The Clearing: Part I
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A night is kept charged as a day loses its will
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Categories:
clumping, inspirational, nature,
Form: Metrical Tale
Halloween at Hogwarts
...Being a parsel-tongue, I knew I was Slytherine, of course.
Dressing in scales and slithering would give it away though.
So I dressed as my patronus, seventeen-hands high stallion horse,
Entering t...
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Categories:
clumping, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Seeing Rafts of Fire Ants
...During Hurricane Harvey resourceful fire ants stayed alive
clumping together on waterways, forming a raft, not one dive
I saw them and my hair stood up and I let out a scream
Knowing how dangerous...
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Categories:
clumping, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Creaturely
...Rough hands upon her,
not near, there, or where,
nor the seashell tip of a fingering care
or other
lack-lustering lapping's
but the groundless clubfooted grasping
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Categories:
clumping, poetry,
Form: Free verse
How Much Capacity Is Enough
...It's out there somewhere,
that marginal place where the elastic nature
of truth, reality,
the measure and fit of coffins,
baby cribs,
the doable dimensions of a a plasma screen
accordin...
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Categories:
clumping, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Un-Fairie Queen
...An un-fairie queene
from an unchivalrous tale
lumping and clumping
off beaten tracks
down beaten ones
so beaten
that they click and crack
criss-crossed with crabgrass
so tall that it looks
l...
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Categories:
clumping, hope,
Form: Free verse
Boulevard Life
...Frayed edges, dust and dirt clumping in little hands
After the sun shower, cast out to the rough cobbled
Street.
Newborn in her arms, mom watches as the children
Climb the three foot rope-swin...
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Categories:
clumping, family,
Form: Free verse
Come As You Are
...Space the universal medium, in which everything grows
Where it comes from, is postulation, nobody really knows
Bursting with cosmic energy, has no interaction with light
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Categories:
clumping, allegory, life, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Angels With Green Faces
...ANGELS WITH GREEN FACES
Saturday evening, big night everywhere,
Six teenage girls, hormones to spare,
gather in the bedroom to prepare.
Mirror, hairdryer, tongs for curling,
giggles and squeals,...
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Categories:
clumping, daughter, humor, parents,
Form: Rhyme
First Snow
...It falls in elegant crystals, forming blankets of pure white.
The whitest of the white that you have ever seen.
Each flake different to the other, unique in its own way.
The proudest of proud the ...
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Categories:
clumping, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Displacing Quantum Time
...Within a wave-particle duality, I create my own immortality,
My heart exists in a centrality where love conquers finality…
In a vinculum vortex viewing lines of symmetry are renewing,
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Categories:
clumping, creation, space, time,
Form: Rhyme
Pink Joey Oh My
...The Pink Joey or Dwarf Pink Kangaroo Paw
when cataloged made botanists quiver.
For it's a rare native Australian plant
first found along the Margaret River.
A clumping evergreen, it l...
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Categories:
clumping, 8th grade, beautiful, butterfly,
Form: Quatrain
Gibberish
...A pointless dot,
clumping in the surge
of edges and curves
A clumping dot,
in the pointless surge
of edges and curves
A surging dot,
in the pointless clump
of edges and curves...
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Categories:
clumping, angst,
Form: I do not know?
Skating On Thin Ice
...He stamps the ice beneath his feet
Fallen leaves, gifted from the trees clinging to his soles
Softening the thud of clumping boots
Patterns shimmer in the fading light
As he trudges up the path
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Categories:
clumping, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
I Am
...A selfish liar for hire
Setting fire
To more than rain
The pain
Succumb to numb,
Become someone
Dying
Flying higher
Than our crying
I’m supplying
Something dark and
Dangerous
It’s been f...
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Categories:
clumping, depression, friendship,
Form: Free verse
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