MEMORABLE BALLET
submitted into Brian Strands 1397 Poetry Contest, July 2025
MEMORABLE BALLET
her thoughts pirouette, twirl, and spin,
a choreographed ballet across the blank screen.
her words harmonize and blend
transforming them into beautiful poetry.
her soaring imagination rises and leaps
like a grand jeté, the poem takes
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Categories:
memorable, 12th grade, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Candle Inside The Child
People count the years
by candles and quiet tears.
The twenties, they say,
are when we wait
for the first cry
from a miracle
just learning to breathe.
But some of us, like me,
never quite grow up.
Peter Pan weeps
each time the rain brushes my shoulders.
I come alive again
only in fleeting moments,
like the string that’s slipped
from a flying kite.
Just days ago,
that child stirred
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Categories:
memorable, celebration, child, deep, dream,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
memorable, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
MEMORABLE LETTERS
They were written years ago
Being young than
What it felt like being young
Full is aspirations and being curious
As for the years don’t ask me when?
I was dating full of promise
I was in love
It was love with the affiliated heart, endure and attraction head on
Words wrote out directly the sincere heart
Romantic start
Young you know
Love being ready, set
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Categories:
memorable, appreciation, butterfly, care, character,
Form: Rhyme
The Art of Thinking in Colours
I feel like I can go now,
I don't know that somehow,
It is just for the show,
The boat starts to row,
I began to go with the flow,
No matter if the tide is low,
It is what I reap and sow.
It is a sense of fashion,
It is still my passion,
There is nothing to mention,
I put on a lotion,
It
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Categories:
memorable, 11th grade, analogy, angel,
Form: Sonnet
Golden vastness
Africa, gentle your fiery wild blaze,
Lest heat waves plunder my safari days.
I seek adventure, wild, fun-filled and free,
Not scorching sunbeams that beg to drain me.
The savannah's golden vastness beckons,
Two giraffes emerge, my stares they reckon,
Their eyes bright, like ancient wisdom, meet mine,
My camera begs to flaunt their design.
Their gaze gave a shared fleeting scary bond,
My
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Categories:
memorable, adventure, africa, heart, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Memorable Moments
Little limbs
Tangled 'twined
Silently sleeping
Tiny toddlers
Comfortably cuddled
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Categories:
memorable, children,
Form: Footle
Costuming Halloween Just Playing Here
Costuming Halloween
Masque my visage fast!
…So my eyes bulge out, drunken red, and give me
purpled, hairy lips and cheeks to complete
My bloodcurdling look — Yikes!
So scary…Not sweet!
So chilling that Halloween’s
Gross memories of seeing me will not be beat!
Then, when I float from door to door,
Levitating on a smoky breeze,
To greet
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Categories:
memorable, fear, fun, halloween, imagery,
Form: Imagism
Eargasms: Memorable
#"Dinner's Ready...Come and Eat!"
-GRANDMOTHER (Who can out bake HER!)
"Hey Baby...I'm On My Way!"
-LOVE OF YOUR LIFE (A Loving Husband or Wife. As Well, A Solid Potential: Actions* Match Words: That's So Essential!)
"This is a MUST-READ!"
-SUCCESSFUL EXEMPLIFYER (Everything they Say and DO Is FIRE! Circles Such As These Can Lead *YOU* Progressing HIGHER! NEXT LEVEL! PERHAPS
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Categories:
memorable, blessing, emotions, feelings, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
My Cat
My cat, Shameem
Loved to hop
On my lap
Whenever I sat
On my cozy chair
And rocked
I felt her paws
It was kind
Of a mystic feeling
She was very soft
And fluffy
She had sparkling eyes
Her ears
Very sensitive velvet
She used to observe
Everything and purr
When she sighted a bird
She chuckled
Sometimes she played
Hide and seek
She crawled and paused
Then ran swiftly
She adored her
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Categories:
memorable, best friend, cat, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Memorable Love Scenes
In the middle of a naked night,
jealous, the moon squirmed watching
our memorable love scenes...
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Categories:
memorable, allusion, appreciation, imagery, love,
Form: Light Verse
A Very Memorable Christmas Present
** A Very Memorable Christmas Present **
Someone made an err::
Boxing Day ‘ere’s
Been the day of — not after.
What started as the greatest
Christmas ever, turned
Us from better to worse
As our tempers grew, altered
After our fingers were slid into
Those gift-wrapped firm gloves of leather,
Punching through the room’s air
At each other
With words roused from
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Categories:
memorable, boxing day , christmas, dog,
Form: Alliteration
Memorable Occasions
those notable occasions
away from home overnight
must be remembered
exceptional times
musical concert with friends
celebrating your freedom
in a strange city alone
your first broadway show
memorable opening
Written December 6, 2022
[adaptation suggested in contest
7-7-5/ 5-7-7/ 7/5/7 syllables]
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Categories:
memorable, memory, perspective,
Form: Senryu
Two Memorable Days
Today is a day I shall always remember
That dreadful, awful eleventh of September,
Driving home listening to the newscaster
Wondering what might be the hereafter,
Thinking about the line that was crossed --
Afraid for our country; mourning the lost,
A day in my life like none I could remember
That dreadful, awful eleventh of September.
Then, horror on the sixth day
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Categories:
memorable, america, history, memory, remember,
Form: Couplet
Memorable
MEMORABLE
Happiest moment blessed me
to hold my daughter in my arms.
Seemed to realise divine charms
sinking
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Categories:
memorable, appreciation, daughter, mother,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
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