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Ingenuity Poems - Poems about Ingenuity

Staying One Stop Ahead
Cool grandson is unmoved by convention. Place has no value except as it connects to young imagination. My elf ladders are not missing; Spiderman and Robin need a bridge to cross the creek that runs under 'Cool's' bed. There are no buildings there to climb upon. One busy mind fixated on need ingenuity moves forward. He is now outside; I see my garden hose inside arched thru a window. One speedy...

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Categories: ingenuity, 11th grade, grandson, imagination,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member INSPIRED INGENUITY
colored dots the deal  wide& closely spaced joined-up large-scale                  real in   popular          appeal an ambivalent     pastiche off  the leash other shapes  irregular parallels lines  or waved lines in  Four primaries   yellow, black  magenta &cyan  were the colour plan another  was the   'small eye poet' unconventional &  innovative    versification strangely   arranged wordplay  with meaning & the shape  they built & use of the parenthesis repetiton to  make    impression ...

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Categories: ingenuity, art, poetry, word play,
Form: Didactic



Premium Member Everyone Has A Special Talent
Everyone has a special talent Everyone has some special skills Nothing is eternal under the tent Everyone is entitled to some special deals Who are we to prejudge or judge? Who are we to refuse to budge? Once in a while, comes a little surprise Most of the time, it is no good to surmise No one is the same, no one is...

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Categories: ingenuity, anxiety, color, happiness, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member INGENUITY - PROTOCOL
INGENUITY laurels garlanded   so   breath taking swirls of   foliage simulated &  envisioned so elegantly vibrant in sacred   spaces warm &insitent with intangible     clarity deeply poetic   yet     unsolicited PROTOCOL some  decorum where precedent   blossomed weaving weaving a   narrative deploying an unspoken  loyalty & unwavering   devotion with unparalleled respect eccentricity silenced  &made    mute thus chaos   avoided...

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Categories: ingenuity, poetry,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Delighted By My Neighbors Ingenuity
a fallen log lies in the yard. Can imagination rescue and recycle it? Beauty of flowers could enhance and warm it stump of an oak ingenuity could possibly salvage it healthy green plant can enlighten and enliven it all it takes is an idea person with touch of a master gardener My neighbor shows proof of this All over her yard I see and am...

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Categories: ingenuity, garden,
Form: Free verse



My Ingenuity Friend
I miss you, yes you. Where have you been? Were you hiding or hibernating? Your strong will and encouragement I seek, Those inspired words you speak. Always true to yourself, Even if people gave you hell. ...

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Categories: ingenuity, appreciation, best friend, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Imagination
imagination i n s p i r e s ingenuity FIRST...

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Categories: ingenuity, imagination,
Form: Verse
Ingenuity
Across a red planet Martian sky Flying in an alien atmosphere on high Such a little craft with our eye A wonder so far from home to fly What will you see about the plain A dry place without a spot of rain Will their be strange eyes looking at you As you fly past without noticing too Perhaps there may be...

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Categories: ingenuity, space,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Mars Flight Vindicated
I stand by my assertion Mars has next-to-zero AIR That justifies my skeptical view AIRcraft can't fly there But in my poem composing, I did leave myself an 'out' I can't have people thinking I'm a foolish clueless lout! We knew already JPL and NASA pull such tricks as to convince Terrestrials they're Total Clever Dicks Inventive and resourceful and most...

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Categories: ingenuity, appreciation, encouraging, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Ingenuity 4-19-21
To Babylonians, Ptolemy (and me), The night sky was a glittering sea. They called them all stars But (including Mars) These “observers” were startled to see… That charting their heavenly courses And imagining bears, crabs and horses They moved thru the seasons But for confounding reasons Some obeyed differing forces. They called them “Wandering Stars”. (We know planets are now what they are.) But since we...

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Categories: ingenuity, flying, history, planet, sky,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Perseverance
sky is the limit first historic flight on Mars ~ ingenuity *** NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity successfully made the historic first controlled flight on another planet today, April 19, 2021, at 3:34 a.m. ET....

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Categories: ingenuity, flying, planet, space, universe,
Form: Haiku
Ingenuity
You said miracle, I said, You said salvation, I said it was ingenuity. Miracle miracle, It's a trick. Peace, peace, Greetings. You said dhikr dhikr, I said idea idea, You said bliss, I said it was ingenuity. From dhikr to idea, It's a trick. Felicity Felicity, Bliss is ingenuity. Birdman Father Yunus Kokan...

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Categories: ingenuity, islamic,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Dizzy Goodfellow's White Horse
He came from the Dust Bowl in a terrible time When his family were stricken with broken, dirt covered dreams. The patchwork wooden shack they slept and ate in had all but tumbled To a fate no one could repair or even had the desire to. No crops, no means to grow anything to eat In this sterile, fruitless, barren...

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Categories: ingenuity, encouraging, endurance, heart, inspiration,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ingenuity
Now this is quite ingenious whatd'ya think Using the old noodle when life's on the brink Listen up dear pupils Saves oodles and oodles Not just another pretty face wink wink...

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Categories: ingenuity, life,
Form: Limerick
Ingenuity
No existence without desire No desire without killing conscious No killing without motive No motive without conduct No conduct without genes No actions without sense No human without yearning No help without expectation No joy without anguish No success without hurdles No beauty without annihilation No being without love No growth without labour No life without food No food without water No kiss without touching lips. No...

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Categories: ingenuity, hope,
Form: Free verse

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