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Flown Away Independent Now
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Caren Krutsinger
| Quatern |
children, growing up, parents,
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Tired
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Bernard Chan
| Free verse |
growing up, identity, journey,
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The American Nightmare
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James West
| Free verse |
growing up, america, betrayal, corruption, evil,
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Gobsmacked, Bamboozled and Confused
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John lawless
| Couplet |
children, growing up,
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Footfall Of Friends 8x8
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Subimal Sinha-Roy
| Rhyme |
friendship, growing up, life,
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School Report
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Damian Keady
| Free verse |
growing up, childhood, education, encouraging, growing
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Living It Up In the Eighties
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Andrea Dietrich
| Couplet |
family, growing up, history,
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SUCCESS
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deepak srivastava
| Couplet |
growing up,
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EIGHTEEN
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Line Gauthier
| Free verse |
growing up, innocence, journey,
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WORDS ARE
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Tasha Taylor
| Free verse |
child, growing up, life,
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The home that once was
by Kumkum Sharma
When that old tree fell on the ground,
along fell the buds and the pretty flowers
all that was green and glooming,
everything that the roots...
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I do not know? |
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Categories:
growing up, dark, death, deep, grandfather,
Tomorrow's Yesterday
by Alex Anonymous
Everything is changing-
The good, the bad, and even the evil.
Looks are all exchanging
As if time is stuck in the medieval.
Structure...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
childhood, growing up, inspirational,
Villanelle: If only it were as easy as to turn the clock back
by T Wignesan
Villanelle : If only it were as easy as to turn the clock back
If only it were as easy as to turn the clock back
Seize...
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Villanelle |
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Categories:
betrayal, growing up, introspection,
Wild Grape Preserves
by Maurice Rigoler
You didn’t need a keen nose to catch the scent of wild grapes.
Pungent, sharp, and strong
they stained the air with their foxy aroma purple as...
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Light Verse |
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Categories:
growing up,
Serious Sibling Subluxation
by matthew harris
Serious Sibling Subluxation...
Rapprochement Somewhat Salvaged Dislocation
This trademark ungainly, unsightly,
and unwieldy title essentially
huzzah mask queer...
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Enclosed Rhyme |
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Categories:
growing up, 8th grade, deep, growing
THE GOD IN YOU
by kurtis scott aka curtis futch jr
deep in side
the sprit your guild
this is world wide
every race and face
things you do
if its good too
its the
THE GOD IN YOU...
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Prose Poetry |
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Categories:
emotions, growing up, inspirational,
Shall he get fired
by Evan L M
Shall he get fired,
Maybe its time to see where this life leads me, His music was on, Lindsay Stirling to start it off, following some...
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Narrative |
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Categories:
growing up, identity,
A Country Dies
by Brenda Chiri
When the leader of the free world will lie
While he promotes such hatred and violence
I feel like I'm watching a great country die
Please bow your...
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Sonnet |
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Categories:
death, growing up, longing,
Something New
by Ingrid Showalter Swift
Go lightly...not tightly
walking tall...into walls
Fall softly...in lofty
places...of graces
Share cares...and fairs
rains...and pains
Speak kindly...and mindly
Smile broad...and laude
When you shake...don't quake
In your eyes...no lies
To the little...teach riddles
and the...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
growing up,
NEW KID AT SCHOOL
by Line Gauthier
I was the new kid at school in grade five
I didn’t know a soul, nobody knew I was alive
I had snazzy new shoes that...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
growing up, anti bullying, color, growing
Hand-Me-Downs
by Rhona McFerran
You started out in life just like me
hanging around in hand-me-downs
from your family
Some were nice, like
your daddy's dimples when you smile
or your mama's almond shaped...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
character, family, growing up,
Full Bottle
by David Drowley
For quality a wine depends,
In part, upon its parent grapes.
But vintner’s art and loving care
Plain grapes may make a vintage prime.
And neglect produces vinegar
More often...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
growing up, love, passion,
One Day At A Time
by Bill MacEachern
I’m still alive
Though not intact
I strive and strive
To stay on track
I try, I fail
I try again
I need to heal
It never ends
The coarse was set
With little...
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Bio |
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Categories:
abuse, depression, growing up,
Rooster Socks Parental Prayer
by Carol Connell
Uncomfortable conversations
like putting socks
...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
child, growing up, parents,
JUST A SONNET XV
by Khazamula Mhlongo
I wrote a sonnet today
About how sad I am
Of how much I feel away
My head is full of problems
That I cannot begin to solve
Hey!...
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Sonnet |
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Categories:
flower, growing up, hurt,
Me For Who I Am
by Haxer Ling
See me for who I am.
Don’t see me as my sister,
I’m not her.
Don’t see me as a child,
I’ve grown up.
You think I never talk,
Listen a...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
conflict, emotions, growing up,
Party animal
by Alex Duffy
I spent so long going out drinking to appear cool
Trying to impress others, but I finally see I was thinking like a fool
I became...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
growing up, deep, depression, drink, growing
SIXTIES
by Line Gauthier
sixties seventies
aging babyboomers
so much in common
posted on October 10, 2018...
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Senryu |
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Categories:
age, growing up, memory,
It is well
by Reka Asedha
Now the 'lie' that thou art
Is now unto a thing that broke apart
Though I should've done my part
It is well, it is well with my...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
growing up, best friend, dedication, endurance,
FORGING
by Line Gauthier
forging
lasting memories
one hug at a time
posted on October 9, 2018...
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Senryu |
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Categories:
encouraging, growing up, memory,