August 13th, 2025 twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events
...August 13th, 2025 – twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events
The following poem posted about a half hour before the bewitching hour that spelled calamity (which though a frea...
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Categories:
doggedly, abuse, adventure, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Emma and Deacon
...Emma, Empress of Unicorn Empire,
esprit de corps of elementary school,
expeditious at exaggerating expression,
eagerly extending empathy of enormous embrace,
endless enthusiasm, exuberant existen...
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Categories:
doggedly, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Mixing Paints
...I paint a smile on my face, mid-poem the smile
begins to crumble.
Who are these dark angels that cast such shadows
over my laughter.
The brush falls from my hand, now I sketch in charcoal -
teet...
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Categories:
doggedly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
On the moors
...There was a great incline of stone, weathered
amongst the sparsely green valley
whose feet lay at the door of a thatched cottage
and whose head I was treading over now.
A fair stream, no wider th...
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Categories:
doggedly, 12th grade, metaphor, nature,
Form: Free verse
Nearby Ghetto
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i wish i didn’t* but
i have to get across town
so off i go taking the bus
that drives through a nasty ghetto
i’m shocked as i look out the window
to see several dismal characters
i can’t i...
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Categories:
doggedly, life, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Exercise Regimen
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the first week
is absolute hell ...
"gym rust"
an enemy
one must doggedly...
battle and
conquer;
challenging,
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Categories:
doggedly, health, perspective, truth, wisdom,
Form: Verse
No Looking Back
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P r o c r a s t i n a t i o n
Seems doggedly determined
To anchor me to today;
Tells me to set sail tomorrow,
But I'm already on the ship.
She tightly tugs at...
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Categories:
doggedly, allegory, motivation, symbolism,
Form: Alliteration
There are those days
...There are good days, bad days and sad days,
There are happy days, snappy days, crappy days
There are days so fickle it seems you clasp
the wisps of joy eluding your grasp
There are those days...
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Categories:
doggedly, anxiety, depression, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
The Candidate
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Doggedly pursuing all races, all creeds
hoping to please every last one
The hollow chamber on top of his neck and his shoulders
~ a blank check in the eye of each beholder
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Categories:
doggedly, hyperbole, political, poverty, power,
Form: Couplet
Lost Time
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When I was a little girl,
I spent so much time hoping for…
The day I turned 12, 13, 16 and 18.
I wanted to know what it would be like
To wake up and see that girl in the mirror,
The one who...
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Categories:
doggedly, appreciation, dream, fantasy, journey,
Form: Free verse
A positive impact on others
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Gratitude suffuses me today
at prospect to plumb the depths
of a fledgling friendship
(respecting fidelity to wife)
even one bound
within the parameters of cyberspace,
I feel courtesy your a...
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Categories:
doggedly, angel, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Like Water
...Like water
I was the river
You were the sea
I dissolved into you
And thought I was free.
Out of the cage I flew
But landed on my knees
As I tried to flee
The heavy clouds
And storms, of r...
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Categories:
doggedly, allegory, betrayal, confusion, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
...Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
uninvited GUESTS linkedin as the themes of mein kampf.
Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer
avails left and...
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Categories:
doggedly, abuse, age, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
A Sliver of Silver
...I was an experienced astrologer, for wandering stars held much fascination,
Luring in opal darkness of mystery, like beautiful butterfly transformations.
My days were spent charting pretty planet...
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Categories:
doggedly, beauty, fantasy, imagery, moon,
Form: Couplet
Something's Amiss POTD
...I was a successful, scientific explorer, traveling to the remote, distant lands,
Bettering noble lives of many, like budding, green spring which understands.
And every day held fruitful discovery...
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Categories:
doggedly, dream, fantasy, feelings, happiness,
Form: Couplet
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