Dear Mother
...For Dwina, in celebration of Talia's
graduation from high school.
Dear mother, warm around me--
tender home for just this while;
so close together, you and I
I feel good when you smile.
Dea...
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Categories:
medal winner, baby, birth, celebration, child,
Form: Rhyme
BEGINNERS
...
May we be blessed to understand when we’re disheartened
discourage and frustrated
at something new we are trying to learn…
trying our best to do…
That every expert, every champion
every fir...
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Categories:
medal winner, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Olympic Dreams
...As a seventeen year old competitive swimmer,
the other swimmer I looked up to was Mark Spitz,
he was a multiple gold medal winner,
a wonder in the water, a swimming blitz.
I had Olympic dreams,...
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Categories:
medal winner, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Backbencher Polymath
...Was Backbencher
Academics Top Ranker
Sports Medal Winner
Dramas ace Performer
Backbencher Teachers pain
Not all dimwits and vain
Real life, celebrity genes in vein
Adept user of Left,...
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Categories:
medal winner, school,
Form: Free verse
Training 4 Olympic Triathlon Gold Best Coaches 1 Can Find
...Wishing and wanting to be
An
Olympic Triathlon Gold Medal Winner
Knowing full well in order to succeed
This specific individual feat requires
3 different apposing skillets
So I went...
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Categories:
medal winner, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Halloween - Repost
...The hallowed evening is deafeningly here
Goblins and witches' loud shrieks are near,
Shelled corn raining down our outer wall
Our whimpering dog is cringing in the hall,
Some snotty-n...
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Categories:
medal winner, halloween,
Form: Couplet
Visit To An Old Cemetery
...As far as my eyes could see were old stones
Storied lives, some remembered, most forgotten,
Once were flesh and blood, now only dry bones.
I wondered how many of them were misbegotte...
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Categories:
medal winner, death, memorial, tribute,
Form: Terzanelle
Twenty Simple Pleasures
...I am so glad I live in America
My freedoms I treasure living here,
That I have peace, no living in fear
For my great love of trivia!
My friends are very special to me
For my family...
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Categories:
medal winner, feelings, me,
Form: List
Tribute To Rupaul
...RuPaul is one of the happiest people I know
Spreading joy and sunshine wherever she goes,
Quick-witted and sharp as a tack they say
She’s worth a few million dollars in residual pay,
...
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Categories:
medal winner, hero, joy, success, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
I Sat By the Riverbank
...I sat by the riverbank today and wondered
How long it takes the water to get to the Gulf
Considered things my inquisitive mind ponders
Like what is so enjoyable about playing golf?
...
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Categories:
medal winner, perspective, river,
Form: Quatrain
Sensual Loss Sensual Gain
...Her golden locks glide grandly through our gladioli gilded garden gateway,
I gulp ginormous groundbreaking gulleys,
telltale tear tsunamis cut cataclysmic currents,
raw reckless rupture of romant...
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Categories:
medal winner, birth, color, courage, deep,
Form: Alliteration
I Hope You Dance
...Life can be like a beautiful ballet
Few will see the hard work behind it,
What you show is what others assay
The rules are exacting, never forget,
First, you think you have it mastere...
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Categories:
medal winner, dance, extended metaphor, life,
Form: Rhyme
A Most Creative Caper
...Appealing to my better angels, I try once again
To write a poem which will appeal to the heart,
I pause ever so slightly, wondering where to start
I look out my window, it is beginning...
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Categories:
medal winner, fun, rain, silly, words,
Form: Quatrain
Sleeping For the Winter
...Green fields covered with snowy white
Lulled to sleep for the winter season,
Even though the sun is shining bright
Green fields covered with snowy white,
Sunbeams dance like the fairy...
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Categories:
medal winner, snow, winter,
Form: Triolet
Sleepless Excitement
...Wide-eyed children lying awake
Unable to sleep, Christmas Eve
All the little ones who believe,
Listen for sounds Santa will make
So excited their bellies ache.
BRONZE...
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Categories:
medal winner, children, christmas, eve,
Form: Quintilla
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