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Villanelles
Villanelles

The villanelle is a poetic form based on repetition, with a double refrain. 



Villanelle: The Divide
by Michael R. Burch

The sea was not salt the first tide...
was man born to sorrow that first day, 
with the...

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Categories: sidewalk, moon, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic love, sea,
Form: Villanelle



An Affective Disorder, the Doctor Said
No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie's number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worked hard,...

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Categories: sidewalk, anxiety, mental illness, , 8th grade, ,
Form: Prose
Poems About Things That Break I
Poems about Things that Break I
 
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...

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Categories: sidewalk, break up, depression, goodbye, leaving, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member LA Sewers
When I was a child in Los Angeles, you could size up groups approaching by watching their movements.

I remember this gang of older kids approaching me, watching them carefully while looking down to see if...

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Categories: sidewalk, abuse, child, child abuse, childhood, children, culture,
Form: Narrative
Poems About Regret
Regret
by Michael R. Burch

Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear . . .

once starlight
languished
in your hair . . .

a shining there
as brief
as rare.

Regret . . .
a pain
I chose to bear . . .

unleash
the torrent
of your hair . ....

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Categories: sidewalk, memory, pain, remember, sad, sorrow, sorry, sympathy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Colin the Caped Cabbie
Colin is a cabby with a proper taxi cab
He drives for all the passengers an Uber didn’t grab
Which means he has a lot of time to kill most every day
And lots of evil folk to...

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Categories: sidewalk, hero, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Killer Dog
It was a late Saturday morning, and I was getting my 12-year-old self ready for our weekly summer sand-lot baseball game. I had my ball glove hanging on my bicycle handlebars, two baseballs, and my...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sidewalk, friend, friendship, trust,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Armless Ambidextrian
I. The Love of Minds

The volume on the desk,
The one not claimed by dust or burned
By light, will follow her to bed tonight.
Its pages will be turned and smothered,
Each in turn, so as not to...

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Categories: sidewalk, conflict, death, depression, desire, fear, life,
Form: Free verse
What Is a Life To You
What is a life to you?
Do you wake up to love
imagine a future with someone?
A wife or a husband,
a child or ten?
An exaggeration,
but love is different to everyone.
Do you have a cat or a dog,
that...

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Categories: sidewalk, america, anger, emotions, grief, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Kitchens Are Dirty
It was dark out. The stars shone dimly, and the horizon blushed faintly as the birds sang, too cheery for the hour. A chill swept the edges of all the outside world: not cold enough...

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© Jana Ross  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sidewalk, absence, cry, depression, home, loneliness, lonely, silence,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Vacation In New Orleans
Walking down the alley behind the buildings on Royal street the Mandevilla and Jasmine vines line the sidewalk calming my stressed nerves.  The sweet fragrance of the flowers intoxicating my senses.  My luggage...

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Categories: sidewalk, dark, evil, scary,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Long Way Home
It was late in the balmy springtime, and I was attending a lecture,
On a topic of great interest, which was the history of architecture.

As a great lover of beauty, I admired structural geometric designs,
Like the...

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Categories: sidewalk, fantasy, home, magic, people, school, spring, time,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Red Tulips
Under a tree of wet blossoms, shimmering to life in the sun, one honey bee is circling around two burly men, who wave it off,  with childlike dramatics...arms flailing.   One of them,...

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Categories: sidewalk, friendship, me, red, spring, tree,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Crackled
_ _ _ _While walking one day in crisp autumn air, 
On the edge of the sidewalk,  I saw it so clearly_ _ _ _

         ...

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Categories: sidewalk, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Riding Sixties Shotgun
I was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing "Negra Section"
hunting down our commercial whitebread 
heavenly ThriftyAcres

Wanna be a WalMart ImPlantation
but not Southern enough,
somehow,
to withstand straight-male competition
in fluent White Privileged...

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Categories: sidewalk, beauty, community, culture, extended metaphor, health, romance,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Christmas Shopping Madness
'Twas the night before Christmas and I still had gifts to buy.
I procrastinated getting it done; a terrible fault I can't deny.
As I juggled bags of presents that cost far too much money,
A sidewalk Santa...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sidewalk, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member La Ferme
It was a cool, overcast and windy Sunday afternoon in March 2014. We were about 50 miles from Paris, at my Grandmère’s (grandmother’s) farm. She lives in Paris, but she owns a Château and surrounding...

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Categories: sidewalk, 4th grade, easter, family, friendship, grandmother, murder,
Form: Free verse
The Proof Is In the Pudding 1
The weather was fine today so I decide to go outside and play
I didn't have a plan but I was consistent with the weather man
I stepped out of the house and walked down the empty...

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Categories: sidewalk, adventure, america, break up, christmas, conflict, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
I Could Never Be the Rain
My life started with rain,
the steady stream of drops,
hitting the trees gently
and ending its descent to our world
on the wet pavement.
I am on the sidewalk, 
sheltered by a makeshift roof and 
a border of trees.
The...

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Categories: sidewalk, body, loneliness, longing, passion, rain, symbolism, voice,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member G L Trestrail and Co Ltd
A rising sun burns like a solar flare
  from St. Augustine to St. Clair,
to daze me from sleep’s tranquil hold
  and dreams of serendipities of old -
to rise again the boy I was...

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Categories: sidewalk, nostalgia,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Landlord-Tenant Relationship Protection Available Help Hot-Lines
Landlord-Tenant Relationship Protection: Available Help Hot-Lines!

Greetings everyone and I pray that each of you will overcome this coronavirus pandemic, which has impacted many communities in various ways. The Census Bureau assessment paints an image that's...

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Categories: sidewalk, angst, conflict, feelings, heartbreak, humanity, people, soldier,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Diary Notes: Lament At Dawn - a Year Ago Yet Now No Change
 Diary Notes: Lament at Dawn A Year Ago and yet now No Change
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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sidewalk, august, christian, discrimination, hate, immigration, islamic, jewish,
Form: Free verse
Windows To My Soul
I  sat at my desk in the early hours of the morning listening to the words of the mighty one calling “windows to my soul” kept warning. I didn’t question it, I didn’t understand...

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Categories: sidewalk, abuse, august, business, confidence, courage, education, endurance,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member That Moment

I awoke early that morning

to an unfamiliar familiar sound.

I rose from the bed with cacophonous singing

ringing in my ears, separated the curtains

with the breast stroke of an Olympic swimmer,

and opened the blinds to the on...

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Categories: sidewalk, imagery, loss, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Stagnated
S T A G N A T E D

"I'm pregnant."

A snake chill suddenly crawl in his spine when he heard her words. Icy sweats ran to his brows. He was astound! Tongue-tied. How else could...

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Categories: sidewalk, character, growing up, relationship, sad, strength,
Form: Narrative

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