In My Deepest Fantasies
...A pegged round point gleams a dream as a passerby
pauses briefly at some display of hearts. Creams alot
enchanted in velvety reds filled with sweet treats that
address the same in my...
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Categories:
floater, beautiful, devotion, fantasy, music,
Form: Free verse
A Personal Touch Valentine
...A Candy Storefront window, a passerby pauses briefly at the array of heart-shaped enwrapped in velvet reds, filled with sweet treats like years before. The same tricks deployed as the byway take poin...
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Categories:
floater, romantic love, valentines day,
Form: Other
Sun Room
...Sitting in the sun room
At a nearby hotel
Reading a new book
All was going well
Ringing, the phone danced
I had an incoming call
“Who is this?” I wondered
And answered it I chanced
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Categories:
floater, family, home,
Form: Rhyme
Sliders
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"Sliders"
500 clicks down, was code phrase for battle ships gone all depth charge. The deeper you go down that black-holed sink, the more you understand in your oxygen deprived brain,...
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Categories:
floater, satire,
Form: Narrative
Impossible
...Under water
without a string
without a floater
unable to breathe
life can be hard
life can sting
life can be impossible
to live.
And then you go
fighting to thrive
swimming on your own
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Categories:
floater, birth,
Form: Rhyme
How Odd
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A pretty flower solitary in an abandoned field of endless weeds
-unpicked by a weed lover, who is unfaithful.
A long zigzagging crack on a ruined wall
containing pockets of moss green moss,
gli...
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Categories:
floater, 12th grade, allusion, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Stinky Pete Cooper - Poop
...My neighbor, Pete, is very frustrated
For two weeks he has been constipated
Then, in Poetry Soup
I heard him yell, "Whoop Whoop!"
His laxative had been activated!
He eats spicy food an...
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Categories:
floater, humor,
Form: Limerick
The Buoyancy of Brilliance
...cream rises to the top
a floater does as well......
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Categories:
floater, wisdom,
Form: Alexandrine
Festival Cricket
...Sitting placed by Square Leg
pint of bitter in hand;
drifting across from Peasholme
music from the band.
This match is like a chess game,
each batter settled in
run rate slowly rising, one end
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Categories:
floater, holiday, joy, september, sports,
Form: Rhyme
What Is That
...*Recently I had an eye retina issue with 1st experience of floaters and flashes in my eye. If you haven't experienced it, on the verge of retina detachment, these are examples:
Monoku: 1
Is...
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Categories:
floater, angst, health,
Form: Monoku
The Imbalancing Ruse
...Fresh and serene droplets rest in galore
As the dawn smiles on them to adore
The tiny prettiness in spectral mode
Downs from out of the heavenly abode ;
In dainty drips and drizzles the elixir...
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Categories:
floater, nature,
Form: Lyric
I Am Waddling Now
...Is that a ghost? I think.
Catching a wisp of a traveling speck in my eye.
I turn and it is gone.
But back soon enough.
Finally see a doctor.
It’s a floater, he tells me.
You will get used to th...
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Categories:
floater, age, women,
Form: Prose Poetry
I Am Not a Robot Part 2
...Me a zombie?
Never!
Just a viral doofus poseur,
Brainiac and hacker on the loose tapping into other genie lamps,
Wireless Stikbot floater skipping ID challenge.
Hurdles that authenticate saliva ...
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Categories:
floater, color, computer, creation, fantasy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Five Elemental Monoku
...I. BISMUTH [83]
rainbow-sheened cubist castles -- silver-pink of hue
II. IODINE [53]
gunmetal grey crystals sublime -- and billow purple
III GALLIUM [31]
metallic grey and stiff...
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Categories:
floater, nature, science,
Form: Monoku
Seahorses For Julia Ward's Contest
...Seahorses.
Who needs them?
Who wants them?
For what?
Really?
Seahorses look like the small letter q, inverted.
No other animals can do that backward tail curve,
Except the husky dogs.
These...
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Categories:
floater, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse
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