Patience Allied with Perseverance
...“With patience and perseverance
We can win the hardiest race.”- By author
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Patience and Perseve...
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Categories:
hardiest, endurance, inspirational, life, motivation,
Form: Sonnet
Painted
...Painted desert skies
blanket the shifting sands.
Hiding secret surprise
in the quiet badlands.
Hardiest creatures known
walk the hot, scorching earth
living under a stone
proving their robus...
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Categories:
hardiest, color,
Form: Rhyme
Daily At the Mercy of Anticipatory Anxiety, Hence
...Daily at the mercy of anticipatory anxiety, hence...
illogical and irrational obsessive compulsive
exhausting rituals linkedin
with cognitive dissonance
(essentially unfounded worry
birthed co...
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Categories:
hardiest, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
At the Mercy of Interminable Anticipatory Anxiety, Hence
...At the mercy of interminable anticipatory anxiety, hence...
viz hitted courtesy debilitating
one after another panic attack
analogous being bombarded with flak
worse fate then death
or being ...
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Categories:
hardiest, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Why Spoiled Misses Princess
...Why spoiled misses princess...
never wishes to awaken from pleasant snooze
Appellation (with trailing switchback
and/or additional colorful turns
of phrases) emphasizing assigned
nom de plume ...
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Categories:
hardiest, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
At the Mercy of Anticipatory Anxiety, Hence
...At the mercy of anticipatory anxiety, hence...
viz hitted courtesy debilitating panic attacks
Upon waiting for vehicular repair
today November 19th, 2019 at:
CJ'S TIRE & AUTOMOTIVE SERVICES
(...
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Categories:
hardiest, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The Shipping Forecast
...In homage to the waters around the UK and all those who sail them...
Late at night and early dawn
Like clockwork - every day are heard
Those dulcet tones “set fair” to warn
With poetic, most ...
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Categories:
hardiest, high school, jealousy, nature,
Form: I do not know?
Winter's White Duvet
...Winter wears a gown of crystal and lace
woven with ice and snow;
and life shelters in place
when Her frigid winds start to blow.
She blankets all in a white du...
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Categories:
hardiest, 10th grade, beautiful, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Powerful Shower
...It's difficult
for anything to grow
in completely dry ground
hard earth crusted over
gritty like sandpaper
abrasive
yet crumbling
at mere touch
unable to hold together
or support weight
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Categories:
hardiest, growth, life, metaphor, people,
Form: Free verse
Loud Laughing Star
...There once was a loud laughing star
Whose laugh was hardiest of har-hars,
She was asked to be quiet
Which she thought was a riot,
So they made her into a headlight for cars....
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Categories:
hardiest, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Limerick
Creepy Girl
...she is a blatant caricature in loud technicolor
her presence shouts sexual innuendo
alluring with dark undertones
her past shadows her every word
like clouds passing over a weak sun
she is the...
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Categories:
hardiest, angst, crazy, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Stay Afloat
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After Cain murdered Abel, and moved to the east,
evil and violence continued and never ceased.
The devil lives in the hearts of all men.
I must tear everything down and start again.
There i...
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Categories:
hardiest, bible,
Form: Rhyme
Daffodil
...Early in the spring the variable winds and rains fall heavy on grass meadows,
Adding a spring in the turf, waking the mosses on stone walls and stone paths
Purple stems of woodspurge hang in the wet ...
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Categories:
hardiest, nature, old, spring, old,
Form: Prose Poetry
Space, a Tribute To Wagon John
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Featured Poem On Poetry Soup W/O 12/10/2018
I'm just a person
not a tree to be climbed,
Or trampoline to jump on
when so inclined.
A Frisbee I'm not,
to be tossed in the wind,
Or ...
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Categories:
hardiest, allegory, inspirational, me, nature,
Form: Lyric
To Be Loved
...Broken glass and shattered dreams
Living a loveless life
It cuts deep into the soul like a sharpened knife
Blood flows from the wounds of living alone,
wounds that only grow deeper and fester wi...
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Categories:
hardiest, life, lost love, love,
Form: Lyric
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