a matched set
...He is boorish, churlish, an overbearing lout
my old maiden aunt introduced him all about
he’s my man, she announced, with a giddy shout
they are a matched set, I have no doubt...
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Categories:
announced, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Spring
...I felt like it was coming,
not through buds breaking open,
but through a softness in the air,
like a soft napkin
forgotten on the chest
of an old icon.
No one announced it
not the wind,
not...
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Categories:
announced, spring,
Form: Free verse
Playing Checkers
...Completed tasks announced by check
I'd rather chat but what the heck
I'll take you when and how you choose to give
Just hearing from you makes my day
It doesn't matter what the way
I'll leave...
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Categories:
announced, devotion, for her, i
Form: Rhyme
Question Of The Ages
...
Why did the chicken cross Abbey Road?
Because it was there,
but which came first?
Obviously, not the egg,
as it has no legs.
The first chicken to cross the road,
feeling peckish,
not...
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Categories:
announced, bird, fun, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Oval
...An oval shape—a ghostly pane,
A frame of whispers, soft refrain.
It hung in quiet, out of view,
Where silence slept and shadows grew.
I glimpsed “the oval window, a portal to another dimension,...
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Categories:
announced, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Repeating Sentiments from her Mommy
...We had to divorce daddy the five-year-old said
Her mommy had planted this inside her head
He is uncourtable she announced with sass
What does that mean? I asked the tiny lass
We are angry with ...
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Categories:
announced, divorce, parents,
Form: Rhyme
Why breakfast matters
...I accidentally burned my breakfast toast.
I gave a thirty minute monologue
on this heinous crime.
To what’s left of the crust,
I stared, then cursed, then laughed
so hard the room shivered
an...
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Categories:
announced, betrayal,
Form: I do not know?
Keeping Up With the Boneses
...Long before you were born, long before your great grandfather was born, in the time when magic was approximately eight times more plentiful than it is today, there lived a family in the remote part o...
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Categories:
announced, fairy, magic, music, princess,
Form: Other
DARE TO DREAM
...As the evening was turning to night
The sun had already set
10:00 pm being time to sleep
There was no counting of sheep
My eyes began to get heavy
Trying to fight it
Sandman won
A dream starte...
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Categories:
announced, allusion, courage, dream, emotions,
Form: Free verse
The Diary Letter to Beatrice
...The Diary Letter to Beatrice
(A lone voice whispers, as the right hand, takes careful notes)
In the deepest of silence
I always walk
Deep in thoughts, into my own created Maelstrom of D...
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Categories:
announced, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
Does visiting a medium change your life perspective forever?
...Foundation.
Does visiting a medium change your life perspective forever?
Have you visited one?
Title:
Rêves de Miss Applegate
(Dreams of Miss Applegate)
(A female voice whispers)
I...
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Categories:
announced, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Planet Neanderthal Island
...
I must report that the Professor of Anthropology was more interested in how extinct prehistoric man, more specifically, Neanderthals, lived and why they didn’t survive. They seem bigger with bigge...
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Categories:
announced, adventure,
Form: Narrative
Make ah Lyre outta them
...Pedal Tones and arpeggios, and registers.
"the act of separating the Two"
The Twenty One Day Rule
By Professor Meanus Labyrinth
"Gabba Gabba Hey"
Code name Project: " Fragaria x a...
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Categories:
announced, bridal shower, culture, engagement,
Form: Bio
Baal god of Fertility and Rider of the Clouds
...Baal spent time in the underworld with the lesser gods
Learned how to make man miserable with the weather
Thunderbolts and lightning announced his earthly arrivals
Baal relished in the misery of l...
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Categories:
announced, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Notre Dame Bells
...It tolls eighty eight, times to symbolize that someone has died .It wasn’t the ordinary man in the street or the man that frequently disrupt the people’s heart beat; it wasn’t the fellow down the roa...
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Categories:
announced, bird, character, community, death,
Form: Narrative
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