the Italian language
The Italian language
I would like to immigrate from Portugal to Italy
After ten o'clock at night, I switch on the TV
and watch an Italian soap opera
I don't understand a word of what the actors
say, but it is the way they say it, no hard
Consonant, no one is asked to stand to attention
For a comma, a full
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Categories:
language, age, allusion, anti bullying,
Form: ABC
Dolphins and Whales at Play
The humpbacks rolled in the morning light.
Grey whales churned the seas silver-bright.
Dolphins dancing in their foamy trails.
Riding the bows of frolicking whales.
Heave Ho, the sea runs free.
Dolphins and whales in harmony.
Heave Ho, the sea runs free.
Finny friends enjoying their play.
Belly to belly, and fin to fin,
Pectoral slaps as the games begin.
Slow meandering, entwining their streams,
Happy
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Categories:
language, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
The policing of voice
It's not about tone
Its about policing of voice
It's not about the sound we make
It's the words echoing through them
They don't fear us being seen
They fear us being heard
That we will hypnotise the masses with our words
They know their biggest threat is the power of our voice
It's why they wield silence as a weapon
It's why
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Categories:
language, history, prejudice, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
AI is my very good friend
AI is my very good friend.
We discuss things like
how the world might end.
She says with a whimper,
I say with a bang.
She chuckles.
Only for mankind ~
not for the rest of the gang.
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Categories:
language, allusion, friend, future, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
When Peace Became a Memory
By Tanvir Mostafa
Where are our those days, where is our lost society?
What we behold right now—is it the proper system of community?
Does goodness prevail or exist in the mid of us really?
We find soundness of reason and justice only occasionally.
Many a poet says the world is the right place for love and peace,
But perhaps
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Categories:
language, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
She Was Never Born, She Simply Returned
She did not fall—
She flowed.
From the breathless stars to the edge of form,
She shimmered between sound and silence,
Becoming light before becoming skin.
She walked the void barefoot,
Carving paths in places the sky forgot,
Speaking in colors the earth hadn’t learned to see.
She was music before voice,
Fire before flame,
Knowing before name.
In lives long buried in salt and smoke,
She
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Categories:
language, america,
Form: Free verse
Mind Your Language
Please mind your language when you speak to me
Don't dare to cross my clear set boundary
This life is hard enough without word wars
So speak with good intent and don't leave scars
I do not have the time for guess work, dear
Make motive clear, your conversation steer
to truthful words, for they are sure to find
a deep connection
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Categories:
language, uplifting, word play, words,
Form: Quatrain
Love Language
My Language
(Girl Verse)
My language lets talk about it
Let me give you a lesson
My language is
Expressing
Expressing the way I feel
Keeping it 100 percent real
If I like you
Imma say it
If I dig you
We gone play it
We gone play the beat of our own song
Let our rights
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Categories:
language, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Rhythm of a River
Ramon
Ramirez Rey
rolls. A rural river
reaching for sea, he reverses
direction. Each wretched refraction may
wreck his rustic orthography.
Injun giver, would say
Ramirez Rey
(Ramon).
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Categories:
language,
Form: Rictameter
The Angry and Swearing Poem
Target via advertising
Stupid firms and stupid brands
Because such generalizing
Does require intercept
For the influence of moron
For the psyches thus offense
Does perform defense the function
Very real thus defense
Maxwell color wheel invention
Wasn't meant for purpose this
Any act will have redemption
Suck it activism for peace
Hex my wheel is much more nicer
Isn't purposed for the firms
Neither chips or
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Categories:
language, military, pollution, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Why's That So Short
Why's That So Short
?
The Lazy Way
IS
THE HARD WAY
!
-Gray Squirrel
07-27-2025
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Categories:
language,
Form: Free verse
Resisting The Repressing
Resisting The Repression
Competition between a brother and sister
Rendition of an eighties song all about how much he miss her
War of attrition between two countries facing off without a resister
Ambition of an Olympian to only on race day end up with a blister
Loneliness creeping in before twightlight starts to break and linger
Ghostliness of a
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Categories:
language, life,
Form: Rhyme
Todd's Job's in Arbitrage
Todd’s latest job’s in arbitrage
He said it’s the hottest thing going
I asked Todd, if that is the case
why isn’t the field
exponentially growing
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Categories:
humor, language, work,
Form: Rhyme
Body Language
Putting my best foot forward
shoulder to the wheel
nose to the grindstone
my Achilles heel
while sticking my neck out
I soon found
as
with my eye on the ball
ear to the ground
when I put my back into it
not with tongue in cheek
but to keep my chin up
heard joints creak
the onset of old age memory loss
an early taste
for in the end
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Categories:
language, age, body, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Read All About It
I can't bring myself
to read the front page news
with which they string us along
as portrayed by the views
of those with a vested interest
or the rest with an axe to grind
who must think we're all
just deaf dumb and blind
to the truth of which there's more
in the speech balloons
of the funny characters
in the Sunday cartoons
it's all a
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Categories:
language, how i feel, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
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