Half-Life
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My face is in two halves
smashed together in flawed symmetry,
each half squirming to get supremacy,
Oh Two-Faced One!
Split so, halved down the middle,
which side are you on?
Do I see my be...
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Categories:
clef, emotions, life, nature, time,
Form: Free verse
The nanosecond bad **** to risk romance
...The nanosecond bad a** to risk romance
Twenty first century technology
allows, enables, and provides
instantaneous virtual unconsummated love.
Within the course of a texting or sexting sessio...
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Categories:
clef, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Frizzled Huitain
...Drizzle and frizzled hair crinkles,
such sounds demand a symphony;
Clammy cold showered with sprinkles
there’s a vibe that says ‘Be easy.’
Stock up the wood burning fire place,
it’s raining I’l...
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Categories:
clef, emotions, music, rain,
Form: Other
Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C Major
...Epochal courses a tamed countryside,
Spectacle sparkles glowing trees and boughs,
Pedestal weights and measures counter slide,
Sensible enshrine flexible reigned bows.
A sentinel ta...
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Categories:
clef, imagery, music,
Form: Lento
Just to say
...You should be happy
that you found
someone else
it's not just the way
you carry yourself
you get smitten with love ah-new
you should hear
the things
those folk say about you
Keep it fresh
...
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Categories:
clef, culture, heartbroken, music, song,
Form: Bio
THE COLOR OF EVE
...Amassed in tiny
droplets formed
on a windowsill
like virgin tears
of perfection...
the night-bird's
rendition of summer
rain behind the backdrop
of a trumpeter's smooth
grooves melt...
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Categories:
clef, beauty, color, imagery, woman,
Form: Free verse
Maestro
...Ella Fitzgerald (1917 – 1996)
In the midst of stale fog – Is it day or night?
The dimmed dishevelled lights don’t give a bass clef
Whilst notes made syncopated love at the bar
A tsunami of dis...
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Categories:
clef, appreciation, celebrity, in memoriam,
Form: Free verse
Infinite Lyric
...You are a masterpiece created to inspire
& despite dire times
have continued to create music to our ears
You are a collection of years of notes composed
creating a symphony that is you in code
W...
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Categories:
clef, inspiration, introspection, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Make All Essential Moments Count
...Make all essential moments count,
be the essential part of the living:
this is the promise you must make to yourself!
all generosity starts to crumble if we stop giving...
can music indicate note...
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Categories:
clef, conflict, culture, evil, giving,
Form: Rhyme
Guinea Pig Wizard from North Kalamazoo
...Whacky? Perhaps but extremely powerful too.
He’s a guinea pig wizard from north Kalamazoo.
We have seen him turn the windows both pink and blue.
He has commanded a crow to fly in from the flue.
...
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Categories:
clef, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Beneath the forest's canopy, the bluebells glimmer in quiver
...Beneath the forest's canopy, the bluebells glimmer in quiver,
Dancing on a carpet of blue, flowers that lead in the ether.
A bass clef fluttering of nectar's verse, they open secret trails,
And qu...
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Categories:
clef, nature,
Form: Free verse
Learning to Persevere
...Learning to play piano again
I feel like a toddler learning how to walk
My fingers fumble and like a sin
A wrong note yells at the air
The note hangs choking melodies
My brain aspires to create...
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Categories:
clef, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Guinea Pig Wizard
...Whacky? Perhaps but extremely powerful too.
He’s a guinea pig wizard from north Kalamazoo.
We have seen him turn the windows both pink and blue.
He has commanded a crow to fly in from the flue.
...
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Categories:
clef, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Mnemonics
...
What a strange word is mnemonic
far easier to say than to write or spell!
It sound like a disease or nonsense incensed to mislead
But after you get over that it makes sense
to use phase...
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Categories:
clef, language, nature,
Form: Free verse
Not Where Jeff Is a Chef
...It had yet to enter Mister Jeff’s head
That I know him like the back of my hands:
Never would ask him bread let alone bed,
News of this sure to make it to distant lands…
The choice of a dog ali...
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Categories:
clef, conflict, fear, food, hate,
Form: Rhyme
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