Waterhouse Residence
...she was a ramshackle, eyesore of a house
Uneven, unsymmetrical, with a plethora of problems
One bright red door made the rest of this mess glaringly sad
And yet, there was a whimsical feeling abou...
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Categories:
glaringly, house,
Form: Free verse
she was outrageously glitzy and gaudy
...She was purposefully brazen, garish and flashy
Daughter of Lee, who owned a haberdashery
Her outfits were razzle dazzle, glaringly loud
That’s my daughter, her daddy bragged to the crowd
People...
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Categories:
glaringly, women,
Form: Rhyme
Goblin Ghoul and Ghost
...generous Gus, Greystone’s glaringly green goblin glided into the glades.
giving Ginny Graceful, a gruesome ghoul a glimpse of glorious shades.
gary, Gryffindor’s ghost glared at them; for where was...
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Categories:
glaringly, word play,
Form: Alliteration
Path Of Destruction
...A road to nowhere is all they construct
He who blindly follows will self-destruct
We awaken at dawn just to suffer
For many, life couldn’t be any tougher
Their dark cunning plans brought to lig...
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Categories:
glaringly, corruption, dark, endurance, evil,
Form: Rhyme
In the Shadow of Sunlight
...In the Shadow of Sunlight
It is one of those glaringly bright days that
make your eyes water painfully.
You can't see everything at once but in short glimpses and peeks. Between blinks, half an ...
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Categories:
glaringly, death, dream, sunshine,
Form: Free verse
Glossolalia
...
"Glossolalia"
I closed the external noise out,
and upon entry to that strange place
the colour of Love,
silence broke the heart open
like trumpets penetrate the ...
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Categories:
glaringly, light, spiritual, surreal,
Form: Free verse
The Four Seasons of Man
...Spring arrived, ‘Twas the dawn of man
Consciousness exploded with a Big Bang
We foraged inquisitively for berries and nuts
Soon building settlements and primitive huts
A subtle spark conjured o...
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Categories:
glaringly, earth, farewell, humanity, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Let No One Despise Your Youth
...Let no one despise your youth
May all disciples tell you the truth
In Word,
Not just the first, second, or third, let your thoughts be heard
And your feelings unstirred
Your heart Misguided and...
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Categories:
glaringly, bible, deep,
Form: Rhyme
A New Language
...The new language
It was late August, on a glaringly hot day, when I felt dizzy
went to sit on a gigantic carob tree full of beans on thick leaves
to sit in its cooling shade; it was pitch dark ...
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Categories:
glaringly, abuse, anger, best friend,
Form: Blank verse
Squirrel With Raspberry
...Raspberry, as glaringly large
Package with bulk, bulging.
Squirrel-eyed and squirrel-grasped.
Nuts, bells; enough weighing!
Thinks me, thinks he, if and once dropped:
"The spillage! Red flood-...
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Categories:
glaringly, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Darkness and Light
...DARKNESS AND LIGHT
My friend, you seek to wound
With a knife, sharpened from
Bile-imbued speech,
Twisting through to the heart's fragility.
A life bleeds crimson into weeping
Earth and y...
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Categories:
glaringly, anger, betrayal, conflict, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Daylit Moon
...The distant pings of a windchime
Dance around my head like fairies
My lungs fill with the warm breeze
But my eyes are distracted
By a white stamp against the blue sky
Everything I've learned...
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Categories:
glaringly, beauty, day, earth, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Make That Change
...You’ll know when it’s time to go home or to stay,
When flight seems much better than standing to fight,
When the hair in your beard is starting to gray,
When oncoming headlights are glaringly brig...
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Categories:
glaringly, age, change,
Form: Ballade
Stop Wasting Precious Time Everyone and Call the Next Defendant Please Andy
...Woke up jumped off the couch and
put on a mask
Used in order to survive another average day
Sat on the stairs lit up and smoked
enough to blow a mind and descend
into a heady hazy trance
Oh b...
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Categories:
glaringly, anger, slam, truth,
Form: Free verse
Beware Traveler Upon This Night
...Looming shadows ‘neath sapphire skies;
“whooo whooo” the hooty owl cries.
Jack-o-lanterns scowl beneath the trees
as we shiver in the chilling breeze.
Where tombstones tower above the lands
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Categories:
glaringly, halloween, holiday, poems, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
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