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Diagonally Poems - Poems about Diagonally

And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
...And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War Preface: On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," Presiden......

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Categories: diagonally, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Hire a Key
...The queen has all the power while foot soldiers goad the king though he maybe important the church ahead of hymn as too crusading bishops diagonally move to sing the knights gallant in battle......

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Categories: diagonally, conflict, courage, games, power,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Ivory Flakes
... not quite White Christmas, but that'll do. 'tis the next best thing! celestial confetti comes tumbling down at noon time generously, incessantly; palpable excitement hangs li......

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Categories: diagonally, children, emotions, imagery, joy,
Form: Imagism
Rubberband Man
...There he is... On his biz Unbothered and untethered After many pernicious pulls and tainty tugs And so many ghastly grabs and sheisty shrugs After huge stretches with hopes of breaki......

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Categories: diagonally, anti bullying, courage, motivation,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member shabby chic doorway
...the found map led me to an asymmetrical doorway, created by an artesian I wondered at the builder as I approached the boards were placed diagonally skillset many carpenters have not mastered I k......

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Categories: diagonally, house,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Archaeology
...Walking along a road, diagonally, through someone's house briefly and back out where there isn't a door across their vegetable patch and eventually over the bones of some buried unknowns. Cow......

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Categories: diagonally, earth, history, life, people,
Form: Narrative
I Cherish Every Precious Lock of My Hair As a Keepsake
...I cherish every precious lock of my hair as a keepsake Twas partly on account of yours truly being incarnation of Samson; spouse and I wed please fate, don't say alopecia didst tread; though a......

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Categories: diagonally, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Ford's Theater April 15th 1865
...Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865... Petersen House, Washington, D.C. I admit to own a passion for the Civil War in general, and the life and death of the sixteenth president in particular bet......

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Categories: diagonally, absence, age, america, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
Learning Chess
...My grandson wants to teach me chess. I’ll do my best, but I confess That games and me don’t really mix, Like dogs you cannot teach new tricks. The pieces I’m supposed to learn Move different ......

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Categories: diagonally, games,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Which Nostril Do You Breathe Out Of
...we sit as a family in a restaurant my son turns to me and says, "we are chess pieces now you're the king, mum is the queen." he tells me my two-year-old daughter in the high chair is the bis......

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Categories: diagonally, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the August Heat
...(Even Poetry can recall the warm days of summer.) ** In the August Heat ** ——————————————————————— August roasts the red pears Sitting crowded on the sill…Spoiling With no prot......

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Categories: diagonally, imagery, imagination, nature, night,
Form: Prose Poetry
Mollie Bag
...Zippers and Velcro and snaps and straps nylon loops are found everywhere pockets there are of every size pockets in pockets can be found flags of black hang upside down holding meanings that a......

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Categories: diagonally, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dancing Girl On Iceberg
...behind the straight line joining the numerous drawn curves of the sea the golden glow of the rising sun is pouring into the waves. the most beautiful melody of this earth is heard all around, t......

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Categories: diagonally, appreciation, art, beautiful, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Courtesy Severely Receding Hair Line
...Courtesy severely receding hair line..., yours truly enveloped within morose mood I (Samson incarnate) frankly experience zapped strength, hence sulk and pine for salad days of youth when ab......

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Categories: diagonally, absence, anger, crush, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Criss-Cross Acrostic: Ai My Eye and Ai Ai My Sore Eyes
...Criss-Cross Acrostic: Ai My Eye Criss-Cross Acrostic: Note: *Construe as “words” not as “letters”: Lines 1 and 3 read alike reversed; Lines 2 and 4 read alike reversed; likewise vertically......

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Categories: diagonally, word play,
Form: Acrostic

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