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Frozen side of the sun
...The sun having a frozen side~ a wish like a snowball in hell, or netting the wind while oceans b o i l in f i r e. The rage of its heat needs curtailing. I'm melting... like chocolate......

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Categories: like a fish out of water, extended metaphor, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lunchtime In The Dark
...When you find yourself stuck in a corner You will turn and see rules spread all over Soon be lost in the shuffle Up the creek with no paddle Missed the boat like a fish out of water......

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Categories: like a fish out of water, analogy,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member lying to live, living to die
...we had all grown used to seeing me in a hospital bed but this time, i don’t know if i’ll pull through. my mother is a brilliant woman. strong and tenacious. i can feel her anxiety building a......

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Categories: like a fish out of water, angst, anxiety, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Therapy
... Someone gently rolls me over Onto this white slab, belly down And I wait ... like forever Or at least it seems like forever, anyway Above me is a mirror, So, I turn my head and st......

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Categories: like a fish out of water, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow?
...Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow? The following extrapolated thought thread exercised, NOT utilized to intimate how Fats Domino belied, and wowed a crowded house ass-sized. ......

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Categories: like a fish out of water, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Onerous Task Confronted Teachers and Parents
...Onerous task confronted teachers and parents As prospective students ably ready themselves to matriculate and/or first set little feet inside halls of learning, I rebroadcast a poem crafted ......

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Categories: like a fish out of water, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Across Figurative and Literal Blackened White Board
...Across figurative and literal blackened white board... Where death of democracy writ large, nevertheless psychological strength predominates unlike earlier chapters of mein kampf. Mine hardsc......

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Categories: like a fish out of water, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Buddhism Burning
...On the June 11th, 1963, Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist Monk, sat down in the Lotus position on a street in Saigon. His fellow monks poured petrol on him as he had requested. He sat there for a mome......

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Categories: like a fish out of water, 10th grade,
Form: ABC
Onerous Task Confronts Teachers and Parents Part One
...The following reasonable obsolete rhyme verst heard in my faux class (sic) lilting brogue courtesy coronavirus (COVID-19) rogue wrought approximate sixth month academic hiatus nevertheless Septem......

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Categories: like a fish out of water, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
A Feeling So Fresh
...A Feeling So Fresh... Ahh...! The streak of pain, The rough floor And the red stain. How can I forget that agony? They were five And I was only. They dragged me like a rucksack, A feeli......

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Categories: like a fish out of water, angst, art, bereavement, body,
Form: Couplet
Donny Brook Doth Runnel Along
...Generating a ring of bright waters, which currently meanders, ponders, and then streams - twitch ching reflexively as flora and fauna lap rich text chard liquid timelessly ......

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Categories: like a fish out of water, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Fish Out of Water
...Keeping me hooked like a fish out of water. On invisible line, i cant see. You keep pulling harder. When you first baited me in, giving me what i wanted. Just to toy with my heart. You threw m......

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Categories: like a fish out of water, betrayal, break up, emotions,
Form: I do not know?
Living Off the Grid
...Living off the grid.. I bid you .. It's a challenge.. Living off the land.. For it's quite bland.. A taste of the great outdoors.. Mother Nature exposed.. Absolutely no power.. I cannot ......

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Categories: like a fish out of water, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love Letter
...Hello Madam Butterfly, with the looks of being caught between a rock and a hard place. While you were being formed and before ever you were born, I watched near by. I even observed you there all al......

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Categories: like a fish out of water, beautiful, i love you,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Beauty and the Beast, Mystic
...This is No Man's Land of fallen trees, and God-forsaken deadwood fill the landscape. I, the beast, am in my domain and feel no estrangement, cause I am right at home. She, so stunningly beautiful, is......

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Categories: like a fish out of water, animal, beauty, caregiving, children,
Form: Personification

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