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Unquotable Quotes: Janitor, Gardienne, Portero, Sereno, Hausgast -Xxxi Part OneUnquotable quotes: The Janitor, Gardienne, Landlady, Housekeeper, Portero, the Sereno and the Hausgast – XXXI Part One
Be they so named or not in these here parts, visions of shrieking furies with Gorgon heads and...
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on the lookout, care, city, horror, rights, urban,
Form:
Quatrain
Gotcha! Once respectable haute cuisine thief Sue SheGotcha! Once respectable haute cuisine thief Sue She...,
a septuagenarian renown for his trademark prank
to steal himself into a neighboring house,
and prepare an elaborate meal
unsuspectedly nabbed gorging
(ala man versus food
Adam Montgomery Richman fame
Brooklyn, New York boy)
at...
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on the lookout, absence, adventure, america, appreciation, character, love, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Humus Me My Vegetated Chokes IngestHumus me? My vegetated chokes ingest!
(jokes all in jest)
Hard to believe, I orange in a lee
started life as barely visible speck!
Just in the course of healthy growing
season, this former minute nearly
microscopic entity developed into
quite pleasing...
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on the lookout, 11th grade, 12th grade, animal, beautiful, crazy,
Form:
Bio
You Are Who You AreYou are who you are ...
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on the lookout, beautiful, hurt, life, power, wisdom, words, youth,
Form:
Lyric
When Does Phenomenal Moment of Existence OccurWhen does phenomenal moment of existence occur...?
Otherwise titled: Regaling eldest sibling
delineating her sixty third successful orbit
around the sun December first 2021.
About consciousness who can tell
After haploid gametes
able, eager, and ready
to yield eukaryotic (diploid) cell?
What triggers...
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on the lookout, age, appreciation, beautiful, birthday, blessing, endurance, family,
Form:
Rhyme
The Day I Saw That Fate Exists"The Day(s) I Saw That Fate Exists"
6/17/19
"What Makes You Flinch" poetry contest
Sponsored By: Julie Leigh Rodeheaver
Today began as most of many days do
Today I woke, a tad bit hungover
Opened my eyes, rubbed my head
Said...
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on the lookout, addiction, anxiety, brother, confidence, conflict, confusion, fate,
Form:
Free verse
The End of the Flying Dutchman, Part IYou’ve heard of the Flying Dutchman,
the ghost-ship that travels the seas,
there’s countless legends about it,
a great deal of variety.
Some say it’s just cursed to wander,
a result of some ancient sin,
a crew long dead yet still...
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on the lookout, confusion, history, myth, ocean, sea, surreal, water,
Form:
Narrative
Funny Jokes For The Coming Holidays Read At Your Own Risk Thank YouWhy couldn't the lizard get married and have children?
Because he had Reptile Dysfunction.
Two men broke into a drug store and stole all the Viagra.
The police put out an alert, to be on the lookout for...
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Categories:
on the lookout, funny, sensual, silly,
Form:
Light Verse
O Here's another Paradoy for both those on the Left and those on the Right part oneO Here's another Parody for those both on the left and those on the right.
Both sides don't know they both have a very common enemy for them to fight.
There's much more than a heavenly fight...
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Categories:
on the lookout, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Rhyme
Just Another Day In My Man CaveI always arise
at break of dawn,
when curtained solar
radiance openly drawn
upon a vast
wasteland, though thankfully
most (boot...
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on the lookout, 5th grade, age, art, culture, home, memory,
Form:
Free verse
A Peasant's Revenge, Part IThe story begins when I was a young man,
personal chirurgeon for Prince Malistare,
when the Kingdom of Blenum faced rebellion
in the west, among the peasants out there.
The king sent an army, led by his first-born,
I was...
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Categories:
on the lookout, class, death, evil, fantasy, loss, lost love,
Form:
Epic
Outback TruckersWheels turning, churning, fighting for a grip
mud oozing, clinging, sucking for purchase
rivers flooding their banks, water everywhere
trucks fighting trying to get through and deliver
their precious cargos that are desperately awaited
sometimes gasoline or much...
