When the summer is gone away
...At dawn, the farmers grasp the ploughs, And stroll towards the fields along with bullocks, The bullocks jump up towards the fields after a long rest When the ...
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Categories:
big bellied, 10th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Just Clouds
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Just Clouds
They seem just ordinary fill
for a background, a fuzzy white
or gray that doesn't grab the eye
and distract from the more deserving
stuff like trees, sweeping ocean views
and mo...
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Categories:
big bellied, sky, storm, sunset,
Form: Free verse
Desperate Hope
...Vacantly staring into the night sky
She saw big bellied clouds drifting away
Are they fleeing away from the luminous moon?
Or mercilessly driven out
After being robbed off everything...
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Categories:
big bellied, angst, betrayal, depression,
Form: Free verse
So Like Dad
...My uncle,... so like Dad!
But a stout, big bellied version with different gait.
Joy he had!
But unlike Dad
Who was a town guy and refined,
No fad!
Busy,
Tending the farm.
Free!!
My unc...
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Categories:
big bellied, analogy, care, child, farm,
Form: Rhyme
The Golden Nugget
...It sounds like a casino, but it is a deli-diner,
only open for breakfast and lunch.
A Ruben sandwich will cost you ten bucks,
but it is the best in town.
A girl-child covered in butterflies. I ...
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Categories:
big bellied, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Vegetable On the Couch
...TV creates a vegetable on the couch
Unhealthy produce with a big-bellied pouch
Yet echo words of a prophetic 60's Sage
-- The Medium IS the Message --
Applies all the more to 2020's screen...
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Categories:
big bellied, history, technology, today,
Form: Epigram
Her Unbearable Lightness
...The circles of the bloody moon,
slide Northward towards the Rive Nile,
Death and raven drift above,
As mother guards her nest with pride.
The nightingales are singing near,
The nightly winds l...
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Categories:
big bellied, love, missing you, mother,
Form: Narrative
Many Things I Have Known
...Many things i have known,
In this my life,
Cocktails and feasts,
The powerful scents,
Of meat roasting on coal,
Rich and delicious,
And plentiful free flowing wine,
But i have hungered and thi...
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Categories:
big bellied, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Imagism
Written In Drugs of Rain
...WRITTEN IN DRUGS OF RAIN
Unscrupulous vulture-like officials standing inside skyscrapers;
they croon softly, but wield their pretentious tongues like blades--
casting spells...
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Categories:
big bellied, abuse, addiction, character, children,
Form: Free verse
When I Was Sold - Bring Back Our Girls
...Find me in classrooms
Frantic page flipping in search of
the tools
Who'll one day equip me
So I can make rules
Find me at the helm
Bare-foot and big bellied
Home-makers to boardrooms
....An...
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Categories:
big bellied, education
Form: ABC
Blood On the Head
...No need naming names
They know.
Those who played games
With the future
Of these hungry little ones.
These big bellied children
With fat heads and flat bottoms
That have never known nutrition
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Categories:
big bellied, angst, betrayal, bullying, children,
Form: Light Verse
Haba! Aids – Iv
...Then if you are real
Like mother’s kitchen broom
Wipe out my Africa
Like a clan of cockroaches –
Rumour eats my Africa
She trades itself
For the meagre funds
Gathered like firewood
By...
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Categories:
big bellied, hopeafrica,
Form: I do not know?
Tzuica
...A bit of yellow tzuica
Hors d`oeuvres:trendy
Known by Dracula:brandy
Kept in big bellied
Fir wooden barrels
For weddings.
Strong!...
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Categories:
big bellied, food, friendship, wedding
Form: Epulaeryu