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PARADISE CALL
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Abdul Malik
| Acrostic |
flounder, spiritual,
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Bizarre
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Jack Ellison
| Limerick |
flounder, emotions,
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Donny Brook Doth Runnel Along
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matthew harris
| Free verse |
flounder, 11th grade, 12th grade,
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Fish Wish
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Maurice Rigoler
| Light Verse |
flounder, humorous,
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Onerous Ordeal
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matthew harris
| Dramatic Verse |
flounder, 11th grade, 12th grade,
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When We Rise Each Morning
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The Brooklyn Six Project
| Free verse |
flounder, courage, encouraging, inspiration, inspirational,
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Mistaken Gospel Truth Rigour
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john sensele
| Free verse |
flounder, poems,
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Love's Arguments
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Keshan Govender
| Free verse |
flounder, appreciation, care, first love,
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Whoop Whoop For Love
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Jack Ellison
| Narrative |
flounder, love,
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The Introvert
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Mario Vitale
| Free verse |
flounder, anxiety,
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The Long Road Back
by DrJim Martin
THE LONG ROAD BACK
To “find” oneself is often the way
That folks from normalcy go astray.
They leave the comforts and routines of home,...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
flounder, bible, christian,
Sharpen Those Social Skills - INSTANTLY
by Nina Parmenter
Are you socially awkward or totally British?
Does small talk just make you feel nervous and skittish?
On the school run, the bus, in the office each...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
flounder, fun, funny, humor, humorous,
BOY IN THE TREE
by James Edward Lee Sr.
BOY IN THE TREE
And on the child climbs the tree
As he arrives on the forked branch
He sits ever so still it's very windy
It's spring and...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
flounder, adventure, boy, cute, fun,
Winter Woes
by Patricia LeDuc
Winter Woes
There is snow and more snow and more on the way
As weathermen take over the networks today
There is a blizzard on the way
So the...
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Light Verse |
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Categories:
flounder, funny, games, giggle, imagery,
100 Crooked Footsteps
by niall cuddy
Early in the morning
And insatiable
A drifter on the dock
Washes what was once
The stain of love.
100 crooked footsteps
I flounder
Under the hail
From beach to door
With...
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Light Verse |
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Categories:
flounder, dark, good morning, growing
A Recipe for Humour
by Paul Callus
These humorous lines were inspired by
Viv Wigley's "Food Fight" contest.
Could not resist the temptation:)
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Light Verse |
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flounder, food, humor,
New beginning Page 53c
by Owen Yeates
Cornucopia
There's a cornucopia of words I could use
To extol your beauty and virtues
There's a vocabulary avalanche that could appear
On this ream of papyrus in...
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Light Verse |
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Categories:
flounder, celebration,
Aliens
by Jack Ellison
What's the consensus bout the existence of aliens
My take on the subject is their all homo sapiens
Dressed in white sheets
With enormous big feet
Smelling like skunks...
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Limerick |
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Categories:
flounder, confusion,
Believe Your Heart
by Emile Pinet
Vows are recanted and passions flounder
on the shoals of betrayal and remorse.
And drifting dreams navigate in darkness
whenever love starts to wander off course.
Beware...
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Quatrain |
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Categories:
flounder, betrayal, emotions, feelings, heart,
Kingdom Of My Embrace
by Gregory R Barden
“Years” and “Distance”,
Phantoms of the dark
That do their evil in the
Quietude of the everyday,
Coming and going
Without so much as a
Footprint or a whisper,
And taking the...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
flounder, absence, appreciation, children, family,
Stymied by Sensibilities
by John Anderson
To challenge, to confront, to make a reader squirm
with annoyance, is part of what poetry is about.
Each reaction unpredictable rather than thrust upon.
The poet sows...
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flounder, angst, anxiety, chocolate, romance,
Keep playing the Songs
by timothy kendall
Grasping her ticket, she's had since Christmas, in delicate hand.
"Will it still be on Dad?"
and with a forced smile I reply,
"Yes my love"
They can't murder...
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flounder, anger, conflict, daughter, love,
PEANUT BUTTER CUP
by JEAN MURRAY
I think Jack wants me fat.
In fact I am sure of that.
I always ask for one scoop.
Waistlines expand with that gloop.
He insists on giving three.
All...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
flounder, fate, food,
I LOOK AT YOU
by Cindi Rockwell
I look at You and I see the mountains moving
I look at You, and the seas are split apart
I look at You, and I see...
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Categories:
flounder, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Beckon and Dead Reckon
by James Horn
Beckon and Dead Reckon
I hear quaint calls that do beckon;
Determine direction must dead recon,
To find out angle where coming from;
Catch flounder, dolphin and some...
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Limerick |
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Categories:
flounder, allegory, analogy,
Still Kicking
by Duncan R. M. Ferguson
When I enacted the interaxle differential
Would I be abreacted out of my whimsical lull?
Oh the futile gerbil spin-to regain traction again
Have I lost my mind...
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Enclosed Rhyme |
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Categories:
flounder, journey, word play,
The Wind in the Pines 2
by Michael Coy
("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy. "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version of a well-known Noh play.)
2....
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Couplet |
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Categories:
flounder, myth,
PMS
by Maureen McGreavy
I need not
these whoremoans
nor this
baby baking box
nor does my lover
need me flopping
like a flounder
on the docks...
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Light Verse |
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Categories:
flounder, crazy, relationship,
A Morning Prayer
by Tom Wright
A Morning Prayer
Written: by Tom Wright
7-29-2016
Lord, reveal to us those who really care,
As we wring our hands during this hour.
We flounder daily while in...
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Lyric |
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flounder, prayer,
Your thoughts are inches from my face
by Lewis Raynes
You make me run and stumble, flounder and bolt,
Plead with both hands in the air,
And I love you, I hate you, you’re my drug...
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Quatrain |
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Categories:
flounder, devotion, love, sexy,