Best Zaps Poems
Love List...Love
By Dane Smith-Johnsen
Love approaches and does not scare.
Love bears and does not let go.
Love cares and does not shrink.
Love declares and does not shun.
Love establishes and does ......
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Categories:
zaps, love
Form:
Free verse
Heart of Glass...Starts at 0:17
Lustrous words reach across the Miles
Tugs heart strings and makes one Smile
Speaks of Love and Starry Nights
Heavenly whispers - wondrous Sights
Invites one ......
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Categories:
zaps, confusion, crush, desire, emotions,
Form:
Lyric
Zany Z's...Zany Z’s
Zany zoo of zaftig zebras,
Zarnder manes, zebus with ziffs,
Zip through zawns, zigzag with zest
Wearing zories and a zoster
From too much zimstern, zabaglione and ziti-
Zucchini, zwi......
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Categories:
zaps, animal, bird, crazy, food,
Form:
Alliteration
So Subtle the Storm...stir distant rumbles
zig zag wink heat lightning's zaps--
sheets of rain scream down
May 21, 2019
Entry in Writing Challenge 3, May 2019
Nature Haik......
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Categories:
zaps, nature, rain, storm,
Form:
Haiku
Spring Wealth...Azaleas putting on spring frocks of
Beautiful shades of salmon or pink.
Calling bees to pollinate;
Delighting humming-birds with drink.
Everything is new in spring,
Fruit trees gorgeously atti......
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Categories:
zaps, flower, spring,
Form:
Abecedarian
Gone...Gone
After your last breath I was defeated,
Body, soul and spirit taken down.
Caressing memories became my new world,
Drowning in the past was solid ground.
Everything you did from start to fini......
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Categories:
zaps, appreciation, bereavement, cancer, death,
Form:
Abecedarian
Witch's Brew...Her jack-o-lanterns flicker in the room
Bringing that eerie feel to those who look
The witch cackles as she stirs her cauldron
An evil brew which inside looks like gook
The smell is terri......
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Categories:
zaps, evil, halloween,
Form:
Quatrain
Kiss the Rain...New Orleans summertime temperatures rise.
Mellow sounds of smooth jazz softly plays.
I drink mint juleps on these long lazy days.
It's sticky and too hot until it rains.
Drops fall gently, it's a gl......
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Categories:
zaps, happiness, rain, summer, rain,
Form:
Free verse
Outside My Window...With everybody often so late
I am on a war path with loneliness
Been booed deaf by the lazy wail of curtains
And the chime of wall clock in recent days
Today I shy away from the beating
A gra......
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Categories:
zaps, africa, animal, beauty, bird,
Form:
Verse
Cell Phone Zombies...Cell phone zombies walking with heads hanging down,
Eyes fixed on a cell phone, not looking around,
Bumping into things they don’t want to see,
Never looking up at you or at me.
I look around a......
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Categories:
zaps, culture, internet, spoken word,
Form:
Rhyme
My A-Z Friendship...A-ADJUSTS WITH YOU IN EVERY SITUATION
B-BETRAYAL IS THE THING THEY NEVER DO
C-COMFORTS YOU
D-DOESN'T LEAVE YOU
E-EMPHASIZE YOU
F-FAVORS YOU ALWAYS
G-GUFFAW AT YOUR SMALL THINGS
H-HAVE FUN WITH......
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Categories:
zaps, friendship,
Form:
Persuasion...[Limerick Sequence]
There's a sparkle of glee in his eyes
when he catches a glimpse of my size;
he scoots my way
to make his play,
but I throw him a look to demise.
My soft body lures him a......
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Categories:
zaps, betrayal, desire, humorous, insect,
Form:
Limerick
Die Die Pesky Fly - Lipogram...Sweltering summer temperatures
and warm sultry summer nights
left me scratching my legs red raw
I hate receiving nasty insect bites
I’d slather bare limbs with cream
that the chem......
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Categories:
zaps, humorous, insect, summer,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
zaps, hyperbole, muse, words,
Form:
Burlesque
I'M So Smart...Summer heat zaps my get-up-and-go,
so I’m resting and taking things slow,
loving cold drinks, TV,
comfy couch, and AC!
I’m too wise to invite heatstroke woe!
written June......
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Categories:
zaps, humor, summer,
Form:
Limerick