just shoes
...Have you ever seen a pair of Nine West Folowe Pumps in Red Blooms Floral - or ever held a feathery pair? They offer the pure pleasure of perfection.
You can see them popping up lately, in streetwe...
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Categories:
bespeaking, beauty, fashion, feelings, fun,
Form: Free verse
Displaced--The Trail of Tears --- REVISED
...Time Period~~1830-1850
As rain falls hard and soaks the ground
and thunder roars its mighty sound,
so tears of the displaced may fall,
our cries bespeaking dearth and pall.
The Deep South...
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Categories:
bespeaking, history, native american,
Form: Kyrielle
Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom
...Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom
Otherwise titled – my poetic impressions of Helene
All la names bespeaking deity froom
Noah Mo' Room India Arc
of Covenant to crypt tick Blood
(swea...
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Categories:
bespeaking, analogy, appreciation, beauty, crush,
Form: Rhyme
Just a Minute Too Late
...Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before
—Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven
Just a Minute Too Late
Those inky shadows, follow me,
cleverly devised in the corner...
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Categories:
bespeaking, fear,
Form: Free verse
A Quit Notice
...His quit notice hung with a tack
Bears his landlord’s wish that he pack:
Disappear with his threadbare sack
And not leave behind his rack;
Both now strapped on his confused back,
His famous peac...
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Categories:
bespeaking, absence, anger, anxiety, money,
Form: Rhyme
A Plethora of America Online Screen Names
...(alternately titled:
why yours truly crafted six electronic aliases).
No rhyme nor reason beatle browed
beastie boy long ago
created INXS of half dozen
email addresses gallivanting
feigning h...
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Categories:
bespeaking, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Mine Conscience Exhorts Restitution Regarding Lost Wedding Band
...Thru deliberate seductive
liaisons, ploys, and underhanded gambits,
I tendered illicit, explicit and complicit shenanigans
blatant actions to foment coital adulteration.
Ofttime these discrete ...
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Categories:
bespeaking, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Arcola Circa Late 1960s Early 1970s
...Arcola circa late 1960's early 1970's...
easy to conjure this idyllic June 8th, 2020
Envision bucolic Currier
and Ives rendered landscape,
or canvas painted
courtesy gifted late Thomas Kinkade...
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Categories:
bespeaking, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Dreams of Moonbeams
...Dreams of Moonbeams
Wondrously ethereal images always
magically abound in the dream world.
One particular image I had as a child
were dreams of moonbeams at night.
This certain majestic im...
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Categories:
bespeaking, allegory, dream, emotions, god,
Form: Lyric
The Virus's Leveling Effect
...The naked truth sprinkles holy water
at curfew hours with touch of morbidity.
I'm on the brink of shortages -- of food and faith,
parading before my eyes the endless stream of bodies
dispatched t...
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Categories:
bespeaking, anger,
Form: Prose
Stop Killing My Country
...Stop Killing My Country
Accused of political banter,
to speak the words, God Bless,
and America in the same sentence.
Bespeaking the fear,
of being proud,
just to be born in a land free ...
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Categories:
bespeaking, allah, america, anti bullying,
Form: Narrative
In Summer Re I Haint Getting Undressed
...In summer re: I haint getting undressed!
Hence donning entire wardrobe,
Saint Nick outfit including,
while trumpeting think spring
argh only about four plus months away
lest some big bird will...
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Categories:
bespeaking, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Life Is More Than Good
...
How cannot be otherwise?
While you know God runs this
universe, and is most generous,
His nemesis is busy, planting
darkness and doubt in your mind,
truly heinous!
There you are d...
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Categories:
bespeaking, america, appreciation, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Twilight Whispers
...Twilight Whispers
Our whispers during twilight,
highlight a mystical moment
of owl-light during our special
walk together in this lush forest.
This moment captures for us a
period of true t...
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Categories:
bespeaking, allegory, destiny, dream, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Into the Maelstrom
...(hub bur rigid version.)
All la names bespeaking deity froom
Noah Mo' Room India Arc
of Covenant to Blood
(sweat and tears) of
San Gennaro devout wowed,
and/or Turin shrou...
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Categories:
bespeaking, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
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