Scotch Tape Sweepstakes
...Scotch Tape Sweepstakes
The easy to handle
sticky sided material
made of a variety of materials, including
cellulose acetate, polypropylene,
PVC, and adhesive
(alluded to in the title)
appli...
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Categories:
marring, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
SHANTA
...Shãnta
On th' night that I saw her...
Darkness had been shunned into day
She turn'd 'round eyes bright enlighten'd...
"Oh, my gosh...Randall, you're here! I can hardly believe it! How are you o...
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Categories:
marring, beautiful, beauty, care, dance,
Form: Elegy
Winter Confession
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Little girl, Sunday
through christening water
Little woman, Monday
through marring rain —
and motions
the berg slicker —
fear the approaching snow
their heart reign;
together a frozen cho...
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Categories:
marring, childhood, christian, love, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Friends of frogs
...Written for the contest: Alliteration Nursery rhyme
Sponsored by: Eve Roper
Contest Judged: 11/6/2024 12:00:00 AM
Placement: 1st
For friends and folks of foolish forests' frogs!
Darkne...
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Categories:
marring, analogy, animal, dark, mental
Form: Alliteration
Glue Her Heart
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Her heart has turned to glass
Broken shards that stab her from within
Lost in her sea of sorrow
She hardly feels the tears pouring from her soul
Melancholy reigns, marring her mind
She dro...
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Categories:
marring, dark, depression, heart, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Mango
...Mangiferin crammed,
Magnificent fruit king...
Mingled with vitamins,
Minerals and fibers
Makes marvelous milkshakes...
Maintains mental health by
Marring malefic moods......
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Categories:
marring, fruit, nature,
Form: Pleiades
Death Married Death To Death
...Death looks at a flower, screaming I am beautiful
look here I am, come eat me, alone.
Death hovers, smiling, never waiting, walking always
by, knowing that,
any thing that touches it will also so...
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Categories:
marring, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Someday I Will Love Lucia Ferris
...after Rader/Schwartz/Vuong/Reeves/O’Hara
oh lucia.
if only there were someone
who loved you.
and not the version of yourself
you know they want to see
but the you that you have locked in ...
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Categories:
marring, 12th grade, addiction, angst,
Form: Free verse
Those Where the Good Ole Days
...loves interlude
The story of love
it's why I ask myself
we are best together
seems i don't want no one else
people see things differently
it's different in every eye
we say hello just to say
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Categories:
marring, film, jobs, love, motivation,
Form: Ballade
I Stand
...For every hour, within so many days.
The minutes i counted as they sped away.
My heart was destroyed, left within the ashes.
The rememnants of life, fell from lowered lashes.
One deep breath was ...
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Categories:
marring, growth,
Form: Rhyme
The Sparrow
...Foggy
Drizzling rain
Droplets begin collecting
Marring the polished wood
Where the little sparrow stood
Windy
Trees swaying
Tears and mourners
Uplifting scripture is spoken
The sparrows so...
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Categories:
marring, bereavement, bird, death, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Morphed Mists
...Mundane matters motley
Muddy minds mostly
Melding, moulding, miring
Mindlessly meandering
Meek moribund musing
Mindfulness missing
Mystics mentalism mimic
Marring meditation’s magic
30-Ju...
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Categories:
marring, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Shadows of Somber Skies
...She fell from the light, into a world shadowed in gray.
~ by poet
An angel pouted to protest her punitive plight
No repentant redempt...
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Categories:
marring, angel, dark,
Form: Alliteration
The Hug
...A cloven feeling of love
for marring motions of hug
When rising spirits above
tear at their ceilings of tug
And comforts settle upon
what muscles drawn are bond
When tension leaves us for goo...
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Categories:
marring, analogy, appreciation, blessing, caregiving,
Form: Quatrain
Critical Race Theory
...God made human beings into man and woman
And adorned them - gems into a gorgeous garden;
Never coloring them into white, black, or brown
His image, he poured into them, in-mold golden...
Humans...
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Categories:
marring, evil, life, racism,
Form: Rhyme
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