Waxing Poetic
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A quick study
fast learner
knowledge gainer
page-turner
info. retainer
midnight lube burner
all at sea
in a world of turmoil
choosing my words carefully
pouring oil on turbulent wa...
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Categories:
gainer, fun, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Mother's womb
...Oh,my dear pear shaped mother's womb, Where unborn baby develops and grows well, Like a fruit that grows on a plant's blume, And it ha...
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Categories:
gainer, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
I Demand Justice For Ryan Gainer Death
...I demand Justice,
For the world's hatred, a blight,
Justice for the innocent's tragic plight,
Where evil prospers in the night,
Like shadows dark, obscuring light.
I demand Justice,
For ...
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Categories:
gainer, 11th grade, dedication, kid,
Form: Elegy
The Mcgainers Are Complainers
...What makes the campfire boho I asked the complainer.
They are weird, loose and carefree, said Nosy McGainer.
She wears long ruffled dresses, Mr. Gainer suggested.
They have so much company, their ...
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Categories:
gainer, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Sounding and Diving
...SOUNDING & DIVING
A man remembers
for the rest of his life
the details of the boat that
hauled him to safety from a
faltering ship
He remembers, too, the loquacious friend
with the comfort...
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Categories:
gainer, love, magic,
Form: Free verse
My Best Friend
...MY BEST FRIEND
My best friend: Beloved sister of mine
though eleven years younger than me.
I reached twenty, when she was only nine.
Most dependable in my gri...
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Categories:
gainer, appreciation, friend, sister,
Form: Sonnet
Money Twisted and Time Blistered
...My current days are trails paved abhorrent
for I wail money twisted and time blistered
within knot plots I cannot get untwistered.
I live as a searcher of dollar measure flexers
and as an oh what...
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Categories:
gainer, angst, conflict, confusion, crazy,
Form: Lyric
Today Or Tomorrow
...Today you Struggle,
Tomorrow no Trouble.
Today you Do,
Tomorrow you Get! !
Today you Pay,
Tomorrow get it anyway.
Today be a Labourer,
Tomorrow be a Gainer..
Today if you Sit,
Tomorrow g...
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Categories:
gainer, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Gymnastics
...Goliath intention
Glitters within reach on
Grecian hallowed ground; the
Girl forged by sweat and chalk
Greets the beam with pristine
Gainer flip, ready to
Grace the world with her feat.
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Categories:
gainer, appreciation, beauty, devotion, endurance,
Form: Verse
At His Arrival - Sonnet
...At his arrival the darkness of all sorts got jerked
Began withering away from the whole periphery
He started preaching "Oneness" to save mankind
From devils’ direct and extreme design of devilry.
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Categories:
gainer, dark, day, light,
Form: Sonnet
I Have Seen the Grasses of Nigeria
...So great and succulent they are; the
grasses here in the shores of Nigeria,
pure with an umbrella of sovereignity;
I have seen the green grasses of Nigeria.
I have seen the elephant grasses ...
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Categories:
gainer, africa, art,
Form: Ballad
The Fall of Fifty-Nine
...In the fall of "59 we played our best...
That was the year we were better than the rest.
Brooks and Richard always led the way...
And John and Butch were there to play.
Campbell and Bailey we...
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Categories:
gainer, football, high school,
Form: Ballad
Laughter Is Where You Find It.-
...Today I cleaned a clogged drain pipe.
It sounds nasty but not really.
This often happen in the country
where kitchen run off goes
to a French drain.
You cap the end and put
hot water in with ...
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Categories:
gainer, naturewater, water,
Form: Narrative