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Best Floridian Poems

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Floridian Rat
Big armadillo
invading my privacy
you are a leper...

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© Ijm Seven  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: floridian, animal, hyperbole,
Form: Senryu



Around the Garden ( Series) On My Floridian Garden
Around The Garden     ( series) on my Floridian Garden.

Good Morning there Miss Bougainvillea
It’s Spring, time to wake up
I see you weathered...

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Categories: floridian, introspection, nature
Form: Rhyme
Floridian Tourist Trap
Mechanical crocodile growling from his speaker
pennies from wishes cast out on his back
Children are breaking the rules as they're leaning
touching the fiberglass skin, gray and...

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Categories: floridian, places, daughter, daughter,
Form: I do not know?
Floridian Nightmare
(5/12/11)

The spirits of the dead were flying all around
All you could hear was a screechy eerie sound
The coffins and bodies were taken and thrown into...

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© Louis Rams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: floridian, death, people, halloween, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
An Introduction: An Introduction
Considering how many times I set out to pen a small,
Master piece of art, a gem that might underwrite,
The utter liability of being just that...

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Categories: floridian, humorous,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Tiger and Bears In the Mouse's House
The day was unbelievably hot to a northerner, just about normal for a Floridian. Disney World opened at nine and after a steamy night cruising...

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Categories: floridian, adventure, childhood,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Silverhead Castle
Swells of nitrous climbing walls, cirrus pennants slowly flag..
Cerise in the lining, richly glowing halls are leading
Onto stairs with eternally deep & steep stooping falls
magenta...

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Categories: floridian, creation,
Form: Free verse
When Words Fail
February fourteenth shock,
headline news, no valentine.
Fourteen students stilled, shot without regard 
for who they were or who they might become,
in complete shock, their families and...

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Categories: floridian, anti bullying, teacher, violence,
Form: Blank verse
Happy Father's Day
It doesn’t hurt just explains a lot of my relationships with males I guess
I don’t ask for your forgiveness or your pity
I just want to...

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Categories: floridian, family, love, father, family,
Form: Bio
Irma
hurricane irma
huff and puff, blow your house down
mean beatitude
on a southern latitude
Floridian voodoo doll...

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Categories: floridian, natural disasters, september, storm,
Form: Tanka
Downgrade
Black umbrella pupils
Unfurling as my lips
Hold my tongue hostage
Your arms batter my heart's door
Howling winds ripping the roof
Off all our broken promises
But then your lashes...

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Categories: floridian, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
The Not So Original Monoku Challenge
The not so original Monoku challenge.


Floridian wings parade-elegant flaps for Hicks along tranquil coastline





P.S-Brown Gray Pelican is an elegant bird with oversized bill,sinuous neck,big dark...

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Categories: floridian, bird, environment, happiness, imagination,
Form: Monoku
Florida Rain Part 1
Florida Rain Part 1

Robby is sitting in my room on a chair one early evening reminiscing about her thirteen years in Florida. “In Florida, we...

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Categories: floridian, age, courage, environment, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Finally Free But Still Wishing
the next time i write
it will be across somewhere in your heart
where i can easily caress the chocolate 
covered memory of you

i have been oceanhopping
on...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: floridian, desire, dream, meaningful, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A B C D E F G Etcetera
Awful avocados always
Breathe bitter blue breaths
Craving cardinal’s Christmas carols
Ditching deliberate dungarees during
Elusive extraterrestrial escapades.
Forsaking fitful Floridian flamingos,
Getting gaudy, gratuitous gnarly gifts,
Herewith having hilarious hefty hallucinations,
Imagining...

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Categories: floridian, words,
Form: Abecedarian

Book: Reflection on the Important Things