Mrs McVim the Town Seamstress
...Can’t any other mamas make pleats, take a tuck or hem?
Mrs. McVim, the town’s notorious seamstress asked of Dick and Jim.
Their mother was dead, so she could not help them.
She ended up shortening...
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Categories:
hemming, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Bank rolled by billionaires
...Bank rolled by billionaires
No matter Tuesday, November 5, 2024
still one hundred and eight days away,
(thank you Julian Date Calendar -
FOR LEAP YEARS ONLY),
I believe a foregone conclusion
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Categories:
hemming, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Sans sixth psychic sense
...Sans sixth (psychic) sense...
poise zen dystopian rant
This prognosticator doth predict
potential based at current rate
sinister debacle that will
instantaneously annihilate,
United States st...
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Categories:
hemming, abuse, america, anxiety, april,
Form: Rhyme
Witch G Bawing
...She eats her lunch while precariously balancing herself on a line
None of us clearly know why, but she tells us it keeps her feeling fine.
Several ebony crows come by cawing, hemming, tooting and h...
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Categories:
hemming, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Psychologically still thirteen
...Psychologically still thirteen
Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place th...
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Categories:
hemming, 7th grade, age, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Autumn Dream
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Written: November 12, 2023, For JCB Brul Contest
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With a balmy wind
nature sings its symphony~
as leaves dance above
Life's...
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Categories:
hemming, analogy, appreciation, autumn, tree,
Form: Tanka
The Lady Stands Relaxed
...Assimilates with fireworks in the sable blue sky, the luminous daffodil orb emitted from the statue’s torch - twin towers intact. Demi-towers stand tall as the celebrant colors sizzle and whiz, like ...
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Categories:
hemming, america, art, celebration, imagery,
Form: Ekphrasis
George Washington Set Potus Precedent No Lie
...George Washington Set Potus Precedent...no lie
trumped hill re: by a bill yon votes
and bridged tradition (Abe Lee) linkedin
to present president; biden his time
trying to build back better
s...
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Categories:
hemming, 12th grade, absence, africa,
Form: Free verse
Fifty-Two Pickup
...rising and falling
hemming and hawing
fifty-two pickup
jokers included...
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Categories:
hemming, imagery,
Form: Verse
Gibbering Jabbering Gibberish Haint No Recipe To Sound Glib
...Ofttimes yours truly assiduously tries to adlib,
but blubbers like a landlubber
at sea treading water donned with bib
(that doubles as yellow
spongy bobbing life jacket)
furiously doing doggy ...
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Categories:
hemming, addiction, assonance, blessing, confusion,
Form: Free verse
The Cauldron
...I’d rather that my message was encapsulated in poetry
Instead of the hemming and hawing of the world
Seems a curse held under the breath, malodorous
You know what they’re thinking, as if they ...
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Categories:
hemming, angst,
Form: Free verse
The Fat End
...We are the workers, call us
an hour before an absent fill shift
The pyramid sprouts atop of
The heavy depths of broad ordinary,
Breadth mopped and swept
Silent cogs push motion
Everywhere, ...
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Categories:
hemming, anger, business, endurance, poverty,
Form: Free verse
War Cry
...The world is burning down in ashes
And up rises the horror; sailing in skies
From the charred corpses that lay down;
Marred and maimed,
Up rises the smoke of terror
Amidst the war cry !
Let m...
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Categories:
hemming, how i feel, peace,
Form: Prose Poetry
During Sermon No One Seemed Inspired
...During Sermon No One Seemed Inspired
During sermon no one seemed inspired,
Were almost sleeping while being tired;
Hemming and hawing;
Pawing and clawing,
And up congregation finally was fired...
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Categories:
hemming, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Winter
...I awoke to find
that Jack Frost had paid a visit
to my bedroom windows
for the very first time
this Winter.
If only I had seen him at work
I would have thanked him
for decorating
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Categories:
hemming, introspection, metaphor, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse
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