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Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: performer, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse



Speechless Spoken Word Artiste
SPEECHLESS SPOKEN WORD ARTISTE

So if my vocal folds can’t collaborate to produce sounds to communicate loudly to your beautiful mind that I have an endless...

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Categories: performer, art, beauty, emotions, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Her Show
She doesn't dance like Anna Pavlova
She doesn't sing like Diana Ross
but on this blissful day I am watching
the best performer I've ever come across

She wobbled...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: performer, daughter, preschool,
Form: Rhyme
In Memory of Chan Hurst-The Archaic Poet
Brother,you were a human torch

in a melanchonic orbit

of undefined wars

Now you are a pentagram star

mystical and magical

Pouring light and love

from a happier place

from behind heaven...

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Categories: performer, absence, angel, beauty, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chunky Charlie
A Special Poem for Will Helppi




A really fat cat named Chunky Charlie

From a town called Licketysplit Corner

Was renowned for a very interesting talent

As a world...

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Categories: performer, fantasy,
Form: Narrative



William Kite, Sergeant Peppers Lonely Heartclub
   ~~~Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite~~~
An all round performer was Mr William Kite
He trained and rode horses, but also walked the...

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Categories: performer, family, Grandson,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Am the Wind
I am the wind;
a tempest tossing leaves and rain;
I move, re-arrange things as I please.

On dark, damp nights, 
I bring energy and light; 
yet, I’ve...

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Categories: performer, environment, nature, weather, wind,
Form: Prose
Premium Member I Am a Vicaria
I have been told that I am attractive.  Dainty and 
pretty.  Living in a cottage garden is so lovely.  I am just
one...

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Categories: performer, flower,
Form: Free verse
A Trapeze Flyer
circus performer
a family tradition
passed on to me

a big top flyer
Oohs and ahhs heard from below
in the spotlight's heat

higher I rise
reaching for my partner's hands
the moment...

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Categories: performer, adventure, fantasy,
Form: Haiku
Elegy For Michael Jackson (2)
Refrain:
You shimmering waves on the ocean blue
Dance not again, he cannot dance with you
You weeping forests where the winds wail too
Let your bright tears fall...

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Categories: performer, death, dedication, historyfor him,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Tribute To the Jester
You tango, you twirl in tangerine tails, 
With ragged red’n’black blouse and shoes
Little leather flimsy flopsy boots with dinky tink balls, 
Balls that ding a...

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Categories: performer, happiness, happy, society,
Form: Quatrain
Methinks Mine Earlier Rhyme Came Across Desperate
Methinks Mine Earlier Rhyme Came Across Desperate...
For Hard Cold Cash

This small medium at large
kibitzer did appear
more brash (albeit) poetically,
and insinuate with soft pedal blare
perhaps at...

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Categories: performer, addiction, culture, green, heaven,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Geez, Louise
A  circus performer – Louise -
while swinging mid-air by trapeze
missed the bar; it was grim.
What a pity for him!
He had the misfortune to sneeze!

Now...

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Categories: performer, fun,
Form: Limerick
The Curse of the Ventriloquist
He mimicked all who entered the darkened room, 
felt the fear in their eyes when watched with zeal.
He was a performer and his sidekick Sid...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: performer, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Abc of Love
A is for activities that are excellent
B is for brave and bold days
C is for courage and understanding
D is for days with friends
E is foe...

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Categories: performer, appreciation, god,
Form: ABC

Book: Shattered Sighs