Time Iambic Pentameter Poems

I summon Genie from Aladdin's lamp
Requesting he fulfill his wishes three -
I think of children (eyes becoming damp),
Wish 1: please Genie, end their poverty.

Then, contemplating...

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I see free verse as lots of coloured thread,
the basis of a fabric not quite knit.
The yarn is there but you may need to search
among...

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If amber green haze may comfort me now,
in the pit of distress without counsel. 
And rampant me strength from this soulless life, 
where one is...

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A tradesman’s son and temple secrets die
in sixty nine years, never knowing why.

Contempt delivered their first child perfect,
your childhood gauntlet galvanized neglect.

A mother’s son and...

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Is it ok for Miss Lizzy to talk
about the taboo

truth What sexuality really means
to a woman like

me and love sex as much as men that...

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SHOW TIME - Mr. MUELLER, YOU'RE FIRED
Come life and death of it you blessed rhapsody
you've played for long enough and now it's time to go
there's...

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This thing called love, oh, tell me what it means!
Is it what breathes and lives in gilded dreams?
Is it the searing burn of hungry kiss?
Or...

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Christmas Eve Mystery


The sun had set, and it was Christmas Eve.
Dear Santa finished up and packed the sleigh;
made sure his Reindeer were geared up to...

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"What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in...

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And who makes false the truth, in time
be it aggressors so complied
with tyranny that life does youth
their motives, while the young are tried!...

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I Stand Here Now


I stand here now...the winter of my life,
   amazed how fast its seasons quickly flew.
Just yesterday, those days were free...

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Hello September


By end of August, leaves curl on the trees;
   the hues of brown and yellow catch our eye.
The deepened shades of green...

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A restless night, another hum-drum day,
Resolve to take a pleasurable walk;
I make my way towards St Mary’s church.
Across the street, a sixteenth century home –
Maltravers...

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Today I’d like to talk to you about how meter plays a part in
how we write a poem and sometimes in how we speak

The above...

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For the first time the carriage rides back and forth. The bell chimes at the end of every line. Whether a solo syllable or the...

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O to tune in to good times of childhood—
To re-live gone-by years, not just to brood,
To lighten dust-laden baggage’s dead tare,
To unburden mind of deadwood...

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Winter
Winter glows, it's drifts, it's plains, soft and white.
It's cold belies a threat to all, fear it!
It's there come night or day death don't forget!
Wrap...

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You left your hollow horror buried deep...
a hollowness unfathomed as we think
about the impact that your strike would reap
and change the path of life in...

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I didn't have a chance to say goodbye,
to let you know how dear you are to me
and though my chance is gone, I still will...

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At times life may seem soooo complicated,
But life can continue unabated.
Whilst the solution overlooked, the key,
Which often resides in simplicity.

For each, there is a path...

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