old pleasures remembered
...The Pleasure Remembered.
I saw her in a cafe yesterday; years had not been kind to her
her hair was matted, her skin was dry, and her lips were a sullen grimace,
not quite hiding her miss- coloure...
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Categories:
didn, 4th grade, age, anti
Form: ABC
Cantata
...Cantata
He stood there on a plateau that only had a tree,
And since he had appeared from nowhere, there
Was there no past to bother with?
He sat under the tree mainly because it was
getting hot,...
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Categories:
didn, absence, adventure, africa, age,
Form: ABC
the date
...The Date.
Sat in a pub talking to a woman of no substance
other than she wore a skirt and had boobs.
Pub closed, I was allowed
to follow her home
through dreary streets
fine rain and yellow str...
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Categories:
didn, absence, abuse, age, beach,
Form: ABC
easter reading
...Easter Reading
In Lima – Peru- a hippo was pulling the tram car with
its best friend, a water buffalo. They had ended up
here, far from Africa, after the great flood ebbed and
had been blessed...
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Categories:
didn, art, best friend, blessing,
Form: ABC
Da Sarig ko Sirig
...Da sa maninai na da sa balakesan
Na lumangkap so tenggao,
Na imanto a gagawii na singayo akn so gagaw
Ogaid na di patot oba pangampit.
Kataya a tentengan nakn so gabon
Sa kapapal iyan na kiyak...
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Categories:
didn, love,
Form: Free verse
A New Toy
...A new toy I found in the mall
for my beloved pet,
a different toy from a ball,
the one she loves to play with.
A plastc chicken I chose for her,
that at first, she didn't like at all, ...
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Categories:
didn, allegory, best friend, blessing,
Form: Free verse
We Prove We Are the Best
...We stood tall
Our backs on the.wall
We didn,r fall
It was no joke
Fought to vote
We did not rest
We prove
That
We are the best...
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Categories:
didn, freedom,
Form: Prose Poetry
And So We Grow Up
...tabula rasa
when we are born a child has no memory
one can say clean slates, after a few days they pick up
the basic like crying when hungry
from there on we fill the baby with what we know
a kn...
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Categories:
didn, birth, blessing, cinderella,
Form: Free verse
Coccinellidae
...Okay, I must admit - no names have been changed to protect anything or anyone! PLEASE do not turn this political and no letters from any woman who might be offended or grievances from union members, ...
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Categories:
didn, funny,
Form: Rhyme
The Orchard
...The orchard
It was a beautiful apple tree with low hanging fruit
shaped by a gardener whose parents had been Jehovah witnesses
(His parents didn´t believe in Christmas)
made to look like a de...
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Categories:
didn, africa, car, child, earth
Form: Sonnet
Another Summer
...Another summer
Summer is over the night arrives hastily
it was a delicious season spent indoors
his cancer didn´t like to sun.
To sit there and dream of summer wine and dance
reading brochure o...
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Categories:
didn, books, culture,
Form: Carpe Diem
The Ring
...The Ring
When I asked my girlfriend to marry me, she was thrilled
and said, now I can quit my boring job and be a housewife.
She called her parents they were coming into town
the next day, mee...
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Categories:
didn, birthday, break up, corruption,
Form: Blank verse
The End of a Friendship
...The end of a friendship
I sat in the kitchen of the flat mother had left me,
trying to write a poem, when heard my former friend
coming up the stairs, I had locked the kitchen door
didn´t wan...
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Categories:
didn, absence, anti bullying, blessing,
Form: Blank verse
Winter1945
...Winter 1945
Shots in the night.
White faces
Snow fell
On cold bodies
Killing field.
I knew and didn´t want to know
Someone
Took me by the hand
Carried me home
Innocence confronted
By de...
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Categories:
didn, evil, war,
Form: Blank verse
It Was Love
...It was love
I sat under a bridge
That crossed the stream
Small fishes
Nibbled at my feet.
Agnes came
My girlfriend
She often annoyed me
But let me
Kiss her.
She threw pebbles at the fish
...
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Categories:
didn, best friend, emotions, humor,
Form: Chant Royal
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