Don’t Cave InDon’t raise the white flag
when sly boots ennui sneaks in
stoic mould is key
life is that intriguing quest
a conjugated footpath...
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Categories:
happiness, adventure, august, celebration, courage,
Form: Tanka
Phases and FacesThe table’s set, the cards are stacked,?
Coffee is ready, out come the snacks.?
Allana grins, that knowing look—?
She’s got Phase 1 like it’s a book.
We start out slow, just laying sets,?
But soon the room is full of bets:
?“Will she skip me?” “Who's on Phase 3?”?
The drama builds deliciously.
A run of four, a colour sweep,?
Wild cards hoarded,...
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Categories:
happiness, appreciation, best friend, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
MY BABYMy baby Fumi
She never fools me
She always gives me butterflies
In my tummy
She's so funny
But not cunning
She's just like my mummy
She always stands for, by and with me.
She always puts me
Under detention
Without pressure or tension
But just to gain my attention
Because I take her to different dimensions
Leading...
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Categories:
happiness, africa, cute love, dedication,
Form: Epic
For Sweet Morrow's SongEach moonlit walk, each starlight gaze
On nights that knew such carefree days
Each whispered thrill on breezed romance
The passion of another chance
Each salted spray of ocean’s mist
...
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Categories:
happiness, life, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
Emily UnityWe met where souls go to whisper—
in the quiet halls of the Children’s Campus,
Melbourne sun kissing the windows,
and sorrow folding into silence.
I was just a patient,
a tangle of thoughts,
a shadow of myself.
She—
she was the light.
Holding a broken child
like she held the sky—
soft hands, steady heart.
Compassion wasn’t a word in her—
it was a presence.
I never spoke...
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Categories:
anxiety, happiness, heartbroken, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Echoes of a Victorian ChristmasMen in tailored suits
and satin waistcoats,
gold watches peeking
out of their pockets,
walked arm in arm
with women in wide skirts ~
hooped,
crinolined,
elegantly sculpted.
Their tight corsets tease each careful traipse,
leaving traces of elegance and opulence...
dotting the streets at Christmastime
with exaggerated silhouettes.
They kissed under mistletoe ~
hung in doorways,
each kiss claiming a berry
until none were...
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Categories:
christmas, happiness, history, joy,
Form: Narrative
Adore YouThe sun shining so bright and the sky so blue,
There isn’t a day where I don’t adore you.
Once in a deep dark mental place,
You came outta nowhere my saving grace.
You brought my mind back to happy times,
Positive and love, it should be a crime.
I never thought I’d ever be this way again,
But here I am...
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Categories:
cheer up, feelings, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
happiness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Cozy HourWaking up in the middle of the night,
heating the stove to make a pot full of tea.
Oh, how this silence soothes and calms me.
Looking over at the clock, it reads 11:11.
Embers crackle softly in the fireplaces light,
Settling into its warmth, everything feels just right.
Over my shoulders, a blanket is...
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Categories:
happiness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Acrostic
You Are HomeMother's arms reach
across any distance.
Your breath becomes
her heartbeat.
Love flows
like morning light
through eyes
that see all of you.
In your blood runs love,
steady as sleep,
bright as stars.
Birds call your name
in gardens
you've never seen.
Flowers wait,
remembering your
small hands.
Old songs echo forward
you inherit
belonging like breath.
Past, present, future
the world turns...
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Categories:
baby, happiness, home, love,
Form: Free verse
Crazy LaughHe who laugh last
Laugh last longer
Than all the first.
Laugh heart all out
As if the last
Life all there is.
Throwing stone
At angry waves
Laugh after that.
There's a way out
In each tunnel
Except to laugh.
Imagine this
Crazy to laugh
Yet you smile....
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Categories:
character, crazy, happiness, life,
Form: Than-Bauk
The DecentDeep in melancholy fields I sit.
Heavy with the thought, I'm pinned in place
The past, present, future wrestle in silence
A hill of happiness rises in the distance—out of reach, yet inviting
I notice that both sides are longer than the apogee
My legs tremble, not from the height but from fear
Fear of short-lived joy
Each step echoes in the...
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Categories:
analogy, confidence, happiness, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Every WomanShe is every woman,
Bringing love to her man,
She shares erotica,
Ever so wundebar,
She is wife to all men,
Loving chick in his zen,
She can birth, she can bleed,
Cook, nurse, love indeed,
She has the ear of God,
Ere power walk over sod,
She is every woman,
Hope you wave that fan!...
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Categories:
appreciation, beauty, encouraging, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
The Path of the BankerIn endless rows of ticking screens,
Where numbers dance and cold light gleams,
He spent his days in hollowed time,
His heart untouched, his soul confined.
Contracts signed with vacant eyes,
Chasing wealth beneath gray skies.
The clink of coins, the shuffle of files,
Left no joy, no genuine smiles.
Then one day, a scent of bread,
A baker’s voice, a warmth it spread.
The...
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Categories:
change, happiness, life,
Form: Free verse
What the Sun SeesAs I rise,
The moon falls
The wind settles
The lake follows
The sand shimmers
The earth softens
The stars dampen and
The buildings brighten,
A tree houses
A bird swooshes
A flower opens
A fish swims
A weed dances
A squirrel eats and
A duck dips,
A man hurries to work
A woman runs on the boardwalk
A grandfather grabs the paper
A boy hides from me
A girl giggles on the...
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Categories:
happiness, 11th grade, beautiful, environment,
Form: Free verse
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