Living with Critical Thinkers
...“we estimate tomorrow’s rainfall to be between two and 88 inches.”
that weatherman’s bound to be right, I told my husband.
“not if it doesn’t rain,” he replied.
“Or if it rains less than two inche...
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Categories:
estimate, humor,
Form: Free verse
Summer Solstice 2025
...Summer Solstice 2025
Friday, June twentieth
at 10:42 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun.
This demarcates
most daylight hours of the...
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Categories:
estimate, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse
WONDER WOMAN GRANDMA
...Justice alert
An Old Lady with strong Faith
Knows how to carry to great length
Didn’t have to spin to turn into Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman Grandma carried every day
A Mugger thought an Old Lady b...
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Categories:
estimate, anti bullying, care, character,
Form: Free verse
Runner
...I’ve been runnin'
Out of breath,
cold sweat, lungs burnin'
But these legs, they move but they aint goin’ -
no place, no distance can be found between the chased and the chaser
cuz they’re on...
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Categories:
estimate, anxiety, depression, fear, heart,
Form: Spoken Word
Connecting the dots the Lord's Prayer, Matthew 6:9-13 part two and Q and A
..."In this manner; therefore pray:
Our Father in heaven,(YA HAW)
Hallowed be your name (Holy)
Your kingdom come. (Millennium kingdom come)
Your will be done (divine will)
On earth (Millennium ki...
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Categories:
estimate, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
SILENCE
...Helpless eyes that try hard to convey
a story buried inside...they strongly want to say
"Wait a little you will get a chance"
Time runs out but they don't get a chance
What else can they do...to ...
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Categories:
estimate, emotions, feelings, pain,
Form: Free verse
An Auction of Global Size
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I had financially fallen on very difficult times,
and had to sell many of my valued treasures,
including twenty rolls of uncirculated dimes.
To get the best bids, I'd taken great measures.
Mo...
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Categories:
estimate, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Niagara Falls Welcoming Demise For Those Seeking Suicide
...Niagara Falls has been a Welcoming Demise for centuries. It started with
thrill seekers going over the falls in a Barrel, bringing notoriety to those that survived the feat. They even have a museum ...
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Categories:
estimate, death, depression, farewell, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
The Poetic Genius of Percy Bysshe Shelley
...NN:
"Gemini, in light of the following assessment of Percy Bysshe's Shelley verbal and/or literary IQ and level of poetic intelligence and giftedness by you (from another conversation), how much hig...
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Categories:
estimate, history, literature, poems, poetry,
Form: Prose
Voice Lessons
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At forty, I hired a vocal coach.
My husband had taken up
a new friend—he swore it was platonic,
her name unimportant.
Upfront, she warned me
her rate for adults
was higher than for childr...
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Categories:
estimate, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Lilith
...“The actual guise of her has become apparent” ~~ The Poet
Engaged in rapturous slander.
Forced by reputation to meander.
Through the annals of time,
Deemed worse than a witch sublime
Indicted ...
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Categories:
estimate, night,
Form: Rhyme
Dauntless
..."Put on the dauntless spirit of resolution" William Shakespeare
My passion arouses the pulsing of my heart.
My identity fearlessly embarks toward the start.
The confidence I muster surges da...
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Categories:
estimate, woman,
Form: Couplet
Hallways
...Why must there always be a sacrifice souring the taste of something nice
Just a moment on the lips but a lifetime on the back shelf of the mind
Taking up space you can’t afford
You can barely pay...
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Categories:
estimate, conflict, confusion, deep, growing
Form: Rhyme
DON'T STOPIF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE
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As I was reading my poem to Deborah…a daily ritual I adore…
she stopped me saying, “Jim, I think I’ve heard this poem before.”
Words that immediately began to echo…to reverberate in my ears…
w...
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Categories:
estimate, poems,
Form: Rhyme
I Guess
...We possibly tried
I mean I guess we did technically try right
And I guess me being the way I am made it end
I also guess that none of it was your fault
Right?
I guessed it all
No one gave me an...
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Categories:
estimate, anxiety, emotions, feelings, grief,
Form: Free verse
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