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Backyard Pirates
Have you ever spent a night
outside in a tent?
chips and marshmallows
lanterns and pillows
Frolicking fun with good friends and
food mother sent

Backyard becomes a pirate's den
of thieves and foes
swords and swashbucklers
playfights and chucklers
Telling scary ghost tales of dungeons below

Night falls with thick darkness
a child's Brigadoon
loud whippoorwills hark
owls...

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© Kim Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swashbucklers, adventure, childhood, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Faded Roses
faded roses on the wallpaper
leaves bent back in an imagined wind
fingerprints of a thunderstorm cling to the wet image
she says it was a lovely thought that gave birth to such beautiful drawings
that any child could see many adventures to be
in such lovely daydreams
a place where...

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© Mark Junor  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swashbucklers, beauty, childhood, dream, growing
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things