Heaven is for real
...Take a moment, think—
If there's a place we came from,
mustn't there be a place we're going to?
A river with a source
must have a mouth to truly be a river—
else, it’s a lake.
So too, a life th...
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Categories:
lb, angel, garden, god, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Haliaeetus
...According to Guinness World Records:
The biggest eagle is Steller's Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) which weighs 5-9 kg (11-20 lb) and has a wing-span of 2.2-2.45 m (7 ft. 2 in-8 ft. 0.3 in). Nativ...
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Categories:
lb, bird,
Form: Haibun
Fudgie brownies
...Dreamy brownies
dieters downfall
thick cut
fudge iced
10 lb appears out of nowhere...
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Categories:
lb, food,
Form: Free verse
A Good Day to Die
...(A little slice of paradise, 2021)
A Good Day to Die
Every time I go climbing I think, “This could be the day I die.”
I also think this when driving in really bad conditions
or when fl...
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Categories:
lb, appreciation, death, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Koala Brains
...(For MTG, LB and their ilk)
Give a koala
A fistful of eucalyptus leaves; their only food,
They won't know what to do with it.
Gotta pick it themselves, or starve.
That's because their brain...
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Categories:
lb, humor, political,
Form: Free verse
The Windmills of Babel
...Build them wider, taller
let us reach for the sky
when we run out of bird's
we'll clip angels on the fly
90,000 lb. sperm whale
wandering, searching for
his misplaced tail...
but elite...
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Categories:
lb, bird, change, environment, fish,
Form: Free verse
Cluster
...Two rival hockey teams take the ice
Gloves off at game time. bAm! PoW! SLICE!
It was a cluster puck
And that is putting it toothlessly nice.
I learned woodchucks couldn’t chuck wood
What would...
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Categories:
lb, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Shelby Dog
...Sweet Shelby, so it's been one spin around the sun for us
Here's to hungry you helping have hamburgers (obviously there was too many)
Emptying the trash when there was no more room (clearly there w...
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Categories:
lb, dog, love,
Form: Acrostic
Rhythm
...See them dressed in colors soldiers, regiment, British royal guards, guard bearskin, grandier guards, Buckingham palace guards dressed in scarlet red walking behind the queen’s casket and reminiscing...
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Categories:
lb, animal, death, destiny, endurance,
Form: Narrative
Lyricvixen's Fried Wonton Recipe
...Lyricvixen's Fried Wonton Recipe
childlike memories with
an adult like twist
(just: a tiny dollop + ketchup & mustard & pickles
?? a McDonald's Mickey D's thing going on )
1.) ?? first o...
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Categories:
lb, birthday, black african american,
Form: I do not know?
Colloquialism Fun
...Up here in Canada we have our own words
Everywhere does, some think ours are absurd
Between toques, hosers and rhyming currency
Like loonies and toonies, we do speak uniquely
But narrow it down t...
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Categories:
lb, humor, nostalgia,
Form: Couplet
Clerihew Bourgeois
...Sculptor Louise Bourgeois
of whom spiders webs was a star
Also making textiled fabric heads
labelled 'spun poetry ' many said*
*https://www.moma.org/s/lb/curated_lb/themes/spiders.html...
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Categories:
lb, poetry, word play,
Form: Clerihew
Remaining Along Sea
...Morning of ash, I always stayed with the invite of ash.
But, I don’t think they return scatter me.
“Why you can’t be the ash?” they asked
“Because I have been ash”
The woman that never speak ...
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Categories:
lb, art, cancer, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Nathania Augustine Sheerah Joyluv Williams
...Joy Luv!
Joy love;
On July 14th afternoon,
at 1:14 p.m. a special delivery was made;
An angel came down from heaven;
God has released another one of his daughters
Lovejoy
Joy O...
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Categories:
lb, analogy, appreciation, birth, birthday,
Form: Bio
Day of Deliverables
...Tonight, my soul, be still and sleep;
The storms are raging on God’s deep—
God’s deep, not yours; be still and sleep.
Charles H. Spurgeon
(Streams in the Desert)
DAY OF DELIVERAB...
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Categories:
lb, food, life, memorial day,
Form: Free verse
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