daddy died alone in his home
...daddy died alone in his home
ashtrays with cigarette butts completely hoarded his deathbed
the smell of smoke almost immediately made my eyes turn red
i regret the 15 years since i last saw him
h...
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Categories:
interrogative, dad, death, growth, how
Form: Free verse
WHOO-
...Whoo-
In use of a questioning-
What or which person or people
Interrogative —
Need further information
Giving about of a person
Introduce a clause
A mentioned
Conveying the...
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Categories:
interrogative, allusion, analogy, confusion, identity,
Form: Free verse
A Poem About Love In a Banishment Basement of Confusion
...i am honestly drawing a blank
i am struggling to underline the underlying reasons
my head is spinning and the rest of my body is stone still frozen
just yesterday, we were laughing it up and being...
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Categories:
interrogative, life, love, truth,
Form: Free verse
For the Leisure Class - Read and Ponder
...Recommended holiday reading, this epistle
comes your way as an interrogative missile
~ Whither the Oscar Meyer Wiener Whistle...
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Categories:
interrogative, giggle, holiday, inspirational, literature,
Form: Monorhyme
3 Poems
...Sy Roth - 3 Poems
12/17/20130 Comments
Picture
Silence
I’ve dreamt often that she crept deep
Into my cellular structure,
Some time in the nightfall of my being
And planted deeply into my...
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Categories:
interrogative, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Flat City Interrogative
...When I was younger
My lover died from hunger
For God had not flung her
His scraps from the sky
So I covered her over
Neath the cold clay and clover
I buried my lover
Where the hungry all lie
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Categories:
interrogative, poverty,
Form: Verse
Escape From Chestnut's Edge
...The split level blinks
at Chestnut End under
twilight's tremble, ripping me,
the oily menhaden bait,
from the under boot
The Chestnut dwellers bold
interrogative flushes him down
then...
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Categories:
interrogative, confusion, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Night Follows Day
...A cricket's trill signals nightfall;
Dusk drains color till all looks stark.
And Nature dons a misty shawl
as fireflies flicker in the dark.
While shadows spread,
the sun bleeds red.
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Categories:
interrogative, 10th grade, beautiful, color,
Form: Verse
Life According To a Debater: a Policy Case Found Poem
...The 1AC is a shot in the dark.
When we use interrogative strategies
we create zones of visibility and possibility.
The potentiality for deliberation
towards a new politic.
The study of bare ...
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Categories:
interrogative, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Good Leading's Root
...Becoming a leader is your way,
You want to be applaused and hailed
And within you hope swims,
But you never ask yourself why.
Why I yawn to be the head?
Do I possess what it takes
To be a great...
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Categories:
interrogative, encouraging, inspiration, leadership,
Form: Ode
Bharathidasan's Pulikku Nay Enta Mulai, Translated By T Wignesan
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Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan
Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of the eminent Br...
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Categories:
interrogative, anti bullying, patriotic, political,
Form: Sonnet
Four Walls As Mirrors
...beheaded blame is constant
love is a crushed, ornamentated adjective to you
yet and still i am under you submissive to your rhythmic therapy
there was a time when i was a thorn searching for a b...
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Categories:
interrogative, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Scenes In Times Square
...It is December 31, the last day of the year.
The nighttime sky is dark, but quite clear.
In Times Square, there is a lighted ball.
The New Year arrives when it makes its fall.
Despite the freezin...
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Categories:
interrogative, travelme, new year,
Form: Rhyme
An Amateur Art Critic
...One Sunday morning, I went home to visit mom and dad.
My brother was also there, and I showed them what I had.
The first thing I said to father as soon as I saw him,
was that I had four free ticke...
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Categories:
interrogative, family, funnyfather, words, old,
Form: Rhyme
Unity In Diversity
...what is what is not is what is too
there is no separation from the One came two
like Hu am i and i am Hu
both imperative and interrogative from the One came two
it is based upon what's known to b...
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Categories:
interrogative, philosophy,
Form: Epigram
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