Dunstable Downs
...A hillside of walkers gathering slow
blend with the gold medal fields all aglow.
Kites finding freedom, flutter and flow
as looping Red Kites begin to swoop low.
Families with picnics bask in t...
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Categories:
footballs, animal, appreciation, beautiful, bird,
Form: Rhyme
One of my most special days
...Like every other, just a day where I could something do.
I come to the Park seeing my big sister play since she was always watching me.
By standing infront of the fence, my little brother asks me: ...
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Categories:
footballs, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Waiting To Be Headless
...In ancient cities and times,
kings, rulers and their often-faceless consorts,
were exalted in marble statuary,
yet
so much of those effigies
now remain headless.
Those bygone exalted figures
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Categories:
footballs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Free Range Youth
...In those days we bought gloves with grip pads
to go with our Nerf footballs
Because our hands were not yet large enough
to pantomime dads that stood too close to the TV
and ran from commercial br...
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Categories:
footballs, childhood, football, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Baby Blues
...The doorbell chimed
She answered
It’s a pregnant woman
She never read the no cold callers sign then, he thought
Are you going to see what she wants
Footballs on, a man should never be disturbed ...
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Categories:
footballs, birth, judgement, relationship,
Form: Free verse
What Kids Did
...Compared with us, the kids today
Too little play and too much weigh.
Alone indoors they snack and sit
And buttons hit, while we stayed fit.
We'd quickly chores and homework do,
Then dash th...
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Categories:
footballs, children, fun, growing up,
Form: Quatrain
Lisa
...Lisa, a fellow freshman who lives in our neighbor suite, is a breathtaking beauty from New York - the kind of beauty that toppled ancient Greek empires - a sun-like beacon to the male sex. Anna (one ...
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Categories:
footballs, crush, humor,
Form: Free verse
Hooray
...Hooray!
Wet grassy feet fill my soccer cleats.
Hot sweaty teens run fast track meets.
She skis down sugary mountain tops.
He begs his coach to play shortstop.
Footb...
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Categories:
footballs, baseball, football, fun, softball,
Form: Rhyme
Afflicted Afghanistan
...Like nations many, at Central South Asian seam,
With its roots in the Paleolithic time stream;
Home of cultures, habitats, and martial movements,
Lounge of Arab, Muslim, British, Greek amusements....
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Categories:
footballs, abuse, betrayal, conflict, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Balls
...
Hard balls, soft balls
Hiding on the loft balls
Red balls, white balls
Feeling feather light balls
Big balls, small balls
Hitting on the wall balls
Golf balls, tennis balls
Plastic table...
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Categories:
footballs, fun, word play,
Form: List
Christmas Is Creeping In
...Christmas is creeping in.
I’ve seen my first quality street tin.
The John Lewis advert is out
And the motorised reindeers about.
Shop windows glitter and glow,
Ladbrookes give odds on the ...
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Categories:
footballs, christmas, together,
Form: Rhyme
Child's Play
...I played quietly sometimes
With crayons, books and pictures
Creating crafts that only a child
Could enjoy or imagine with
Images of brilliant hues and hopes
I played silently sometimes
With ...
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Categories:
footballs, 2nd grade, appreciation, child,
Form: Free verse
Footballs Meat Pies Kangaroos
...We love football meat pies kangaroos and Holden cars
We’d sing it at home in the playground and in bars
The good old days when everything was Australian made
But that ended then and now the song ...
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Categories:
footballs, eulogy,
Form: Ballad
A Blustery Autumn Day
...A Blustery Autumn Day
Mischievous bursts of autumn’s laughter
Pulls down the last of the season’s bright artistry
Carried away on blustery gusts,
Weaving a tapestry of autumn’s magic
In...
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Categories:
footballs, autumn, seasons, wind,
Form: Free verse
List - a Boy's World
...When I was a boy in west Texas I kept a treasure box much the way building corner stones are done - with an eye to the future anticipating a grand opening one day.That day came this year when I offic...
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Categories:
footballs, old,
Form: List
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