Locales Poems

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

Premium MemberCritterature: 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

Premium MemberDaisy 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

Premium MemberZen 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


Premium MemberStillness

...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

Premium MemberGypsy 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

Premium MemberWhy 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

Premium MemberGone 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

Premium MemberMy 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

Premium MemberShlurp - 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

Premium MemberThe 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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