Hues
I would’ve lived on
in a life composed of shades—
Black, white, and million kinds of gray.
Pulsing hearts rarely made sense
when even blood was
the shade of cooled cement.
That’s why you’re a mystery—
Your eyes are vibrant, water dancing
in a grace I cannot name.
They look like celestial crystals—
like if heaven has a shape;
Your hair warm, like autumn
before
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Categories:
important, color, crush, for him,
Form: Free verse
Gratitude
a short meditation on what’s most important
AP: 3rd place 2025
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Categories:
important, appreciation,
Form: Monoku
IMPORTANT NOTE
We don't know it all
But we can never be late
We don't have it all
But we can never be liabilities
Because we believe in our agility
Showcasing our abilities
Paving ways for possibilities.
We're not the most powerful
But we're not preys
We live with humility
Doesn't mean we're timid
We show love
Doesn't mean we're fearful.
We're silent
Doesn't
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Categories:
important, africa, children, confidence, creation,
Form: Diamante
Every moment counts
along life's journey
simple joys are the gems
to be stockpiled and amassed
opportunities are simply
bits of freedom to blossom
into time well savoured
AP: 3rd place 2025
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Categories:
important, appreciation, freedom, joy, life,
Form: Free verse
The Most Important Thing in Life
What is the most important Thing in Life?
Some say Love, Some say Sex, Some say Money and or riches.
Some say all manner of material things.
What is your most important Posession?
When I ask my friends this question
One said- a good legacy.
Some said their bank account.
Some said their faith in God.
Some said my house, Some
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Categories:
important, 12th grade, age,
Form: Ballad
WHAT'S IMPORTANT
I am grateful that from a time when was young…
before most of the art of my life was drawn…
I have understood what’s important to me
and what my life’s art should be focusing on
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Categories:
important, life,
Form: Rhyme
WHAT IS IMPORTANT AND WHAT IS NOT
When we arrive at the cabin in summer after it’s been winterized…
and no one has entered before us…
We often know what little hiccups the cabin has waiting for us.
This year we did know one hiccup waiting…as to the cabin we were heading.
We needed to repair the oven door which fell off in October
during Trista and
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Categories:
important, life,
Form: Rhyme
the most important
The most important
Fine drizzle over the bay, falling slowly and hesitantly
as preparing for a proper deluge
Who knows, perhaps it will not happen, and the sun
will shine even if it is a day older
Dry slippery cobblestone pavements for the aged
Since it is Saturday, the ships' tugs are at their anchorage.
as they want to be nearer the
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Categories:
important, 2nd grade, 7th grade,
Form: ABC
MORE IMPORTANT
It is more valuable and wise to understand that just knowing
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Categories:
important, allusion, perspective,
Form: Monoku
ANCESTORS ARE IMPORTANT
If you want to know why our ancestors are important…
here’s a little rule of thumb…
It’s difficult to know where we’re going…
If we don’t know who we came from.
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Categories:
important, family,
Form: Rhyme
Miracles' What He's Got
I have seen what He can do
Admired all that He has done
It was for all the people
That His race was actually won
Behold my child now listen
To the things I have to say
Important things that you should know
To tell them all one day
It's that Christ is a true healer
Some think it's magic but it's not
To everyone
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Categories:
important, christian, encouraging, fate, hero,
Form: Rhyme
male weaver birds nest is important
The male weaver bird is inspired to make a beautiful nest
Female weavers choose their mate based on whose nest is the best
nests are intricate and fine, delicately and artistically made by this guy
excited male hangs it in the sun to dry, waiting for his lovely to glide by.
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Categories:
important, bird,
Form: Rhyme
One New Year's Goal
Quote By Poet: "As one year ends ~ another is waiting to begin. What will the New Year bring? Only time will tell."
It is almost here twenty, twenty-five,
it is great to be alive.
There is a lady at the end of my street,
we just met and that was so neat.
How did we not know each
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Categories:
important, friend, fun, hello, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Agni
The fire rises
transcending boundaries
engulfing shredded papers
written lovingly.
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Categories:
important, allusion, anger, angst, anti
Form: Verse
Important Apostrophe and a Tenant who is a Mysterious Lady
It should have said St John’s - with that apostrophe!
So many omit the little mark.
How could they, when its presence or absence
gives us one meaning or the other?
A tenant within these apartments
who is a mysterious lady,
placed the absent apostrophe on that poster,
kept this nighttime act a secret, and crept away.
St John was a saint we
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Categories:
important, education, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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