Apophasis Now
...Apophasis is such a cool word.
Not to mention how it sounds
like a popping fist and fireworks,
though I wouldn’t dare suggest
I’ve ever blown things up
just for grins and giggles.
It’s cousi...
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Categories:
juiciest, birthday, cat, chicago, firework,
Form: Free verse
MULBERRY TREES AND BUTTERFLIES
...MULBERRY TREES AND BUTTERFLIES
Don’t go back to heavy sleep
dwell in the wakefulness
of I AM THAT I AM
here mulberries and butterflies
beckon across filtered fences
which you can comely cl...
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Categories:
juiciest, butterfly, change, color, earth,
Form: Rhyme
What the Highest Bidder Forgot to Consider
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The house came with ghosts.
Not the subtle kind, either—no
wistful sighs or cool drafts,
just full-blown poltergeist tantrums.
Cabinets slamming at 2 a.m.,
spectral remnants of old a...
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Categories:
juiciest, conflict, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Thoughts on Iowa and My Childhood City
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“And I remember Muscatine -still more pleasantly - for its summer sunset. I have never seen any on either side of the ocean that equaled them.” Samuel Clemens in his younger years when he wor...
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Categories:
juiciest, places, youth,
Form: Prose Poetry
Queen of Paris
...I'd like to be sitting in a café in France
Eating strawberries and cream with you
I'd find the biggest and reddest and juiciest ones
And feed them to you off my spoon
After we'd stroll down th...
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Categories:
juiciest, dream, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
Root Faeries Are Going Wild
...root faeries going wild are sniffing with hypersensitive noses today
seeking out the curliest, most delicious, juiciest vines, along the way.
consuming grasses and roots other animals cannot fathom...
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Categories:
juiciest, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Gifts From Grandma
...Scrambling to get the largest, juiciest blackberries
She did not feel her arm scratches until much later
You look like you jumped into those bushes Daddy said
Thrilled she was baking a cobbler jus...
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Categories:
juiciest, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Animal Crackers
...tap dance temple dancers
tease a mocha monkey
swinging from a tower
munching chips gets chunky
simian sisters see
spunky the funky ape
chewing the ruby red
sweetest juiciest grape
roost...
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Categories:
juiciest, society,
Form: Rhyme
Gooseberries and Sharp Creases
...GOOSEBERRIES AND SHARP CREASES
The plumpest, juiciest, hairiest gooseberries
My grandfather grew in a circular bed,
Dead centre of the immaculate lawn.
And blackcurrants under ...
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Categories:
juiciest, death, grandfather, sick,
Form: Free verse
Apples Life
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May God hear my prayer
That I achieve my goals today
I buff up my chest
In hope you find me the juiciest
And swallow me whole
My seeds will flourish
For I am about to commit...
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Categories:
juiciest, appreciation, child, cute, funny,
Form: Free verse
Relatives Re-Inact a Romantic Reconciliation
...Oh, yes, Darling! Please meet me up the street, in fifteen minutes, right past the old tan house with that porch, bamboo.
We need to talk about things, you and me, without your mean relatives, and t...
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Categories:
juiciest, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Wildfires Burn In Your Eyes
...You extend the juiciest of apples before my eyes
Imploring, "Come closer, love, and have a bite"
Eden is lost to us and it's too late for compromise
I'll not be tempted to savor forbidden frui...
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Categories:
juiciest, sad love,
Form: Rhyme
Better Than
...Better than
It’s better than chocolate cake
drenched in whipped cream
A day off to sleep in
almost until noon
A warm summer day
near a slow moving stream
The stars in the sky
and...
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Categories:
juiciest, fun, happy, love,
Form: Rhyme
Autumn Atonement
...Face to the sky,
Breath of the Caribbean
Woven with earthy Autumn,
Saturates the alveoli of my lungs,
Pouring raw impulses into the neurons of
My pleasure centers, so triggering a myriad of
Mem...
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Categories:
juiciest, autumn, heartbreak, metaphor, october,
Form: Free verse
Babylonia : Part Four - a Babylonian Paradise
...Babylonia : Part Four - A Babylonian Paradise
Come in, come in, all are welcome!
Welcome to Babylonia! Welcome home.
Every animal is welcome here,
You can be yourself;
You have no need to ...
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Categories:
juiciest, animal, family, friend, heaven,
Form: I do not know?
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