Chickadee
...Coming back home, after a long stint south,
I passed the blue sign on the turnpike that reads
“Massachusetts Welcomes You.”
Under the “Welcomes,” some Mayflower blooms,
And a chickadee perche...
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Categories:
busying, bird, death, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
To Noise
...you drape an arm over me,
busying the other with your phone
its screen is hurting my eyes and your chin is hurting my ribs, but i don’t say that
i don’t say a thi...
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Categories:
busying, 11th grade, confusion, first
Form: Free verse
Khaki Has Never Other Fabrics Liked
...Khaki has never other fabrics liked:
It has even their wearer’s bodies disliked,
Their forgivable flaws, their blunders hyped
And their names and their nicknames mistyped!
Sometimes you hear, ...
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Categories:
busying, bullying, military, people, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Life Is a Vapor
...
Life Is A vapour
By: Miracle Man
1/3/2022
As the sun brushes humanity with its warmth, all seems sublime,
unnoticed, the clock is busying itself whittling away time.
James 4:14 K...
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Categories:
busying, humanity, sun, time,
Form: Couplet
Retirement the Work Thief
...On retirement all The Due proceed,
Because cars don’t their speed exceed;
In their pet jobs hope to succeed,
Sometimes sensible warnings don’t heed.
A solution to the riddles of idleness,
And ch...
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Categories:
busying, career, education, future, lost
Form: Rhyme
Little Friends
...I've watched them through the lockdown
busying before my eyes,
they're not in isolation, wearing masks or sanitized.
Bimbling or bumbling, dependent on their mood
they all serve common purpose in...
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Categories:
busying, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Silver Lining Sought Amidst Coronavirus Covid 19 Onslaught
...Silver lining sought amidst coronavirus COVID-19 onslaught
Two hundred and forty six plus months
into twenty first century celeb
and anonymous folks alike
gripped courtesy pestilence re: deb
b...
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Categories:
busying, 12th grade, april, blessing,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Hunting My Mom In Heaven
...I had no idea how long I had been in this heavenly paradise, but I had been searching for one soul for quite a while.
Searched all libraries, and there were 17,718 libraries, for us angels loved to ...
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Categories:
busying, funny, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Broken Glasses
...The sun dappled patio
irresistibly beckoned
pillowed pad to bedeck
cement spongsbob
square pant sized couch cushions
leapt into field of view
as a posse abl...
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Categories:
busying, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Merry Christmas Everybody
...Just want to wish you Merry Christmas,
And a Happy New Year.
Haven't been on line much,
'Cause I can't see too clear.
I get these awful headaches,
Whene'er I try to read.
It seems I must have...
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Categories:
busying, missing, poetry,
Form: Quatrain
Two Hawaiians, a Sunset and a Memory
...Two Aloha-shirted Hawaiians
of generous girth were strumming
their ukuleles
on a small stage in front of the hotel’s poolside bar
in the late afternoon,
rehearsing for the night’s performanc...
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Categories:
busying, blessing, happiness, memory, places,
Form: Prose Poetry
Winter Queen
...Winter Queen
With cat like silence a winter queen
dresses the still woods in ice cream dream.
Trees bow to her majesty from up high,
as she summons gray clouds to fill the sky.
...
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Categories:
busying, weather, winter,
Form: Couplet
Life Is a Picnic
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Life is a Picnic
Written: by Tom Wright
February 2015
My life,
Has been filled with Gourmet meals,
Which often I’ve left plated.
While, like Ants,
I’ve been content in busying myse...
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Categories:
busying, life,
Form: Free verse
An Autumn Walk In Autumn Years
...One fine, blustering, autumn day an old gentleman walks from his home,
If anyone wondered where he was going he was on his way to a forest,
The old gentleman walked at a leisurely pace stopping now a...
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Categories:
busying, nostalgia, day, old, autumn,
Form: Prose Poetry
Old Styles Old Smiles
...One fine blustering autumn day an old man puts on his boots pulls up his trousers off he goes,
If anyone wondered where he was going it was to a forest a good long walk it was a fine day,
The old man...
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Categories:
busying, nature, day, old, autumn,
Form: Prose Poetry
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