The boxer brownie bandit
...Who pooped my pants?
I ask in vain what sinful man could leave this stain? There's...
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Categories:
colons, funny, simple,
Form: Rhyme
Haiti, Haiti: the Decisive Battle of Vertieres
...Haiti, Haiti, Haiti, the Land of Martyrs
Haiti, Haiti, the Land of Great Slaves
Haiti, Haiti, the Land of Ancient Braves
For many, the betrayed Land that matters.
Haiti, Haiti, the volcanic lan...
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Categories:
colons, africa, black african american,
Form: Free verse
How a Perfunctory Poet Punctuates a Piece
...A period here. a question mark there?
A handful of commas,,,tossed in the air
To fall all willy-nilly but he doesn't care.
Then he closes his eyes so he never sees,
And does it again with apostro...
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Categories:
colons, humor, writing,
Form: Light Verse
Rambling Poetry
...Poetry is tangerine and other potent or poisonous colors.
It is the breath you feel at the nape of your neck and
the strong caress of flesh on flesh, defying death.
It is most certainly Spring wit...
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Categories:
colons, poetry, writing,
Form: Prose
What Punctuation Marks
...What Punctuation Marks
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(Dedicated to our Pens)
Commencing with colons saying,
“Look at what follows me”:
Commas go with the need to breathe,
Adding, ...
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Categories:
colons, language, poems, teacher, words,
Form: Rhyme
Special Characters
...Don’t use special characters!
In writing I was told,
Next to the title of my poem.
(The letters black and bold.)
“Poems Don’t Have to Rhyme,” is what
I chose to name my piece,
But with this t...
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Categories:
colons, how i feel, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Party Hearty
...There was a Christmas party
The meal was very hearty
With onions and cabbage
Our colons it ravaged
Leaving us rather farty...
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Categories:
colons, celebration, christmas, food, fun,
Form: Limerick
A Reflective Ploy
...A Reflective Ploy...
it is a reflective ploy;
on the part of me,
when proofreading
all this work of mine;
and do I really care?
that a full stop.
don’t!
or that commas;
are often too many
...
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Categories:
colons, word play,
Form: Free verse
'punk' Tuation
...I hate Periods and like most Commas,
a Full Stop turns me off
Quotation Marks I can endure,
but Semi-colons not
I love a good Exclamation Point,
all Question Marks so so
But my favorite ...
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Categories:
colons, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Required
...Only letters, numbers,
dashes, commas,
apostrophes
and colons
are allowed
in the title.
though this sentence
ends in a period
periods aren't
allowed at
all
period!!!
what's more...
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Categories:
colons, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Nightmare
...By Parizo Van Thulare
You have spooked my eyes
you shocked my nerves
Wrestling my semi colons
Showing no mercy to these protons
Why is this creature obsessed with night ?
Why is he creep...
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Categories:
colons, anger,
Form: Light Verse
Punctuate and Poetisize
...If,stops,colons comma make sense-
sounds become your cadence
inspired by the words of the duchess in Alice in Wonderland...
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Categories:
colons, poetry, sound,
Form: Epigram
Homeward
...homeward
The landscape of my dreams is a Pampa
with occasional trees,
Like commas stretching to the horizon and not a full stop in between the extreme
I was born in a gorge between dark mount...
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Categories:
colons, absence, adventure, anti bullying,
Form: Blank verse
There Is a Storm Brewing
...
There is a storm brewing and it is in my head,
Words are swirling in a mighty roaring wind;
Like colourful leaves tumbling and twirling,
And then it is raining adjectives and nouns;
...
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Categories:
colons, dream, writing,
Form: Verse
Welcome To the Machine: Part 4
...Error Code >
Laid down her arms
relinquished the chair
The challenger had arrived
flashed up onscreen
Repeating the action
She examined its power
Efforts to no avail
It returned to the s...
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Categories:
colons, computer, confusion, funny, stress,
Form: Light Verse
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