My Country Is the Beautiful Sun
...My country is the beautiful sun
My country is not the hard winter
My country is an often green Eden
Always languid and tropical at dawn.
It’s a country where the crowing of roosters
Revives ev...
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Categories:
bogeymen, black african american, humanity,
Form: Free verse
A Beacon Of Truth
...We cannot change who we are at our core;
the only option allotted to us
is how we choose to live in the here and now.
We can meld with the darkness under a cloak of lies
or embrace God's light, a...
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Categories:
bogeymen, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Down Memory Lane
...Let us stroll down memory lane;
skipping past the hurts locked in time.
Choosing days where life felt sublime;
let's revisit those once again.
Remember when you were a child;
think of ...
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Categories:
bogeymen, 10th grade, age, beautiful,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Wistful Recollections
...Memories
fuel nostalgic dreams
tethered to
family
and innocence; lost to time...
when I was a child.
Bogeymen,
back then, were pretend...
I'd stay out
all summer,
playing till it ...
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Categories:
bogeymen, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Shadorma
More Than Golf Balls On the Moon
...There's more than golf balls on the moon,
More than stars and stripes,
More than lunar rover tracks,
And two subsatellites.
Four hundred thousand pounds of junk
Contaminate the place.
It'...
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Categories:
bogeymen, humor, moon, space,
Form: Rhyme
Beyond the Rainbow's End
...More than a pot of gold awaits beyond the rainbow’s end;
Leprechaun’s are of the faerie clan and they play tricks.
The clever little bugger’s are sure, your mind to send;
on fascinating...
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Categories:
bogeymen, celebration, fairy, holiday, image,
Form: Rhyme
Happy Halloween
...Happy Halloween
Ghosts
Ghouls
Goblins
Spirits
Wines
Pumpkins and their spices
Jackolaterns and their flickering candles lights
Scarecrows
Spiders and their webs
Skulls
Bats
Rats
Black ...
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Categories:
bogeymen, appreciation, art, autumn, birthday,
Form: Free verse
Witches
...ETHREE
Witch
Sneering
Bubbly
A pimply nose
To be feared by all
So Halloween friendly
More terrifying than ghosts
Placing eye of newt in cauldrons
Pure evil in our fantasy books
Horribly...
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Categories:
bogeymen, perspective,
Form: Etheree
Nightfall
...It's ok to cry
If you feel dead inside
And you have run out of hiding places
That can lift and warm your pride
From the swings and slides
That use to be fairground rides
Way back when you wher...
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Categories:
bogeymen, anger,
Form: Free verse
Home Is Where
...Home is Where
Home is where
your first and lost loves linger
the scent of Cusson’s Imperial Leather
and lavender, like a silken scarf
curls and twines around your head,
her marshmallow touch...
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Categories:
bogeymen, growing up, home, memory,
Form: Free verse
Goodnight Mummy
...What do children dream of when they go to sleep at night
and do their hearts beat faster when the world is out of sight
do they dream of Christmas or a birthday yet to come
of happy days or holida...
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Categories:
bogeymen, children, dream,
Form: Free verse
Hush Now
...Hush now, my sweet angel,
you needn't fear the dark.
Let mommy tuck you in
as you dream of the park.
No more silly stories
of being scared at night.
It's merely a bad dream
everythin...
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Categories:
bogeymen, abuse, angst, emotions, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
Let Go of the Rope
...Let go of the rope my tethered friend
Your holding on to a futile end.
For if you fall what’s the consequence?
But if never tried life won’t make sense.
And if you try and don’t succeed
You just m...
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Categories:
bogeymen, courage, life,
Form: Couplet
A Child's Paranormal Experience
...All was dark and quiet in the house as I got up to pee
Not a sound from a mouse, but I could hear my hammering heart inside me
I was so scared of the dark and hated getting up in the middle of the ...
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Categories:
bogeymen, childhood, death, mysterylost, dark,
Form: Rhyme