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Premium Member Thirteen States, Thirteen Dreams
...epared and free, "While I breathe, I hope" eternally. New Hampshire’s cry, bold and clear, "Live Free or Die" without fear. Virginia’s might, through tyrants' fall, "Thus Always to Tyrants," freedom for all. New York stands tall, with dreams so high, "Excelsior" calls to reach the sky. North Carolina, steadfast and true, "To be, rather than to seem" is what they pursue. Rhode Island, last, but forever bright, "Hope" their beacon, guiding the......

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Categories: excelsior, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Excelsior to the Would-be Scribes
...Mornings are made for paper and pens In the hands of a would-be scribe, At each day’s awakening between sun and shade And silence is coming alive. From out of the dark, the touch of a spark ......

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Categories: excelsior, writing,
Form: Rhyme



ODE TO ELEPHANT
...ODE TO ELEPHANT Elephant Elephant enveloping essence of Earth ! I hear an elevated trumpet far in elixired fair forests my ears etheric ornaments in your elopin......

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Categories: excelsior, animal, color, earth, extended
Form: Ode
Galley slave to obsessive compulsive disordered behavior announces
...Galley slave to obsessive compulsive disordered behavior announces... Fore score minus xv orbitz ago from being centenarian strong contractions forced me to pass thru cervix, buck naked bare l......

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Categories: excelsior, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Positive Transformation
...O how had I always fallen back; With days full of retrogressions, alack! I was degenerate; Surely a youth of no notable rate. My existence was like an ungodly song With defiled rhythms was it ......

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Categories: excelsior, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Couplet



The Dream
...He races aggressively from task to task, churning through projects and products and pay. Optimize, order, overdeliver. Improve! For fast fades the day ... You'd think he bores easy and can't si......

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Categories: excelsior, dream, love, peace, work,
Form: Quatrain
Elusive Pursuit Endeavoring To Craft a Great Poem
...Elusive pursuit endeavoring to craft a great poem I (analogous to a rolling stone) confess, no deliberate intent, yet often wonder what spurs me to nudge, goad, coax, et cetera semblance of rea......

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Categories: excelsior, 12th grade, adventure, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Halloween Poems Iv
...the Horror by Michael R. Burch the Horror lurks inside our closets the Horror hides beneath our beds the Horror hisses ancient curses the Horror whispers in our heads the Horror tells us De......

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Categories: excelsior, dark, death, evil, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Silence On Market Street
...Everything is still, Everything is virtually quiet on market street I walked slowly down the street listening to a silent song singing from a distance land Then suddenly a strange stench oozin......

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Categories: excelsior, business, city, community, confidence,
Form: Narrative
Elusive Pursuit Endeavoring To Craft a Great Poem
...I confess, no deliberate intent, yet often wonder what spurs me to nudge, goad, coax, et cetera despite modesty regarding ably linkedin words for others to ponder more often than not experiencing......

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Categories: excelsior, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Staying Cool Memories
...Oscillating fans here and there in the house, Naps in a cool cement basement, Folding fans on an evening porch, Dry breezes after twilight. The ice man with tongs holding a 50-lb cube, Throwin......

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Categories: excelsior, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Foxglove Flower
...Translucent is the beauty of the foxglove flower, and hiding is something they never ever do; careful they are extremely poisonous giving rashes, nausea and headaches ! Find them in a cottage g......

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Categories: excelsior, flower,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Stan the Man--Stan Lee a Dedication
...Stan the Man--Stan Lee a DEDICATION He who that says that he is I am I am Stan the man Stanley Martin Lieber was born on December 28, 1922, In Manhattan, New York City, n the apartment of his ......

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Categories: excelsior, analogy, appreciation, books, community,
Form: Free verse
Suffusion of Profuse Elation
...Ah...herewith ma usual dose of pablum from this meal lee mouthed muttering doggerel wordsmith, who now writes... so here's the deal, which reiterates a former zeal namely,......

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Categories: excelsior, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Visit
...The Visit Dimly lit room with flowered wallpaper, bridal chamber for a couple, 1920. In her noontime daydream she could see back then. Coal dust between her fingers, a strong back from ......

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Categories: excelsior, family, grandparents, longing, love,
Form: Free verse

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