Best Correctly Poems
You Speak CorrectlyYOU SPEAK CORRECTLY
I heard from the beginning,
From the yawing of the sun in the morning,
“We must unite, strong becoming”
You speak correctly.
I smelled out of yesterday night
Before the outer call of the birds
Astonishing the reddish of the sun set
“We must be free, democratic state becoming”
You...
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Categories:
correctly, spoken word, truth,
Form:
Lyric
All Behave CorrectlyAlice actually ate an apple,
Billy broke building blocks,
Cora counted candy corn,
Donna drove decoy ducks,
Elliot's eating eggplant,
Frannie's filleting fish,
George's geeting Greta,
Harriet's hunting hornets,
Inez is irritating Ike,
Jasmine's jabbing John,
Karen's kissing Kevin,
Leon loves Luann,
Monte's mimicking Mary,
Nellie's not-so nice,
Opal's organizing origami,
Penelope's pushing Perry,
Quina's quietly quilting,
Ramona's reading romance,
Sophie's softly singing....
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Categories:
correctly, silly,
Form:
Abecedarian
Folding the Towels--A Trilogy In HaikuI
My wife folds the towels.
She is the correct folder
as opposed to me.
II
I have learned many
ways of folding towels poorly
over porous years.
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Categories:
correctly, moving on,
Form:
Haiku
Just BeI want to be just a woman,
Weak and dependent on her husband.
Life has already started to crack,
And the truth will come out.
I don't want to feel powerless,
I don't want everyone to be offended,
The days began to drag on dreary,
I realized that I had something to...
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Categories:
correctly, i am, poems, poetry,
Form:
Free verse