Not For Elephants
...In the liveliest REM stage of his night
Bert beholds an unusual sight.
A troupe of pink elephants sound a trumpet blast
Then stomp united towards the grass.
On the other side, a team of tall st...
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Categories:
liveliest, dream, football, funny,
Form: Couplet
Lamenting Missed Rolls in the Hay
...Upon well-worn barstools, tales two codgers tell,
Deep in drink, their stories swell.
Reflecting how the eons have flown,
Strengths once had, now overthrown.
"Ah, beauties chased, both bright a...
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Categories:
liveliest, drink, friendship, sexy,
Form: Rhyme
The White Ribbon in the Wind
...To Atbin.
Another flick, a spark,
Once more awakened the past
Illustrating memories
Are alive and always last.
I recall your visage with
Its veins, its charm, and grace
Some invisible g...
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Categories:
liveliest, friend, friendship, grief, i
Form: Rhyme
Liveliest Teenager At the Disco Ball
...She was the liveliest teenager at the disco ball hall.
Her mushroom head hat made her sixteen feet tall.
She shimmied and shook, and had a terrific time, a real ball.
We could barely get her peele...
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Categories:
liveliest, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To Freedom
...Freedom sends wide field of thornless roses from its crown
A crown of victory over conflicts of people and nations
Nations aiming sweet liberty and independence
Independence in a democrati...
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Categories:
liveliest, freedom,
Form: Ode
Down In the Valley
...Down in the valley of memories I go
searching for pieces of yesterdays past
looking for you and your eyes all aglow
down in the valley of grief fast in-toe
August remembers the flowers of M...
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Categories:
liveliest, mother,
Form: Quatrain
She Was the Liveliest 12-Year-Old
...Her glory dance uninhibited
She, the liveliest of the twelves.
Created her own music,
Wowing the rest of us.
All wanting to be
So much like her
Some forgot
To be
Self...
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Categories:
liveliest, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Nonet
Unquotable Quotes: Journalists - Dedication To Andre Fontaine - Xxvi
...Unquotable quotes: Tale-Carriers, Gossip-Mongers, Courrier-Pigeon Caretakers, Smoke-Signal Puffers and Tom-Tom Thumpers – XXVI
Could there be such things as political shenanigans or inter-conti...
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Categories:
liveliest, power,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Pen
..."The pen is mightier than the sword"
- In general, I guess that's true
But mine's a lazy blighter;
It treats sloth as a bloody virtue
It's not the liveliest of beasts
It's always at a halt
It...
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Categories:
liveliest, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Through the Eyes of a Door
...I am a Door and I have seen it all,
Experienced the most tragic and the liveliest flashes!!
Have seen it all, from happy to gloom
As it all happens in front of me
The animated one for some extra...
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Categories:
liveliest, angst, anxiety, career,
Form: Light Verse
Winter's End
...Winter’s fury
has long died;
fading, weary,
she comes to pass.
Sunlight spills
across open yards,
blotted white -
then, one last
chilled breath
escapes with might
before su...
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Categories:
liveliest, nature, spring, summer,
Form: Free verse