the most important
...The most important
Fine drizzle over the bay, falling slowly and hesitantly
as preparing for a proper deluge
Who knows, perhaps it will not happen, and the sun
will shine even if it is a day ...
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Categories:
hesitantly, 2nd grade, 7th grade,
Form: ABC
Sunset Reverie
...Smiling down on the speckles of sand,
already the warmth is fading.
Dreaming of brilliant
stars to appear
as their mother rested on waves.
At the height of graceful magnificence
her soft chr...
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Categories:
hesitantly, appreciation, beautiful, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse
I’ve understood the secrets of your life
...I’ve understood the secrets of your life,
I’m no longer your former source of strife.
I won’t take a place on your cherished throne,
My sorrow won’t leave your doorstep alone.
The century looks...
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Categories:
hesitantly, life,
Form: Rhyme
Broken mirrors crush me under deceptive appearances
...Broken mirrors crush me under deceptive appearances,
mutilated wisdom whistles hesitantly,
the heron gropes, flying through fragile fantasies and follies lost in the penumbra
Penumbra that pulses,...
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Categories:
hesitantly, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Embracing the Unknown
...I notice the single placemat within the circle of noise,
Placing my phone on the cluttered side plate,
I can feel the Christmas spirit resonating through,
The crowd of extended families unwrapping...
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Categories:
hesitantly, absence, beauty, christmas, hope,
Form: Narrative
Joy
...
Galatians 5:22 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,”
Joy trembles beneath the current,
Rivers of hope, faith and love
Silently swimmi...
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Categories:
hesitantly, appreciation, blessing, christian, hope,
Form: Free verse
'I couldn't talk about it, so I wrote a poem'
...Love feels like it's at the tip of my tongue, like the word I know but can't quite get.
I can feel it resting its hand upon my palm and before I can intertwine our fingers it quickly pulls away. ...
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Categories:
hesitantly, crush, cry, desire, emotions,
Form: Free verse
In time
...
In the hospital gown, a skeleton
of the man who once held his little girl,
embracing her like she was fragile,
like the heart who is finally failing him,
the heart who is diagnosed ‘congesti...
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Categories:
hesitantly, emotions,
Form: Free verse
In the vast field of beings, some are stars casting kindness
...In the vast field of beings, some are stars casting kindness,
Somehow born with a mirage that drips mercy of its own accord.
They traverse valleys and deserts, spreading, unwavering, their pure ess...
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Categories:
hesitantly, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
In the vast field of beings, some are stars that cast kindness
...In the vast field of beings, some are stars that cast kindness,
Somehow born with a mirage that drips mercy from within.
They traverse valleys and deserts, spreading, unwavering, their pure essence...
...
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Categories:
hesitantly, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Middle of the Night
...In the middle of the night,
In the plush comfort of a place called home
I lay down with my parents by my side
I sleep with eyes wide open
Fixed on the white ceiling above
On the shadow...
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Categories:
hesitantly, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Fog
...Fog
I feel like I am walking through a veil of thick fog or mist.
I do not know where I am going and I am completely lost.
This is uncharted territory for me and I feel all alone.
It wasn't s...
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Categories:
hesitantly, anxiety, brother, death, grief,
Form: Free verse
Mail Lady
...The van idles: inside its cage
she hops like a starling
from dashboard to counter.
Lady seer, shuffling the motley,
the significant and trivia.
revealing now, the stamped
and foreseeable.
...
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Categories:
hesitantly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
THE STORY OF BABY ELLIE
...
Ellie was just three months old,
When she was brought to our sanctuary,
A safe haven was our fold.
She was an orphan, her mother,
Her sister, her aunt, her brother,
All chased and shot, and ...
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Categories:
hesitantly, death,
Form: Free verse
Sisters For Free
...She came in all bouncy and cute too.
As almost all six-year-olds do.
I had no idea why, she seemed adorable to me.
When I am not in the class, I do not often see…
What errors have been made.
whe...
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Categories:
hesitantly, sister,
Form: Rhyme
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