Cherub - A Partially True Fairy Tale
...“I like it; go get it and stand it right there.”
The ‘It’ was a concrete bird bath
It was heavy as hell; about all I could bear
I struggled… my wife had a laugh
She’d seen it online; it was sel...
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Categories:
lounger, fantasy, horror,
Form: Rhyme
No Tote Bag Needed
...Eyes close head tilt back...
As I arrived out of thin air
the sand was warm to touch
the tide rush in from the shore
water cool as it covered my feet
rays from the sun heat my skin
I sear...
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Categories:
lounger, beach, imagination, sun, wine,
Form: Free verse
Summer Friday Evening
...A row of jazzy underwear
Wafts gently in the breeze
Pegged to the clothes line
Strung between two trees.
A garden brolly provides
Shade from the evening sun,
Chickens scratch the earth
In thei...
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Categories:
lounger, garden, nostalgia, summer, together,
Form: Rhyme
Through the Sunshine
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Like plants,
my mind cooks in the sunshine
that falls down through the sieve of gooseberry leaves.
It’s an illness-cured joy
when the sun shines brightly after a few cloudy days.
This is a r...
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Categories:
lounger, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Warm Sand Delights My Bare Feet
...palm tree fronds barely moved
it was balmy, but not humid
the surf gentled herself with delicate lapping sounds
warm sand delighted my bare feet
I slid down into the cushioned lawn lounger
my ...
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Categories:
lounger, beach,
Form: Free verse
Perfect Day In Greece
...Her third day in Greece
She opened up the doors to the veranda
Today is perfection in temperature and sunlight.
She headed toward a white lounger, glad to be alive...
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Categories:
lounger, travel,
Form: Free verse
Nells Is Not Trying To Be Appealing
...Nells has no idea how appealing she is.
Not caring about her appearance like other girls.
She throws on a tribal cat suit and lies in a plastic lounger
Reading a stack of scientific journals.
Whe...
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Categories:
lounger, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Winning Changed My Life
...when my winnings hit the news, relatives climbed into my windows.
great aunts and uncles, sixth cousins, uncles twice removed.
some families stormed over to demand their due with no connection.
yo...
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Categories:
lounger, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Dull
...The summer sun has lost
its gloss and warmth
And falling leaves are forming
baron tree's
Whilst snow crystals blanket
them in white
And the laundry on the washing
line now takes oh so l...
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Categories:
lounger, slam,
Form: Free verse
The World Wouldn'T Be the Same
..."The World wouldn't be the same without me,
And without You! " (by Poet)
Dawn!
The most cherished part of my day!
Usually I glimpse through the window ...
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Categories:
lounger, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Pools
...The sun blowtorches its way into the water,
fragments, and the bottom is an aqua sky
webbed by white-hot lightning.
Here and there, legs hang like halved mannequins
disappearing into a squi...
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Categories:
lounger, family, happiness, light, summer,
Form: Free verse
A Frilled Lizard Story
...A frilled lizard is not easy to hide.
And she is bossy, mean sometimes.
There is one hiding behind my lounger now.
Waiting for me to put down the TV remote.
If she gets it she will take it back t...
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Categories:
lounger, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Light Verse
Shape Poem
...So the shape
Of the poem
Does not have
To be the subject
Of the poem.
Aha! Got it. After reading the rules twice, and then thrice, as I did not believe myself the first time or two. But ...
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Categories:
lounger, sleep,
Form: Shape
Vanity and Vexation
...Ahhhhhh.... they make me so mad!
A fool, a buffoon, an unruly lad,
A prankster, a trickster, a tattler,
A gigolo, a lounger and an idler;
An imposter, a pretender and a loafer,
A party crasher...
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Categories:
lounger, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
A Pointed Bank Note
...A bibliographic oceanographic espionage is merely a tidal titan in a mesmerising swimsuit sipping tequila sunrise on a pool side sun lounger on a large eighty foot yacht. Tactless men who smear defec...
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Categories:
lounger, baby, blessing,
Form: I do not know?
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