Canted AI
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Louisa the artificial squeeza,
Lived for the moment,
When people called her name.
Founded on the belief.
That intelligence can cause relief.
Oh, what a shame!...
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Categories:
canted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Harlequin Right
...A mannequin stands
in the neon of night
head slightly canted
harlequin-right
fashionably clothed
in the brand-names of youth
arms shiny rods
with no digits forsooth
if able I think
his thu...
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Categories:
canted, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Reverberation
...The spring on the door reverberates. Freedom of the outdoors, a chill in Spring air. Minecraft becomes an imaginary sport. Boys swinging wooden branches - their swords, smacking the bark of ...
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Categories:
canted, animal, fun, kid,
Form: Prose
Nancy
...My Dearest Nancy,
Real friends are hard to find
In a place where most are colorblind
A place where we can make such a mess
And carry the weight of the world upon our chest
Real friends are tre...
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Categories:
canted, death, friend, friendship, funeral,
Form: Rhyme
The Gemini's Gist
...A daunting press of gifted dreams
The boyish boasts and sculpted schemes
Brother, fore, and brother, aft
Stead to ply their father's craft
Each consecrated to ...
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Categories:
canted, appreciation, hero, music, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
We Had Been Hard Up
...We Had Been Hard Up
We had been hard up living in a tent,
And for all of our sins we did repent;
Garden planted;
Chants canted;
We are glad God gave us His consent.
Jim Horn
For Andrea,
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Categories:
canted, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Galloping Denturn Poetry - Falling Snow
...Falling snow, beauty belies its hidden dangers!
White-veiled mountains can be a threat to all below,
But on the day the inviting piste, it's splendours!
Skiers, see the sparkle in their ey...
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Categories:
canted, snow,
Form: I do not know?
Just Say Thanks
...Just say Thanks
Thanks, is an ordinary word, that many take for granted,
It has various meanings, that are within us deeply planted.
At a young age, we are taught, to always do what’s right,
A...
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Categories:
canted, appreciation, beauty, encouraging, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
Gaelic Queen
...His mother, a gaelic queen
his father, a rugged pit miner
he wishes to never be seen
being solitary has never been finer
the son of sons he was
the son of sons he became
an expectation he did...
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Categories:
canted, mom,
Form: Rhyme
Inner Agitation
...I sat beside you on a couch
In canted ground-
I sat on its lower side-
On purpose-
Waiting for you to roll over me-
But you were hanging tight on the upper side,
And that pushed me to look up i...
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Categories:
canted, angst, confusion, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
The Gate
...Ancient graying wood of
Canted posts
Swaying yellow grasses
Dance across
Rusty flaking barbed wire
Containing no more
Than a fading image
Of flicking horse tails
And stomping hooves
Still du...
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Categories:
canted, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse