JAZZ
...Nail walking down the street
Carrying a bagful to fix something
For the master who owns my dreaming
Storefronts lolling sidewalks asleep
Night quiet jazz, Erie, PA
The endless road breaking cart...
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Categories:
bagful, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
His Christmas Cold
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The night before Christmas my 6-year-old grandson was elated,
for he knew Santa would bring him bagful of gorgeous gifts
and he would come at night alighting through the chimney.
So, if th...
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Categories:
bagful, child, christmas, funny,
Form: Free verse
O pack a punch in life
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Zaahid sharaab peene de masjid mei baith kar,
Yaa vo jagah bataade jahaañ par khudaa na ho.
Priest, let me sit in a mosque with my pint,
Or show me a place without His footprin...
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Categories:
bagful, drink, god, life,
Form: Free verse
Cheery Cherries
...dawn’s
cheery
red cherries
by the bagful
cheek by jowl they munch
dangling the stem, spitting
out crunchy seeds (tooth breakers)
channelling the healing power
chalking up juicy rufescent bite...
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Categories:
bagful, drink, food,
Form: Etheree
In Sizzling Soup
...They spent many happy years of married life,
hard of hearing he heard the shout of his wife.
She once told buy potato,
he bought bagful tomato,
found himself sunk in the sizzling soup of ...
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Categories:
bagful, humorous,
Form: Limerick
The Strange But True Story of the Lincoln Imp
...Down in hell, that stronghold of sin.
strange things stir, but let me begin.
I'll get to the point. Some details I'll skimp.
I tell the tale of a mischievous imp.
Of two imps in fact, to be more ...
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Categories:
bagful, gothic, mystery, places,
Form: Narrative
Snuff and Next Tears
...Even if Angels you lead,
Easily reaching your bead,
God's commandments always heed,
On the clear begging need,
To join the sowers of seed,
You keeping His Decreed Creed;
To the Church all your ...
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Categories:
bagful, addiction, character, devotion, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Graffiti Spider
...We roamed the village in our masks -
a store-bought 1960’s plastic with string.
To trick and treat for candy, our task.
The bagful, we’d try to eat the whole thing.
We roam the village, as Dad ...
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Categories:
bagful, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Despite Their Pocketful of Promises
...If you come to my occasion
Maybe birthday or dedication
You'll be to me like a red rag to a bull
Asking for rice knowing the price of a bagful
Our common and daily food
Is becoming an august f...
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Categories:
bagful, political,
Form: Rhyme
A Poem Lovely As a Garden
...My beautiful spring fresh flowers,
Budding after a rain showers.
Pretty butterflies are flying,
Flower to flower are spying.
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Categories:
bagful, butterfly, flower, rain, spring,
Form: Couplet
The Sweet Shop
...There's a shop down the street
where all the school kids meet;
a shop of wonders and delight
all wrapped up in one big bite
Step inside this tasty paradise,
take a bite of fudge, take another ...
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Categories:
bagful, 9th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Garden Fantastic
...I walked out to see my garden's beauty
Looking for vibrant colors to see
But before I could look he was all over me
Stung fourteen times by an angry bee
I was looking at a butterfly fluttering ...
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Categories:
bagful, garden, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Adventures of Momotaro
...This is a story of an old couple who had no children of their own.
One day while the old woman was washing clothes at a nearby river, she saw a large rosy peach floating downstream.
She got ...
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Categories:
bagful, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Crushed
...In my remote village a long time ago
From town came a man of twenty or so
Set up a smart machine called gristmill
Times have changed but it’s there still.
Every weekend I had to go there to sha...
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Categories:
bagful, analogy, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme
Bagful
...The Weight of Education
School bag
Backs sag
Heavy heart
Suitcase
Warped face
Outdated
Old bag
Rats nag
The Friendly Postman...
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Categories:
bagful, humor, travel,
Form: Footle
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