The Wuthering
...The high moors slant giddily over gritstone edges
where torrents overflow gallons of sky.
Grouse are blown sideways
by a bone-twisting gale.
The land is harried by fishtailing winds,
a sparse ...
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Categories:
compare and contrast, poetry,
Form: Free verse
BETTY AND THE DOCTOR
...
We are pet sitting our neighbor’s cat and dog…which means we’re wearing two hats
one for Betty (she’s the dog) and one for Doctor (he’s the cat).
Dogs and cats are different…we know this to be ...
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Categories:
compare and contrast, cat, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Compare and contrast
...Sleep or sleepless nights
soft blanket white TV screen
sleep is all I want...
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Categories:
compare and contrast, sleep,
Form: Senryu
ART
...ART
A esthete, I am for I love, love and appreciate works of art and
B eautiful things including alluring women and good looking men.
C reativity of the artists on display, being appreciated and...
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Categories:
compare and contrast, art,
Form: Abecedarian
Poets Are a Funny Lot
...Poets are a funny lot
they come for what is sizzling hot
Compassionate? Most times they're not!
they give your rhymes a decent shot
curious to see what you have got
compare and contrast on the s...
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Categories:
compare and contrast, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Hi, Lee Flammable
...Compare and contrast
the use of symbolism and imagery
in the following two poems
by Gerald McDumb Bell
The test question piqued my interest at first
the poet's name and all
...
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Categories:
compare and contrast, fire, poems, poets, school,
Form: Rhyme
Soccer
...An activity that is beautiful to the eye
Fun to watch and be part of
A unifying pillar across continents
Individuals relentlessly chase an inflated object
In a bid to own possession
And make a s...
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Categories:
compare and contrast, soccer,
Form: Free verse
Teach Me
...Wooden half-desk folded down into place
Textbook open, pencil poised
Einstein poster on the wall observing
Equations flying across the blackboard
Cumulonimbus clouds of chalk dust
Float across ...
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Categories:
compare and contrast, first love, love, school,
Form: Free verse
The Art of Cross Examination
...Add a in b
Multiply c with d
Divide e with g
Compare and contrast p
You will get t.
Note. You have mastered it....
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Categories:
compare and contrast, art, extended metaphor, math,
Form: Rhyme
10 Poems That Define Me
...https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/awakened_1251824
My first childhood recollection of becoming aware of the opposite sex
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/uncle_michael_1251117
A defining death o...
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Categories:
compare and contrast, poetry,
Form: List
Universal-Unitarian Trinity
...Atheism,
for a Taoist
and for UUs
and Zeroists,
and Not ZeroSumists,
and Positive ZeroZone Therapists,
is synonymous with Agnosticism
and maybe Gnostic BiCameral Consciousness.
Healthy skep...
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Categories:
compare and contrast, destiny, health, humanity, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Do I Have What It Takes
...Is it really a skill that I have in my possession
Or is it just an obsession, not even worth a mention
Can everyone do what I do
Or is it as easy as accessing the loo
Can words be manipulated, m...
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Categories:
compare and contrast, 11th grade, destiny, identity,
Form: Rhyme
The Mind In Motion
...The mind is an echo
Reflecting someone's belief
Like the notion of death
That leads us to grief
Merely bundles of thought
Tied up in the past
Forming identity layers
We compare and contrast...
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Categories:
compare and contrast, emotions, memory, soulmate,
Form: Rhyme
Red and Blue Estrangered Families
...Dear Siblings Three,
I was reading a story
in which some siblings became estranged
after their parents died,
while others moved toward greater solidarity.
This is a variation on a diaspora s...
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Categories:
compare and contrast, earth, faith, family, health,
Form: Political Verse
Where Winning Is Cooperative Play
...Compile a list of all your losses,
worst moments,
fears and hatreds,
your defensive fears
and most angry
dispassionate
paranoid dualdark bilateral margins,
edges,
boundary issues
and double...
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Categories:
compare and contrast, earth, games, growth, happiness,
Form: Political Verse
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