A Flap of Crows
...The bare branches were shaking,
twigs rattled like ill-fitting teeth.
I thought:
'any moment now
the coal black lumpiness of them
will break a bough,
and all tumble down or up,
creating sk...
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Categories:
jousted, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Field Day Shoe Fit For Mother Goose
...A field day shoe fit for Mother Goose
Fruitless effort squeezing figurative juice
Pandora called triggering
helter skelter to get loose
necessitating Bullwinkle J. Moose
to usher at yours t...
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Categories:
jousted, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Rhyme
Mother Goose Would Find Her Tail Feathers Ruffled
...Mother Goose would find her tail feathers ruffled
Hey diddle diddle
the cat and the fiddle
when off to see
a crooked man and woman,
whilst cowards jumped
over moo ving little
pair of mis...
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Categories:
jousted, abuse, allusion, anger, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Text Minus X
...Anxiously anticipating annual activity
Blissfully bound by bravado
Consuming cold contagious concoction
Dizzily developed devilish desire
Eagerly expecting ego's enlightenment
Feverish...
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Categories:
jousted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Well, I Never
...This piece could be, I suppose, a kind of "bucket list", but it's not about regretting all the things I wanted to do in my life and didn't, but, rather, it's about being okay with finally knowing tha...
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Categories:
jousted, introspection,
Form: Verse
For a Year
...About some bundle of days
Back, I lived a life of unforgettable days
Because many things happened.
I collided with a single living matter
That jousted me in many ways,
Defeated me and dazed me i...
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Categories:
jousted, anger,
Form: Ode
Transgender
...Medieval times were a time of splendour
With gallant knights and ladies so slender
They jousted in the day
Lifted skirts at night... NAY
SURPRISE! Many were transgender...
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Categories:
jousted, fairy,
Form: Limerick
A Field Day For Mother Goose
...Hey diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle
when off to see a crooked man and woman
whilst cowards jumped over moo ving little
pair of mismatched muggles,
who both walked from scan
din na...
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Categories:
jousted, adventure, change, confusion, faith,
Form: I do not know?
The Preparation of the Wise Men - the Camels
...They always made me happy,
The camels of the wise men,
The slowness of their footsteps,
Their self-sufficient ben.
Camels meant there was time,
For the three wise men to think,
To ponde...
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Categories:
jousted, animal, christian, christmas, december,
Form: Rhyme
Sweet Dreams, Princess
...Daddy read another fairy tale and nightly prayers were said.
He tenderly kissed his little princess and gently tucked her in bed.
Pausing to gaze upon her sweet face lying in innocent repose,
He m...
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Categories:
jousted, child, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Free Cee Was It What It Was
...WAS IT WHAT IT WAS?
It was a time of temperance for a temper tamed
It was a time when, on beauty, was mournfulness and belligerence blamed
It was a time when a recently birthed masterpiece was s...
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Categories:
jousted, angst, woman, time, time,
Form: Monorhyme
Free Cee Timothy Leery Dug This Oops I Forgot His Ashes Are In a Sattelite Traversing the Atmosphere
...MENTAL INSTITUTIONS SHOULD PLANT FLOWERS TO PASS THE HOURS
Dead daisies,
deceased dandelions
torched tulips birthed to be torn and tragically tormented
And those daisies and dandelions died d...
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Categories:
jousted, fantasy, daffodils,
Form: Quatrain
Free Cee Mental Institutions Should Plant Flowers To Pass the Hours
...MENTAL INSTITUTIONS SHOULD PLANT FLOWERS TO PASS THE HOURS
Dead daisies,
deceased dandelions
torched tulips birthed to be torn and tragically tormented
And those daisies and dandelions died d...
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Categories:
jousted, angst, daffodils,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Dreams, Princess!
...Daddy read another fairy tale and nightly prayers were said.
He tenderly kissed his little princess and gently tucked her in bed.
Pausing to gaze upon her sweet face lying in innocent repose,
He m...
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Categories:
jousted, children
Form: Rhyme
Sugar Plum Fairies
...Christmases come and Christmases go, with them comes the thought
Of all the childhood memories that the passing years have brought
Sugar plum fairies, winged Angels, circling the snow swept skie...
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Categories:
jousted, allegory
Form: Couplet
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