Reeltime
...I walk in,
and the air shifts
like it knows me.
Like it’s been waiting.
Not a stage.
Not a show.
Just a room full of sound
and people who get it.
I’ve played songs here
with shaky hands...
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Categories:
inside joke, fun,
Form: Free verse
Love comes in many forms
...February is the month of Love. Love comes in many forms. This poem is inspired by Valentine's Day. May love touch your heart and your life.
Love comes in many forms...
By Michelle Morris
11/02...
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Categories:
inside joke, emotions, feelings, i love
Form: Rhyme
Say It
...Say it when she makes a mistake,
say it when she’s stunning;
Say it with an inside joke,
say it when she’s crying;
Say it when she’s in your arms,
say it with your eyes;
Say it when you have no...
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Categories:
inside joke, emotions, feelings, love, romance,
Form: List
The Green New Deal
...It took very little to make us happy
young and intoxicated with feeling
high on the thought of holding one
another, embracing our way to
madness, another bite of the apple
we were deeply in lov...
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Categories:
inside joke, corruption, creation, emotions, humanity,
Form: Prose Poetry
All Shades of Humor
...
Humor, in different dimensions and forms,
An innate trait that conforms to odd norms,
In high daily dosage recommended
To fix a funny bone, pun intended.
The one that cracks you u...
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Categories:
inside joke, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
inside joke, confusion,
Form: Lanterne
The Falling
...I followed you down the rabbit hole,
Believing in all the magic life could bring.
Thinking you would unlock the chains I wore,
Setting my spirits free.
To teach me not to live in my head, b...
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Categories:
inside joke, abuse, grave, lost, pain,
Form: Free verse
Unspoken Vitriolic Wickedness Woke
...(alternatively titled eldest daughter despises us)
Eden (beloved eldest daughter) icy
flat tone of voice spoke volumes,
when she talked with the missus and me
courtesy cellular telecommunicatio...
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Categories:
inside joke, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Pink Elephants and Purple Snakes
...a journey
arrival
The cancer within.
Just another place to be.
(Whatever that means).
hello, now
You look different...
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Categories:
inside joke, journey,
Form: Senryu
A Few Words Short
...Adryanna, I'm sorry
Love letter, I'm sorry
Adryanna, now is the time I wish to bother you
spill the words in my heart's content
Let me start by saying
I don't regret what we had
I don't take ba...
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Categories:
inside joke, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Stepping Into Carnival Evening
...Questions arise as I walk with them -
finding contradictions of formality and intimacy,
darkness and light, the tangible and ethereal -
where a sunset meets moon rising, black meets w...
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Categories:
inside joke, art, dark, light, mystery,
Form: Ekphrasis
Billy Edward's Ride 1st Half
...\
Hopped out early from his bunk bed
Jumped into his old blue jeans
Slipped his hand into his pocket
Found enough change for a drink
Put his tennie to the kickstand
Hopped aboard his ...
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Categories:
inside joke, childhood, children, miracle, religious,
Form: Epic
Today
...today is just another day
to look back, to cringe
to remember light and dark times
to hear the cries of the forsaken
to see the whispers of the desperate
to know the chill of winters bite
to feel th...
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Categories:
inside joke, life,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
inside joke, death
Form: I do not know?
Loss
...My friends tried to make me stop,
I yelled that I was fine.
I turned around and looked at the ten thousand foot drop...
Looked at my hands, in which yours would so perfectly entwine...
They cou...
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Categories:
inside joke, life, loss, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
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