It was true that I didn't have much ambition, but there should be a place for those without wings
...It was true that I didn't have much ambition, but there should be a place for those without wings,
a better place than the usual one, where dreams flow like rivers at dusk,
how could anyone enjoy b...
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Categories:
jump out, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
If I were a Submarine
...If I were a submarine
I would jump out of the water
Checking to see if other ships
Were doing what they ought-er
Jules Verne would come back
And write lively stories about me
I would be deeme...
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Categories:
jump out, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Hope
...Hope, that has kept me alive
Hope, that has kept me sane
Hope, that made me insane
Hope, that allows me to breathe
Hope, that suffocates me
Hope, that my child survives
Hope, that makes me brea...
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Categories:
jump out, bird, conflict, confusion, death,
Form: Free verse
Jazz Vinyl's Pyre
...(Snaps fingers) Let's talk sonic alchemy, a cauldron bubblin' deep/
Rare groove rising, a phoenix from jazz vinyl's pyre/
Acid Jazz is born, setting the soul on fire/ in London's smoky clubs, ba...
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Categories:
jump out, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Soul
...Someone please help me escape
A killer's chasing me
I'm deeper into the woods
He's slowly gaining I can't see
He follows me into a hole
From which there is no escape
He lifts his hand to swing ...
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Categories:
jump out, dark, death, depression, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Enough
...Hold my breath, gaze the space, thinking louder, this thoughts are enormous, fighting like two wounded elephants, my emotions suffering the devastating effects. Traumatized, lil and fragile mind and ...
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Categories:
jump out, character, deep, depression, lost,
Form: Free verse
Euphoria
...
Rivers of winding winds,
their saw edged currents
chipping away at stone clouds.
Crests of powdery floss
slip over mountainous verges.
Not knowing anything about
the flexibility of gr...
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Categories:
jump out, poetry,
Form: Free verse
floating down the Yangtze
...floating down the Yangtze
many new sights I do see
happy fishermen wave to me
bass jump out of this China sea
I hum and sing we be de we
dum diddle dum diddle dee dee dee
I love the feeling o...
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Categories:
jump out, travel,
Form: Free verse
Halloween spoof
...Three goofballs in spooky display,
One with hat, other's fangs on play!
With faces askew,
They jump out and boo,
Scaring laughs than fear on the way!...
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Categories:
jump out, halloween,
Form: Limerick
To Love A Poet
...To Love A Poet:
Once upon a time I fell in love
But it was different because I fell for a poet
So, the fall was more of a jump out an airplane
Scared for my life putting up all my walls as I fal...
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Categories:
jump out, adventure, cute love, i
Form: Blank verse
If Only You Knew
...“The mind is an auto-camera. Its pictures are the window to our personality.”
-Quote by Poet
If only you knew the power of the mind,
You would daily activate its use,
You would...
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Categories:
jump out, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Who Am I?
...
Who am I?
I can swim seventy miles per hour
The largest of my kind caught was twice as long as a tall man
That sucker weighed two-hundred and twenty pounds
Give up?
I have a pointed bill
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Categories:
jump out, fish,
Form: Free verse
Squirm the Germ
...Squirm the Germ
Vs.1
There’s a germ, his name is Squirm, he lives inside our head, and when we cough or sneeze or wheeze, he jumps right out instead! So…..
(Point to your head, then use both ha...
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Categories:
jump out, caregiving, child, education, health,
Form: Ballad
Suggestions for Dissatisfied Dickie
...Dissatisfied Dickie sat in the chair to mope
He likes that mood said his brother, he can be a dope.
It’s not his fault said another, he has had a mean wife.
So do I said the brother, but I have ha...
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Categories:
jump out, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Break free from the sun
...
Hear the faded out groans beneath each grocery store tomato,
Blisters popping out as old, worker hands
Begin to pick up the pace,
Dirt growing thick, drilling beneath each thick fingernail
A...
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Categories:
jump out, family, future, work,
Form: Free verse
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