Morning
...The clouds have opened their eyes wide
And all blackness wiped off the face of
The earth.
Night’s curtain has been drawn.
The rising birds in one single squadron
Halloo the world,
Winging and s...
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Categories:
halloo, birth, morning,
Form: Free verse
a family affair
...A family affair
A big hotel was built in our rather shy town
the hotel's façade faced the town's lake that
had many birds that visitors thought charming
the hotel needed many casual workers, su...
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Categories:
halloo, august, beautiful, best friend,
Form: Blank verse
Heritage
...Hereditary traits
I’m my father’s son I carry his genes
He is a part of me this is inescapable
If I hate him, I hate myself.
Now that I’m older than my father
He is my son, you can’t help bu...
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Categories:
halloo, africa, aubade, beach,
Form: Bio
Still Dithering With Hesitation On Brink of Abysmal Precipice I
...Infinite pitch black void zoomed,
I vacillated then pitched headlong
(head and knobby knees, over heels)
where skeletons in shuttered closets roomed,
and antithesis of freedom loomed
large (thin...
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Categories:
halloo, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Past Are Memories
...The past are memories
Going back to my old house in Algarve was a sad affair,
we took the old road it is a bit longer but less speedy and free.
The motorway also cost a lot of money in toll and...
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Categories:
halloo, beautiful, betrayal, blessing, deep,
Form: Blank verse
Dithering With Hesitation On Brink of Abysmal Precipice
...Infinite pitch black void zooms,
I vacillate to pitch headlong (head over heels)
where freedom looms
large (think) cosmic size grand canyon grooms
espouses, and cloisters unbridled wedded bliss
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Categories:
halloo, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
When Old Sailors Slipp Anchor
...When old sailors go
A seaman sees death as an ocean of tranquillity
no storm will upset his raft he can safely sleep
Through the ages of time, fish can swim, whales
Blow a rainbow fine, and s...
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Categories:
halloo, arabic, art, august, autumn,
Form: Blank verse
And For Supper Tonight
...And For Supper Tonight...
The Missus Prepared Her Trademark Tortilla Pizza
Hmm...yum...after a hard
days night of reading Hebrew,
though I do not know a word,
nonetheless taking leftist to rig...
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Categories:
halloo, appreciation, food, health, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Odd Is the Poet
...Odd, is the poet
He was the odd boy in the family
in a town that doesn’t rhyme with anything.
He wrote strange words in a notebook
the teacher told him to stop this nonsense
and learn that 2X...
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Categories:
halloo, absence, car, cat,
Form: Blank verse
Genetic Pool
...The Genetic pool
I`m my father`s son I carry his genes
He is a part of me this is inescapable
If I hate him, I dislike myself.
Now that I`m older than my father
He is my son you can`t help bu...
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Categories:
halloo, abortion, absence, age,
Form: Blank verse
A Gift Spurned
...A Christmas gift spurned
In a busy Christmas street, I saw her; I was sure it was her,
the way she walked, I could sense her perfume too.
Ran after her, touched her shoulder said halloo, she tu...
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Categories:
halloo, abuse,
Form: Blank verse
Pre97 3 Poems
...Uprooted
Roots and searching for answers
Tiny boxes music dancers
Small, petite, and slowly climbing
Slowly songs release, forever winding
Absent end one dive from death
And snow falls with r...
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Categories:
halloo, beautiful, beauty, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Love Sonnet
...Love Sonnet
This afternoon at the local grocer I had bought a bottle of beer
and a tin of tuna fish and I meet the daughter of the woman
I had been in love with, I had never seen her before and ...
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Categories:
halloo, blessing, blue, environment, funny
Form: Sonnet
Washing Machine
...Washing Machine
There was a time I always went home, by road rail, flight or by bus
I always got there and still do. Even though when I get there I want
to leave. The house shrinks every year s...
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Categories:
halloo, childhood, class, hope,
Form: Bio
Topography
...Topography Lesson
Geography, I was good at it in school but somehow I missed San Marino.
I vaguely remember a movie with some lady star of yore making
a film about the place, maybe I have got i...
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Categories:
halloo, humor,
Form: Sonnet
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