Echoes of a Victorian Christmas
...Men in tailored suits
and satin waistcoats,
gold watches peeking
out of their pockets,
walked arm in arm
with women in wide skirts ~
hooped,
crinolined,
elegantly sculpted.
Their tigh...
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Categories:
hooped, christmas, happiness, history, joy,
Form: Narrative
As The Last Petal Falls
...I recline with my cherry tree musings…
a fount of blossoms cherub cheek colored
rise and curve from the ground
up into a heaven-and-cloud scene
to spread in splendor a festoon of blooms
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Categories:
hooped, appreciation, beauty, flower, nature,
Form: Free verse
Matthew O Harris Ease A FAKE Irishman
...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman
Saint Patrick's Day, or
Feast of Saint Patrick
Lá Fhéile Pádraig
invoke even non Irish to proclaim
Éirinn go Brách
translated as "Ireland Forever."
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Categories:
hooped, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Half a Dozen Plus Years Ago the Following Became a Near Reality
...Half a dozen plus years ago the following became a near reality
Countdown to homelessness –
mars this earthlinked sole Harris - son
panhandler would would register
pyrrhic victory won.
10…...
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Categories:
hooped, age, america, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Matthew O' Harris Ease a Fake Irishman
...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman
Since adopting the guise
of Norwegian bachelor farmer,
I may as well fabricate genetic stock
lock, and barrel linkedin to Celtic legend.
Sentimentali...
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Categories:
hooped, adventure, america, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
The Unlikely Friendship of Chalk and Cheese
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Chalk was bold, pale skinned, and big boned.
A soft souled, porous, sedentary teen.
Bulky, he made a big initial impression,
but seemed to lack in true substance.
And thus, was a tempor...
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Categories:
hooped, analogy, anti bullying, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Nate Sestina's Sestina
...Sometimes things don’t work out as planned
not that Nate planned it, such is basketball love
and strong are the threads of the basketball net.
He hooped all summer, sweating on outdoor court
be...
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Categories:
hooped, basketball, dream, life,
Form: Sestina
Matthew O Harris Ease a Fake Irishman
...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman
Saint Patrick's Day, or
Feast of Saint Patrick
Lá Fhéile Pádraig
invoke even non Irish to proclaim
Éirinn go Brách
translated as "Ireland Forever."
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Categories:
hooped, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Great Blue
...great blue heron stood
in flint river statuesque....
children hooped, threw rocks ...
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Categories:
hooped, nature,
Form: Haiku
Craziest Time Among Strangers
...It was mid-April yet felt like December
we tramped a rocky trail in the Himalayas,
our footsteps echoed in the enchanting valley
under the blanket of warm twinkling stars.
Snow-clad peaks seeme...
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Categories:
hooped, journey, memory, mountains, night,
Form: Free verse
Bambi's Born
...excessive rain impoverished the orchards, apples have fell, deer fed
a cock-a-hooped doe ~ now survives the harsh winter ~ two fawn play joyful
Ku Duet Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Silen...
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Categories:
hooped, nature, night,
Form: Haiku
Matthew O Harris Ease a Fake Irishman
...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman
Juiced tin he nuff tame afore
thee Saint Patrick's Day,
(hens this faux written accent
donned to sail hub berate won big todo
fur those peep pull o' Ei...
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Categories:
hooped, absence, birth, destiny, encouraging,
Form: Bio
The Train Called Love
...I think about you
morning noon night
I don't think you know
how much
I miss you
Each and every day
I wonder how my life
will be with you
Now that I had a chance
to think about ...
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Categories:
hooped, love,
Form: Verse
Autumn Among the Stones
...I sit among the stones under a lowering October sky, longing to see more than others have seen,
And tarry where the hurried have passed.
And sit, remembering streets of earth, and hooped
Bla...
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Categories:
hooped, autumn, gothic,
Form: Prose
Sweet Times
...Sweet Times
Sweet is the taste of days from yesteryear
that haunt the heart so keenly they bring tears
to eyes which have seen sadness, joy and pain
as time passed on and age ceased not to ...
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Categories:
hooped, age, memory,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
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