Best Arkwright Poems
Rhyme Time - For Contest...This morning I went shopping
Tripped over, started hopping
My milk bottle it went slopping
The store cleaner began mopping
I hobbled out of the store
Got caught in the sliding door
Lo......
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Categories:
arkwright, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Queen Sea and Her Three Paramours...So enchanted was Sun by Queen Sea
as he sat near some clouds high above
he began sliding down stealthily
till he touched the dark face of his love.
Then Sir Sky, so aroused by Sea’s......
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Categories:
arkwright, night, sea, sky, sun,
Form:
Personification
In a Dark, Dark Room...I lay on my pillow in a dark, dark room
Staring out the window from my bed
The moon looks like Camembert floating in the sky
And I’m sure I seen two witches flying by.
One had a broom with blac......
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Categories:
arkwright, adventure, child, children, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Quietly In the Night...My racing heart through silence seeps
a pitter-pattered tempo keeps
while all the world about me sleeps
so quietly in the night.
I sense a ghastly ghoul creep
a lurid wretch my conscious sweep......
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Categories:
arkwright, anxiety, dark, death, fear,
Form:
Free verse
For the Love of Words...For the love of words
Deep in love with words,
I keep digging through the day,
Although words fail me,
Still can't help reverberate,
I am a structured poem !
Tanka- 5/7/5/7/7
Written S......
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Categories:
arkwright, love, words,
Form:
Tanka
Writing In the Rain...Sitting on a branch of a white sapote tree
Shivering, crying and alone
Away from home, on the highest branch that can hold me
Hiding......no more beatings mommy
Scared, it's pitch black and s......
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Categories:
arkwright, abuse, dark, lonely, mother,
Form:
Free verse
The Tempest...
The sea was a tempest of strong gale winds,
Waves beat upon the shore crashing the rocks;
And it was hours before the storm had thinned,
That the battered up boat drifted into the dock......
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Categories:
arkwright, storm,
Form:
Rhyme
A Slave To Words...On Montserrat, in the night glow
She holds her breath in warm anticipation
She waits and longs for loving inspiration
For only then could haiku flow.
Condemned to ride emotion’s wave
To word......
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Categories:
arkwright, poetry, words,
Form:
Rhyme
In Love With Words - I'Lyezette...In love with words- I'lyezette
Have always loved words,
that take over my emotions,
The muse flies swift as birds,
as pen sets ink in motion,
Deeper in thoughts I drown,
when no words......
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Categories:
arkwright, love, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Rich Harvest...Wheat crop stands tall in spring's bloom,
Ripples seen with wind through the gold,
Proud farmer anticipates the best harvest,
His<......
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Categories:
arkwright, introspection,
Form:
Verse
Titles...This relationship is a 'losing proposition',you know it to be true
While I finally have the courage,' I'm breaking up with you'
The 'rearview mirror' is not the way we want to live our life
Sorry ......
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Categories:
arkwright, break up, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Pleasant Spring Like Day January 12th, 2020...Pleasant spring like day January 12th, 2020
Courtesy climate change
(think global warming),
I would never wish to exchange
unseasonable temperature
way out of range
far to balmy, undoubtedly
......
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Categories:
arkwright, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
All In the Dysfuctional Family...I will dread October's spell
It only comes but once a year
I, my friends, have tales to tell
Thus, my family, makes me fear!!
Pumpkins, lanterns, cornstalk vases
Grace our porch with happy fac......
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Categories:
arkwright, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
Before Darkness Saw Light...In the year before darkness saw light,
When the safety of men knew no shroud.
At the time when the shadows of night,
In the Heavens had not been allowed.
When the spirits of men did not mourn,
......
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Categories:
arkwright, philosophy, religion,
Form:
Quatrain
Love Me Once More...Come back into my life again
If it’s but to forsake me again,
come back for a moment brief
Oh, even if it’s to give me grief.
With sly mischief in your eyes
you escaped like a lover’s sighs
f......
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Categories:
arkwright, lost love, love hurts,
Form:
Rhyme