Charise Collects Puppies and Birds
...Puppies and birds, they were Clarise’s go-to’s.
She always had her eyes out, she never did snooze.
Fishing them out of crevices, crannies and old boats.
She never brought home llamas, donkeys or g...
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Categories:
dribbles, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Anxiety The Monster
...Anxiety consumes.
IT eats
And IT eats
devouring,
until the only substance left is drool.
A drool so cold and numb,
one could say IT hurts.
IT dribbles down the brain
looking at memories,
lo...
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Categories:
dribbles, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Fears
...Enveloping me in a cloudburst,
my minacious blues held a funk.
Dribbles are now torrential,
a rainstorm in my brain.
Overactive mind,
l’m exhausted.
Let me go
right now
fears!...
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Categories:
dribbles, anxiety, emotions, fear,
Form: Nonet
Of Trust and Money
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He’d done this hundreds of times
Step up to the line and make two dimes*
Small crowds, large crowds, no matter
He sunk ‘em all, every record shattered
Three d...
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Categories:
dribbles, basketball, money, success,
Form: Couplet
Tint Of Orange
...Ecstatic eye of night
thoughts tangled tangent
tint of orange moon
slivers were just hazy
incipient learned launch
as the querulous quirk
indented ingress idly
still desperate to capture
thou...
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Categories:
dribbles, beautiful, beauty, celebration, color,
Form: Imagism
Rain
...Raining
Downpour Showers
Slows Drizzles Sprinkles
Misty Moisture Sticky Muggy
Splash Dribbles Droplets
Waterproved Spots
Rainbow
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Categories:
dribbles, analogy, art,
Form: Diamante
Sartorial Self Portrait
...Solid denim
torn at the knee
dark hues of cotton
comfortable as can be
tears from the loving
of horses' gentle pull
stains where
children's hearts were full
A hint of reds
purples and gr...
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Categories:
dribbles, clothes, color, i am,
Form: Rhyme
Raindrops 2
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Lugubrious blue mood skies funereal and morose shed raindrops,
they unleash tableau vivant torrent’s wet tranche,
blessing, bane or boon from vault of heaven,
damp pearl blob bewitching...
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Categories:
dribbles, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, celebration,
Form: Grook
Winter Knight Minichu
...Through my chest, Winter slips
Her chill as a coat of arms;
Honed breathlessness—
The whitest of white; milky touch—
She has a warming heart's warning,
As the frost dribbles out of Her clutch....
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Categories:
dribbles, age, journey, love, morning,
Form: Rhyme
Rainbow
...If I were to look inside a rainbow
what sight would I find to astonish me?
Would there be a klatch of bright elves below
with brimming buckets and brushes in hand?
Would they giggle and sing as...
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Categories:
dribbles, cheer up, color, fun,
Form: Verse
Rain Caress
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Today is a drizzle day,
The softest showers fall,
A rain caress from the grey
clouds above does enthrall ~
Drench my heart, o gentle spray!
A brush of love from on high,
A s...
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Categories:
dribbles, rain,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
The Silent Song of the Sighing Breeze
...Your sigh indicates as though you are tired, sad, and worn out,
Yet, how lovely is your song, dear breeze, how melodious!
Flowing, with scent, from a source unknown to an unknown route,
You make p...
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Categories:
dribbles, nature, wind,
Form: Sonnet
Seasons Awry
...In summer we shatter into pieces of grief
In autumn we decay as a fallen leaf
Mizzling rain that dribbles down begrimed window pane
Binds me to the chain of an old...
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Categories:
dribbles, beautiful, black love, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Screw O'Clock News
...(Tucker’s Wet Dream!)
It seems ‘twenty-four/seven’ Republicans choose
to subject us, our nation to “Screw O’Clock News”
as if Truth’s all that exits their Trinity holes!
What they say is pure g...
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Categories:
dribbles, humor, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Football Commentary
...I write in remembrance of the late Dennis Liwewe (Zambia's No.1 and Celebrated Football Commentator). Here is a short football commentary:
"Ah, this is Dennis Liwewe. We are here in Mauritius, where...
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Categories:
dribbles, appreciation, celebration, sports,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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