Night Carnival Delights
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We hit the fair gate at half-past eight,
The sky lit up like candle lit birthday cake.
Fairy floss blew from hand to mouth to hair,
As the Ferris wheel spun; wild dreams in air.
I won a teddy...
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Categories:
ducking, adventure, celebration, color, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Politically Speaking
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A word or two about my view of the politicians
we presumably put in positions of power
hobbyists bought and paid for under the table
catering to manipulating lobbyists by the hour
where...
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Categories:
ducking, how i feel, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Ghosts
...Really don’t matter if they f with me
I just love to see friends coming up, but they ducking me.
Brought my own ladder, it’s hard to handle for most,
Getting support from this flow, tryna bal...
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Categories:
ducking, friendship, hip hop, rap,
Form: Verse
Con-spire brands, and despair'
...It burns real sore..Much despair is tendered.' Like it or not? Like could your soul be up-ended?
Its under the fence.? Beyond those pales.' It whispers there are screams; and epic fails.'
An exampl...
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Categories:
ducking, abuse, appreciation, cancer, education,
Form: Free verse
Bad day at Stop And Shop
...Jack had just escaped the local slammer
He’d struck the sheriff's car with a hammer.
He tried to look normal, in an aisle in Stop and Shop
But he wondered who might be an undercover cop.
Sall...
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Categories:
ducking, chocolate, confusion, hilarious, humor,
Form: Lyric
Chasing Dr Death
...Dr. Death, sure that be your name?
Looking for you day and night
Ducking and dodging was the old game
Some may say my mind not right
Seeking to face you in different ways
Many opportunities to...
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Categories:
ducking, dark, death, humor, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Per Paparazzi
...Watching & waiting while in hiding
and faking
Views for the taking but unaware
what is waiting
Freezing & shaking but is it fear or
its weather?
Snapshots for the taking posing for
them cuz i...
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Categories:
ducking, meaningful, perspective, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Bone Beach
...There’s a beach I found
Somewhere on the coast of Massachusetts.
Its sand is ivory white
Unblemished by seaweed or driftwood.
You have to walk through the forest to get there,
But the skeletal t...
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Categories:
ducking, beach, dark, death, memory,
Form: Free verse
after the novel
...After the novel
The elderly gent next door drinks a few beers
before going to bed, to fall asleep quickly and
avoid unwanted dreams
We can say his dreams are a myriad of chaos
of thoughts duc...
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Categories:
ducking, absence, africa, allah, bangla,
Form: Blank verse
I FOUND MYSELF REBORN
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She led me by the hand
Through a green forest.
Twisting around the trunks,
Ducking beneath low branches.
I followed blindly in love
With the feel of her hand
And the utter sweetness
Of ...
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Categories:
ducking, dream, fantasy, imagination, miracle,
Form: Free verse
My Love
...Your skin glows like apple blossoms crispy as the sunflower in the purest hope of spring.
My yearning heart rises to your cymbals voice and leaps like a lion at the whisper of your name....
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Categories:
ducking, humor,
Form: Free verse
Jack and Jill - The True Story
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* Examples for the contest
Jack and Jill (the real story)
"Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after..."
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Categories:
ducking, humor,
Form: Narrative
look closely
...rabbits in tall grass
ducks ducking underwater
deer along tree line
squirrels running up tree
naughty cats in hiding spots
I know where to look...
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Categories:
ducking, animal,
Form: Haiku
Sleepwalking through the void of the unknown
...I can’t breathe it is killing me. It’s so I can see is this void happening below me I can’t wake up that’s a trap from the void
I can’t wake up and start this over. Wake me up and give me a reason...
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Categories:
ducking, abuse, anger, cry, deep,
Form: Free verse
You are me
...It is all about you
For god's sake - you are exhausting to be around - I can't stand you
You just drain me and use me
You are supposed to be there for me
Where are you?!
Swanning and duckin...
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Categories:
ducking, loneliness, lost, lost love,
Form: Free verse
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