Shake your shoes out
...Make sure you shake your shoes out before putting them on.
they make excellent overnight campsites for vagabond crawlers.
I once got bit by something (i suspect a spider)
on the long toe of my lef...
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Categories:
campsites, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Glorious Guilt
...On the side of a path branching off from the road
expectations of glorious guilt mount
makeshift trenches housing truants, anxiously counting
the seconds 'til school officers call off th...
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Categories:
campsites, absence, america, boy, immigration,
Form: Rhyme
Camp Sight
.... for public domain
My campsites had no history,
like a house, a neighborhood,
where children grow up,
and grown ups grow old,
a place that you miss
when it's finally sold.
They served for...
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Categories:
campsites, loneliness, pain, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Seed
...I plant an image
and it comes up a poem
red, yellow and green.
It has leaves and limbs
and phrases never heard.
I walk around it and touch
it on all sides
realizing the body
is greater than t...
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Categories:
campsites, allegory, friendship, love, magic,
Form: Blank verse
The Grizzly
...A grizzly isn't really, as bad as he's made out
He wanders round the parklands, when no humans are about
But there are times of course, we meet him in his home
We can't blame him for being there, ...
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Categories:
campsites, animal, nature,
Form: Ballad
The Reedybrook Ashes
...Each year in August the teams descend, cricket foe morphing quickly to friend,
Bonds are forged on a pitch unique, camped on the banks of Reedybrook creek.
The grass is cut, the fields set out, th...
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Categories:
campsites, friendship, fun,
Form: Ballad
Mothers Perfume
...My mothers' perfume.
The scents throughout the day are wondrous,
And not at all like fungus.
Filled with love and delight,
Sometimes reminding me of campsites.
My mothers' perfume.
Keepin...
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Categories:
campsites, 7th grade, break up,
Form: Couplet
The Prospector
...The Prospector:
He packs his tack in a great canvas sack
And then drives away in his car.
Nobody cries as they wave their goodbyes;
They will await his return from afar.
When he reaches the track...
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Categories:
campsites, adventure, friendship, inspirational, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Summer Fever
...Summer love,
Summer fun,
Summer trips,
Summer days,
and Summer nights.
Summer love is it real or lust,
how long will it last?
If it's true then good for you,
sorry if it couldn't last.
Sum...
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Categories:
campsites, inspirationalsummer, fun, love, summer,
Form: Free verse