Twain's Advice No 1
...Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.
Mark Twain
I have spent a lot of time and money
My family tree has a lot of vacant...
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Categories:
hm, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Free but Dead!
...At dawn, the world began to wake,
Rushed below as the bustle breaks,
A body smiled, drained of its breath,
Hm, It was me - free but dead!
Shocked in silence, they stood in blame—
"How dare she...
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Categories:
hm, 2nd grade, death, girl,
Form: Kyrielle
spectacle'd
....
you're just gonna stand there
and
watch me
burn
hm
huh
uh
um
...
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Categories:
hm, allusion, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
thuh nerve
....
hol'lup bella
whoze
back mine
'58
6t
thunduhbird
who'do i let hol'me down
so i don't fall'loff when
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Categories:
hm, addiction, appreciation, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Norwegian knight'd
....
shhtop
click
click click
stop
click
kliss
I mean
...
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Categories:
hm, adventure, beautiful, blessing, extended
Form: Carpe Diem
How to Become a Millionaire
...Becoming a millionaire would be incredibly easy.
Invent a calorie-free candy bar
That tastes like a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup
Then go on Shark Tank
So they can advertise it for you.
You cannot...
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Categories:
hm, humor,
Form: Free verse
in the dayz uv yore
....
think uv it
i'm think'n
hm
yesss
the first stood
naked
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Categories:
hm, extended metaphor, humor,
Form: Light Verse
The Brave Coward Inside
...Insecure…
Need a cure…
Need to endure
I want to be pure
I’m just so unsure
Inside, I must endure
My words, at times, injure
My sins are so impure
Mercy makes us feel sure
Lured in by the ins...
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Categories:
hm, angst,
Form: Free verse
When I think about it much more clearly now
...When I would look at you in disgust and closed the door harsh,
I know you would've just walked away.
When I would scream at you in the face,
even if it might be in public,
I know you would n...
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Categories:
hm, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
Fatal graveyard friendship
...Fatal graveyard friendship
On the last day of my human life, I was sitting on a tomb in a cemetery, in an incredible garden of death
(In an outer district of the city.)
Just sitting, nothing spe...
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Categories:
hm, fantasy, fate, life,
Form: Free verse
When was the last time you dealt with your conscience?
...When the question was asked in philosophy class,
I just grappled with the meaning of "conscience".
When I asked the girl next to me what it actually meant,
she gave me the example: "When you for...
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Categories:
hm, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
An incomprehensible world
...An incomprehensible world
Everything is changing, always in this life and world
Everywhere, there is no fixed point in life, no stable
The ever changing-world has no heart, lives to die, and di...
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Categories:
hm, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Difference
...Difference
So many people, so many lives,
Who lives in the north, or south
Others are in the east and west
Many people live in a rich country
Others in poor lands of the Earth
Of course, s...
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Categories:
hm, history, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Place On Earth God Named
...It can even be misconstrued as ... A.I.
Mayhaps 'Creation', hm ... read it again.
I know Adam was chosen to lead off in that direction and all those after him--and nobody said stop, not even afte...
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Categories:
hm, analogy, bible, identity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Do you know what I meant that when you take money from others it brings bad luck?
...,,hm, wait I have some euros"
,,No, It's okay don't give it to me"
,,here is your bag, you forgot it"
,,you can go first"
,,wait, I'll see if I have one"
I don't even know what to write for th...
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Categories:
hm, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
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