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Premium Member bluebird
... bluebird on a branch sets cherry blossoms awhirl spring perfume AP: Honorable Mention 2025 Posted on March 26, 2025......

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Categories: awhirl, bird, flower,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Depths
... "The Depths" From the depths silence. Where are the voices of other women? In that other place, the monsters violate, they take and take bloody all, what ......

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Categories: awhirl, children, humanity, women,
Form: Narrative



Angry Fist
...When you try to solve your problems with the swing of an angry fist that cannot be unswung nor the damage caused undone regret will sidle up hollow out your belly and set your mind awhirl con......

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Categories: awhirl, anger,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Happy Day At Squirrel Ballet
...happy day squirrel ballet tutus a twirl laced slippers awhirl recital galore never a bore fluffy tails spinning prima donnas are winning happy day happy day loving this squirrel ballet......

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Categories: awhirl, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Internal Conflict
...Brain splitting in two The mind in constant fission To sever the fruit Consciousness fading The mind is put asunder A crack is shaping Internal conflict My mind afflicted and awhirl O......

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Categories: awhirl, anxiety, conflict, confusion, dark,
Form: Haiku



Modern Sonnets Ii
...MODERN SONNETS II I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse. ......

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Categories: awhirl, art, romance, romantic, romantic
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Hes Taking a Break
... off the wall dancing electric blue shoes awhirl one-armed pushup 11/5/2020......

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Categories: awhirl, dance,
Form: Senryu
Sonnets Xlii-Li
...Sonnets XLII-LI Distances by Michael R. Burch Moonbeams on water? the reflected light of a halcyon star now drowning in night... So your memories are. Footprints on beaches now floodin......

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Categories: awhirl, bereavement, death, death of
Form: Sonnet
Jamaica My Day
...Jammed some fun into one day Aboard kayaks, paddling play Mangroves, stingless jelly fish And in my head, a hand itched In beats, a beach reggae-tunes Crashing waves upon the dunes As curling......

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Categories: awhirl, adventure,
Form: Verse
A Vain Word
...A Vain Word by Michael R. Burch Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls under m......

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Categories: awhirl, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Fountainhead
...Fountainhead by Michael R. Burch I did not delight in love so much as in a kiss like linnets' wings, the flutterings of a pulse so soft the heart remembers, as it sings: to bathe there was i......

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Categories: awhirl, solitude,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member My Mind Is a Whirl
...Don't. Can't. Won't. Listen. Listen. My mind is awhirl. Too much of that stuff. Life is redundant. My friends are boring. My parents are fussy. Absolutists. No room for me. I try to get in my tru......

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Categories: awhirl, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Tranquil Together On the Trail
...Alone, my two dogs and I step lightly, Over snow covered stones and ice. Crisp, pine scented air chills our lungs slightly, As we eagerly seize a rare trice. With one spirit these times we emb......

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Categories: awhirl, dog, nature, snow, winter,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member My Devoted Patron
...No one ever had a more devoted super patron. He marveled at every painting and poem I thought up. He cheered at each of my gaudy crazy color choices, He toasted all my thoughts with a golden glass......

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Categories: awhirl, friend, life,
Form: Madah
Premium Member The Bulldog Has Become a Mom
...The Bulldog Has Become A Mom A blink ago she was our babe in arms; Then turn around; and there the smiling girl - Around again - the strong young woman, Then wed; another shares her charms. No......

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Categories: awhirl, child, confidence, family, for
Form: Curtal Sonnet

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