Couplet Challenge Rhyme
...The position of rest is with buzzing provocations,
Depict mind as it like, full of vibrations,
The pattern will not be drew to so easily
Let all winter our feelings from fire to the dale for wat...
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Categories:
frisking, 2nd grade, hope,
Form: Rhyme
THE PATH WELL TRAVELLED - POTD
...POTD 23 Mar 2024
THE PATH WELL TRAVELLED.
Two paths diverged, and I was thrown by doubts I had never known
To my left, thickly overgrown, w...
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Categories:
frisking, inspirational, journey, life, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
That Happy Dream
...Frisking in that saffron warmth
It came to me, and forgotten mirth
Once again rang in my chamber
To the tune that just took birth
To quell this long slumber.
I was still asleep, cold and dry...
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Categories:
frisking, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Revenge Kisses and Afternoon Shams
...Have I failed you as a man?
Our only communication was what washed up on shore
But there's so much space between the ocean floor and the sand
One cascades and the other crystalizes
But you can...
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Categories:
frisking, emotions, extended metaphor, fear,
Form: Free verse
Unassailable Purity
...An empiricist gem,
cut many ways; lives
in my dangling essence,
draped over my soul.
The why— their hearts'
squeeze marks it up—
while frisking for
a scar that's recent.
With the burned re...
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Categories:
frisking, angst, dark, deep, grief,
Form: Free verse
Immanent Yet Transcendent
...Written: September 21, 2023
Immanent yet transcendent Contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker
God is both fully transcendent and utterly immanent – extensively beyond us but...
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Categories:
frisking, analogy, appreciation, devotion, dream,
Form: Rhyme
F Having Fun
...forever fragrant flowers
freshly frozen French fries
frosty frigid French pie
frightfully frumpy frogs
F is frolicking, having fun
frilly frisky Frankenstein
freezing frivolous frazzled fried...
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Categories:
frisking, word play,
Form: Alliteration
Water World
...I had always loved being near deep-sea water, and I was never too far away,
As the beauty of fresher tomorrow, is but mystic hours from prevalent today.
I enjoyed swimming and boating and surfing...
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Categories:
frisking, beautiful, color, fantasy, nature,
Form: Couplet
Clumps of Puppies
...The puppies in Petunia Patch are pinching pumpkins today!
We wild ones ran down the road, yelling Hip! Hip! Hip! Hooray!
October sun was streaming down making the afternoon quite gay.
We laughed a...
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Categories:
frisking, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Yurt
...Yearlong, we have waited,
yearning for vacation,
yet like nomads we dwell,
yon from city life, spritzed
yellow frisking through firs,
yielding to swift trail bends,
young, sleeping in bunkbeds....
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Categories:
frisking, adventure, fun, green, holiday,
Form: Pleiades
Symbols In Flight: 1941
...I'd have loved to see the bluebirds fly
above the white chalk-cliffs of Dover--
and as they were blithely soaring over,
immersed in thought I'd lie
in calm repose upon that beach,
admiring their...
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Categories:
frisking, world war ii,
Form: Sonnet
Let Misinterpretation Remain Sparse
...Human race, don’t boast on the casualty coast
Frisking, seeking, pricking and nicking the truth
On a continental coast as to your truth you toast
Sending to Coventry the uncouth
Pummeling the t...
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Categories:
frisking, poems,
Form: Free verse
When Life Was Really Child's Play
...Oh, the stress-free, carefree world of children
O' take me back to the lil kids' playpen
When we tried on mom's cosmetics and lipsticks
and built playhouses with plastic blocks and bricks
And h...
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Categories:
frisking, childhood, children,
Form: Couplet
The 'Fixer' Got 'Fixed'
...Written By: D. Collins 4/9/2018
The New York feds came in kicking in doors.
Frisking, then putting them down on the floor.
Snatching e...
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Categories:
frisking, farewell, journey,
Form: Sonnet
A Tear For Syria
...The nation sprawls, prostrate:
broken limbs, crumbling bodies;
valley of vultures,
cloud of flies,
frisking scavengers.
Victory throws a party for ghosts;
a once boisterous land—
now a s...
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Categories:
frisking, war,
Form: Free verse
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