Two Fold
...If miracles were made in the Sun
I would come and see you before the day is done
I would whisper good news in your ears
And touch the passion that has been sleeping for years
And drive out the mo...
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Categories:
kerchief, america, beach, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Tale of Hiking Hannah
...Hiking Hannah wondered about hundreds of hikes in her wonder journals.
She's been to Kansas to see sunflowers and Iowa to see corn kernels.
Her cousin asked. Are you going to Europe- namely Italy a...
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Categories:
kerchief, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Persnickety
...Picky just like an old school pin up,
easily a trendsetter with scope.
Registered at first glance a star.
Strutting she knows what sells,
notorious for that catchy slogan
‘I won’t ever provide ...
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Categories:
kerchief, emotions, fashion, feelings,
Form: Acrostic
CLERIEW ecphrasis XXIV
...Camille in a red kerchief"
ever so 'wifley'supportive'
Monet at his impressionist best
with this intimate 'domestique 'jest
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Categories:
kerchief, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Camouflaged Babushka
...Try not to notice the stand-out babushka I was told.
I immediately whipped my face around, so big and bold.
She was really something with kerchief of green and gold.
I said not to look! Said my fr...
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Categories:
kerchief, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Carnage At Sea
...They packed their picnic basket s and journeyed towards the sun, with boxes of liquor, creates of beers and a drum fill with carbonated soda; busloads of them, drove down the slopes, with dug out bo...
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Categories:
kerchief, beach, beautiful, community, creation,
Form: Free verse
More To Her There Than Meets the Eye
...More to her there than meets the eye
a hint of bare shoulder, a near-glimpse of thigh
Her golden hair wrapped in a kerchief
Tempting tongue flickers 'tween lips
Her voice like a s...
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Categories:
kerchief, beautiful, mystery, nature, simile,
Form: Rhyme
The Unsaid
...Lots of love around
There's no shortage of affection and care
It seems like a dream
Happiness and smiles around me everywhere
Loaded with ornaments,
I feel like a princess
Shining gold and tw...
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Categories:
kerchief, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Christmas
...'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be ...
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Categories:
kerchief, christmas,
Form: Couplet
Good Luck Said His Girl
...He had on his bibbed overalls, and his red kerchief.
Finally found his worn straw hat, with great relief.
Headed out on the water with a wave and a wish.
Heard plenty of bass making a splash or a ...
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Categories:
kerchief, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Quatrain
A Lukewarm Bowl of Nonsense
...Good eve to you and sets the sun
Let's have some fun, stay on alert
For someone will get their just desserts
Not you though it's no piece of cake
As I had mine and ate it too
On just the other s...
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Categories:
kerchief, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnet 76: O, Mortal Goddess of the Heavens Seized
...O, Mortal Goddess of the Heavens Seized,
Whose Name, pleasant, doth make my heart to quake
There’s naught I would not bravely do to please
Thee well, all wisdom, surety, I would forsake,
If only ...
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Categories:
kerchief, addiction, appreciation, hope, love,
Form: Sonnet
The Chalice of Night
...The Chalice of Night pours dark on the stair
drops of shadows that don't belong there.
Echoes of footsteps--do they signal harm?
Whispers in bushes that push our alarm.
We know spirits like to ...
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Categories:
kerchief, anxiety, confusion, dark, fear,
Form: Couplet
Grand Papa and His Old Worn -Kerchief
..."Them there stories
Twas the decade of worries
In the lower half, of the mighty Mo’
My grand-PaPa and em’ picked cotton
It twas below the Mason-Dixon Line;
Grand-pa always had an old ...
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Categories:
kerchief, analogy, appreciation, character, dedication,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Motionless Shantelle
...Motionless Shantelle
(The name Shantelle derives from the French meaning “stone, stony place)
This is the story of girl called Ashima,
a beautiful Yi maiden and her beloved Ahei
Behind mo...
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Categories:
kerchief, beauty, death, fate, lost
Form: Free verse
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