No Clue
...Younger people have no clue
That many things they like to do
Will, one day, prove to be too much,
By slipping from an aging clutch.
The rah-rah-rah and go-go-go
Of constant moving starts to sl...
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Categories:
locales, age, change,
Form: Rhyme
Critterature: The Peculiar Plight of the Poor Pitiable Octopus
...To the ancient Norse he was Kraken
With a mean inclination,
And the Greeks called him Gorgon
With the same reputation.
But as monster of myths
He's been wrongly miscast,
So I'm here to shed new...
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Categories:
locales, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Mein kampf synonymous as a blooper
...Mein kampf synonymous as a blooper
Writer of these words,
a former Lower Providence inhabitant,
who dwelled within darkest depths
of Dante Alighieri's inferno
for most of his outlandish, impis...
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Categories:
locales, 12th grade, abuse, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Daisy Daze
...I was a successful, fashionable florist, in mild green days of elegant gardens,
When an orange sun beamed its pleasure, like locales where lavender begins.
I formed arrangements for many occasion...
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Categories:
locales, beautiful, fantasy, flower, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Zen Mode
...here we are this morning, in Australia
God plays no favourites, we see
the same magnetism pervades the air here
realms, domains, locales change
ephemeral phenomena is but smoke
the unchanging...
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Categories:
locales, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Stillness
...I was a learned meteorologist, studying azure atmosphere and vivid weather,
To give a prophetic daily forecast, like bees gliding remote locales of heather.
Often I had to issue advisories and wa...
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Categories:
locales, color, fantasy, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
Gypsy Jasmyn
...Misplaced peg squirms to fit locales unfamiliar
Illformed tumbleweed pauses then departs
Traits assessed on somewhere else's charts
Easily establishes enemies, little gypsy pe...
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Categories:
locales, 4th grade, angst, anti
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Why Can'T I Write a Poem
...Why can't I write a poem
'bout every shade of color
kaleidoscope sunsets and brilliant blooms
Why's my imagery so much duller ...
Why can't I write a poem
'bout steamy lov...
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Categories:
locales, color, flower, motivation, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Gone With the Wind
...during our yesteryears
we made no appointment
to catch up our close friends
their doors were always open
friendly warm smiles greeted us
whenever we walked into their home
not qu...
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Categories:
locales, friend, friendship,
Form: Free verse
My Thoughts Are With You
...'My thoughts are with you'
What does that mean
Can we send our mind's notions
to locales we've not been
Yet I feel we can
if by this is what's meant
The thoughts I ...
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Categories:
locales, destiny, meaningful, relationship, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Sweet Memories
...Long after the joys are gone
The bitter sweet memories remain
Of our unforgettable companions
And the exotic, exciting locales
The few precious moments of real joy
We savored in freedom and ab...
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Categories:
locales, memory, nostalgia, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Shlurp - Nursery Rhyme - Kids Story
...[In UK English, Bath sounds like Barf not Baff, Laugh is Larf, not Laff etc. Apologies if the rhyme fails in other locales]
Don’t pull the plug out when you’re sitting in the bath
If you do t...
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Categories:
locales, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The Guru
...The guru knows people,
and through that knowing
understands none can be generalized.
All is never a word you can use when describing them.
Each is more accurate.
Sure we may have similar ide...
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Categories:
locales, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Dozen Octobers In Montauk
...Fishing rods and reels, and bicycle wheels,
gentle thousand yard stare,
daisies in the dunes, measured afternoons
all without a damn care.
Bake shop coffee and wet shore like toffee,
Hampton St...
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Categories:
locales, allegory, analogy, appreciation, autumn,
Form: Lyric
Frontier Days
...Fort Worth to El Paso, a long stretch of tracks
Deputies securing Wells Fargo money sacks,
With reins in hand, stagecoach en route
Jessie’s gang kicks dust, chasing the loot.
Oil lamps hanging ...
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Categories:
locales, imagery, , western,
Form: Rhyme
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