Pens of Praise
...The factories no longer exhale fumes but fillers
Clanging steel is traded for selfie stick.
Whip is gone but the gaze remains.
Wage is still dingy and stale.
Accepted without questions.
When t...
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Categories:
fillers, allegory, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun Sonnet 130
...My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.
Her skin's mahogany, not regal white.
She slaps on paints and fillers by the ton,
and has the dress sense of an anchorite.
Fastidious? Only in he...
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Categories:
fillers, how i feel,
Form: Sonnet
Beautiful
...She was gorgeous, pretty, breathtakingly beautiful. She was more than just her scars, and battle wounds.
Those only made up a part of who she was, but not everything she stood for. She's wise beyond...
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Categories:
fillers, confidence, courage, encouraging, happy,
Form: Free verse
the first commandment
...The First Commandment
we have got a message
if anyone writes from the river to the sea Palestine will be free, and will not be published because it is upsetting for Israel to hear what
is an obv...
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Categories:
fillers, absence, abuse, anti bullying,
Form: ABC
Avante Garde
...Ritinello
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Featured in several languages
in unstressed syllables
it's origin is from the
Hebrew word shva
which represent a Simu l...
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Categories:
fillers, beautiful, celebration, creation, culture,
Form: Ballad
Vanity is Insanity
...Your vanity is insanity.
And it is a painful sight to see.
Whilst looking through the looking glass.
How did your life become so crass?
Why did we all become so vain?
Reflections in a windowpa...
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Categories:
fillers, beautiful, dream, fashion, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Magnets
...Rock paper scissors,
popular events have seat fillers;
seven minutes in heaven,
a bingo call of legs eleven.
Sweet and sour,
rising dough needs flour;
popcorn watching a movie,
forty years c...
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Categories:
fillers, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Nature's Sprawl
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Thrillers, fillers, spillers line the garden wall!
Artful, appealing, alluring thrall!
In morning, at noon, or night,
pinks and purples, bright!
Stupendous
sight!
Tremendous
beauty a...
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Categories:
fillers, beauty, environment, flower, garden,
Form: Other
Streetbeat
...who's counting bridges in shiny town
the air-cutting sirens sound closer today
and newsmen run to compile their shows
around the sidewalk sleepers
trucks reversing shout their intent
to ear-ph...
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Categories:
fillers, city, community, culture, day,
Form: Free verse
Picture Perfect State
...It starts with a smile
A bright flash blinds
Captures the moment
Look at the memory
Filter applied to maximise
Shared to friends alike
Waiting for something
To create that feeling
Approva...
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Categories:
fillers, beautiful, confidence, fashion, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Repristination
...Repristination: to restore to an original state
A humble home of yore
Caught the flames ablaze,
Burned down to ash-floor
Razed to a smoky haze.
Only if we could
Line up the pillars
Renew...
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Categories:
fillers, home,
Form: Verse
The Time Between the Seasons For Contest
...Blank space, white noise
Miles of useless matter
Hours, days, and years
Filled with futile chatter
Boxed memories
Disregarded
Neglected roots
Where you started
‘‘Twas familiar
Some moon...
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Categories:
fillers, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Frozen Dessert
...Our freezer must always have ice cream.
A low supply sends an alert
But my husband’s last trip to the market
Brought home something called “frozen dessert.”
The packaging looked just like alway...
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Categories:
fillers, food,
Form: Rhyme
In Walmart
...I find myself foraging, basket in hand
among the cocoa harvests of distant lands.
A shaft of light crashes
like a Chinese paratrooper
through the store’s skylight,
rays pierce high-stacked she...
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Categories:
fillers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
No More Blooms
...You looked like you were arranging flowers in your head,
eyes appraising something I would never appreciate.
Later, I could tell by your silence that you were dumping
whole bunches of blooms - t...
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Categories:
fillers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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