This Is the Life!
...What better than a summer afternoon?
Where else, but on the trail to La Toscana?
Who is it mounts a mens that's not more sana,
devouring a voluptuous Verdi tune?
Which month might one elect, whic...
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Categories:
devouring(a), summer,
Form: Sonnet
unintended innuendo
...“as we passed her she did wilt
which caused in us sense of guilt
since our stance perhaps did cause
to put her heart’s joy on pause
though we’re gentle, not hostile
we diminished her soul’s sm...
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Categories:
devouring(a), angst, city, dark, imagery,
Form: Free verse
display of perspective
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banished into exile of freedom
with no chance of extradition
bail collateral and ransom refused
he marvelled at his painless tattoo
a rotten apple devouring a snake
inked into now sunburnt ...
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Categories:
devouring(a), appreciation,
Form: Free verse
C D E F G H I J K L M N
...Calico Cuban cats devouring a cheese cone
Des Moines deer directing a driven drone
Elmhurst elk writing out an elongated poem
Fresno felines frolicking in feathery sea foam
Gary’s gorillas grab...
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Categories:
devouring(a), 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: ABC
puppy digs
...My puppy Beau has been digging
His face and front paws are black with mud
He looks like he has been devouring a chocolate pie
Clean him up? Are you kidding?
He will go right back and do it again ...
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Categories:
devouring(a), dog,
Form: Free verse
MAELSTROM II
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In the maelstrom…
Black inferno machines are one.
In the belly of the maelstrom, they rise,
And nothing is compromised
Black inferno machine
Shadows against the night,
Engines of hunger, ...
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Categories:
devouring(a), anger, art, creation, dark,
Form: Free verse
Home of the Screaming Cupcake
...Barista’s Bakery home of the screaming cupcake
I had to rush inside to see what this meant.
Screaming was happening in two corners of the room.
One boy was devouring a purple cupcake.
It was scre...
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Categories:
devouring(a), humor,
Form: Personification
The Forgotten
...People by the billions
watching a moon devouring a sun.
Soon after-the devouring is forgotten-
Like a holocaust.
Like the twin towers.
Like a trinity
Like the two hundred
Hostages
of
HAMA...
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Categories:
devouring(a), freedom,
Form: Free verse
A Solitary Sojourn
...Upon a littered path I trod, alone,
A companion sought in my wanderings.
From afar, a peculiar man appeared,
In an abandoned caravan he resided.
Clad in tattered, sleeveless attire,
His laught...
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Categories:
devouring(a), adventure, allusion, imagination, voice,
Form: Narrative
Free To Roam
...When devouring a hot chicken pie
An advertised flat caught my eye,
I would hazard a guess
Judging from its address
That the asking price wasn’t too high.
I collapsed in a state of d...
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Categories:
devouring(a), business, conflict, discrimination, hate,
Form: Limerick
Use Exclamation Marks Sparingly
...Exclamation marks rile up and excite Mrs. Ex.
She teaches seventh grade English and always suspects….
We are overdoing it when we use even on.
So I throw them in my paragraphs to have some fun.
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Categories:
devouring(a), 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Id and Ego
...sucker punch action
blue ringed venomous mollusc -
man eating creature
gives head for kill
pinch of salty consumption -
mouth waters pleasure
octopus sprays ink
under cover o...
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Categories:
devouring(a), innocence,
Form: Haiku
Rattler of Diet Tips and Warnings
...A strange woman blasted into the family reunion
Came in loud and crass; obnoxious. Showing off.
No one knew her.
I was selected to ask her to leave.
Mom! She said.
It was one of my foster childr...
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Categories:
devouring(a), humorous,
Form: Prose Poetry
New Dawn
...Destruction roars through the land
Like a fire that can only expand
Fire which never dies
Silencing unheard cries
Raging through the forest today
Devouring a city like prey
Circling and tauntin...
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Categories:
devouring(a), conflict, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
I Do Not Eat Salt
...I do not eat salt, she says haughtily
Making me want to pour a salt shaker into my mouth
I appease myself by devouring a family sized bag of potato chips
Unsalted? Ha! Right!
Chocolate does not...
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Categories:
devouring(a), food,
Form: Prose Poetry
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