Life Is a Boomerang
...LIFE IS A BOOMERANG
Life is a boomerang
What you give you get it back
So, balance your Yin and Yang
This’s an essential hack!
With love fill your tray
Spread joy and cheer
Prejudice ...
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Categories:
contest life, encouraging, joy,
Form: Rhyme
The Derided Inventor
...An independent inventor, Stanley Meyer
Delved into his innate cauldron of genius
Thought ingenuously out-of-the-box
He’d revolutionize the automobile industry.
He claimed to have designed an en...
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Categories:
contest life, science, technology,
Form: Free verse
Life At a Glance
...humble observer
as the world
spins
around me
i step
in and out
to readjust
my focus
it’s a fine balance
as i walk
the tightrope
of sanity
i hold on preciously
to the delicate flow...
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Categories:
contest life, introspection, life, lonely, longing,
Form: Free verse
Configured Beauty of Life
...Transient rainbow arches time onto the eyes,
changes color on the fading horizon we see.
To alter the perception the scenic mind tries,
life then becomes a sunburst sky called beauty.
The e...
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Categories:
contest life, analogy, beauty, life,
Form: Rhyme
In Others Words
...In the summertime
On a summer holiday
The north wind doth blow
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Line one - Ray Dorset.
Line two - Bruce Welch/Brian Bennett.
Line three- Unknown/traditional.
8 March 2021
Co...
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Categories:
contest life, irony, summer, weather, wind,
Form: Haiku
A Lonely Girl
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I wandered the forest alone -
the cool my cloak,
with touch the sky trees my cathedral and haven.
and birds singing a symphony.
The forest was full of wonder and awe,
for a lonely girl w...
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Categories:
contest life, life,
Form: Imagism
Country Magic
...whisper of lilac in the summer’s day
variety of flowery fragrances wafting
streaming sunbeams warming gray striped tabby
mums and petunias decorating wrap-around porch
wasps and bees collecting b...
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Categories:
contest life, flower, garden,
Form: Imagism
Starlight
...There are trillions of stars in our sky
I can only count a few
It takes millions of years for starlight
To reach me where I stand in the cold night air
All the stars that I see could have died
h...
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Categories:
contest life, sky,
Form: Imagism
Be Not Sad
...Be not sad.
Take comfort in that I am looking down on you.
Just like when I was alive.
For contest 'Life or death Epigram', sponsor Kevin Shaw
26th July 2018...
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Categories:
contest life, death,
Form: Epigram
Death Epigram
...His eyes bugged out from so many lies.
Here he now lies with bugs in his eyes.
Contest: Life or Death Epigram
Host: Kevin Shaw
Written: 7/21/18...
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Categories:
contest life, dark,
Form: Epigram
My Late Husband, Rip
...I couldn’t bear to bury him
like I knew I should -
I just had to pickle him
like I always said I would.
AP: Honorable Mention 2020
Submitted on July 17, 2018 fo...
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Categories:
contest life, death, humor, husband, silly,
Form: Epigram
History Lessons
...The book describes a battle that included African American soldiers in the Union army who, in spite of the controversy, were very instrumental in the success of building a tunnel and igniting a massi...
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Categories:
contest life, christian, history, war,
Form: Prose
Evolution Not Revolution
...Our unfortunate world is constantly changing
our need to become better through evolution
a thirst a hunger for useless rearranging
destruction, inevitable revolution,
insecurities, need for ...
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Categories:
contest life, abuse, animal, books, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Life Lessons
...Life lessons in a book
is a search that I took
when my mistakes shook
me giving pain in its cook.
In instant God Google’s absence
getting one’s Life in balance
came from someone’s guidance ...
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Categories:
contest life, history, life,
Form: Rhyme
Gone With the Wind
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We watched Gone With The Wind,
at Christmastime- it was a tradition each year;
with my mother and we each had a tear,
I used to not like the movie that much;
but in time this awesome m...
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Categories:
contest life, inspiration, life,
Form: Rhyme
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