Thunderstorm
...The fury of a thunderstorm
Should not be a surprise,
For prior to its sudden booms
Come dark-as-nighttime skies.
The wind whips up, the branches sway,
The air cools down a bit
And lightning z...
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Categories:
jostled, storm,
Form: Rhyme
1am
...It’s one in the morning.
I zoomed into Lisa’s room
and threw myself on the bed where she lay reading
in a near virtuoso, Fosbury flop.
She bounced, jostled by my mechanical bed wave.
“I hate goo...
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Categories:
jostled, boyfriend, friendship, missing, school,
Form: Free verse
The Survivors
...Forever gone, forever we understand
The pain lingers on, stronger beyond
The thud of agony and the memory
Captures the groans of a desperate cry
Laid in a little rest with friends and family
to...
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Categories:
jostled, anger, bereavement, death, emotions,
Form: Elegy
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part i
...Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine
("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered
after assassinating Julius Caesar.
Alte...
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Categories:
jostled, 10th grade, adventure, allah,
Form: Free verse
Idly Fret
...I'm sitting with device in hand,
Trapped in forked thought,
Derailed, enqueued, attention spanned,
All plot but ought for naught.
Zephyr-jostled oriel,
Jalousie jingle jets,
Venetian pi...
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Categories:
jostled, addiction, body, dark, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Killer Dog
...
It was a late Saturday morning, and I was getting my 12-year-old self ready for our weekly summer sand-lot baseball game. I had my ball glove hanging on my bicycle handlebars, two baseballs, and my...
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Categories:
jostled, friend, friendship, trust,
Form: Narrative
Bon Voyage
...The story goes that men have only one thing on their mind
But down throughout the ages there are men far more refined
Sometimes man is called upon to do the righteous thing
And carry out the wish...
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Categories:
jostled, rain, voyage,
Form: Rhyme
Janitors July Jamboree
...jaunty jack-o-lantern joined
jingly jangly janitors’ July jamboree
jaundiced Jasper, Jack’s jackhammer
juggled and jostled the journey in jovial jollity.
Jovial Jukebox Julep juxtaposed Jaspe...
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Categories:
jostled, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration
The demon of second chances
...
It worked in the recesses
the nooks and cracks of the darkness.
It’s shapeless meandering form intent on its work
It’s slither of arms and tentacles wrapped around
the soul
It’s tortures fi...
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Categories:
jostled, poems,
Form: Free verse
Woven Worlds
...
A mother sat and watched her daughter playing
with the other girls, whose parents had also come to watch
the performance. They gathered in clumps, chatting brightly,
awaiting the start. The girl...
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Categories:
jostled, dance, daughter, dream, games,
Form: Other
Life on an Applecart
...
Jostled to and fro
ruts in road take their toll
Bruises are his bane forever
No one'll claim him ~ ever...
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Categories:
jostled, fruit, pain, travel,
Form: Couplet
Labyrinthine
...LABYRINTHINE
An injected nanobot in the bloodstream
I am now swept along by the constant flow
And I transmit what I see back to the team
They can see what I see, wherever I go
Jostled by red a...
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Categories:
jostled, heart,
Form: Ottava rima
Chapter 108 -- Damian Dj Delilah Mallory Damali Cj: the New Temple and Djs Birthday
...Date: January 4 2046
Damali and DJ were active in the
Small house sprucing up for their
Day. "Hey happy birthday partner!"
Damali jostled DJ. In the main house
Now 11 morning time. Damian...
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Categories:
jostled, color, confidence, deep,
Form: Alliteration
The Teat and the Bath
...A seed that was planted, turned a seedling.
Two farmers; one for the seed, the other the seedling.
I remember drinking as if from a bowl, through your teat, the drink of life.
The soft cushions of...
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Categories:
jostled, childhood, in memoriam, mother,
Form: Rhyme
The Plumed Crown
...The crows are a feathered crowd,
a dark cloud
jostled together as they are
over the roadkill.
They peck and tear
lift a little in the air
allowing another beak
to stab at a morsel.
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Categories:
jostled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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