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Seasonal Walks In the Park
baseball, bird, change, childhood, games, holiday, lost,

“Seasonal Walks in the Park!”

A walk in the park after a springtime morning rainfall 
Is to hear the droplets fall from bent branches overhead
That can shock and moisten one’s...

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Categories: parkland, baseball, bird, change, childhood, games, holiday, lost,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Garden Tale
gardens are where we are:

  from "Eden" to "Gilgamesh", "Babylon" to "Gethsemane"
  from mountain to coast, town to country
  from wetlands to desert oasis, under the sea to the edge of ice
...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parkland, garden, places, space,
Form: Free verse
Settling Old Grudges, Part I
This house belonged to grandfather Rudolph,
though its history goes much further back,
all the way to the eighteen seventies,
when to this vast land Herbert Blake did trek.

It had once been a grand ranch homestead,
centerpiece of sixteen...

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Categories: parkland, conflict, confusion, family, father daughter, history, native
Form: Narrative
The Brothers Culver, Part I
Fielding Culver stepped off the west-bound train,
and gazed up on the towering Front Range,
it was a cool morn, eighteen sixty-nine,
he’d been sent out west, his brother to find.

He set up in a hotel in Green...

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Categories: parkland, brother, destiny, family, freedom, growth, life, nature,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Outcry For Change
What can I do to stop this terrible aching in my gut?
And yet, I am glad that I have not lost my sense of caring
That something inside of me still hurts when others hurt
My heart...

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Categories: parkland, america, anti bullying, change, perspective,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Alberta, Canada - Atf
 
Alberta, is a province in Canada.  It encompasses mountains, boreal forests,
six hundred lakes, foothills, grassland, parkland, and the Rocky Mountains.
A vast province full of picturesque scenery, fabulous cities, a tourist attraction
with so much...

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Categories: parkland, death, heartbreak, world,
Form: List
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Parkland, Fla.
February 14, 2018 

One more senseless mass homicide 
   twas the sole arbitrary aim
as a former student nonchalantly 
   sauntered empty hallways 
   seconds preceding blame
brazenly intent to...

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Categories: parkland, 10th grade, 11th grade, 9th grade, anger,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member They Are the Future
Students came out by the hundreds of thousands to march for their lives
gathered together as brothers and sisters, their voice clear; enough is enough!
No longer silent, they spoke for dead friends and all victims of...

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Categories: parkland, america, anger, angst, courage, emotions, feelings, student,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ongoing Elege
ONGOING ELEGY

The words you’re about to read are part of an ongoing elegy that began in 1999
after 12 students and one teacher were killed in the halls of Columbine.

We immediately looked to our leaders for...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parkland, death,
Form: Rhyme
18 As of Today
18 As Of Today

18 School shootings as of today
In Parkland 17 precious souls blown away 
When will there be another kill?
Or another or another?
Where was this horror conceived?
Things happened we never thought we’d believe
Our children...

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Categories: parkland, america, anger, bereavement, bullying, children, school,
Form: Free verse
Fear Challenges Modernity
daddy long legs spinning its' web from the ceiling 

8 legs of terror, to 8 years of life as a kid. 

monster under the bed hurry,

big terrible eyes, gleaming at me from the dark unknown...

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Categories: parkland, 11th grade, anxiety, discrimination, fear, journey, satire,
Form: Free verse
On the Edge of Forever
Absorbed by happenstance, left flailing in the pouring rain,
As it dripped from the hanging trees,
The branches wept, stripped bare again,
Riddled with winter’s disease.
How scythes cut nerves when I saw no return
When I reached the perimeter...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parkland, life, lost love, love, sad,
Form: Verse
Common You Are Not Cool
Common sit down you're not cool, quit being a fool.
The Democrat party doesn't give a care bout Black Lives Matter,  like you, they support Klanned Parenthood where black unborn children are being ripped apart...

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Categories: parkland, abortion, hate, political,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Same Thing
Memory still anoints them,
glowing in the ashes
of childhood. The cypress trees
in the parkland at the end
of the street. Tall, knotted
ladders to the heavens
where a child’s outstretched hand
could almost scratch the underbelly
of passing clouds.

You could swing...

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Categories: parkland, childhood, imagination, memory, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member After Columbine
It was 20 years ago…the year was 1999
and we thought the world would change….after Columbine

We hoped something would be done
after children were gunned down with their books
We thought the world would change…
and then came Sandy...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parkland, grief,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Quirky Poodle
She’s a keen lady, well   she’s my poodle
One who ‘d roll only  in the guestroom,
With quirky  manners  of caboodle
And whistles proudly ,   so out of  tune:

Once we...

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Categories: parkland, dog, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
They Would Be Young and Fair
They Would Be Young and Fair
For The Fallen: 2.14.18
    Parkland, Florida

they would be young
clear-eyed and fair
radiant and aglow
sun streaming through their hair

they would gambol and
frolic without a care
live as if time had...

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Categories: parkland, memorial,
Form: Free verse
Parkland
It started out like any other,
Sun warming children’s faces
As they walked into their day

A day of hearts & chocolates
and BIG teddy bears
Celebrating love like 
teenagers do

Or not?

Mid-day turns as sun becomes its brightest
Kids sighing relief...

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Categories: parkland, america, death, emotions, heartbroken, high school, murder,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs