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Larking Poems - Poems about Larking

The Clumsy City

...I wandered on streets of that clumsy city, 
Like a cloud that hangs below the sky,
And sits over the hills, dull and so heavy, 
Then it breaks into tears silently over the night.

The glowing mo...
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Categories: larking, lonely,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Handful of Haiku: Laughter of the rain

...Middle of July
Breathless days and sauna nights
Summer's lethargy

In their garden pool
Irises rise cool and tall
Like pastel water

Laughter of the rain
Crisp and clean like silver bells
C...
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Categories: larking, nature,
Form: Haiku



The Sunlight was Playing

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The talkers were talking,
texting.
Walkers were walking,
skipping, jogging.
Strollers were shaking,
prams rocking.
Kids were shouting,
yipping, yelling.

The pond went roundly arou...
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Categories: larking, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Alchemy of the Answers

...Alchemy of the Answers

Belief in the beauty of unrequited love blooming 
No relief as they replay the sounds of war looming 
A chief at the mane of the horse he is grooming 
A thief that refrai...
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Categories: larking, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberKabodlute In Harmony

...World famous player of the five fingered flute,
   Wasn't quite so happy as he used to be.
   Being alone with just his flute,
   Nice clothes,
   And lounging around,
   Didn't do much to make ...
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Categories: larking, 4th grade, fun, music,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberKing of All He Sees - A Royal Digression

...1066
Sad day on Senlac Hill.
King Harald takes an arrow 
Through his royal eye.
And that Norman bastard,
Duke William, steals his crown.
Though it’s embroidery, 
Not tapestry, tells the tale,
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Categories: larking, allegory, history,
Form: Ballade

Premium MemberEye of Darkness

...In the soul's darkness
An eagerness is thriving
Living on life,love, ambition 
Empty its dwelling depths 
Eye of Darkness, light is hope 

A heart yarning,lost,daze 
Pain felt in its mist 
A ...
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Categories: larking, absence, betrayal, dark, heart,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLarking Deer and Squirrel

...festive lark 
she has a deer for pet 
that day chases flamingos 
fawning at Santa Domingo 
Deers and squirrels shutters yet
All quiet at weeks end


2/14/21
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Categories: larking, analogy, animal, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFour

...Alan Shepard, astronaut, took golf balls to the moon
He whacked them only when he knew that he’d be leaving soon
‘One flew two hundred yards,’ he said, ‘and as I recollect
one came down in a crate...
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Categories: larking, golf, space,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMud Larking

...MUD LARKING
  
    Since a kid having a habit of treasure hunt,
   whenever got a chance to go on riverside
   picking pebbles slimed with pale mud,
    scavenging for precious something submerg...
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Categories: larking, 12th grade, appreciation,
Form: Narrative

Larking In the Mud With Grandad

...I, to the pasture's green could run, 
and fly a kite beside the sun,
but choose, I do, to linger still, 
among the dirt, what is my frill?

Low, be it may, to sink my feet, 
into the slimy, pun...
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Categories: larking, childhood, fun, happy, joy,
Form: Rhyme

He Did Not Come Back the Same, Part I

...When Laurie was just eighteen years of age
she fell in love with a brazen young man,
rode his own bike, knew just what to say,
ever quick with a joke was her Stan,
oh, the adventures that those t...
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Categories: larking, growth, introspection, loss, love,
Form: Narrative

Emotional Shape-Shifter

...emotional shape-shifter....
able to switch from mood 
to mood in the blink of an eye
emotional shape-shifter....
never know where it will
rear it's ugly head
emotional shape-shifter....
always...
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Categories: larking, analogy,
Form: Lyric

My Prince-Apples

...The wordly world is doggy-doggy,
You need a choice, oki-doki?
Boring bloke whose flavor's labour,
Or just choose, to be daily lazy.

Life is ocean, harshing hardship,
Who gets on its board, get...
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Categories: larking, fun, funny, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Learch In Church

...Learch In Church

I like leaching, leaping and larking
Set your light on fire that now is sparking
Not embark but find canoe made of birch
Learn how to paddle lazy self to church.

Sound famil...
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Categories: larking, humorous,
Form: Couplet

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