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The Sunshine Singers Come to Play
...In dribs and drabs, in fits and starts, the elders slowly congregate; in the common room of the seniors' home, they patiently sit and wait. Some are wheeled in, some simply shuffle in orderly fa......
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Jim Healey
Categories:
fits and starts,
age, appreciation, celebration, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
The Trump Card
...The Trump Card Our world, it burns in fits and starts Gaza, Ukraine, Russia, Israel are parts That burn aflame and tether on a brink What do we need? A solution? A drink? Truth be told it’s a ma......
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Yuvarasen Gounden
Categories:
fits and starts,
abuse, adventure, africa, allegory,
Form:
Free verse
Bad ass beauty brought bedlam, and begat bastard child
...Bad ass beauty brought bedlam, and begat bastard child... courtesy booty call minus preemptive measures while plugg naughty bits of tarnished knight while he took tea and crumpets within mistress......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
fits and starts,
11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along
...Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along... as his stronghold diminishes. Signals, triggers, and ushers kickstarting debut of demure "Flora" who slowly but surely attempts to revea......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
fits and starts,
america, animal, birth, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
Turning the maxim familiarity breeds contempt on it's head
...Turning the maxim familiarity breeds contempt on it's head... not just in time for Valentine's Day but the remaining days of our lives as the world turns on all our children the young and restle......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
fits and starts,
absence, adventure, anger, anniversary,
Form:
Free verse
Treasure The Jokes From Your Joker
...More can’t piddle with their piddler Nor can fiddle with their fiddler Age removes more than a little Rage just leads to the hospital Life gives us many fits and starts Strife’s left once we l......
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David Fisher
Categories:
fits and starts,
age, body, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part ii
...Highlight of Goofus and Gallant bred within the survival instinct of hungry hordes of prey, when Earth in the balance against an uncomfortable truth smug smurf like scavengers. Pun......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
fits and starts,
absence, adventure, africa, america,
Form:
Free verse
Shattered dreams of New Canaan
...Shattered dreams of New Canaan no longer land of the free home of the brave, original rightful occupants hoodwinked, petrified, where diseases xeroxed ambushed, crushed, extinguished, squashed......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
fits and starts,
allegory, america, analogy, animal,
Form:
Free verse
Swath of pristine tractless snow white landscape
...Swath of pristine tractless snow white landscape... tell tale sign where winter storm Demi left her mark. Beautiful and bountiful visual scene (seldom seen around tri-state geographic area fo......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
fits and starts,
adventure, allusion, america, angel,
Form:
Free verse
Some Final Thoughts for 2024
...It has occurred to me that as I grow older and use my life experiences more, everything means more than it did before. So, here I am, at the end of another year soliloquizing about myself, studying m......
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Jim Slaughter
Categories:
fits and starts,
age, appreciation, introspection, philosophy,
Form:
Prose
wait for Wendy
... ~ for J.M. Barrie ~ I’ll wait … you know I will - I’ll wait for you … here … but not a single instant longer than forever I’ll ply the puffy sky for the breath of you (for that world w......
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Gregory Richard Barden
Categories:
fits and starts,
adventure, analogy, beauty, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
The monumental bane of OCD obsessive compulsive disorder
...The monumental bane of OCD - obsessive compulsive disorder As origin of *****Sapien species surged ahead, harboring nascent predominance asper said primate reproductively bred, (albeit via incr......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
fits and starts,
adventure, africa, animal, anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
Our Great Hope
...Our Great Hope (An Easter Poem) As sun arose bright morning crept. Night's darkness fled, though few had slept. Tears fell from eyes, left wispy trails, as night rang out with sobs and......
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Robert Zimmerman
Categories:
fits and starts,
christian, easter, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Love's Blind Eye
...Love always thinks it's chosen well, Discerns no qualities to criticize. In the loved one all is loveable, And defects become virtues in a lover's eyes. To speak, or write, or sing of love, A lo......
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Jim Slaughter
Categories:
fits and starts,
love,
Form:
Rhyme
Elusive Ephemeral Ethereal Expansive Eye I Witness Timelessness
...Elusive ephemeral ethereal expansive eye (I) witness timelessness Analogous to Möbius strip - measured passage of existence seems to defy any beginning or end (unless Artificial Intelligence s......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
fits and starts,
absence, africa, animal, birth,
Form:
Free verse
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