A hop, skip, and jump away
...I treasure the moments
when my eyes catch an animal
hopping through a field of flowers
or even just a plain field.
In my headspace,
I metaphorically become both
the field and the rabbit.
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Categories:
hop skip, animal, earth, emotions, environment,
Form: Free verse
HOW CAN I PRETEND: PART 2
...HOW CAN I PRETEND ?
PART 2
Pretence is for those who
round a corner with I did
read that book, she smiles
with her eyes, then escape
to humour minds or waves
agonising over shame
or s...
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Categories:
hop skip, 12th grade, character, courage,
Form: Bio
Dancing Penguins
...On the ice where the cold winds blow,
A group of penguins put on a show.
With flippers that flap,
And feet that tap,
They danced in the moonlight's glow.
In tuxedos black and white,
They walt...
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Categories:
hop skip, animal, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Travelin’ Man
...
I have been here, I’ve been there,
over yonder up and down.
Been back home and been long gone,
been nowhere but been around.
I’ve traveled for a far piece,
just a hop, skip and a jump.
I ...
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Categories:
hop skip, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Umbrella
...
A useless piece of paraphernalia
Is definitely the umbrella
It only keeps us dry from the neck up
Not too brilliant there fella
I suppose there are people out there
Think it's the ...
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Categories:
hop skip, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Too Many Invitations
...Days of solitude until the cell rings with too many invitations
Poet’s quote
Red Rover, Red Rover can I come over?
My way is blocked though I am free…
I see a friend - I won’t hover.
I wait, t...
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Categories:
hop skip, friendship, games,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Keeps Springing Up
...Daffodils blooming,
Robins tweeting in trees,
Pollen is looming,
Sky falling like seas.
Atlanta’s warming -
Bless it’s peachy heart.
Isn’t it charming,
The chill will not part.
Can’t ...
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Categories:
hop skip, humor, weather,
Form: Lyric
As I Rise
...As I rise, your smile sets upon the Horizon & clear blue skies,
Making today a day of beauty, joy, happiness & love,
As I rise, the morning sun shines bright on your melanated skin, How loving an...
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Categories:
hop skip, courage, deep, devotion, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Fifties Footles
...FIFTIES FOOTLES
flirty
dancing
ladies
excuse-me
quick-step
fox trot
hop skip
jive trip
last waltz
so slow
hold close
love flowed...
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Categories:
hop skip, dance, nostalgia,
Form: Footle
Lets Invite Everybody
...Do you want to play?
Oh, yes! Indeed!
Let’s dance and twirl and make loud steps.
Let’s invite the boy with the wheels.
Okay.
Let's invite the white girl who has freckles
Okay.
Let's invite the...
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Categories:
hop skip, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Narrative
Bounteous Mass Media Mechanizations
...Bounteous mass media mechanizations...
generate fixation spurring sexual exploitation
evidenced courtesy adulation
particularly regarding young females,
whose seductive poses
linkedin selling (...
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Categories:
hop skip, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Kindergarten Students
...Kindergarten students are on a planet of their own
They dance, hop, skip, sing, in every kind of tone.
Their excited voices raise up high enough to break glass.
If I am going to sub and I see kind...
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Categories:
hop skip, teacher,
Form: Free verse
Clerihew Colyer
...Ken Colyer&his 50's band
in dance halls across England
With hop skip&jive
he made 'trad jazz' come alive...
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Categories:
hop skip, music, people,
Form: Clerihew
Shout For Joy, Dance and Sing
...I wake up, to celebrate the morning
It's gonna be, a beautiful day
Birds are singing, without warning
I'll take my pills, last night or yesterday
You know I've got, no patience for ...
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Categories:
hop skip, celebration, dance, song, sunshine,
Form: Rhyme
Clown Like Happiness
...Rain won't let me down, I'm happiness bound
I'm still known as the happiest dude in town
With a hop skip and jump
Sometimes fall on my rump
Walk with a wobble but still a happy old clown<...
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Categories:
hop skip, happy,
Form: Limerick
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