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Categories:
on the lookout, adventure, water, weather,
Form:
Epic
Life Is But a Flicker In the WindowLIFE IS A FLICKER IN THE WINDOW
“Life is like a flame’s flicker in the window, the window of time. One moment the spark is there, and the next it’s gone."
When you look at a flame,...
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on the lookout, allusion, beautiful, blessing, creation, dream, fire, life,
Form:
Narrative
Kidnapping Freedom and LibertyLiberty has been taken hostage, abducted in many parts
Of the world
Freedom is often smothered, suffocated in many hearts
In this world
Both are often used as steady stepping stones
By demagogues and fibbers to break the bones
Of patriots...
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on the lookout, abuse, cancer, conflict, courage, environment, jealousy, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Infrastructure SoulBeneath the city the river fishing is good.
I roam with tackle and pole below those wiggling tapeworms
Wound around the cement underbelly of bridges
Devouring the guts of the city’s glamour
Down here where shadows are long as...
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on the lookout, city, fish, fishing, places, river, self, society,
Form:
Free verse
Job InterviewGoing For A Job Interview
The moment of truth comes, when one comes face to face with a prospective boss…
Having secured an appointed date for interview, it is time to meet the boss…
This learned young...
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Categories:
on the lookout, anxiety, career, emotions, father son, graduation, growing
Form:
Light Verse
Cat and SquirrelCAT AND SQUIRREL
By Curtis Johnson
The squirrel was in the tree, and the cat on the ground. There was nothing special about that scene except that on this particular spring morning in 2014, there was...
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on the lookout, animal, nature, tree,
Form:
Prose
Who's Coming Down The TrailI’m moving down a forest trail,
wooden canyon on my right side,
above, on thermals, raptors glide,
always inspires without fail.
I hear a rustle before me,
and wonder just who that could be?
Perhaps it is an Indian,
face painted, war...
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on the lookout, dream, history, imagery, imagination, nature, people, repetition,
Form:
Rhyme
Another Fish Storyposted--no swimming, strong under tows
no guard on duty
what kind of life is that, no swimming
it’s my life and I don’t need a guard
I’m taking the sign down
He spotted a another sign, ‘no boating’
He had...
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Categories:
on the lookout, funny,
Form:
Free verse
It Looks Like LoveThey noticed from the time when they were young…from before they all could speak…their father’s way of looking at the world was different…some would say…unique.
Every morning he’d open the front door…look out over the land...
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on the lookout, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Tribute To Every New PoemHere on poetrysoup, the newest poem,
pops up on-screen
like the latest off-shoot, or newborn babe
or like a newest floral bud,
in the orchards of poetry.
Or like a fresh wave of words
crashing and cresting upon the turf
For...
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on the lookout, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Verse
Courtesy the Mighty Amazon Successful Deliverance ReportedCourtesy the mighty Amazon successful deliverance reported...
Regarding unexpected Gadshill gift
(as if delivered from Magi)
tamper proof wrapped,
thus an obligation goads me
to communicate following
trademarked™ poetically apt
reasonable rhyme capped
with feeble airborne attempt,
no matter arms waved futilely,
madly, and ridiculously...
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Categories:
on the lookout, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Rhyme
All the Lonely PeopleAll the lonely people, where do they come from…
All the lonely people, where do they belong…
These are familiar lines from a Beatles’ immortal song…
Makes one wonder why so many people feel lonely as in...
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Categories:
on the lookout, anxiety, community, confusion, innocence, internet, sad love,
Form:
Free verse
List of Why I Loved Bill BulldogBill Bulldog was our gorgeous British Bull Dog. We were so lucky to have Bill in our lives for eleven wonderful years. Bill was like no other dog we ever had before. A gentle boy...
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on the lookout, character, dog, happiness, love,
Form:
List
The Cry of a Child
The Cry Of A Child
The cry of a child, sometimes we can hear. The cry of a child
sometimes can be seen. We should all be on the lookout to
see when a child cries.
Abuse can come...
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Categories:
on the lookout, sad, cry, day,
Form:
Free verse