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Alternatively Poems - Poems about Alternatively

Pate A Choux part 2 Sur la touche
...Alternatively, to incorporate eggs by hand: Let dough cool in saucepan, stirring frequently, until it registers 145°F on an instant-read thermometer. Add eggs 1 at a time, stirring well between addit......

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Categories: alternatively, song,
Form: Ballade
Time sighs
...Time flies alike the birds overhead Flashing their feathers in colorful lights Sending off songs makes the world alive Heating the lust up as the sun rises and cooling the cupidity off by moo......

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Categories: alternatively, appreciation, bird, fate, humanity,
Form: Verse



Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part i
...Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine ("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”) the purported line Brutus uttered after assassinating Julius Caesar. Alte......

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Categories: alternatively, 10th grade, adventure, allah,
Form: Free verse
THE REVELATION OF LOVE
... There is no plural. There is only singular. Space-time creates the illusion of individuality, a veil fracturing the singular into the appearance of many. What we perceive as separateness disso......

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Categories: alternatively, journey, science,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Too Much Food
...Eating too much food is never any good Puts one in a nasty mood What to do? -- Eat some more food! That'll solve everything, you'll feel so much better tho to your refrigerator......

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Categories: alternatively, food, humor, proposal,
Form: Couplet



Shoelaces and Change of Climate
...I first noticed a change in Climate, When my shoes started to outlast their laces, Which I thought unusual at the time, As I had come to think of it as an unwritten law, Probably one of Murphy's,......

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Categories: alternatively, age, analogy, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Oh, Mothballs
...Oh, meaty mothballs! as opposed to mothy meatballs Alternatively - slobbering sloth-balls! instead of sloppy moth-calls Stupid refrigerator! as opposed to dumb incinerator A......

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Categories: alternatively, new year, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sacred Spacemaking
...Dear Neighbors, community co-investors, sharing an outdoor green riverside Commons and an indoor historical CommonSpace Both, and all, sacred to panentheistic me and probably more mundanely ......

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Categories: alternatively, community, culture, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Change Ability
...Woodrow Wilson, back then a progressive Now considered a wholesale regressive ~ Just think, Hilary / DJT * What will you soon be ~ Deplorable compulsive-obsessive *If Rep......

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Categories: alternatively, change, future, history, irony,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Our Fifth Season
...During the bloom of youth, in the spring of vitality, Everything is sparkling and has a fresh, real quality.  Summer is the season of growth and rebirth in life,  Every day brings fres......

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Categories: alternatively, appreciation, beauty, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Among An Unnamed Female Person Known Within Mine Black Barbed Ken
...Among an unnamed female person known within mine black barbed ken Analogous to black box holding untold secrets, (after deadly plane crash no survivors except a journeyman foreigner), I shar......

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Categories: alternatively, absence, angel, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Poet Tale
...I linger at my laptop day and night. Not making a fiction to shift a slight. My ink was poised on the tips of my knuckles. There isn't a veil of aims waffle puzzles. Sonnet formi......

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Categories: alternatively, addiction, allusion, analogy, character,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Basho Do You Know
...The most discussed Basho haiku How would you translate it? Furuike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto - Basho Literal Translation Fu-ru (old) i-ke (pond) ya, ka-wa-zu (frog) to-bi-ko-m......

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Categories: alternatively, anniversary, people, poetry,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Modern M-E History, 101
...It happened in May, 1948 Israel declared itself a new-old state In hours it came under fierce attack From Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq The four Arab states told their kin in Israel Le......

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Categories: alternatively, history, irony, perspective, truth,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member My Elfin Krishna
...I have no idea how to teach this cute little guy, who has no clue what sound does a D make, or a K, but I reverse the role, and let him be the teacher today! ......

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Categories: alternatively, childhood, nature, , hinduism,
Form: Narrative

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