RECIPE FOR POETRY SOUP
...*RECIPE FOR POETRY SOUP
Would like to come face to face with Gordon Ramsey.
Being on his reality cooking show quite suits my fancy.
Would like to create poetry so...
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Categories:
double check, 12th grade, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
I Am Fear
...I'm what fuels anxiety's climb,
stocking silence, shrouded in shadow.
Around since the primordial slime:
the more you feed me, the more I grow
morphing into terror, over time.
I'm what...
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Categories:
double check, angst, anxiety, emotions, fear,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Release
...make a plan with zest and zeal
reinforce it with imagination
just before it becomes an obsession
release all desire bubbles in space
having paused the cause of movement
double check for pos...
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Categories:
double check, freedom, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Learning curves
...Slight bumps in the road to make us stop and double check our work and make us learn from it...
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Categories:
double check, life,
Form: Monoku
Desire the jinx
...Desire, the jinx, be watchful, heart
Double-check each impulse
Path is simple, add love to cart
Feel within bliss beat’s pulse
Softening attention
Follow love’s suggestion
Release...
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Categories:
double check, desire, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Call it curiosity
..."Call it curiosity"
Does anyone on this app really believe
That somehow or another every one of us
Truly think that one side is meant to deceive
Or that one side is the one that is only one to p...
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Categories:
double check, abuse, allusion, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
Time to Die
...Wear a wristwatch, for you may die in your sleep,
a timepiece, one with an alarm you can set.
Best not to wake up dead still locked into that last dream,
for sleep is just death pretending to be c...
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Categories:
double check, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Revolution
...Double rainbow
Double check
Zodiacal Light
With baby birds...
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Categories:
double check, adventure, memory, missing you,
Form: Free verse
Walking Distance
...In walking distance from my house
Are restaurants a’plenty.
In just a 5 block radius,
There must be more than 20.
There also are a lot of stores –
For food or drugs or liquor
And also severa...
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Categories:
double check, new york,
Form: Rhyme
Thought of the Day
...Within each activity, just be still ~
Double-check if we’re aligned with God’s will
03-September-2022...
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Categories:
double check, god, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Glitch In the Matrix
...The Soup is playing tricks on me
Or I am losing what is left
On my grasp on reality
And WhatsHisName’s committed theft.
Time and again, I write a verse,
Submit it to a contest next,
Return t...
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Categories:
double check, missing,
Form: Quatrain
Thoughts Not So Quick
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Thoughts not so quick, as mindful eye
Nipping them in the bud
Desires decry before heart’s sigh
Lest fears stain soul in blood
Double-check, doublethink
Before ego can blink
Lov...
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Categories:
double check, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Teabag Sign
...You loved your cup of tea with honey
Well known for it in your time
We laughed about when you passed
You would leave me a “teabag sign”
When you left we all encountered your visits
In the for...
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Categories:
double check, mother, spiritual, sweet, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Gotcha
...The orange juice was being sold
At quite a nifty price.
I bought a few containers,
Feeling proud, not thinking twice.
But something made me double-check,
Since looks would not suffice,
And th...
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Categories:
double check, business,
Form: Rhyme
It Boggles the Mind
...They put up a sign on the highway
Which pointed the way to a bridge,
Replacing the prior one, thinking
Perhaps it improved things a smidge.
But yikes! No one bothered to proofread;
The name of...
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Categories:
double check, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
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