adjectives ooze like black blood
...words tiptoe through my mind’s dendrite fields
struggling with an inner battle
do they want to be shared
or merely heard by someone?
adjectives ooze like black blood
under the shut doors of my...
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Categories:
dendrite, writing,
Form: Free verse
David the Dendrite
...David the Dendrite (it means Tree-Dweller)
how the people loved this eccentric fellow
for three years he lived in a tree
yes he was the saint of Thessaloniki
(real title is written ...
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Categories:
dendrite, history, humor, tree,
Form: Clerihew
Coleridge Had it Right
...Wailing for her demon lover, Coleridge had it right
A masterful poet, his words are ominous, not light.
Did he have his own sweet love? Was she a secret too?
Gothic ideas of mystery swirl around m...
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Categories:
dendrite, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Dibble Dwarf
...Dibble dwarf was not as bright as his clan
He lived by his wits, but they were not so grand
His dendrite highway was tiny and short at best
He sat on a steed that needed a lot of rest
Why is he...
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Categories:
dendrite, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Forget Age and Experience
...Mental prowess has zip to do with age or experience
Some people’s buckets are cups.
Their dendrite strains are much shorter than others.
I have met six-year-olds who are wizards.
Being raised by ...
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Categories:
dendrite, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
snowflake shapes
...Star shaped, seriously sassy
Nodding needle-nosed, light chassis
Capped column, looking conniving
Irregular yet interesting without striving
Decidedly diabolically dendrite-dated
Practically per...
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Categories:
dendrite, snow,
Form: Free verse
mine is a lively lunacy
...Mine is a lively lunacy
at three am
the witching hour
full moon insanity
infecting empaths
magic madness
I lie awake
my ideals walking in harmony
down a dendrite highway of fantasy...
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Categories:
dendrite, me,
Form: Free verse
trying to jump off my dendrite track
...Jumping might be my favorite word
or frolicking, prancing, dancing
anyway, it’s something with an ing ending
I can assure you of that
I get sick of throwing down the same words
feeling redunda...
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Categories:
dendrite, word play, write, writing,
Form: Free verse
choosing one thing
...I can only wave it once so I have to envision the results
entice my flowers, highlight my house or eliminate faults?
My imagination has ideas that go up into the air
blowing smoke in my mind, with...
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Categories:
dendrite, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
dendrite building brain
...imagination
possibilities
idealism
investigation
evaluation
exploration
analysis
mindful madness
dendrite builder
predictions
assumptions
risk taking
probing
thinking
brain...
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Categories:
dendrite, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
encouraging a child
...she took a child
who had been shut down by negativity
and reopened her dendrite highway
encouraging her to remember life
when she thought joy was a possibility
the child who had been afraid to t...
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Categories:
dendrite, teacher,
Form: Free verse
I Think I Shall Write Faerie Tales
...I think I shall write tales for children Christian Anderson said.
Visions of bears, wolves, tigers, roses, and lilies danced through his head.
Sorting them out took an imagination that was rather w...
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Categories:
dendrite, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Broken promises
...Promise me your hands will reach out
Resilient attachment starts in childhood
When the brain has colic outside the womb
A mother’s unconditional love soothes worries
When a birthday missed slices...
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Categories:
dendrite, addiction, father, mother, mother
Form: Free verse
clunky chunky words
...clunky chunky unfamiliar words
not easily understood due to their tweets and pops
shoving themselves against my dendrite highway
hidden yet acutely felt
dancing the brain Watusi
I wonder if I w...
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Categories:
dendrite, writing,
Form: Light Verse
Mrs Shelly Is Having Difficulty
...Ms. Shelly began to write.
Scratched it out.
Began again.
The lights are on, but no one is home.
Scribble Scribble
His dendrite field is nonexistent.
Scratch. Scratch.
She kept writing and s...
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Categories:
dendrite, teacher,
Form: Prose Poetry
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