Wild bird
I saw him in an old farmer's cowhouse, Dancing and playing with other playmates,
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Categories:
matured, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Personification
Girl
I saw her lovely face in the window daily While I was going to the college swiftly
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Categories:
matured, 9th grade, love,
Form: Personification
Categories:
matured, 6th grade,
Form: Narrative
I Have Matured Now
Two race cars on I-70 are gaining on my red Lincoln.
They are propelled with extra momentum as they fly past.
Swishing around me as if I am sitting still.
I am traveling 77 miles per hour.
They must be doing at least a hundred each.
I know I have matured because I do not get angry.
I do not chase
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Categories:
matured, age,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
matured, philosophy,
Form: Senryu
All Matured Are Not Perfect
Without prctice no one can be matured but all matured are not perfect
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Categories:
matured, introspection,
Form: Monoku
A Matured Innocence
I speak of a love
So childlike and pure
Of sweet nothings and care
And love songs galore.
A romance so juvenile
So brittle so new
Was something we thought
We needed to live through.
Then came the end
To a love that had paled.
A comforting goodbye
With endless hours of pain.
Each night soaked with tears
I’d dream about the day
Where sweet love you'd come
And take
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Categories:
matured, angst, lost love, lovesweet,
Form: Romanticism
A Flounder Matured
second best turned out
to be my first. i'm as
happy as mint tea.
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Categories:
matured, hope, life, love,
Form: Senryu