Long Hard and fast Poems
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Terror Bugs: Part 5 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
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A water cannon screeched around the corner on two wheels
Four and twenty Terror Bugs were nipping at its heels
Their acid blistered paint work but it...
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Categories:
hard and fast, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
When I Was Born In '45
When I Was Born in '45
By Franklin Price
08/08/202
When I was born in '45, was another time and place
Merritt Island, I called home, we had not gone to space
Segregation was the way, we lived back in...
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Categories:
hard and fast, america, discrimination,
Form:
Couplet
Let's Go To Robotville
I have the greatest of the great ideas!” My husband said.
“Best one I have ever had!” He uses this line weekly
Since he is in sales, and we have been married a long time...
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Categories:
hard and fast, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Narrative
The Gunslinger
The Gunslinger
There once was a honest man, a man of iron and steel
Vengeance filled his heart, a lust for blood so surreal
No one knows what calamity has forged his evil ways
Or of what rages...
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Categories:
hard and fast, sad, violence,
Form:
Ballad
Seal fin de siecle with unheard celebration
Seal fin de siècle with unheard celebration
though two thousand nine hundred
will be here in seventy five years,
a mere blink of the eye
never to early
to think about fêted occasion
which marks the beginning
of the 22nd century.
if not...
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Categories:
hard and fast, america, anniversary, betrayal, cry, dark, environment, farewell,
Form:
Free verse
Inspiration From Marlee Bee
Inspiration comes disguised in a variety of ways. News stories. Flash floods. A crying child in a grocery store. A person sitting along the highway holding a ‘will work for food’ sign. ...
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Categories:
hard and fast, inspiration, inspirational,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Part 1 of -The Lourde' and the Ladee' and the Magikal Forest of Ode'
Once upon a time in the Magikal' Forest of Ode’
Buried deep in the mystikal forests of greene’
Many majikal creatures are seen
Glittering flashes that glow in firelite
Of dancing faeries and elves in...
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Categories:
hard and fast, adventure, childhood, fantasy, growing up, happiness, night,
Form:
Rhyme Royal
Mouthwash Guppy
Out of all of the plastic mouth wash bottles in America, I had to fall into this one.
It happened in the middle of a life changing moment on Tuesday when I wished too hard to...
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Categories:
hard and fast, 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th
Form:
Narrative
The Video Game Affair
Across the pixelated clouds, jumps a little man in red and blue.
He jumps hard and fast through the massive flood of mismatched minions.
The only thing on his tiny mind is get the girl.
Course...
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Categories:
hard and fast, betrayal, funny love, games, hero, princess, truth,
Form:
Free verse
The Christmas Mule
So many years had passed, he was the offspring of a horse and ass.
Quickly discounted, the young mule was sold over and over again
until he finally ended up here, in Bethlehem.
Tethered to the...
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Categories:
hard and fast, animal, god, mother son,
Form:
Narrative
Junior Mafia
Life these days is hard for any man
But not uncle Vinny, you see he’s in this gang,
He’s living a real good life
Got more money than the President and his wife,
With his fancy suits and his...
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Categories:
hard and fast, america, city, corruption, culture, family, mentor, murder,
Form:
Rhyme
Make the Silent Poetry On Floor - Rangoli*
Make The Silent Poetry on Floor - Rangoli*
A gift for all Poetry friends
The Poem is dedicated to Deborah Guzzi for the
inspiration from her blog Onam India &
Linda-Marie The Sweetheart of P.S
Making Rangoli is...
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Categories:
hard and fast, happiness, imagination, inspirationalhouse, flower, flower, house, joy,
Form:
Free verse
Not The First Time
Not the First Time
By Cathrin Stuart
Late at night, you came home drunk
Not the first time
I heard you and Mommy talking
Not the first time
You came and pulled me out of bed by the hair
Not the...
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Categories:
hard and fast, anxiety, child abuse, family, fear, heartbreak, home,
Form:
Rhyme
The Christmas Mule Reposted
So many years had passed, he was the offspring of a horse and ass.
Quickly discounted, young mule was sold over and over again
until he finally ended up here, in Bethlehem.
Tethered to the carts,...
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Categories:
hard and fast, animal,
Form:
Narrative
Evelyn House
I dreamed I was dreaming one evening as I lay
in a garden with flowers thriving
In an old back yard I played in a mystical mood
In the dream I dreamed I was near an old house
The...
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Categories:
hard and fast, loveold, garden, me, old, time,
Form:
Verse
Outlaw?
I knew his face from a poster,
That said he was wanted by the law,
It had little affect on me,
For I went by what I saw.
Two eyes of blue looked up at...
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Categories:
hard and fast, cowboy-western, forgiveness, introspection, life, me, prayer, life,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
I Never Wanted To Teach English
I never wanted to teach English.
I was shocked at her announcement
For she was wonderful at teaching English.
I know. I was one of her 8th grade students.
What did you want to do? I asked her.
You will...
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Categories:
hard and fast, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, teacher, write, writing,
Form:
Free verse
State of the Union
hey white girl
what are u doin 2 day?
are u complaining about da events of ur self imposed stressful day
hey white girl
what u sayin 2 day?
Knowin u
its in direct contradiction 2
what u said yesterday
hey white girl
Didn't...
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Categories:
hard and fast, black african american, life, people,
Form:
I do not know?
Champions Within Glass Backed Walls
Within the glass backed walls of the squash courts, ....
Eager junior players are busy getting into their strides..
In small groups of 4 to 6, they are seeking to earn their stripes..
Religiously undergoing punishing ...
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Categories:
hard and fast, character, children, clothes, desire, dream, faith, games,
Form:
Light Verse
Connection
A storm was ending outside my door
The last trillion drops just fell
Lightning flashed and thunder roared
It truly seemed like hell
Then up I looked and saw a drop
Falling hard and fast
A tortured route with...
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Categories:
hard and fast, emotions, love, metaphor, rain, storm, weather,
Form:
Free verse
Dependency
Falling for a guy can be bittersweet. You meet, you talk, you laugh. Then you doubt, you cry, you get distant. But there is no reason that you know of as to why you feel...
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Categories:
hard and fast, confusion, deep, emotions, love, relationship, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
Doomed Dolt, Numbed Nerd, Trampled Trumpery:3
the Medicare, an undeserved fund the patients spend,
which seems extremely excrescent,
must be crushed immediately without any mend.
No coverage serves them right! Be they gravely ill or convalescent.
In his favor, all the rules the Capitol...
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Categories:
hard and fast, corruption, political, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Anti-Life, Part II
...You see them saying the unborn
are parasites, not to be mourned,
it’s not their body anyway,
despite the unique DNA.
Like sacrificing them to Baal,
nothing now seems beyond the pale,
the lives we should vale the most
are ‘inconvenient.’ So...
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Categories:
hard and fast, abortion, culture, evil, gender, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
Lost My Freedom Once Upon a Time
I took it all for granted. The sky, the stars, the wind,
the flowers, the grass, the trees.
I expected to see my friends every day,
it was boring, dull, humdrum, if you please.
In my mediocre...
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Categories:
hard and fast, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Rhyme
Louie
We got him just a few weeks old
With energy to burn
But he was very brave and bold
For lessons he would learn
Named him Louie from the start
And every day was new
He ran and each day played...
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Categories:
hard and fast, best friend, death, dog, emotions, loss, pets,
Form:
Rhyme