Virtual Globetrotter
Strapping on my goggles
I was hoping to see Meadowlark
But every time I toggled
All I got was Meta-lark
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Categories:
globetrotter, basketball, bird, technology, word
Form: Rhyme
Globetrotter
Reclining in her squishy plush arm chair,
flipping through the pages of her childhood fantasy book
she gazed through the broken window of her dreams
incisively to see the hidden sun amongst her dread.
The indispensable question hung in her consciousness
When did the ambitions she so longed for cease to exist?
The vivid, striking, radiant pages
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Categories:
globetrotter, desire, dream,
Form: Free verse
Globetrotter
Tim had dreamt of magic mountains but was stuck in a snow globe
Luckily there was some antifreeze in the little dome on his desk
Used as a paperweight for discarded inked upon manuscript pages
A complete stark nativity scene directed wilfully by Father Christmas
Who looked like a hobgoblin lost in translation waiting for the storm
Weary for wear
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Categories:
globetrotter, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Globetrotter
globetrotter
prodigal son
back for a visit
AP: Honorable Mention 2022
Posted on August 9, 2018
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Categories:
globetrotter, environment, freedom, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Senryu
Globetrotter
I love to travel to foreign lands,
where friendly elephants eat from my hand,
And the undersea monsters come up on the beach
and stand by my blanket and deliver a speech
‘Bout their standard of living way down in the deep
Where the fish carry lanterns (it gives me the creeps).
Then I visit the desert where
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Categories:
globetrotter, children, funny, fish, love,
Form: Couplet