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Carlton Poems - Poems about Carlton

Premium Member the home of glare
...(a story in senryu stanzas) I get migraines. - lucky me - glare can set me off within seconds. I always have a pair of dark, polarized shades with me - it’s a quirk. When I was fourteen,......

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Categories: carlton, humor, school, student, travel,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member ah, wassailing!
...We’re in NYC - at last - on Christmas vacation, and it feels like a pardon. It’s amazing what can happen in just a few wild and change-filled hours. One minute, seemingly, you’re in a picture post......

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Categories: carlton, christmas, holiday, humor, new
Form: Free verse



Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult
...Inferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult Yours truly (an amazingly, gracefully, and markedly modest passively aging baby boomer - formerly introverted long haired pencil nec......

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Categories: carlton, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Poems I Never Wrote
...I had my eye on him since the third grade, but I never told him how I felt Back then girls were girls, they were never meant to be cheeky or bold He sat behind me in math class, while he counted n......

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Categories: carlton, childhood, love,
Form: Free verse
Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult Part One
...Yours truly (an amazingly, gracefully, and markedly modest passively aging baby boomer - formerly introverted long haired pencil necked geek), prattling wordsmith doth behold nostalgic memories......

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Categories: carlton, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Picking Up Lunch
...The elevator opened on the 46th floor, to a small foyer and one plain, grey door The door opened and a young girl, 10ish, in a blue, polo, tennis dress, said, “Hi! I’m Karen, you must be Anais. Wi......

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Categories: carlton, art, girl, humanity, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dance
...DANCE Dressed up or dressed down Any dance floor to get down Nifty, nimble moves Carlton would bring the floor down Enticing others to groove. ......

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Categories: carlton, dance,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member A Changed Heart
...There was a man named Carlton, who came from a rural town. He was well-liked by all within his community, he was the town judge. Everyone gave him much respect. However, he had another group ......

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Categories: carlton, change, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Loving Will Smith Fresh Prince
...Pursuit of happiness for me is watching Fresh Prince. Carlton makes me want to cringe, duck and wince. The cool cousin from Philly gives me oodles of pride. Come on, home boy. Come on in. We’re al......

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Categories: carlton, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Black Hole In the Creek
...Oh yeah if you’re a fisherman, and you’re rung up by a mate, there’s always time to put down tools with no need to contemplate, ‘cause fishing has that magic draw to take you to your peak - and......

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Categories: carlton, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Swagger
...The man is from Bronx, but plays in Manhattan Owns an old Chevy, but he drives like a Mercedes Sleeps in Quality Inn, but dreams in Ritz-Carlton Watch him flip his hair and float on thin air Ja......

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Categories: carlton, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Trenchant Recalcitrant Poet Welcomes Animadversion
...(alternately titled: aery diction galloped jocosely) Abbreviation asper "FAKE" abdication (wishful thinking), an aberration Trump accepted abjuration (or alternative) i.e. ablation, thee appre......

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Categories: carlton, 12th grade, fate, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Daily Rhymes
...I'm just going to give you some of my daily rhymes I'd like to welcome you to my crazy mind A place where no one is safe, because my sanity left I've never been in it, so how can I manage it best?......

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Categories: carlton, celebrity, fun, funny, rap,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spring Garden
...SPRING GARDEN wildflower blossoms a coiffured carpet of moss curlicues of vines calligraphic bold sonnet intoxicating fragrance ~ budding green love taps from a small chil......

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Categories: carlton, beauty, nature, spring,
Form: Tanka
Out In Nature
...Let me describe what I do and feel Beneath the glowing red sunset I walk among the autumn trees Some of them match the sunset Some match the morning Sun And some still match the soft green mo......

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Categories: carlton, autumn,
Form: Free verse

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