superbowl
...It’s a chill and rainy Saturday night in New Haven - it’s Superbowl eve! My roommates Leong, Anna and Lisa and I were playing a game of Upwards - it’s a scrabble-like word game and we’re all strangel...
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Categories:
apprehensively, fun, humor, night, school,
Form: Free verse
Ure Apprehensively Mine
...Ure my chemical imbalance tipping the scales
Ure the voice shouting leaving me pale
Ure the fright in the middle of a soulless night
Ure broken glass on the sidewalk
Ure cuts thru my shoes while ...
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Categories:
apprehensively, angst, anxiety, conflict, depression,
Form: Free verse
A Brown Paper Bag
...It looks almost full or half empty.
A pregnant bulge
something firmer than a sandwich
less firm than a brick.
A dirty diaper?
Something worse?
Once I found a dead parakeet
wrapped in a disca...
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Categories:
apprehensively, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dogsitting
...Looking after this dog for a couple of weeks,
he seems nice enough.
The problem is I have no idea how much food and water to give him,
How the hell am I supposed to know about a dog's eating habit...
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Categories:
apprehensively, dog,
Form: Free verse
Split Wide Open
...Did I ever tell you? No, I did not.
If I could split open my heart,
you would find the image of an evening...
under a s...
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Categories:
apprehensively, lost love, memory,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Dejection
..."If we allow a deranged mind to control the course of human destiny,
then we become executioners in the annihilation of human dignity"
-by ...
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Categories:
apprehensively, war,
Form: Rhyme
Have I Ever Told You
...have I ever told you that... a picture crystallized in my heart~
an evening, mesmerizing starlit sky,
two youngsters ~ ardently absorbed in each other.
you narrated an entire story ~ with so much...
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Categories:
apprehensively, love, memory,
Form: Lyric
A Poet's Place In the Sun
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Like a seedling reaching for
the sun's warm rays,
Each of you helped me to find
my poetic way.
I peeked out, apprehensively.
Yet you danced and shouted,
"Hurray, hurray! Come, with...
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Categories:
apprehensively, care, friend, poets, thank
Form: Rhyme
Fear of Anticipation
...Apprehensively extend unsteady fingers
confirm externalization of the beat I hear.
Heat waves tighten my lungs in hollow breaths
and quick sanded is the lock on my knees.
The moment approaches ...
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Categories:
apprehensively, allegory, angst, anxiety, business,
Form: Sonnet
God Had a Plan
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God Had a Plan
Written: by Tom Wright
3/5/2014
My life holds no mystery as Stonehenge’s Rocks,
But has been lived throughout with resolve;
My innermost thoughts extended outside the ...
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Categories:
apprehensively, emotions, god, inspirational, prayer,
Form: Lyric
A Woodland Encounter
...On this beautiful autumn morning I
was strolling down a woodland path,
suddenly I was stopped in my tracks
I stood in awe, rays of sunlight filtered
through autumnal foliage like magic
spotli...
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Categories:
apprehensively, character, humor, identity, judgement,
Form: Free verse
This Thing Called Love - With Maria Williams
...Apprehensively I tramp with my lamp - through a path shrouded in gloom
Silvery shafts of light entwine and fight through foliage as they creep
Gnarled branches twist as I resist their sinis...
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Categories:
apprehensively, hope, love,
Form: Rhyme
This Thing Called Love - POTD - With Winged Warrior
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POTD 19 September 2017
Apprehensively I tramp with my lamp - through a path shrouded in gloom
Silvery shafts of light entwine and fight through foliage as they creep
Gnarled branches t...
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Categories:
apprehensively, love, mystery, romance, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Autumn Romance
...A couple shares scenes strolling arm-in-arm
Midst October trees in vivid colors.
A brisk breeze captures leaves that shower down,
Some alight softly on the couple's crowns.
Little sparrow...
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Categories:
apprehensively, autumn, love, nature,
Form: Blank verse
My Lady
...My
small cute
kitty cat
is a lady.
How delicately
she creeps along the bed!
As if to beg my pardon,
she apprehensively proceeds
until, finding the spot she prefers,
she settles, ...
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Categories:
apprehensively, cat, , cute,
Form: Etheree
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