Creature of the Night
...Creature of the Night
Life bleed
Life bleed
Oxygen into my soul
Street sign
Reads Everyone heed
Pay the toll
Right side of sadness
Left out in the rain
Life bleed
Brothers and sisters
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Categories:
klondike, 11th grade, addiction, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Eerie Foreboding about this House
...Scintilla experienced an eerie foreboding
the house at 125 Klondike Street felt unsafe
she sensed that it had brought doom to occupants
she was shaking her head no when her husband said “we’ll tak...
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Categories:
klondike, scary,
Form: Free verse
your thoughts will cross the mountains
...You’ll never be an Olympic champion, Cecile,
After your accident on the ice,
Just walk, only,
There are so many beautiful things to do,
While walking, only, doubly,
Walking makes happy, calms th...
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Categories:
klondike, allegory, endurance, hope,
Form: Free verse
Klondike McVey McVery
...you can feel his smile before you actually see
The grin on his face where others frown might be
He is the happiest most confident mushroom faerie
Whose name is Klondike McVey McVery
If you do n...
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Categories:
klondike, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Daughter of Fortune
...Daughter of fortune
She is the daughter of a woman who found passionate
love in Paris with an opera singer; now lives in her brother’s
house and knows, in the end, life is about a haven of roman...
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Categories:
klondike, best friend, blessing, giving,
Form: Blank verse
My Ultimate Price
...What would you do, if it was asked of you
Would you give up everything, or remain true
Would you make the sacrifice?
Chance your fate and roll the dice
Sign away your life and morals
Sitting bac...
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Categories:
klondike, dark, funny, silly,
Form: Couplet
Acclimated
...8/29/21
If I knew
Why did I do
What I knew
I shouldn't do
There's been a lot of damage taken
The devil continually advocated
I've successfully acclimated
It's gone beyond being infatuat...
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Categories:
klondike, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
You
...Someone asked me what I would do for a klondike bar
And I replied
I don't really know, but I do know what I'll do for my Boo Boo Bar
I'll go thru anything with u, do anything for u
Go to the high...
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Categories:
klondike, animal, black love, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Snippets of Lydia
...She is very slender and her eyes are brown.
Her hair is lovely, long and dark.
Sometimes she wears colors in her hair or paints her nails.
When I visit at her house, she often scurries away
to be...
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Categories:
klondike, granddaughter,
Form: Free verse
Desire and Delicious
...what I wouldn’t give for a Klondike bar
walking a mile would not be too far,
but going uphill would be too much
going that far is beyond my touch
I would settle for a Hoodsie of a trade
if I d...
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Categories:
klondike, longing,
Form: Rhyme
It Know It Was My Idea
...Oh, you did not know Mrs. Klondike said.
Haughty, uppity, not nice in the least.
The festival has been moved and renamed.
The Aprillstica has been re-named?
No way!
I was horrified, shocked.
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Categories:
klondike, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Light Verse
A Rose of Pink
...She has an air about her, and
a soul that I admire;
a heart as pure as Klondike gold,
and words that so inspire.
Like rose of pink in morning mist,
her petals have a glow;
she’s l...
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Categories:
klondike, for her, friendship, love,
Form: Rhyme
Less Than Nothing
...
Les C. More back from the vay-cay holidays,
giving my poetry peeps
a look-see at an odd Klondike meet
He ain’t nothing but
small potatoes
Trying to live
big-talk lettuce la...
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Categories:
klondike, adventure, character, fun, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Klondike Gold Rush
...the men of the north come will ye
the sons of the south come to thee
seeking riches of Freya's tears
some never find it and some take years
some get sick and soon may die
others give up and sti...
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Categories:
klondike, adventure, fate, men, people,
Form: Rhyme
Alaska, the Last Frontier
...Alaska; the wilderness state, the last frontier:
Where majestic mountains,
Deliver streams into flowing rivers:
Down slopes covered in forests
Of Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock,
That dominates...
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Categories:
klondike, celebration, culture, education, history,
Form: Verse
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