Fall of the Rainbow Bridge
...All is burning, cinders and ash
flakes float in black rain,
falling on a ground
of clinkers and flinders.
The hand of ruin traces sigils
of chaos and strife
on broken city walls,
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Categories:
chittering, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Riding Without A Helmet
...Giorgio rode his red Ducati to climb a mountain
without a helmet to protect the fragile brain
from damage, then all sirens started wailing
as if an earthquake or a hurricane were coming!
" They...
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Categories:
chittering, adventure, community, courage, death,
Form: Lyric
Voices
...• Some nights when I lie in bed
• I hear little voices chittering in my head
• Some mornings when I'm singing a song
• The voices would proceed to sing along...
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Categories:
chittering, 11th grade, voice,
Form: Quatrain
On Crenshaw
...
on crenshaw
carousing in cavernous cafes
slicing into earthen skin
the meat dancers bring it to a boil
they murder the rug
they scrounge for earth worms
the fish head girls bob like sea bir...
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Categories:
chittering, america, memory,
Form: Free verse
Moments Into Memories
...Trinkets sparkling in the crisp night air.
Begging watchers' eyes feast on heavenly fare.
All is quiet, save soft symphonies of leg and wing.
Nocturnal notes, chittering.
Moisture from the st...
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Categories:
chittering, allegory, america, love,
Form: Free verse
some days
...Some days I want to be a star
or a diamond or a diamond back snake
or a cottonmouth or a cottonwood tree
other days I want to be a squirrel
chattering and chittering as I chase my friends
around...
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Categories:
chittering, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Snake’s Humble Bow
...
The chittering Crickets were hidden deep, ‘neath fairytale canopy of Dead Nettle & Chickweed,
There the Bee hums over their tiny forest, a dancer of Meadow’s flower,
Grace between Comfre...
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Categories:
chittering, nature,
Form: Free verse
Deserted
...
Once a thriving town now
dust devils
curl and tumble on the
broken pavement, along
with swirling leaves and
bits of paper
empty storefront window...
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Categories:
chittering, absence, imagery, perspective, places,
Form: Free verse
October's Farewell Kiss
...Soothed by her cool breeze
....I stood alone
...amid the chittering of the falling leaves....
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Categories:
chittering, autumn, beauty,
Form: Monoku
Faerie Plotting and Planning
...The tittering and chittering was going on in a whispery way
Faeries meeting once a year, showing off in the sheerest sweet way
They were conniving to make the forest the best it had ever been
Best...
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Categories:
chittering, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Cardinal and the Rose
...Quote: Both the enchantress and the siren charmer
are part of the same one.
Fired red wings on the breath of a dawning
he lifts and soars towards life, a breath away
from sunrise, chitteri...
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Categories:
chittering, analogy, bird, flower,
Form: Sonnet
Elixirs In the Body and Mind
...Mind differs from the body.
creed of what we embody.
Start with phonetic rhymes
We learn to grasp algorithms.
How do they stay most-given?
A team, that is one-driven.
Does one's d...
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Categories:
chittering, analogy, appreciation, body, meaningful,
Form: Jueju
The Hints of Fall
...I can hear
the wind making snowballs
fading leaves crisping
chattering acorn crazed squirrels
a soft rustle of chilled bird feathers
I can see
low hanging branches
offerings to short nibbler...
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Categories:
chittering, autumn, beauty,
Form: Free verse
My Shangi Ri La
...My Shangri-La will have tigers as guards a plenty.
It will have peacocks, toucans, and doves, maybe twenty.
A steampunk air ship will haul my friends to carnivals and fairs.
A bald eagle will beco...
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Categories:
chittering, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Snowy Weather
...
The weather is cool with expected snow;
all the weather stations are telling me,
and as I lay in bed- I hear snow blow;
but, when I wake the flakes are feathery,
so this winter c...
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Categories:
chittering, snow, storm, weather,
Form: Rhyme
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