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Premium Member BURPSEY
... Burpsey that's my name, Burping is my favorite game! Burps are my art, Better than a fart! Burps are my fancy. Forever with a grin, They find away, My teeth can't hold them......

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Categories: by inches, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Demeter Cries
...DEMETER CRIES Sun in center and white wings around The hundred florae in one stem, cheated; My daughter never knew t’was him. The fragrance was sweet but toxic. His chariot stood with black s......

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Categories: by inches, anger, daughter, literature, mythology,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Meaning For Each Day
...A MEANING FOR EACH DAY The long-distance run begins again From its dawning burst upon The route of each unique day — Evolving, exerting, energizing, elating. The far distances: a crossing fr......

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Categories: by inches, bird, christian, imagery, joy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Boomerang
...I was forever losing things, and my laughing friends called me a klutz, Like darker skies misplace buttery sun, when a severe storm develops. I had once lost the keys to my house, and waited lock......

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Categories: by inches, day, fantasy, friendship, fun,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Today Is the First Day
...A fresh start, a new day, a sun I have never seen I bounce out of bed, clearing the dog by inches. She has no idea. We run toward the front door to feed the cat. There are new butterflies out t......

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Categories: by inches, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



I Can'T Breathe
...Whisper chases the wind Along with your eyes that caress my skin Inch by inches you tore me by the look of a sin Blanket me with your silly paradigm scheme Silenced by the judgement of color Y......

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Categories: by inches, humanity, racism,
Form: Rhyme
Consummation
...CONSUMMATION I can smell the perfume of your breathe My heart baths with the steam of your love Am a charmist entangled by your portion Stuck in your honey web fantasy Just a small intrinsic c......

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Categories: by inches, 1st grade, sensual, sexy,
Form: Free verse
Hero's Destiny
...HERO'S DESTINY Love is hero's destiny, though a blind faith But a noble cause, A dedication without premeditated consideration Which leads to a pleasant misfortune. Love is hero's destiny, tho......

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Categories: by inches, 1st grade, destiny, hero,
Form: ABC
Sins of a Father
...Sins of a father While younger we were running, to what we did not know. Quick to love, fast at play, a canvas white as snow. But as we grew in knowledge and taller by the day cracks they began......

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Categories: by inches, family,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member You Are Dead Stupid
...Some weird stranger came up behind me with a machete and lopped off my head It rolled away, down an embankment, landing in a ditch of wet soggy leaves. It was cackling that crazy laugh I have wh......

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Categories: by inches, life,
Form: Free verse
Ninja and Samurai
...Warriors become philosophical black Assassins walk on water in fabric magic Boots move quicker than the wind Clearly invisible through vampire mirrors Void of color, empty of human images The ......

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Categories: by inches, absence, adventure, conflict, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bon Appetite Mcgee
...McGee's oldest son, graduated from school But McGee wished he had more ambition Instead of a doctor, a Lawyer or Cop He became an astute, dietitian But, all in all McGee was still proud And ha......

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Categories: by inches, humor, humorous, ireland,
Form: Rhyme
Killing a Man Or a Woman
...When you have a gun and they don’t and you're a cop, it takes a certain kind of cowardice to squeeze the trigger to kill without provocation men and women it takes an ugly type of racism only pr......

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Categories: by inches, america, patriotic, racism, society,
Form: Prose
Premium Member While Its Yours
...Is it fair that youth is beauty That the best we can ever be Is before we are twenty three Why can't a wrinkle be sexy Who says grey hairs are icky Contact lenses are too tricky Comfort and eas......

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Categories: by inches, age, funny, humor, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I'Ve Got You Covered
...We'd scarcely begun our journey to the sunny south when the sky's roof descended and hung a shelf overhead. "God is now joining us," she said. On the long bridge over the ocean toward Madeira ......

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Categories: by inches, adventure, prayer, travel,
Form: Narrative

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