Jasprit Boom Boom Hurrah
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Camera zoom...Boom - Boom shakes the room
All eyes on the prize
Rise & lies of franchise
Moolah the crueler ruler
Sparking doom and gloom
Marking Test cricket’s demise
If ther...
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Categories:
exponent, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Scotch Tape Sweepstakes
...Scotch Tape Sweepstakes
The easy to handle
sticky sided material
made of a variety of materials, including
cellulose acetate, polypropylene,
PVC, and adhesive
(alluded to in the title)
appli...
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Categories:
exponent, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
My New Year Resolutions
..."It is so easy to make resolutions, but to keep them is an uphill task"~ By Poet
We take new resolutions on each New Year’s Day,
But never seriously stick to them and success ebbs away.
I ...
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Categories:
exponent, celebration, character, funny,
Form: Couplet
The Pursuit of Contentment -POTD
...Whatever the offerings of time may bring
Whatever song my heart chooses to sing
On life’s small pursuit I shall meditate
Elysian splendor around me, I appreciate
The simplicities of pastoral ...
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Categories:
exponent, change, deep, endurance, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Vocabularist
...His use of English was exquisite
His vocabulary superb
He could use the mot juste
To make his thoughts reverb,
Tousled moppy hair above
A big bespectacled grin
The sort of warm personality
Th...
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Categories:
exponent, friend, humor, inspiration, memory,
Form: Rhyme
He Gave Her a Book
...She grew up in the modernity of urban culture,
fascinated by the rhythm of contemporary music,
decided to make the career of choice
as a professional pop singer.
An exponent of traditional art,...
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Categories:
exponent, books, god, inspirational, song,
Form: Free verse
Atlantic Beauty
...A soft shadow was cast,
As we spot a magnificent ship with a mast.
Who had a vision in this world?
Of the stories, that were to be, left untold.
Spectacular in every way, Queen of the vast ocea...
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Categories:
exponent, beauty, emotions, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Body of Lies
...Upon the font of a photograph
the full frontal magazine
slick press and press up
muscles in paper cut
the shape
the form
the make up
exponent of the elastic wonder push up
Squeeze the stone...
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Categories:
exponent, beautiful, beauty, culture, cute,
Form: Free verse
Ten Up
...#84
TEN UP
10^0
Ten to the zero is really just one,
positive power, its a whole, not a part.
We don’t move from the decimal,
it’s just where we start.
10^3
Ten cubed, or a kilo,
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Categories:
exponent, math, mentor,
Form: Rhyme
I Can Feel Maa Within Me
...I can feel MAA within me
How it all began
It's as fast as
Sun rays can run
Everlasting miles
Keep us near and apart
Still your presence
Sitting in heart
As time passes
Love for y...
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Categories:
exponent, devotion, love, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
School Time Crush
...Dear strong, mysterious Mr. Richter,
I have adored you all semester.
It's all about the way you say "cosign"
and the command you give to busy equations.
You keep those numbers all in line,
as ...
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Categories:
exponent, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Shape of Pondering
...From the village to my villa under the sharp axes to tax collector to colloquial meme to artificial
Fake cat to collaborator in my skin to skinny jeans the breasts pointed like the pyramid of Egypt...
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Categories:
exponent, addiction, allusion, art,
Form: Ballad
X Marks the Spot
...X Marks the Spot
It’s the 19th consonant, 24th letter, of the alphabet,
A Teachers’ markings, for wrong answers on a test!
A Greek numeral representation for, the number ten!
An unnamed or unk...
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Categories:
exponent, education, relationship, symbolism, word
Form: Rhyme
The Giant of Lisbellaw
...Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow
Momentarily paused -
To contently reclin...
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Categories:
exponent, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
The Icon of Nigerian Politics
...FOR DR. ABUBAKAR OLUSOLA SARAKI
Ilorin is bereaved again: another calamity has struck!
Ilorin has lost another pride of the community.
Saraki this time! Why has Mr. Death focused on us?
He has al...
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Categories:
exponent, bereavement, , literature,
Form: Elegy
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