What Makes Me Smile
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Greeted by the sound of the ocean all sadness eases away
as I skim the surface of a smile, I suddenly make headway
Showered by rainfalls I am filled with the scent of petrichor
I smile, at ...
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Categories:
headway, devotion, love,
Form: Rhyme
Artists At The Vanguard
...Tie my hands so I may not touch others with potent realities
Bind me from what transpires about
Shackle m...
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Categories:
headway, future, poets,
Form: Free verse
The Punchline
...It started off as a domestic
Nothing new in that
With one word borrowing another
The usual case of tit for tat
Men are not so well versed with verbals
While their better halves have words to bu...
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Categories:
headway, conflict, humor,
Form: Free verse
Spinning a Warrior Soul
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Spinning a Warrior`s Soul
In the long journey of life, we embrace
Our path may be laid with thickets an...
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Categories:
headway, appreciation, inspirational, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
our natural state
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Pavlov’s dogs are salivating
bells of nature ring as
every action yields consequences
stimuli evoke a response and
primeval instincts dance with evolution
‘I think therefore I am’ jingles in...
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Categories:
headway, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Dasher and Dancer's Christmas Eve Call Offs
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Dasher and Dancer yelled midair
and said to Santa, “We can't fly!
Earth satellites have made a snare
of wireless currents in the sky!”
Then Santa answered, “Use plan B-
come down one...
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Categories:
headway, christmas, funny, write,
Form: Quatrain
Beg Your Pardon
...I’m in the band called “Beg Your Pardon”
Our latest, “The Luddits Headway”
Sells well, and the “Forest of Arden”
Our hit, has got some airplay
There ain’t no plans for touring though:
The phase ...
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Categories:
headway, feelings, humor, music,
Form: Rhyme
For some enchanted evenings
...For some enchanted evenings...
The following scenario imagined
after the hoopla of
Democratic National Convention miracle workers
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz
trumpeted politically wholesome zea...
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Categories:
headway, america, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Walking
...Walking on eggshells
Tight lipped
Uncertain of every word spoken
Least the tempest
Will be released
Roaring
Waves splashing
Wind storm blowing
Boat rocking
Turquoise water fa...
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Categories:
headway, abuse,
Form: Free verse
St Remy Wine For Enemy
...He had as a friend met Remy,
Now, he is his sworn enemy:
On seeing Remy would withdraw,
Race towards any exit door,
For if Remy did, sword could draw:
A full fight or half of it sure!
A frien...
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Categories:
headway, allusion, conflict, courage, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Passion and Love
...Passion and love
By Michelle Morris
10/04/2022
Passion and love so often confused
Only time reveals the roads we choose...
Oh-oh-oh, Oh-oh-oh...
Sparks with lovers can pull you down
Spa...
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Categories:
headway, desire, inspirational love, love,
Form: Lyric
Into the Blue
...Blue as the ocean,
Deep they penetrate.
Searching for the truth behind the iris.
The past is a reliance, but not the end.
A swimmer he must be.
To weather my storms within.
Torrents of rain a...
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Categories:
headway, analogy, beautiful, feelings, for
Form: Free verse
A Psalm To Solemnize Pure Tin Forefathers Mothers
...A psalm to solemnize pure tin forefathers/mothers...
Who didst unknowingly, unquestionably,
and unwittingly script vitality
and the prologue to Thanksgiving,
(which theme poem initially writte...
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Categories:
headway, adventure, africa, age, america,
Form: Rhyme
Black Widow
...Natasha Romanova, the fair 'Black Widow',
In The Marvel Comis, is a superhero;
Surreptitious, specific, and snake-like deadly,
A one-woman army, when needed, self-medley...!
Adorned with the...
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Categories:
headway, hero, people,
Form: Rhyme
Pervasive
...what is the true pattern of consciousness in this immense universe?
how far into the overwhelming breach has awareness been dispersed?
in the depths of exhaustion, the dark silent stillness nouri...
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Categories:
headway, change, creation, earth, humanity,
Form: Monoku
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