The Seeker
...The Seeker
I have come to find shelter
with a fire dance on my lips,
my waist turning heads,
twisting in the tango of my history;
I have come with a storm in my eyes,
perhaps you will name me...
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Categories:
electrocute, 9th grade, appreciation,
Form: Blank verse
AN ENDANGERED MOUSE
...A man is born homo-Erectus
Into a world
Where women wants
To usurp authority
A world where
Women will electrocute her man
If she can’t wrap him
Around her little fingers
Thus I often beg God...
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Categories:
electrocute, animal, destiny, emotions,
Form: Light Verse
Gertrude and Dotty
...
She is known as Dotty,
her actual name is Gertrude,
that secret she will take to her grave.
Powerful people have always sought her out.
Edison visited in the summer months,
he proposed many ...
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Categories:
electrocute, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Colin the Caped Cabbie
...Colin is a cabby with a proper taxi cab
He drives for all the passengers an Uber didn’t grab
Which means he has a lot of time to kill most every day
And lots of evil folk to deal with if they come...
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Categories:
electrocute, hero, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Seen the Mongolian Death Worm
...have you heard of or seen the Mongolian death worm?
has he spat venom your way or tried to electrocute you?
you need to travel to the Gobi desert, where he is.
in the 1950’s there were many hyster...
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Categories:
electrocute, myth,
Form: Free verse
Feverish Touch
...like
tremor
of a leaf
in gale force wind,
that wicked fever
coursing through your fingers
electrocute my body.
your hands giv...
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Categories:
electrocute, longing, passion, simile,
Form: Etheree
Industrial-Revolution
...During the United States’ industrial revolution,
Eli Whitney invented interchangeable parts;
Identical components that could be substituted one for another.
This creation was made for machine—
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Categories:
electrocute, history, humanity, technology,
Form: Free verse
Gertrude
...The President of the United States called last night,
he spoke most curtly, demanding to know her middle name.
She sent him packing with a stinging rebuke.
Her middle name is Gertrude;
that secre...
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Categories:
electrocute, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Cavorting Around While Fecund
...Peachy keen verboten maiden jailbait
USA plum ova ripe fruit
inevitably, inimitably, invariably,...
whets whistle pubescent magic flute
impossible mission to rein with absolute
zero sucks esse t...
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Categories:
electrocute, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Metrical Tale
Lucie's First Christmas
...My first Christmas with Lucie,
I had some qualms, you know.
No idea what to expect
when I put up light show.
Would she climb the Christmas tree,
and bring it crashing down?
Would carefully w...
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Categories:
electrocute, cat, christmas, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Silent Echoes of Her Tongue
...It's always those who reside in our hearts,
whose words, like lightning,
electrocute our soul,
and in each pain there is a lesson.
Her life was like a room without a view,
those 'rainy day' ...
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Categories:
electrocute, death, loss, pain,
Form: Free verse
Two Words
...Two Words
Dream
Scheme
Beam
Team
Shout
Pout
Duel
Shot
Life
Death
Brain
Drain
Stupid
Cupid
Dumb
Numb
Rum
Thumb
Prosecute
Electrocute
Einstein
Infinity
I...
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Categories:
electrocute, assonance, history, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Edison's Hammer
...(William Hammer, Thomas Alva Edison's assistant,
has reached the end of his tolerance. His boss is
planning to electrocute an elephant for a publicity
stunt.)
If he goes through with this, the...
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Categories:
electrocute,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Justice Stalks the Day
...Just electrocute my body
Just electrocute your body
Justice knows that we are one body.
Because the universe stopped breathing,
My body is glowing, transmuting
glow'n dark
towards a lost low...
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Categories:
electrocute, dark, loss, surreal, ,
Form: Prose Poetry
Struck By You
...Every time I hear the thunder
I sit back relax and wonder
What my life would be like
If I hadn't been struck by you
Would I still breathe
Would I still eat
Would I give up and accept defeat
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Categories:
electrocute, appreciation, beautiful, best friend,
Form: Free verse
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