categories:
alphabetic, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Poetica
...Hey! Look at me, I'm a Poem!
my words rhyme with my tongue
with lips summoning secret séance scribblings
from upper palate delights while my teeth scalpel
saturnine ecstasies from mammock reservo...
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Categories:
alphabetic, analogy, appreciation, confidence, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Acrostic Memory
...Acrostic Memory
Acrostics introduced in fifth grade on a rainy winter afternoon
Careful crafted choice of words written in lyric cadence hues
Rhythmic flow like music class - songs of skaters wa...
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Categories:
alphabetic, childhood, memory, poems, teacher,
Form: Acrostic
Conference Call
...Can I declare a duty poetic,
orating of a love alphabetic?
No honorable intentions,
free-venting my notions…
Escapes in a mere write,
reshaping joys, or spite…
Echoing wordy sashays,
nuance...
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Categories:
alphabetic, art,
Form: Couplet
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