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Best Spate Poems


A Spate of Cool Temperatures
How refreshing to experience
     a reprieve from sultry weather
when hazy, hot,
     and humid warm front
     unleashes a very short sweaty tether.

Man hat tin dar overcast skies
     hint potential rain...

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Categories: spate, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Spate of the Union
He thinks of better women
She thinks of lesser men
	the kids think
    Two Christmases!
Neither thinks of them
	but he won't budge
      cause she'd get half
	and she won't budge
      cause she'd only get half...

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Categories: spate, anniversary, funny, husband, wife,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Spate
re-post inspired by Ricks theme

The
rainstorm
overnight
burst the shallow
dyke-
the
raging
river in
overflowing
flood
streamed
forth long
weeds plaited 
now beneath the
spate....

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Categories: spate, nature, weather,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Lovely Hate Crimes Spate Trumpeted Violent Trend
Lovely hate crimes spate – trumpeted violent trend
(posthumous playful note to posterity kith unsealed
courtesy yours truly once deceased and cremated.)

Whew...so glad tubby gratefully dead
butta shaw miss dug hid ole days
when violence highly overrated
unlike current rooted locked dread,
aye wax poetically nostalgic when Fred
Rogers friendly persona
already quaintly...

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Categories: spate, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry