Wonders of Fascinating Enigma
...The vastness of space is a fascinating enigma;
It mesmerizes everyone who falls into it.
If you fall once, then you will begin to sink.
Nature has fabricated the universe into a paradise,
Even if...
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Categories:
colombia, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
What a Curtain Bisbee Has
...What a curtain Bisbee has
That keeps Mexico subdued
And influences the lands
From which the Sierra was hewn.
What purple folds keep Oaxaca
As a fortress in the sky
Breaking only in P...
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Categories:
colombia, friendship, mountains, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Tragedy At Sea
...Natalia Andrea Larranaga Fajardo
Here lies one who died pitifully
She would have sought anonymity,
But publicity stole away her privacy
She threw herself off a ship at sea.
...
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Categories:
colombia, death, sad,
Form: Epitaph
The Journey of a Soul
...Each morning the curtains were drawn because I didn’t have the energy to see the sun ..
I dragged myself in slow motion from my slumber and painfully washed my face , this took hours and days to wa...
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Categories:
colombia, depression, lonely, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Coffee
...
Without a little bit in their morning cup,
most people find it difficult to wake up.
Before leaving the house and heading for work,
they put a scoop in the pot and let it perk.
Making a...
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Categories:
colombia, drink, morning,
Form: Rhyme
Faith That Endangers and Saves
...Faith that endangers and saves
It was 1988, Bogota, Colombia, during the time of (La Violencia) the 40 year war of insurgents against the government. At the same time Pablo Escobar was wreaking ...
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Categories:
colombia, christian, community, faith, god,
Form: Haibun
No Negra
...as if on death
row asking what
last meal before
the eternal
flight
what better
in Colombia
then Mexican
where i can
still use my
bad
Spanish...
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Categories:
colombia, muse,
Form: I do not know?
F Art
...i just
paid
more
for a
glass
of wine
then i did
to gain entry
into the modern
museum of art
Cartagena
Colombia
twenty
twenty...
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Categories:
colombia, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Casa Della Pasta
...from a street
in Cartagena
stepping
suddenly
into a
restaurant
so Italian
surely i was
in a time warp
for i
i was still
in Colombia but
fooled by the food
so authentico
and e...
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Categories:
colombia, muse,
Form: I do not know?
A Statement: Not a Poem
...Hello friends and future friends. I hope my
choice of my poetic form is totally absurd.
I don't even know what an Epithalamium is;
so if you are looking for this form, I'm sorry
to disappoint...
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Categories:
colombia, muse,
Form: Epithalamium
Just Desserts
...when this poem title
is used with "she
received her..."
it is a
negative
but i'm not
writing about
comeuppance but
about her sweetness
so should she be
a pie or cake or
something
...
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Categories:
colombia, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Ball Bearings
...i'm confused
not knowing
where to go
what to do
my compass
needle sticks
out reading
south by
south
west
but
google map
and my gps
suggest
another
place
as
to
where
the ...
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Categories:
colombia, muse,
Form: I do not know?
The Lonely Little Pigeon
...I am sitting on the park bench waiting for a friend
I am sitting on the park bench wondering
When it is going to end
Chirping birds flying from tree to tree
Dancing to their predicted destiny
...
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Categories:
colombia, absence, appreciation, confidence, creation,
Form: Narrative
Meet the Carbonemys
...Carbonemys (Greek for "coal turtle")
Pronounced: car-BON-eh-miss
I am a Carbonemys, a podocnemidid,
An extinct side-necked turtle.
I lived fifty-eight to
Sixty million years ago
During the m...
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Categories:
colombia, animal,
Form: Free verse
Impromptu
...standing
thumb out
pointing south
sign saying
Colombia
hitch
hiking
sick
of hiking
all these
years
getting
no where
still
standing
here
here
comes
a car
now
stopping
the ...
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Categories:
colombia, muse,
Form: I do not know?
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