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Anatomy Of The Leg
...In 2013 Amélie Ségarra danced on a Grand Piano with knives taped to the tips of her feet. The room is empty apart from a single man in a music box He wears a black an white suit buttoned up to th......

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Categories: buttoned, allusion, analogy, appreciation, daffodils,
Form: Free verse
Reclaimed
...I did not leave like a storm. I left like sediment— quiet, heavy, having learned the language of sinking. You called it love, but I was always the chalk outline beneath your ego’s bootprint,......

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Categories: buttoned, relationship,
Form: Free verse



BUSY BUSY BUMBLE BEE
...Busy…Buzzing…Bumble Bee Busy Buzzing Bottling Honey Jumbo Bundled Bumble Bee With Bold-Brown Buttoned Bottoms And Billowy Belted Blemished Top All well-suited for yet another Busy-Busy Beautif......

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Categories: buttoned, animal,
Form: Alliteration
The Strasbourg Dancing Sickness
... Is dance a metaphor for sex? You’d think so if you knew my ex (at least the barflies all believe she’s hoarding something up her sleeve). But what makes people want to dance? An aural frenzy? ......

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Categories: buttoned, dance,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member For talking too much in class, we've buttoned your lip
...For talking too much in class, we've buttoned your lip. If the teacher does ask you to talk, here is a little tip. You unbutton your lip just like a button on your shirt. The first few times, you ......

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Categories: buttoned, humor, hyperbole, nonsense, parody,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Snow Angels, Snowpeople, and Evergreen Trees
...Snow Angels, Snowpeople, and Evergreen Trees When winter comes, children know how to have fun. Laughing and catching snowflakes with their tongues Or lying flat on their backs with arms f......

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Categories: buttoned, children, fun, winter,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Cinderella Memories Dedication to My Father
... ~Cinderella Memories~ Young, self-confident, all debutantes At the top of the golden,spiral,staircase. And, oh my, she, was in a Cinderella mood! The white f......

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Categories: buttoned, chicago, father daughter, happiness,
Form: Bio
If A Musicbox Was Cold Language
... ... I live then by the cold while in Summer Would that I could back these places in time — Even its iron still buried in ice There on my skin, the buttoned September. — Tongue chases the buds f......

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Categories: buttoned, angst, child, conflict, innocence,
Form: Hybronnet
Premium Member Fashioned Fortitude
...A mirror never reveals fallen secrets sewn with soulful sequins; time unmutes raven melodies within, tawny tunes of truth~ I once spoke in colorful dialects. Now, I trust just the......

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Categories: buttoned, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Armor
...Purposefully put together Piled up piece by piece Donning my suit of armor Thought it provided peace Polished exterior portrayed That I had it all figured out Buttoned up from head to toe Y......

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Categories: buttoned, encouraging, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member swirling seven-stars
...Life is never a planned ride on a magical carpet, that awakens jasmine dreams lost in the brisk air. We weave our own zest of zephyr, to tailor-stitch a tapestry; buttoned w......

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Categories: buttoned, emotions, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The holidays
...Ate too much dessert pants won't stay zipped or buttoned muffin top emerges......

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Categories: buttoned, life,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Christmas Alone
...Buttered pancakes, hot cocoa, cinnamon sticks, Knitted neck shawls, all buttoned up jackets, "Phew," Some are ice skating, or skiing, and sledding, ~~"Ohh Little.........

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Categories: buttoned, allusion, analogy, appreciation, christmas,
Form: Sapphic stanza
George Washington Set Potus Precedent No Lie
...George Washington Set Potus Precedent...no lie trumped hill re: by a bill yon votes and bridged tradition (Abe Lee) linkedin to present president; biden his time trying to build back better s......

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Categories: buttoned, 12th grade, absence, africa,
Form: Free verse
Pemigewasset Wilderness
...We stitched our ribbons through your heart From end to end we threaded We sewed right to your fingertips – And every stitch you dreaded We tramped along your shoulders broad To weave our littl......

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Categories: buttoned, nature,
Form: Rhyme

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