Pure Imagination And Fantasy
...There once lived a one eyed girl who had twenty twenty vision
she used her imagination each time she turned on the television
One peeper would sleep while the other one looked and looked ...
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Categories:
healthful, child, creation, emotions, wisdom,
Form: Couplet
JUNE BERRIES
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Juicy and sweet, these berries delight,
Unique flavor with a hint of almond's bite.
Native to North America's land,
Eaten fresh or dried, both are grand.
Baked into pies or made into jam,
En...
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Categories:
healthful, fruit, june, native american,
Form: Acrostic
An Interview with the Color Purple
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Hello, everyone. Today we welcome the famous color Purple to our show.
Hello. I’m so happy to be here.
So, tell me, Purple, Why do people refer to prose sometimes as purple?
Ha!...
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Categories:
healthful, color,
Form: Narrative
March A Symphony of Change
...March strides in, bold and bright,
A bridge between the chill and light.
Its winds may howl, its skies may cry,
Yet whispers of spring begin to sigh.
The **Spring Equinox** takes the stage,
Da...
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Categories:
healthful, beauty, march, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Upon the precipice of an abyss
...Upon the precipice of an abyss
I stand able, eager, & ready to jump
impossible mission to swallow lump
muscles primed analogous to pump
prayer for soft landing on mine rump
bereft this johnny ...
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Categories:
healthful, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
One of My Biggest Addictions
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I’ve always been a foodie.
So many foods do I love,
but there’s got to be just one
I never get enough of.
It’s popular as a snack.
It can be salty or sweet.
Do you think you know by now?
B...
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Categories:
healthful, food,
Form: Rhyme
Delphic
..."The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me." Ralph Waldo Emerson
I lie upon the forest floor
In motion with the lull
Of the wind’s instrumental snore
Around and...
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Categories:
healthful, birth,
Form: Rhyme
One Wild Flower
...A wild flower, grew up through
a crack in the pavement, I wondered,
why already not trampled
by so many preoccupied feet?
Sat I down on a
park-bench, further pondering this yellow
charmer,...
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Categories:
healthful, courage, cute, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Healthful and Delicious Tea
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I never used to drink sweet tea,
and neither did I drink coffee.
The one drink that my mother made
was the 60’s stand-by, sugar water called Kool-aid.
I never liked it much; I wanted pop instea...
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Categories:
healthful, drink,
Form: Rhyme
Green
..."But green's the color of spring
And green can be cool and friendly like
And green can be big like a mountain
Or important like a river or tall like a tree"
Verse from Bein' Green by A...
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Categories:
healthful, green,
Form: Acrostic
Autumn Beyond Doubt
...A feast of eye-catching hues swirl midair,
stoic fragile leaf a chill whisper,
overt orange, deep vein red,
pallid yellow, scaly amber,
jumble upon bright clad jumble,
earthbound mattress on a g...
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Categories:
healthful, autumn, creation, earth, environment,
Form: Imagism
My Favorite Soup
...When I was young, Mom mixed tomato juice
with beans and ground beef; I would misconstrue
this liquidy deliciousness as soup.
Later I was told chili is a stew!
That’s because most people make it...
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Categories:
healthful, food,
Form: Rhyme
Zucchini
...I do not like the taste of zucchini,
so might I please suggest
we have instead fettuccini?
That dish has zest!
Zucchini is considered a veggie
ver...
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Categories:
healthful, food,
Form: Rhyme
All Seasons
...All seasons are healthful,
but we can succumb
of so much love before
summer heat...
We can let ourselves be contaminated
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Categories:
healthful, allegory, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Earth Seeks To Entertain
..."The sounds of Earth Is the Music of my Soul"
Earth Seeks to Entertain
No sound pleases me like falling rain.
When it drums on my roof
It banishes my every pain.
Its little drops both chee...
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Categories:
healthful, care, creation, earth, music,
Form: Rhyme
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