Volcano Run part 3 - Escaping the Ashfall
...Part three
Once we were home, the bikes secure
we sealed the clubhouse, best we could
waiting for the ash to stop
but fearing that it never would,
All the TV news was dismal;
all predictin...
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Categories:
back pack, fun, journey, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
TAKE A HIKE
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There were times when I was young…when I got on my parent’s nerves…
when I did things they did not like…
when they wanted me out of their hair they might tell me, “Go take a hike”
Of course th...
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Categories:
back pack, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Illumination Street
...I have been traveling for more than a hundred and twenty days searching for the special lights that keep popping up in my nightly dreams and the beam that passes through the skies when the visitors w...
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Categories:
back pack, america, best friend, business,
Form: Narrative
Finding Honor In His Hand
...Standing here in the sand
Ready with full back pack
I'm facing this vast sea
Unthinkable but with courage
Waiting a boat for a trip
At the other side of this island
For loved visit and fun adve...
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Categories:
back pack, adventure, death, life, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
NIGHT TIME BOY
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Night Time Boy
It’s almost nine o’clock and its time to go to bed
So climb under your covers and rest your weary head,
Get yourself real comfy and I’ll tuck you nice and tight
And tell me of ...
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Categories:
back pack, boy, character, children, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
HOW TO FLY A KITE
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First you take the girl
up on the southern Downs -
on a day with light wind
and bright sunshine.
Then you unpack things
from your bulging back pack -
with emphasis on those
Picnic goo...
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Categories:
back pack, cute love, encouraging, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Scared, Really Scared
...It’s there in the darkest corner of his room
there where he takes off his shoes and socks and just leaves them
the place that his Mom said that she is going to leave as is from now on
it’s just s...
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Categories:
back pack, fear,
Form: Prose Poetry
Chapter 1-- Damian Hakim: the Making of the Man- Damian's Early Days
...Date 2008 these are Damian's
Formative days. Damian Hakim
Was born 2001 August 10th.
8lbs 7oz. Big baby boy! Damian
Lived in west Virginia with his
Mother Lucinda, father Carter
Hakim and h...
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Categories:
back pack, black love, color, confidence,
Form: Prose
Have You Ever Bummed a Cigarette
...Have you ever bummed a cigarette
or a razor blade like Gillette
How 'bout stealing a place in line
or someone's coat that fits you fine
And surely you've snatched a sugary snack
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Categories:
back pack, fun, games,
Form: Couplet
Shrewd
...in a manor of time it will tell
it's been so reconciled
it's hard to tell anymore
not s scull set up on a stump
sold separately no gun
but a tall tale on web buy now black market
but fishes fis...
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Categories:
back pack, thank you,
Form: Free verse
Back To School
...Come on little darlings ,
grab that cart.
We've got shopping to do.
School's about to start.
You've been a pain in my a**
all Summer long.
Now it's back to school
where you belong.
Pick ...
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Categories:
back pack, school,
Form: Rhyme
Long Trails
...Vibram lugs 2 inches thick
for edge work back when
I was so young
with mountains to climb
the leather uppers
with mink oil spread
in the oven baked
again and again
Mountains I climb...
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Categories:
back pack, poetry,
Form: Free verse
In Silence
...In Silence
The English ex SAS Special Forces member went to the Ukraine to fight. He travelled light and took just a small back pack and a head full of skills. A gun was a gun and a bayonet a bayone...
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Categories:
back pack, conflict, history, war,
Form: Verse
A Joyful Christmas Story With a Happy Ending
...Timmy Jimmy O'Blimey was a boy who loved Christmas and joyful happy faces
So when he saw an old man living on the street with nothing to eat, he felt sad
Though small of frame his carousel min...
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Categories:
back pack, appreciation, christmas,
Form: Narrative
Late August In the Kingdom
...Morning mist over Molly`s,
a late August gold haze.
Crossing hay fields of Danville,
Cabot`s meadows and maze.
A spoon dips the honey,
apple cinnamon rolls,
sippy ...
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Categories:
back pack, august, autumn,
Form: Pastoral
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