Aaru's Flutter
...I'm a baby.
I move constantly. Amazingly constantly.
And I flutter hard. Amazingly hard.
Why?
Because I'm rehearsing.
I'm rehearsing moving like I mean it.
I'm rehearsing being strong like...
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Categories:
maracas, baby, granddaughter, growing up,
Form: Free verse
December's Quiet Song
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The maracas of leafy trees
whisper rhythms to the wind,
a quiet song of December.
Four days---- left to go---
till the year ends,
and time spills forward,
its hands brushing pas...
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Categories:
maracas, age, angst, december, hope,
Form: Free verse
Navajo Story
...Can you hear them? The tribal chants
Chanted only when a member advance
Can you feel it reverberating in your bones?
Can you hear the distant tribal people's tones?
With binoculars - watch th...
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Categories:
maracas, society,
Form: Rhyme
Shake em, baby
...Shake em, baby
There was a young man from Caracas
Who proved very good with maracas
He played them so loud
Pleasing the crowd
But eventually, he drove us crackers...
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Categories:
maracas, music,
Form: Limerick
Gus, Trainer, of Puppets Mall Exodus IV
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As they hurried to the door, the sounds of laughter and shouts from outside faded but never completely disappeared. They could still hear the teenagers chanting and the Bunny making sarcastic comme...
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Categories:
maracas, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Other
Harvest
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shaking maracas
in the pale yellow moonlight
dancing with the stars
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Categories:
maracas, celebration, moon,
Form: Haiku
Fiesta
...It was a strange sort of day
A Heavy treacley sky
That seemed too thick
For any bird to even try to fly.
The city lay in waiting for
Celebrations to begin
The Fiesta of Fiestas
Days of mil...
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Categories:
maracas, celebration, dream, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Oh To Be In Trinidad
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Oh, to be in Trinidad
when the hot scented currents flow,
from East Dry River to Nariva
samaan and silk cotton tree grow.
Where whisperin’ palms reach
across island reef and coconut...
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Categories:
maracas, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
This One Bought Them In
..."La Marque Ultime"
In reference to future
we have collaberated to bring forth a Union of
companies who in the interest of pro Wrestling
and Great Entertainment, have United to create
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Categories:
maracas, business, education, humanity, music,
Form: Ballade
Bittersweet Journey
...Nine years my leave had spanned
travelling to my island in the sun.
A native son returning his native land
where the journey had all begun
And I by the grace of God s...
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Categories:
maracas, journey, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Beauty In the Making
...The wind crashing against my eardrums,
drumming the most beautiful beat.
Birds chirping in the distance,
Sing such a sweet melody.
Lightning crashes down on the cymbals.
Could this be th...
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Categories:
maracas, beautiful, creation, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse
I Have Known This Land
...Conceived and born in the rainforest
I have traversed the Savanna and the Mangrove
I have trudged through its Swamp
And dwelt I have in its Woodland
But I only bear tales of
The Montane and ...
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Categories:
maracas, africa, allegory, community, environment,
Form: Free verse
My Rhino and His Flute
...My rhino can play the flute
And is good at the maracas to boot
Alas he is quite forlorn
For his flute bangs into his horn
So now he has a saxophone to toot...
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Categories:
maracas, animal, music,
Form: Limerick
Sonic Youth
...Arsenals of axes brought by the crate
Pedals increasing experimental
Trashy dissections of raw cityscapes
NYC rockers gone transcendental
Static blasts shredding the off-key high pings
Maraca...
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Categories:
maracas, guitar, integrity, music, sound,
Form: Sonnet
Unwana
...Unwana, Unwana, I have chosen you amongst the daughters of men,
amongst the maidens of my felon tribe,
to bear the torch of our waning kindred…
Unwana, I have chosen you, favoured one, out of t...
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Categories:
maracas, eve, universe,
Form: Free verse
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