BY THE STREET LAMP
...BY THE STREETLAMP
Poem written for SENSE OF TASTE POETRY CONTEST, Nette Onclaud, Sponsor July 28, 2025
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she hunkers by the streetlam...
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Categories:
hunkers, 12th grade, sad,
Form: Free verse
WITNESS PROTECTION FOR DUMMIES
...BEING AN FBI INFORMANT WEARING WIRES PREGNANT BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FOR THE FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CHICAGO HAD BEGUN TO TRIGGER UNWANTED EMOTIONS AS I SAT BEHIND MAROON DRAPES PANTING CIRO...
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Categories:
hunkers, allah,
Form: Naat
In the eye of the storm
...Clouds rolled overhead as the wind whipped up molasses
The sweet heady scent of the Incoming storm
I call for you now, to come in and shelter
A call left unheard in this wild open space
Clouds...
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Categories:
hunkers, environment, love, seasons, storm,
Form: Free verse
THE WALK
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THE WALK
The sun shines on Benarty
On a nice warm summers day,
The bairns have got their clothes on
And they all want out to play.
l make them all some breakfast
And the kids all eat their ...
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Categories:
hunkers, beauty, feelings, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Stalingrad II
...Let fortitude confront the raging beast
for wolfen corps from Hell have entered in.
They surge in packs, savagely unleashed,
to mutilate the innocence within.
Let ev’ry child and mother of its n...
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Categories:
hunkers, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
November Snapshots
...Cold huddled sparrows
Wear that WTF look
A squirrel drags his tail
Through icy puddles
A rat hunkers down
Behind the barrels
Worms wiggle dance
In November’s no-fly zone
A wet Owl whispers “P...
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Categories:
hunkers, november, rain,
Form: Free verse
Within My Quasi Moat Toad Lily Padded Immediate Environs
...Within my quasi moat toad lily padded immediate environs
Meaning the corporeal complex edifice
housing these lovely bones,
where linkedin logorrhea ably
strives to break out
in meaningless s...
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Categories:
hunkers, adventure, age, allusion, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Beautiful Day
...Dawn has arrived, rays of gold split the night
The sweet rhythm of birdsong, a morning delight
Wings all aflutter with colours so bright
A gift to the beholder, such a wholesome sight
Sunlight ...
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Categories:
hunkers, appreciation, beautiful, morning, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Progress
...When they begin to erect new building in an old town
everything cowers, hunkers down except the ugly.
The ugly is in the concrete even before they pile it up
into office space and loft apartment...
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Categories:
hunkers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Like a Feather
...Floating through life
Like a feather she flies
Wings carry her away from certain demise
Fluttering through skies so blue
The flock chirps their cue
Bad weather is coming
Thunder drumming
Rai...
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Categories:
hunkers, bird, flying, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Conflict Resolution
...seemingly clear path
one stubborn goose hunkers down
~ back away slowly...
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Categories:
hunkers, animal, bird, conflict, humorous,
Form: Haiku
Cat Hidden In a Violin Case
...The professor opened the precarious black violin case
Knowing he was going to show us an animal full of grace.
I watched him with interest, for he is a musical maestro.
And, he told me, this is ...
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Categories:
hunkers, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Soundless Blinding Blitzkrieg Wrought Disarray
...Abominable barrage bombards
fortified barracks show
warring subsequently, incandescently,
and brilliantly doth glow
biden time, this
garden variety Joe Schmoe
hunkers down deep amidst disarra...
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Categories:
hunkers, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Soundless Blinding Blitzkrieg
...Abominable barrage bombards
fortified barracks show
warring subsequently, incandescently,
and brilliantly doth glow
biden time, this
garden variety Joe Schmoe
hunkers down deep
within arched...
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Categories:
hunkers, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Afraid To Live
...Chinks of light filter
thru pitchblack emotional prison
vestigial shadow figure hunkers,
an atrophied, mortified, petrified old man
implacable self destructive nemesis
birthed in league pitiful ...
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Categories:
hunkers, allusion, baptism, dark, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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