Ah the glory of a restful sleep
...Ah... the glory of a restful sleep
Nothing beats the refreshing
blissful peaceful easy feeling
resulting from shut-eye after
feeling zonked out staying up
late after a hard day's night
binge ...
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Categories:
bulldozing, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Poem For People Who Aren't Into Reading Poetry
...To be clear...
I’m not asking you to love this.
I’m asking for you to meet me
where the words land hard—
where syllables ignite
like the last coin
burning a hole into your palm—
...
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Categories:
bulldozing, appreciation, perspective, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
River Runs Wet And Dry
...It rained for three days
Constant outpouring awakens
The dry river to life again
A little farther besides our home
I hear the rumbling sound
Of water slowly snaking though
Descending, bulldozin...
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Categories:
bulldozing, courage, life, success,
Form: Free verse
Psychologically still thirteen
...Psychologically still thirteen
Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place th...
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Categories:
bulldozing, 7th grade, age, angst,
Form: Rhyme
No Sequel
...Written By: D. Collins 10/12/23
Is depriving people of food, fuel, and water genocide?
With no reporters in Gaza and the world lets i...
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Categories:
bulldozing, history, war,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Downsizing
...It's not easy
keeping yourself together
when there is a part of you
hiding away still darkened
with fear. It's been curled up
there for years.
Then there's that other part
of you who can't ke...
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Categories:
bulldozing, introspection, self, stress,
Form: Free verse
The Will To Survive
...
"The Will to Survive"
It was a peaceful time
back then in the dreams
that were once
our prepossessing future.
sands of time
dragged under our bare feet
while the ...
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Categories:
bulldozing, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
A Prayer For Rain
...You can hear the whisper of rain in the breeze
feel it in your bones, taste it on your lips
feel it on your skin, Please Dear God hear a prayer for rain...
The parch earth thirst for rain
the c...
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Categories:
bulldozing, faith, prayer, rain,
Form: Free verse
Hammerklavier
...Beethoven smashes one piano after another.
He shears through keyboards,
a peasant scything hay.
The composer's fingers listen
through touch,
they become deeper, more blunted,
a vibration of mal...
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Categories:
bulldozing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hammerklavier
...Beethoven smashes one piano after another.
He shears through keyboards,
a peasant scything hay.
The composer's fingers don't grow deaf,
they become deeper, more blunted,
like mallets.
His apa...
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Categories:
bulldozing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Get Rid of the Evil
...Money, has created the wealthy
and many, who are unhealthy
Money, has given us disease
with a bacterium, of too many humans
Money, has created the wars
which has made, many sores
Money, ...
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Categories:
bulldozing, animal, anxiety, corruption, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Oak Sprite Man and His Sixth Sense
...Oak sprite man climbed up a piece of the bark
To get a little higher, to peer into the bowels of the forest.
They were coming; he could sense them
They had not been in this part of the forest f...
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Categories:
bulldozing, fantasy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Hammerklavier
...Beethoven smashes one piano after another.
He shears through keyboards,
a peasant scything hay.
The composer's fingers don't grow deaf,
they become deeper, more blunted,
like mallets.
His apa...
...
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Categories:
bulldozing, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
A Flower For the Future
...A FLOWER FOR THE FUTURE
In 1964 a wall went up between
East and West Berlin!
What a barrier of shame,
What a humanitarian sin,
During the 28 years until
November 1989, over eighty
People ...
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Categories:
bulldozing, flower, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Tribute To Holocaust Survivors
...Never
Can I begin to
Comprehend
How could I ever
Understand what you went though
Imagine what your eyes have seen
Fathom what your ears have heard
Feel the hunger that ravaged your body
Compr...
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Categories:
bulldozing, abuse, corruption, discrimination, evil,
Form: Free verse
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