Ode from a Friend
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Ode from a Friend
Having forged our bonds since the days of youth
Shared many battles of life t...
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Categories:
bear on, appreciation, friend, humanity, integrity,
Form: Ode
The Story of my Life
...“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” E.E. Cummings
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The Story of...
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Categories:
bear on, courage, extended metaphor, life,
Form: Quintain (English)
Single Player Band
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I watched one thousand waves crash on the shore
Echoing, howling, there is so much more
I watched one thousand trees sway East to West
I had fallen beneath them after doing my best
I could st...
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Categories:
bear on, home, longing, lost,
Form: Rhyme
In the War-zone of Self
...I am a mosaic of strength,
built from pieces of scars and stars,
loving fiercely, too fiercely perhaps,
and wrapped tight in the armor of over-care.
I am not counterfeit, nor a shadowed ghost
bu...
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Categories:
bear on, devotion, feelings, how i
Form: Free verse
GNRT THOUGHTS-OUR KIA SOUL
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When we planned our road trip we set up with Budget
that a Toyota Corolla would be waiting for us in Seattle
but after standing in line for 2 hours…I was a little rattled
When Budget ran out ...
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Categories:
bear on, car, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Bear on the Shelf
...There once was a bear
Who was loved for his shoes
To a girl he was gifted
Just her cuddly muse
On a once rainy day
With a shelter required
The brolly was shaken
To it's cover retired
The...
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Categories:
bear on, friendship, soulmate, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Black and White
..."Black and white in want of each other, and not in need, inevitably;
of my following sampling's POV," ... by the Poet.
Pandas are loners, though my statement is a misconception of the simple fact...
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Categories:
bear on, allusion, analogy, appreciation, color,
Form: Free verse
Circus Escape
...We circus animals were extremely tired of the ringmaster’s sass
They gave him the wing, the spit, and their nod said the ass.
A duck, a dog, and a tiny bear on a ball ran away too.
The ostrich lim...
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Categories:
bear on, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Another Day
...I didn’t know if I was going to make it through the night, my feet were as cold as ice, my heart was where it was supposed to be, but I had this strange premonition that I would wake up in the middle...
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Categories:
bear on, blessing, business, change, courage,
Form: Narrative
Body Ails Yet Spirit Soars
...Written: October 28, 2023, For Unseeking Seeker Contest
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Amid the distress and pressure of life,
A salient soul suspires to s...
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Categories:
bear on, analogy, angst, bereavement, character,
Form: Rhyme
Contradictions
...He wakes up with all forms of contradictions waving over his head and running around with ballot boxes trying to procure the dead with weevil and mice playing jamboree in the rice while the sun and t...
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Categories:
bear on, adventure, america, business, community,
Form: Narrative
Time Worries the Mind
...Time worries the mind, and the days mount up in hast
Years overwhelm the body and lay ambitions to waste
Dreams, never fulfilled rest in the bucket- list of things to do
Tarnished and lost in time...
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Categories:
bear on, christian, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Death In Beslan
...Was first day of school when evil befell
the town children who marched in happy tune,
and the school bell tolling rung its death knell
for the dead and dying who died too soon.
Sadly ther...
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Categories:
bear on, children, death,
Form: Sonnet
Does a Bear Go In the Woods
...I once saw a bear on the prowl
Who, one night encountered an owl
The owl said "Who"
The Bear answered "Pooh"
I knew something smelled a bit fowl...
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Categories:
bear on, 3rd grade,
Form: Limerick
Educated
...Educated,
We all bear on our souls,
Understanding,
About this world's ephemeral nature
And work hence,
Towards making of our stay upon her soils,
One worthy of being remembered!
Educated,
W...
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Categories:
bear on, life,
Form: Free verse
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