Smile and Know it
...Isabel was the youngest of four children, dwelling in a large old house,
Nestled under the burgeoning oak trees, in green spring, of no doubts.
Isabel's parents were devout churchgoers, i...
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Categories:
faddish, child, devotion, easter, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Where's Sam
...Mary Davis dwelled on a fruit farm, adoring the company of animals.
Most beloved was sociable Sam, who made her giggle, like bubbles!
Whereas Mary was seven-years-old, Sam, her lamb, was ...
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Categories:
faddish, children, fun, nature, nursery
Form: Couplet
Drumrolls
...Samuel Woodruff was a very old man, who once drummed for the army;
That marched to his rhythmic music, along with all fifers, playing hearty.
That was a lifetime ago, in dawn days so pink...
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Categories:
faddish, fantasy, march, memory, music,
Form: Couplet
Caesura Caesura
...A genuine concern that is poorly expressed
I heard her speak of him as she made light
of his emotions and feelings for the woman he
wished to marry.
Her need for attention, showed when we noti...
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Categories:
faddish, character, culture, fashion, guitar,
Form: Bio
A Face Like Thunder POTD
...I was a planetary climatologist, who studied climate variability and change,
Like sweet variability of stunning, green tulips, in lavish garden rearranged.
Studying the said effects on the biosph...
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Categories:
faddish, fantasy, flower, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
Paul Pyper's End
...eerie earth whooshing
punctured pride pulsing
smirking over corpse
damping drooling draws
rustic rally rising
ginormous gaunt growling
salient sydney scrunching
flowing yell fostering
fiddl...
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Categories:
faddish, dark, death,
Form: Sonnet
Cookies
...Now they say that girls are made of sugar
And spice, but good girls finish last my friend.
For there is one truth for all women kind,
Come hell or high water we will fight
For our right to indulg...
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Categories:
faddish, food, heart, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
The Apple
...I lay spread-eagle in a field orchard;
Surrounded on four sides by long-grown, green grass
On a dry, October's noon. Nonchalant.
I watched a small squirrel climb a tree, close;
The branches sha...
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Categories:
faddish, absence, allegory, analogy, depression,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
A Lady I Know
...I saw a lady I had known as a girl,
A gem in natures' collection, a real special pearl.
The girl has become a lady, a classy one at that,
Whether decked in a tiara or a funny, faddish hat,
But, a...
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Categories:
faddish, daughter, father
Form: Rhyme
Terrible Teens
...Crochety,crusty and cross,
ever at a loss;
testy,touchy and huffy,
full of fickle fears,
impulsive teenage years.
Sulky,sullen then glad
faddish,fretful or sad;
tense,dejected and downcast,
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Categories:
faddish, teen,
Form: Alliteration