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August 1 Poems - Poems about August 1

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Categories: august 1, august,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Half Past Summer, Two Months Till Fall
Why is Sumner such a short time? Just getting started, then running into half past summer. July seems to be the half way mark, August is almost here. August will turn into September then into October, then fall will be here. Fall with cooler days, a pretty carpet of colorful leaves covering the ground....

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Categories: august 1, autumn, beauty, color, summer,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Don’t Cave In
Don’t raise the white flag when sly boots ennui sneaks in stoic mould is key life is that intriguing quest a conjugated footpath...

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Categories: august 1, adventure, august, celebration, courage,
Form: Tanka
Poetic Freedom -A rhythmic symbol fie
The rhythm is unlocked, started to soar, steady and a rise, bit by bit T'was serpentine whim, charming shrunk to intertwine, an inferior misfit inferiority complex of an insect, whence the godly spoke in simile of a warm and then a tickling try to writhing noisy , kept unharmed and , never to harm The lyric in round,...

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Categories: august 1, appreciation, august,
Form: Rhyme
In the Shadow of the Chalkboard
In halls where silence speaks louder than words, I stand, a beacon amidst the unseen. Their gazes, sharp as unspoken swords, Pierce through the facade, where I've always been. Once, my voice resonated with pride, Now, it's drowned by murmurs and disdain. Yet, I endure, with dignity as my guide, In a place where respect is hard to attain. But within me, a...

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Categories: august 1, august, bullying, discrimination, racism,
Form: Quatrain



Nymps
Forest Nymphs  He had read about nymphs, inland mermaids swimming in tarns and forest lakes far from The restless oceans, the tarn nymphs were less aggressive and bore no grudges He found his forest like, undressed and naked swam around for a few minutes and sat  be the edge of the lakelet to dry off, nymphs  about and since it was late September  The...

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Categories: august 1, age, appreciation, august, best
Form: ABC
Premium Member Kaleidoscopic Night
Wild streams of rushing hues daub black ink smudge skies fireballing ambience stuns night peepers dazed eyes blazing forest scorched shades mute charcoal moon’s deep cries...

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Categories: august 1, august, character, color, dark,
Form: Verse
Draconian measures promise to hobble future SEPTA transit riders
Draconian measures promise to hobble future SEPTA transit riders one of whom would be this married sexagenarian, who recently acquired his Senior Fare Card courtesy Trump's big beautiful bill dog days of summer will experience big beautiful chill videre licet courtesy slated budget cuts intimating a worse fate than getting root canal, whereby militant dentist woulf blithely recount his days as oil rig employee when he/she uttered...

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Categories: august 1, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Feeling Nostalgic
A lily-white stage once bloomed and blossomed in rose garden plots then time’s “green fingers” sunk a withered root...

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Categories: august 1, age, august, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Other
after the concert
After the concert Now, in the afternoon of my life My thoughts are about love and romance These pesky things are disturbing My tough exterior makes me soft and weepy When no one looked is now in front and Naked I appear; yes, you old fool Words of love and music for the heart Make me cry and loosen the knot...

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Categories: august 1, absence, adventure, art, august,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Fire Place
Categories: august 1, august, beautiful, blessing, deep,
Form: Lanterne
Premium Member Old Rock Stone
Wind chill ice pick flails “perma” stone, rough storm weatherer’s bleak graveside moan!...

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Categories: august 1, august, dark, death, deep,
Form: Crystalline
Mysterious
A star never loses its shine, You can never ever compare it to beer and wine. We love its glow, we also love it, when its fire. That's the impact of a pure thing. We may love less, but we can never stop loving. The same is true with God, same as with the faith....

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Categories: august 1, africa, art, august, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
The Room filled with unwritten poems
A Room Full of Unwritten Poems A room— Quite not real though, Not built of woods or bricks, Structured with the unfinished and unwritten verses, Smeared by weathering paint, More like an echo left without the speaker. Swaying curtains, now getting silenced. Door hinges rusted, creaking— But in my mind, It’s just similar to those small giggles and laughs Left behind by the envied person. Envy because...

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Categories: august 1, 12th grade, absence, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hermit
Damp shiver, under wanton fog, lone self plight, as shrill cry, swallowed by eerie phantoms, of snow gust night’scape...

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Categories: august 1, angst, anxiety, august, care,
Form: Shadorma

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