A WINDY SUMMER DAY
A WINDY SUMMER DAY
Planes sailing the sky…
Waving trees shadow the sun…
Kid’s paper plane day…
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Categories:
middle school, beautiful, children, fun, imagery,
Form: Haiku
The Fog Lifts
“Who has ever given to God,
that He should repay them?”
For from Him and through Him and for Him are all things.
To God be the glory forever! Amen."
Romans 11:35-36
Friends, so called, kept me a hermit-of-sorts;
Over-whelming doubts left me alone in the dark.
God helped me break through the peer-pressure fog.
Life burdens a teen with acceptance, approval.
Influenced by
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Categories:
middle school, 11th grade, best friend,
Form: Acrostic
Memories of Catholic school circa 1950's
It was Sister Francine
who treated us so mean.
She’d rap us on our knuckles
with the Father’s belt buckles
toiling to keep our sin-loving souls clean.
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Categories:
middle school, anger, angst, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
DOUBT NOT
DOUBT NOT
Like Jesus, doubt not;
You too, are a child of God:
Believe in yourself:-
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Categories:
high school, middle school,
Form: Senryu
WHOLESOMNESS
WHOLESOMENESS
Do not be sorry,
Be aware in your nature;
Growing fruitfully
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Categories:
middle school, inspirational,
Form: Haiku
OF LIFE'S JOURNEY
OF LIFE’S JOURNEY
At birth, life’s journey is planned;
While there will be many tolls,
God’s GPS will guide you:-
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Categories:
middle school, allegory, growing up, high
Form: Free verse
WATERED LIFE
Life's no banked river...
Life's roving waves frothing shores...
Life's oceanic...
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Categories:
middle school, allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Haiku
ANGELIC DECEPTOR
ANGELIC DECEPTOR
Magnetic mantis,
in pious genuflection,
attracting its prey:-
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Categories:
middle school, angel, betrayal, conflict, extended
Form: Haiku
A SUMMER BALLET
A SUMMER BALLET
In shade and cool winds,
tree green leaves and pink flowers,
joyfully ballet:-
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Categories:
middle school, beautiful, dance, flower, imagery,
Form: Haiku
A QUIET SUMMER CROWD
A QUIET SUMMER CROWD
Birds perched on the fence…
Cats sleeping under shade trees…
Flowers looking on…
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Categories:
middle school, beauty, bird, cat, flower,
Form: Haiku
IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY
IN THE HEAT OF DAY
A peaceful warm day.
Scents of flowers fill the air;
So do summer flies!
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Categories:
middle school, dance, flower, high school,
Form: Haiku
DESPAIR NOT
DESPAIR NOT
Root not in despair,
be in the reaping of God’s
fruits of healing grace:
Glorified in your progress,
continue plowing onward:-
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Categories:
middle school, cheer up, confidence, encouraging,
Form: Tanka
Goodbyes
I remembered what you did to me in the past
You caused me to shatter like glass
I lost myself trying to stay freinds with you
I played the wrong cards now I've got permanent scars
You want me to forgive you for what you did
You took everything to far with no regards
I put you first so
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Categories:
middle school, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
SUMMER RAIN
SUMMER RAIN
God cried today
His tears fertilizing
The womb of
Mother Earth:
The wet smell
Of nature’s essence
Saturated the air
As moist breeze blew
Breath of new life
Into dried hopes
Wilted in despair:-
The rainy season
Of life has begun:
Maybe love’s peace
Will hollow her footprints
In the canvassing mud:-
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Categories:
middle school, allegory, extended metaphor, high
Form: Prose
1993
A generation to ask why.
Peaked and taught a world is nothing but themselves, not even to be.
Occupying nothing but digital spaces offered to prior persons and parentage.
From here, where are we to go?
The highest minds have none to say.
If they did this, it wouldn't be.
The hardest working have no say.
If they did, ketamine-soaked South Africans,
wouldn't
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Categories:
middle school, age, america, appreciation, light,
Form: Free verse
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