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A Plate of Disorder
A Plate of Disorder

Are you ready to Disorder Sir?
What can I tempt you for a starter,
May I recommend the Turmoil Soup?
Garnished with Havoc Green Tartar.

For...

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© Kevin Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: starter, anger, confusion, food, mental
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Seven Year Old's Enthusiasm
Excitement echoed
In my heart
First experience
Of being a part

Now looking back to
Those times, thoughts
Flood like the cold rain
And ties me in knots

Enthusiastically 
Grabbing the end
Of the...

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Categories: starter, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Race the Finals Spoken Word
I wish to
Relay
To all of my people the importance of sticking together as a 
team

And that
Because we have run 
through the preliminary trials as selfish...

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Categories: starter, africa, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Isle of Man Tt
Our sleepy little Island in the middle of the Irish Sea
Opens its eyes slowly for the Isle of Man TT
The Island bursts into life with...

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Categories: starter, home, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Camp of the Dead Children
Emily of three years
Leukemia eating her soul
Her bald head, made her smile wider
Please mummy do not cry
I will hug you even after I die

Tommy of...

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Categories: starter, beauty, introspection, love, sad,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Ptsd I Don'T Want To Sleep
I know I'm really tired
I just don't want to sleep
I guess I'm just really wired
Dreams will make me weep

I'm scared to see those things and...

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Categories: starter, anxiety, courage, depression, fear,
Form: Free verse
She Wore Pineapple Rings For Glasses
She wore pineapple rings for glasses
and walked like jelly dances
I didn't rate her chances
She used to wee standing up
she cooked lemon a'la duck
won the lottery,...

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Categories: starter, fantasy, food, funny, crazy,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Gabriela Anderson -Schiess
Gabriela Anderson Scheiss was a long distance runner
Who ran the marathon in the Californian Summer
It was the Los Angeles Olympics in nineteen eighty four
You probably...

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Categories: starter, dedication, race, sports, usa,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blowing In the Wind
There once was a fellow named Carter
Who ate refried beans as his starter
He’d blow off his horn
From dusk until dawn
and was a persistent loud farter

24th...

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Categories: starter, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Next Christmas It Will Be So So Different
Another Christmas day is finally here
The very thought fills me with such fear
I have to try and control my old Aunty Mable
Once she hits the...

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Categories: starter, christmas, family, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
A Father's Echo
The arrival of his departure 
(A numb and cruel upheaval starter)
Was an emotional core rupture;
A final goodbye to her father.

She saw his final, last inhale,
That...

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Categories: starter, bereavement, death, devotion, father,
Form: Rhyme
Lost Key
Where did I leave it, 
the key to my heart
Guess it doesn’t matter 
can’t find anyone
To give it a jump start
It’s been so long now...

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Categories: starter,
Form: I do not know?
Mother Mother
Song:-  1990

Mother    Mother
   love me  love me 
   love me  love me
   I...

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Categories: starter, angst, anxiety, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
The Measuring
Asked to measure love, what can you say,where do you start
easier starter,contentment, fulfillment and trust but,
no oceans depths nor deserts wide, can capture
to the galaxys...

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Categories: starter, love
Form: Free verse
Arbeit Macht Frei
The first weakening of night 
picks out telephone lines, 
black against sky. 

The eyelid of a garage door 
lurches laboriously up. 
A car coughs blue...

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Categories: starter, society,
Form: Free verse

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