Angel’s Heartbreak is Profound
...Preferential treatment does hurt.
Jealousy swept under bedskirt.
She pinches the harp in background.
Those black and blues strings, plucked, resound.
The eldest withdraws with lone wor...
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Categories:
harping, heartbreak,
Form: Kyrielle
High Decibel Wife
...
For twenty years of nearly happy married life
he heard the harping voice of high decibel wife,
and in the process lost half of his hearing sense,
the other half now gets tense in wife’s prese...
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Categories:
harping, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Here's To Love
...
Everyone is forever searching for love
Some find it, then lose it, for some it lasts a lifetime
They are the fortunate ones waking up each morning
Knowing that special person will alwa...
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Categories:
harping, love,
Form: Free verse
The Castle in My Mind
...The Castle in My Mind
Around the same time
of each leap year,
My mind runs out of rhyme
and freezes out of fear.
Even if I
am not even here.
Even if I
am not tucked into the sheet
of...
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Categories:
harping, age, allegory, allusion, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Autumn Fall
...Gold leaf falling from the promising tree
Brisk breeze of an October fall.
The birds loud in their fallow,
With the changing season of tommorow.
The branches cling on for hope
But snap and cra...
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Categories:
harping, feelings, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Here's To Love
...
Everyone is forever searching for love
Some find it, then lose it, for some it lasts a lifetime
They are the fortunate ones waking up each morning
Knowing that special person will always...
...
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Categories:
harping, love,
Form: Free verse
Here's To Love
...
Everyone is forever searching for love
Some find it, then lose it, for some it lasts a lifetime
They are the fortunate ones waking up each morning
Knowing that special person will alwa...
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Categories:
harping, love,
Form: Free verse
The Take My Wife Please Paraprosdokian
..."the take my wife please paraprosdokian"
harping
unlike
Harpo
honking
as if one
of a what
the flock
goosed
geese
i seem
to be
or not
to no
i am
knowingly
continuously
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Categories:
harping, color,
Form: Free verse
Don'T Fall For the Biden Agenda Part 2
...If the people of the state of Georgia are smart, they will elect their republican candidate for senator against the democratic one. It will succeed in a 50/50 evenly divided senate and it will take V...
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Categories:
harping, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Lets Go To the Dollar Store
...My husband is never fully honest about Saturday morning.
He pretends we are only going to the Dollar Store
We have to spend twenty-five dollars to save five dollars.
I usually spend fifty to seven...
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Categories:
harping, husband,
Form: Narrative
Hounding Him To Death
...When are you going to fix the garage door?
He had just gotten home from an eight-hour-day.
Was barely in the house when she began harping.
Can I please put on my comfy clothes first? He wondered.
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Categories:
harping, husband, wife,
Form: Narrative
Being Hounded To Death
...When are you going to fix the garage door?
He had just gotten home from an eight-hour-day.
Was barely in the house when she began harping.
Can I please put on my comfy clothes first? He wondered.
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Categories:
harping, husband,
Form: Narrative
After Serving Six Long Hard Years At Methacton State Penitentiary
...After serving six long hard years at Methacton State penitentiary...
as mini reunion number
XLV fast approaches
Saturday, April 30th, 7:00 pm
until 10:00 pm
at The Trappe Tavern, 416 West
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Categories:
harping, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Playing the Harp
...From strings miserably out-of-tune,
voices compose music, sung a cappella.
Writers join them prepared to oppose injustice
yet harping over the kinks in government.
September 1, 2021...
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Categories:
harping, 11th grade, allusion, jealousy,
Form: Free verse
Watching the Sharks
...I know it is my wedding day
but I need to study the sharks a bit longer
Her mother left her then.
Her sister kept harping for a bit
Eventually wandering away too
What am I getting into? She as...
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Categories:
harping, father daughter, wedding,
Form: Free verse
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