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...SPIN A SHADORMA Poetry Contest
Nette Onclaud-6/3/2025
A pool shark
Swims with the guppies
Half drowning
Half acting
But full of toy skills at times
He swears he's lucky...
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Categories:
guppies, allusion, money,
Form: Shadorma
One Day
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Guppies in my garden pond multiplied
Lilies bloomed
Bushy.snow white rose flowered
Berries ripe
Sparrows
Squirrels
Breeze
Every Breeze brings a song
Every song brings a guest
Every gu...
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Categories:
guppies, encouraging,
Form: Other
My Favorite Elementary School Teacher
...As the yellow-orange sun slowly rises
Memories of your class's fun flood my heart
Thoughts run to your teaching and enterprises
You brought those tiny ...
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Categories:
guppies, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Infertility
...Be kinder to the tree, they say
Don’t poke or prod or cut at it
Don’t try to break its branches
Don’t run up to attack it
Be kinder to the fish, they say
Be gentle with the guppies
If c...
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Categories:
guppies, health, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Outdated, Inflated
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The truth is outdated
Falsehoods inflated
With hyperbole
created…
Fishing poles baited
wriggling worms slated
to reel in us guppies
addlepated…
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Categories:
guppies, analogy, fish, hyperbole, truth,
Form: Rubai
Guppy Vs The Great White Shark - Quantum Subject Specifics: Sizes of Matter
..."Another of my quantum features of simplifying a complexity by eliminating delusions and the typical brush off of facts because of ones inabilities to warrant an explanative worthy to stand o...
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Categories:
guppies, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Merwoman Mamiue
...Who can control the gold guppies the fishwisher did ask.
Merwoman Mamie said she might be up to the task.
She had raised some children – mermaids and mermens.
Pretty soon she had the gold guppies ...
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Categories:
guppies, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
What About Fish
...cat, dog and a red and black bird.
Her pet fetish seemed to some absurd.
She likes the feathers and the fur.
But what about scales? Do they tickle her?
The next week after luncheon, we got an a...
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Categories:
guppies, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Singing Goldfish
...Their silver nightclub microphones were mega-big, giant size I’d say
Three sensuous singing goldfish stepped up to sing the night away
They started with Chattanooga Choo Choo which always makes me ...
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Categories:
guppies, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
I Appreciate My River
...in the spring my river has an unusually active flow
tearing down her channel as if she is racing herself
I stand in the verdant grass with bare toes, watching
marveling at what delights might be h...
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Categories:
guppies, water,
Form: Free verse
Yvettas Harp
...Yvetta entered the forest quietly, barely making a noise.
She saw some pixies and elves getting out mischievous toys.
They noted her harp and wondered what she was about.
One of them made a tiny s...
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Categories:
guppies, animal, music,
Form: Rhyme
I Fit Into a Band of Vagabond
...Such a lively band of vagabonds
Saxophone player, acrobat, chimney sweep
Their music parades into my mind as I fish
Enjoying their rhythm as I enjoy catching guppies
We are in a fantasy world t...
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Categories:
guppies, me,
Form: Free verse
Shebas Advice To Sea Creatures
...gray seagulls and dolphins begin jumping and flying around the sea
knowing that soon they will be graced with honor of mysterious she
Sheba appears daily after the clown fish pave the way for her g...
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Categories:
guppies, sea,
Form: Rhyme
April 9th, 2023 Birthday Poem For Dearly Departed Papa
...April 9th, 2023 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
Borne aloft into the netherland
the body bearing thee soul
of Boyce Brandon Harris
birth name given to my late father
buoyed aloft uni...
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Categories:
guppies, age, anger, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Colorful Wonder
...Cascade of colors swirls in a fishy maze,
a tank of topicals swim the watery haze;
as a plastic diver opens his treasure,
what's inside is strictly his pleasure.
Tetra's dream of tasty bites...
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Categories:
guppies, animal, fish, nature, ocean,
Form: Sonnet
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