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Ida Poems - Poems about Ida

Premium Member In Sleepy Bay - Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
now tethered to dreams unhooked from the day suspended with e a s e above my own milky way I surrender my thoughts let them drift & swirl my armour...

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Categories: ida, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Fairy of the Fountain by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
dizzy distractions make for invisible whirl centre of attention is this invisible girl sky leopard spotted by his moon eye all seeing a sweep of flower songbirds startled and fleeing the peacock observes as she swishes into view no longer water yet so dainty and seethrough locked in the circle of fountain display desperate to explore but there she must...

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Categories: ida, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Fairy Bridget and Kookaburra
it matters to not be able to tell where you end and comfort begins seamlessly held by another with nature to rest within we're all of the same matter then the 'what's the matter' is settled now ripples felt...

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Categories: ida, anxiety, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member IDA B WELLS AND TRUTH
Today's Juneteenth blessing comes from Ida B. Wells and is meant to correct the lies being told about slavery and all the ones who continue spawn them… ‘The way to right wrongs…she said is to turn the light of truth upon them ...

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Categories: ida, prejudice, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ida Rentoul Outhwaite The Wave
there's commonality with a pencil line it could be anything just as the sea could swallow me up the pencil could place me back in the scene I'm the tiny fragments on the mist that settle into a form trying then...

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Categories: ida, change,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member the water fairy Ida Rentoul Outhwaite 1921
I follow the curve of the land forging a way that was already dictated falling whilst shackled to endlessness becoming as I rush blindly forward looking to the ground a thunderous roar my ever present burden all life grows around me washing away just my...

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Categories: ida, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Ida Ho
Potatoes can be baked potatoes can be boiled Potatoes can be mashed even fried in oil But do not eat potatoes raw unless you have an iron jaw...

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Categories: ida, food, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ida the Spide Ah
A sexy spider? It cannot be done they said. While Kirk Reinert did it. Without their approval. Without their suggestions. Without worrying about their naysaying at all. A spider named Ida? Ida the spide-ah? Oh, that does fall off the tongue neatly. Her legs make her seem completely…. marvelous, wonderful, well done. The creator sits back and smiles. Glad he does not listen to naysayers....

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Categories: ida, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Ida Know and Ida Wanna
New Orleans is living the blues As water soaks into their shoes Will FEMA refuse To fund his beer cruise Or choose to use subterfuge?...

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Categories: ida, weather,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Ida Fipps
My very best friend Ida Fipps Has simply enormous hips When she goes to dances The men she entrances She brings a big smile to their lips...

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Categories: ida, 10th grade,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Miss Ida
Although she was my grandmama, We all called her Miss Ida. Children and grandchildren alike did succumb To this quaint, obscure, southern custom. In the days of gold and lavender, Mother was "Miss," and father was "Mister." When buttercups danced in the sun, When skies were vaguely cinnamon. She gave to me a lilac, gingham dress; It was cherished for its prettiness! Among my oldest...

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Categories: ida, childhood, family, grandmother, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ida Oaks 1827-1919
Ida Oaks 1827-1919 John gave me a good home. Not one with plumbing and power, But one with a solid slab, and a full well. And while living in this Quaker homestead, We found that life was precise and persistent. But it pleased me to provide good food, and Medicinal solace for my meager family. Through those unyielding years we learned To accept the...

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Categories: ida, life,
Form: Epitaph
Was I Ida Strauss
I have a fear of drowning in deep waters, dark and cold; I dream the waves are parted revealing Death's threshold. I wonder, trembling in my bed, if another life I've known; is there a body beneath the sea, dissolved, bone of my bone? ...

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Categories: ida, death, dream, love, marriage,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Ida Kincaid 1866 - 1903
Ida Kincaid 1866 - 1903 I was Ida Kincaid Wife of Charles And mother of a pernicious brood of five sinister sons. My first born required eighteen hours of excruciating labor, And I should’ve known then! After Charles, our son, finally had his behind swatted By the venerable Doctor Lont, Charles, my husband, smoked a relieved cigar under the willow tree there, By...

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Categories: ida, death,
Form: Epitaph
Hurricane Ida
Dedicated to a wonderful friend of mine - a song written on my Sophmore year of highschool. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Chorus] Hurricane Ida, she come rollin’ along Hurricane Ida, she be singin’ this song She lives in our hearts and souls It’s where she resides Bother her, she’ll break your nose and lift up the tides Oh yeah! [Verse I] She’ll turn those fish to sushi, she’ll...

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Categories: ida, adventure, dedication, funny,
Form: Lyric

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