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Premium Member The Job - Part 2
On the plane I meditated or at least I tried to.  Most of the time I get a seat to myself.  These days it’s just a ****ing Greyhound in the sky.  I...

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Categories: shimmies, death, desire, first love,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Swamp
As I watch the rain coming down in measured bursts onto the dark waters of the vast bayou.
My mind notes the watery circles and bubbles that trace alligators asleep in the slough.

I check my lines...

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Categories: shimmies, adventure, animal, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Anti-Poem - Snaking It To Venice
Anti-Poem — “Snaking It To Venice”

(Poet’s Instruction: Play “The End” by the Doors loudly, while reading this anti-poem)

it’s you and me baby inside this gliding duster
this ’74 green plymouth cruising machine blasting
spit fire and gasoline...

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Categories: shimmies, memory, music, youth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In My Vagabond State of Mind
IN MY VAGABOND STATE OF MIND

Everytime I caught myself buried in overwhelming
responsibilities, feeling lost, trying to stay sane,
I always sank myself in my vagabond state of mind,
dreaming of being on my own, free like a...

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Categories: shimmies, dream, freedom, imagination,
Form: Free verse
When Leyla Dances
The village festival is almost over
But anticipation fills the night air,
For the pyre, now lit, soon will be blazing-
Yet it’s not the pyre that keeps everyone there.

No one leaves as they wait to see Leyla-
The...

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Categories: shimmies, passion, longing,
Form: Narrative



Forever Should Be Spelled Four Ever Because Four Months Is All You'Ve Got At Best
FOREVER SHOULD  BE SPELLED FOUR EVER
    BECAUSE, BABY, YOU MIGHT RATE FOUR MONTHS AT BEST 

Baby, this is forever like Never-Neverland
Where frowns and tears are forever banned
No sorrow because forever is...

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Categories: shimmies, angst, animals, computer-internet, fantasy, inspirational, philosophy, time,
Form: Clerihew
Falling Leaves
Fall is the most beautiful time of the year for me, with its blushing  
Apples and fruitful trees dressed in zesty rubious healthy leaves with       
Luminous fruit hanging...

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Categories: shimmies, analogy, autumn,
Form: Acrostic
No More Icicles
Sitting on this roof,
seeing the colored lights in neighboring windows
finding frosted panes in abstract happiness,
as winter’s wind howls about my face

Speakers blare in cramping holiday tones,
(What’s so wonderful about it - this time of year?)
Shingles...

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Categories: shimmies, love, sad, winter,
Form: Free verse
Empty
You walk down the halls with chatter illuminating every corner you walk through
But it still feels as if you are by yourself and only yourself while your mind is filled with thoughts you would never...

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Categories: shimmies, absence, anxiety, cry, emotions, feelings, friendship, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The End of the Line
 the sun still shimmies up every morn
meanders down at days end

the moon fills the nights in various stages

morning streets are bombarded by struts slow and fast

cars sigh their usual obnoxious yells 

sleep eludes me
tormented...

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Categories: shimmies, desire,
Form: Free verse
Hot Chocolate Hot Chocolate
Hot chocolate hot chocolate I like it sweet, at Yule time I'll drink it then take a back seat 
beside the old tree where Santa I'll meet they'll be cookies galore for St Nick to...

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Categories: shimmies, appreciation, holiday,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member At the Millpond
The millwheel will not turn again till spring
for Winter’s icy cold grip holds it firm.
She squeezes it like Her private plaything,
though Her crushing power is but short-term.

As shorter days subtly lengthened; the sun
slowly began to...

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Categories: shimmies, 12th grade, anxiety, community, culture, imagery, spring,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member She Dances In Her Blue Dress
She Dances in Her Blue Dress

She stands beneath shimmering clear soft lights 
in subtle beauteous of elegance. 
A faint glimmer sparks in her eyes ignites 
an idyllic aura anxious to dance.

She wears a flattering blue...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shimmies, blue, dance,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Her Belly Dance
(Inspired by dance steps from a belly dancing class I once took!)

She rolls her pretty head from side to side
while, raised above her face, are slim curved arms.
Brief pose. . . . She’s readied to...

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Categories: shimmies, art
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Evil Christmas Elves
Tom Cunningham has declared war on the elves this year,
The ones who hacked Santa Claus' computer. and I fear
the naughty or nice lists were mischievously reversed.
I'm very sure I heard Mrs. Claus gasp when Santa...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shimmies, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Brand-New Day
Draped over the land like a ghostly shroud
a blanket of morning mist
morphs into rolling banks of fog,
soft as an eider-filled duvet.
Dawn rebukes night's claim to darkened skies,
and armed with chisels of light
sculpts ebony shadows
into shifting...

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Categories: shimmies, 10th grade, 9th grade, beautiful, color, image,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member The Christmas Spirit
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

Outside snow is falling on the ground,
And the temperature is tumbling down,
It's that wonderful time of year,
When family and friends gather
To close out the year,
There's a magical feeling in the air,
You can feel...

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Categories: shimmies, children, christmas, holiday, imagination, magic, snow, winter,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs