If I gave up Sugar
...If I gave up sugar
would I crave more salt?
Filling up my diet with potato chips and French fries?
If I gave up sugar
would the enamel grow back on my teeth
Would my missing teeth grow back?
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Categories:
daresay, food,
Form: Free verse
Ode To The Sun
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O glorious dear sun, sovereign of the day, in the sky above
you’re one whose radiance resembles a little of God’s love;
by nurturing all creatures in the world with your unique rays
and ...
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Categories:
daresay, appreciation, dedication, inspiration, nature,
Form: Ode
Tensions
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Billowy storm clouds turn to skies of azure blue
Agonizing pain fades when its days are through
The trek of life has its many ups and downs
Its seasons of smiles, its times of frowns
We hope ...
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Categories:
daresay, conflict, emotions, feelings, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Chair
...To the one who sat here so very long ago
Rooted, I daresay, with so many things to sow
Your needlework is etched upon the faded fabric
Where the story you convey, is interwoven magic
Between th...
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Categories:
daresay, family,
Form: Rhyme
Golden Heart
...Beneath thy eyes lay a sweet loving soul;
To it, the weak and strong of hearts attract;
A queen thou art seeking not finest gold,
But for gold hearts thou seem to stage an act.
Whereon thy lips...
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Categories:
daresay, beauty, heart, i love
Form: Sonnet
Inextricably Rooted With Hair Fixation
...Inextricably rooted with hair fixation
As a lad in grade school,
yours truly, (a diminutive, intuitive,
oversensitive, and vegetative potato head kid,
whose voice exhibited
a severe nasal twan...
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Categories:
daresay, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Collisions Between Yours Truly and the Missus
...Collisions between yours truly and the missus
Space at a premium
in our apartment
lettered and numbered b44
at Highland Manor,
cuz the spouse
heavily trends toward disorderliness.
She read...
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Categories:
daresay, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Art of Age
...Behold, in life’s self-portrait I daresay
how youth and beauty alas fade away.
But as my time so increase
I will paint my masterpiece
and not a picture of Dorian Gray!
Wr...
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Categories:
daresay, age, life, literature,
Form: Limerick
Carmelo Ricci
...I
The hands Carmelo's genes shaped
Are somewhat lighter, her heart sadder
Carmelo Ricci left a world of pandemics
On January 17, 2022; heaven is happier
II
If a dad can raise a caring, hand-s...
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Categories:
daresay, america, best friend, bible,
Form: Epitaph
The Crusader
...And we sat under
A gazebo that sat
Under palm trees,
Standing and smiling
At our seashore,
Emptying kegs of
Palmwine in our
Calabash and...
And then emptying
The calabash in our
St...
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Categories:
daresay, religious,
Form: Didactic
A Poem For Sara Kendrick
...Sara, too beautiful for words I dare say
I met you on a poetry quest one day
and read your amazing verses, I daresay
when you write you got a very special way
Sara your a classy poet with...
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Categories:
daresay, friendship love,
Form: Sonnet
A Visit To Quiet Town
...While returning home from my job, in bustling New York City,
The blaring horns of traffic, and the noise were getting to me.
With loud yelling on the sidewalks, and cawing crows up above,
And my...
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Categories:
daresay, fantasy, imagery, people, places,
Form: Couplet
Aging Long Haired Pencil Neck Geezer
...(alternately titled no particular reason:
bring unto “fake” trumpeting Caesar
seven salad dressings from deep freezer
and lettuce deign at your plea azure.)
Graced with boyish good looks,
inno...
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Categories:
daresay, 12th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
True Love
...Lives in every heart
A sense of longing musical
For an angelic love divine -
To love, be loved; in harmony
With inner feelings and senses -
Which tuned in unison
With that of its partner
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Categories:
daresay, love, spring,
Form: Free verse
Help Need Somebody
...H-E-L-P!!! N-e-e-d s-o-m-e b-o-d-y!!!...
Spouse booby trapped husband!!!
Homicide courtesy munch
house zen by proxy
immediately suspected hunch
police, K9 corps, and ambulance
ne...
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Categories:
daresay, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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