you cannot be a snake
...you cannot be a snake, mommy said
so I slithered under the dresser
proving that I could
what kind of snake would you be? daddy asked
he likes to humor me,
he is better at this than mommy
I ...
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Categories:
consternate, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
TO WHOM IT MAY CONSTERNATE
...I did make a wasp gasp
with my splendiferous doggerel
that not even I sit well
with. & a note came from hell
penned in a tongue alien to me...
only the vile violet violinist
understood such one...
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Categories:
consternate, animal, language, music, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Muse Leroy Meets Muse Trixie
...His muse was a dragon, and he told me Leroy was pushy.
I could not imagine he was any more challenging that Trixie.
Leroy will take me down and spit in my eye, he told me.
This was a bit more aggr...
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Categories:
consternate, humorous, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Hurricane Katrina
...Awesome power is it natures wrath
To devastate all in its path
Twisters, winds driving rain
Leaves no place to look the same
In a way as it gathers pace
Never in a human place
Hidden killer ...
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Categories:
consternate, black african american, husband,
Form: Rhyme