A Meadow’s Silent Song
...Red dawn spreads above the range of hillocks.
A soft breeze scatters the dandelion seeds around.
A soft zephyr, clean and furry, flows like a hymn,
I feel elated, happy to be far from the city’s d...
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Categories:
copiously, imagery, nature,
Form: Imagism
Mask
...Mask by Adejola Joseph
Mask
Where does it come from?
What?
Delusive rationality!
Are we out of mind?
Senses drained and dried?
No!
What do you capitalized on?
Neutral ambition?
Stop writhin...
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Categories:
copiously, anger,
Form: Free verse
spark quickly the rise
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Spark quickly the rise,
Dilating dark with glitter stars of cats eyes.
A language we sausage use.
Clumsy myths attenuated
With parachutes of feelings mapped;
Syncopated copiously.
A do...
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Categories:
copiously, 9th grade, america, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Medieval Poetry Translations VII by Michael R Burch
...These are English translations/modernizations of Medieval poems written in Old English and/or Middle English.
The Maiden’s Song aka The Bridal Morn
anonymous Medieval lyric
translation by Mich...
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Categories:
copiously, girl, mother, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Acme
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The almighty takes care of us from above,
as His benevolence showers with relentless love.
The cornucopia of His blessings overflows,
while the ambit of divine ambiance grows
within t...
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Categories:
copiously, analogy, god, life, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
The Peace of God
...The Peace of God
Peace! You're blissful, we want you
In our hearts, on the planet
Truly, you will make humanity free.
Inasmuch as there is peace true,
This wide world encumbered with torment...
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Categories:
copiously, faith, god, inspirational, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Totally Found-
...I was in my sins being seemingly without hope and saving
But God the Father granted me His son Jesus endless mercies grace
Now I am clean completely copiously more or less
quite perfectly ...
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Categories:
copiously, analogy, faith, forgiveness, hope,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Enigmatic Me
...For long, I had enjoyed solving assorted puzzles, and difficult riddles, too,
For they entertain and stimulate an eager mind, as myriad stars often do.
From years of solving, I'd grown adept, as ...
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Categories:
copiously, beauty, imagery, life, mystery,
Form: Couplet
Open Book
...OPEN BOOK
I want to read her..
From front to back...
From up to down...
From cover to cover...
I want to read her.....
I want to read her eyes.
While I discover every thought in her i...
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Categories:
copiously, 12th grade, for her,
Form: Free verse
Party Crasher
...My Halloween party was in full swing. I had gone all out this year and rented an old crumbling, reputed-to-be haunted mansion for the evening's Dionysian festivities, and all the invited guests were ...
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Categories:
copiously, halloween,
Form: Narrative
Un-Fairie Queen
...An un-fairie queene
from an unchivalrous tale
lumping and clumping
off beaten tracks
down beaten ones
so beaten
that they click and crack
criss-crossed with crabgrass
so tall that it looks
l...
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Categories:
copiously, hope,
Form: Free verse
My Gift To You
...My Santa sack was filled with poop
To many this news ain’t a scoop
I’ve perfected the art
How to write about fart
I've posted about them on soup
I’ll divulge about Aunty Mable
wh...
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Categories:
copiously, 10th grade, humorous, wind,
Form: Limerick
Choice-Wise
...Annette Arnold had recently left college
And was thrust into flimsy dating realms;
She grabbed pen and paper to describe
Top-choice dude of her fanciest dreams.
Dashingly handsome and of comp...
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Categories:
copiously, allegory, allusion, boyfriend, cute,
Form: Rhyme
Drooling
...What makes us giggle uncontrollably
What triggers this reaction emotionally
If there's a cure
Don't want it for sure
Really love all the drooling quite copiously...
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Categories:
copiously, anxiety,
Form: Limerick
The Spirit of the Woodlands
...A transcendental splendor in sepia hues,
spreads it’s woody arms across a nomadic river;
leaves of cinnamon and amber dog the landscape,
as long spectral limbs stretch to golden beams.
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Categories:
copiously, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Prose
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