Adventure Free Verse Poems

I OPENED A DOOR IN THE UNIVERSE  ,
UNAWARE OF WHAT TO EXPECT.
THE ENERGY WAS ELECTRIC ,
I FELT AS IF I WERE ATTENDING THE 
OPENING...

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Education journey
Accomplished essential
Books and Tea hers added to the experience
Believing in one’s self
Willing became the effort
Every letter and numerical digit from beginning to end
Theory with...

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Braving the Salt Marsh

Silly young boys
Returning from a day
At the beach,
In the sun.

The tide is coming in,
‘We’ll cross the salt marshes back,’
They said to each...

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Feat Attempt
Preparation
Practice makes perfect talent capability
Challenging the Mind, Body, Soul
Focus straight line
Step by Step maneuver 
Word of caution
Careful not to fall
Precision in brief pause, but...

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Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 5th, 2004

Often these days
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to...

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Black and white players
Up for the challenge
Sometimes win
Other times the agony of defeat
Predict who will move where
Maneuver
Be clever
The trick
Left, up, right or down
Think Theory
Careful right...

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They say, “Work harder, hustle more,”
like your value depends on how fast you move,
like success only counts if you're always racing.
But what if the race...

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I walked across the earth today,
A ballad seemed to trail my way.
I think the sirens called to me—
Into their ship beneath the sea.

But what had...

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Ten Thousand Feet


Have you ever had a snowball fight

Shorts, feet naked in cold snow,

Mid July?


Unexpected island of white surrounded

By endless hues, tiny alpine flowers

Cupped in...

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Aurora

Stealing a cigarette from dad’s pack
A fifteen year old boy hid in grasses along a faraway shore
To do the forbidden.

Glad that he did.
Sitting, smoking, the...

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Sing softly, whispers are loud , they 
Talk silently,words shout,
Advice not ,sound irritates ,
Comfort not ,my ears ache ,
Hush!just be quiet !

...

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Along the way I break
I carefully observe around
Strictly I will not miss out
So I could not cross it twice
One and the wrong path
I take break...

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She runs ~
not from shadows
not toward a finish line,
nor from the phantoms
of an unknown past.

She aims to traverse~
where the wind withholds its covenant
where cosmic clocks...

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There is a man with a special fleet
Waiting for you at the corner of the street
He has been waiting there for more than twenty years
With...

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birds
often have a spare-row
flying
somewhere in the flock

extra
eyes and ears benefit
survival
with respect numbers

in
this or that tree grove
with
residential birdfeeders

ten
birdfeeders running
actively
almost all of the year 

great
for photography and
perfect
when...

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