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Secret Life
...What a joke, to live in the foreign land Can’t go from here, and I can’t stay Still I can enjoy to a great extent Little wonders of this beautiful day Beneath the lilac trees in full bloom I si......
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Gregory Colodub
Categories:
contraband,
imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
Changing Tack
...Enrolling as a pirate is much harder than it seems, You’ll need to speak in present tense and chase your wildest dreams. Well, once you’ve trained a parrot and been measured for your hook, You ha......
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John Davison
Categories:
contraband,
anger, boat, endurance, pollution,
Form:
Rhyme
Sunrise Over the Sea
...Morning sunrise breathed light in filagree burnishing colorful waves across the sea It delicately wove golden threads of lace in dawn's sky while it warmed my face I smiled at the sea's lumin......
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Lin Lane
Categories:
contraband,
morning, sea, sun,
Form:
Couplet
No Pirate’s Lament
...When the ocean’s calm and shiny it be joyous to behold When the spyglass sights Port Royal there be good rum to be sold When a pirate holds the spyglass and his ship be filled of gold Might he tak......
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Terry Flood
Categories:
contraband,
sea,
Form:
Rhyme
The black hole of DC
...“My name is Jonathan Mellis, I'm solitary confined In a D.C Jail, where they destroy your mind They call solitary confinement “the hole”. They drop you in and let time erode your soul. It’s ha......
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Gideon Oknin
Categories:
contraband,
abuse, hope, loneliness, mental
Form:
Lyric
Elope with love
...We know not who we are and yet we spar Striving to somehow gain the upper hand Fires of desire shift on our heart’s radar But since taste of joy bestowed now seems bland We yield to lust consumin......
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Unseeking Seeker
Categories:
contraband,
spiritual,
Form:
Ballade
Stutters
...Don't worry, walk it off, don't think about it But will that really stay true 'til your death I'm not backing down until this is solved Either work through or I die trying Because if I don't then......
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Tony Starquavious
Categories:
contraband,
allegory, care, encouraging, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Artificial Iris
... "Artificial Iris" Orwell was lurking in the background, somewhere; the dream was eerily familiar, the words and their meanings, read in Syntax, once read between pa......
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Candide Diderot
Categories:
contraband,
surreal,
Form:
Narrative
404
...Millennia has passed since the last time we met. In those thousands of years, our world has shifted through immeasurable changes. Do I remember the sound of your voice? How does your ......
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Han Marlo
Categories:
contraband,
lonely,
Form:
Free verse
Like Tupac Like Mohbad
...?•?LIKE TUPAC LIKE MOHBAD?•? Pain persists; Mysterious exit. Tupac & Mohbad's demise calls for justice. Tupac reigns in death & we await his rise, Mohbad's the first superstar buried twice. Jux......
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Victor Immanuel
Categories:
contraband,
1st grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Its Not Over Yet
...It’s not over yet so don’t get up and fret, it is not over yet until all is in place and everyone is ready for the big race. You have put a fake face on the screen to accomplish your sordid dream......
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Christine Phillips
Categories:
contraband,
change, community, courage, education,
Form:
Narrative
The Beat Banned Band
..."the beat banned band" no piccolo or sopranino nor no no not sopranissimo the hep and hip cats where it's at play subterranean subcontrabass Doctor Sax seen at and as p......
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Jeff Connelly
Categories:
contraband,
color,
Form:
Free verse
Renegade Rhapsody
...We finally made it to Phoenix Johnny's singing in the shower We've been waiting for hours to take care of business. Spitting out miles of chewed up road Contraband couriers of another load no......
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Judge Santiago Burdon
Categories:
contraband,
corruption, courage, creation,
Form:
Rhyme
Hippy Dippyvan Brings Cousins
...The clan began singing before I saw the hippy dippy van. It ripped around the mountain, and we heard its ceiling fan. hollering and the wailing came to our ears with the smacking too. It was the w......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
contraband,
10th grade, 4th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Beneath Unknown Shores
...Beneath Unknown Shores Waves envelop the steel keel of a massive cruise liner Off rails eyes hypnotized sense serenity on indigo bay Cloudles......
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Anselmo Boles
Categories:
contraband,
allegory,
Form:
Rhyme
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