The Jackal in The Bush
...See jakalman standing in bushes with mammary glands looking like a pregnant lion, it is roaming the hills looking for prey and all the animals has to get out of the way and mount the tree above it an...
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Categories:
fishbone, abuse, africa, bullying, community,
Form: Narrative
Fish
...Sometimes what you fish
May not be what you wish
Be careful still
Even a fishbone can kill...
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Categories:
fishbone, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
A Letter To My Mother
...From dusk to dawn
Sunrise to sundown
This I will never forget
Your kisses that always left me in a comfort
And a bliss that no grief could ever secrete
A mile-wide-smile and sweet
That never...
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Categories:
fishbone, cry, death, loss, lost
Form: Rhyme
Fishbone Or Not
...Why does it feel like there's a fishbone
stuck in my throat.
A large one at that, pointy but girthy
No banana, rice, apple, idli, peanut butter mash could dislodge this one
It's almost funny,
I...
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Categories:
fishbone, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
One Square Mile
...In one square mile, northeast of Noojee,
there are seven birds that I often get to see
as I walk on the tracks in pristine forestry,
in one square mile, northeast of Noojee.
A Whipbird crack th...
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Categories:
fishbone, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Tree of Life
...In the centre of the valley of death
Grows the tree of life.
The bones that feed the roots,
Spread its branches
Upwards to touch a fishbone sky.
Awakening is opening an umbrella.
Just as it sta...
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Categories:
fishbone, death, religious, self, symbolism,
Form: Didactic
Silence
...when did we stop.
how did your open face
close its door...
it was alive before
why does your back
say more
than determined
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Categories:
fishbone, love, silence,
Form: Free verse
Dog With a Fishbone
...Dog with a fish bone
She wants me now
She wants me not
She wants no one else to have me
She wants me to care
She wants me to appreciate her
But, she doesn't want to let me in
She wants m...
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Categories:
fishbone, confusion, love,
Form: Free verse
Signs of Shoe Soul Designs In the Soft Sand
...Fashion shoe treads imprinted on the bisque beach
global longtitude/latitude design airborne print in flight
Honeycomb print slowly pacing synchronising footsteps
Concentric wave prints grouping ...
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Categories:
fishbone, adventure, animals, life, nature,
Form: Alliteration