Long Plunking Poems

Loving my refurbished fifteen inch mid 2015 Macbook Pro

A lightning fast machine
purchased three days ago
now comfortably nestling with
said technological wonder,
where outside a cold wind howls
measuring windchill factor of five below
allowing, enabling and providing me
an opportunity...

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3:15 a.m. 
 It was a crappy, wet, rainy dog-hiding drizzly morning.
Anthony woke up in a bad mood, with a sore throat, that got worse when he looked out the window.
Of course, the obstinate dog...

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Urges ushered Est’bel out of her abode –
a cottage cobbled together from cobwebs and clapboard – 
and she scuttled forth,
her nesty hair tousled
by a leaf-laced breeze

In her bony hands she clutched
dregs of a nightmeg broth
in...

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Grief is so strange it catches you by surprise 
One minute your laughing, the next tears in your eyes
A song on the radio, the sun going down
It's all so unexpected, when grief makes you frown

A...

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Our pristine, prissy, upscale dining room was almost never used.
And now it can’t be used for eating, for it is slightly junked and abused.
Dining room table is so long, it started to almost immediately collect....
So...

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Two fingers trapped in a tinkle
Tap dance on the last
The ivories louder and louder
The notes spinning, spinning so fast

Unleashing the whirlwind it does twirls about the room
The magical piano from which a dust devil makes...

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No one knows where it happened 
and no one knows when or why,
the little, luminous silver star
came tumbling from the sky

Landing with a plunking sound
falling helplessly into the river,
this tiny piece of heaven on earth
became...

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There is a beat bouncing through her brain that she can’t help but step to
Her soul is overflowing with melodies; they long to be sung
She hears a song and stops to listen as pitches and...

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Lay away.
I had never heard the term
Until I saw a friend use it. We were in seventh grade.
We had both fallen in love with a purse with large ugly brown beads attached to the side.
Hers...

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Here is another gullible fool in a bad situation.
There she was plunking away the money in this casino nation.
The player was hoping to hit it big with this machine.
However, it sadly concluded as an ugly...

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Tongue twister poem is a self created form. In this form every line has a tongue twisting 
effect with ample usage of Onomatopoeia...

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Swishy swashy waves washing sea shores..
Splattering spluttering slowly foam scours..
Rumbling rambling whooshing, wave...

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Invisible predators steal my soul
taking me to a bowl of stale potato chips
dunking me down beneath the cigarette butts
That were not ever well-hidden in the bottom

Plunking me down firmly with their beady
little hands and their...

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She Dances...Come With Me

Her gliding translucence~heaven’s kiss
Leaping lightly aswirl in twilight’s sweet mist
Her sprite easy leap~grandious pirouette 
Into the night she blends in a dark silhouette
At dawn’s cold grey arrival, I awaken to rain
Drops plunking...

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