scared of shadows
...dogs are barking
loud deep hoarse angry barks
staring up the driveway
I expect to see soldiers carrying machetes
or machine guns
or the secret police
dogs are concentrating on a walnut tree...
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Categories:
concentrating, dog,
Form: Free verse
Divine Destruction
...In the name of the stars and planets.
We’re all lost in the oblivion of our minds.
While we’re stuck concentrating on our own sorrows.
There’s stars in the night sky wishing they could breathe a...
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Categories:
concentrating, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
I Seek Fun Satisfaction and Joy
...my own tiny Kansas environment owes me an apology
I have wanted a dog run built and it keeps getting promised
yet the powers that be have thrown rain into the equation
for two or three weeks, it i...
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Categories:
concentrating, me,
Form: Narrative
you amaze and enthrall us
...sacred, symmetrical, serious skeleton wheel
plotting out steampunk plans for the universe
Concentrating on circular curriculums
Decisive, deliberate display of planned plots
We watchers sit in wo...
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Categories:
concentrating, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
EVERYBODY HAS A STORY
...
Sometimes we are concentrating so hard on our own story…and things we’re going through
we have a tendency to forget other people are in the midst of their story too.
An elderly woman walked int...
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Categories:
concentrating, life,
Form: Rhyme
Google the definition of Love
...Would thy describe it the same today or
just say the same to all they call BAE, with no
thoughts for the blue-jay.*
“What's love?' is the voice of now riding
the waves of sound, cant see with the...
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Categories:
concentrating, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
definitely juried in
...The swirls in the painting were thickly slathered onto the canvas
Would they ever dry? The artist was unconcerned.
Concentrating on the creative process, not the technicality of his art.
The art t...
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Categories:
concentrating, art,
Form: Free verse
Blur
...Try to find good in each day
It helps me along my way
I look around
Trying to see where I'm bound
Hope one day I'll be found
Sometimes not so sure
Life's a blur
Anger in my heart
Won't let i...
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Categories:
concentrating, appreciation, blessing, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Walking On Tight Rope
...When walking tight rope
Use your heart and mind
To balance the situation
To never get fall
Don't look elsewhere
Focus your mind forward
While concentrating on the rope
Let the heart control th...
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Categories:
concentrating, freedom, motivation, success,
Form: Free verse
ALL WE CAN GIVE
...
Would’t it be wonderful if this Christmas (and every day)
we understood the best way for any of us to live…
instead of concentrating on how much we will receive…
we focus on how much we we have ...
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Categories:
concentrating, giving,
Form: Rhyme
who am I channeling
...words come to me in batches
for days they will include witches, goblins and jack-o-lanterns
like obsessions, they include spell books, brooms, bats and ghosts
in an abrupt about face
they chang...
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Categories:
concentrating, write, writing,
Form: Free verse
seasonal euphoria
...Do you think we’re the sort of girls to sit around on a Sunday night?
EAH (loud buzzer sound) you’d be wrong!!
What’s the opposite of seasonal depression - seasonal euphoria?
I’m self-diagnosing...
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Categories:
concentrating, friendship, fun, happy, humor,
Form: Free verse
VULNERABLE - SAME POEM - DIFFERENT FORM
...VULNERABLE
Being of a certain age and classed as vulnerable,
The Government decreed that I should stay indoors.
Perversely, just a month before, my doctor recommended
That I sh...
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Categories:
concentrating, age, health,
Form: Free verse
welcome to the Flamenco
...ruffled high-heeled, high-haired
the Mexican diva begins the dance
her partner concentrating on her beauty
stepping automatically to the best music
welcome to the flamenco, with castanets
and ja...
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Categories:
concentrating, dance,
Form: Free verse
Where Are We All Heading?
...
I have very few gripes to tell you about
But one major one is people who concentrate
On what's wrong with the world
Instead of concentrating on all the good things
That have come our ...
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Categories:
concentrating, celebration, future,
Form: Free verse
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