Analytical Thinking
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Let's see how this goes.
A means of logical thought.
Taking inductive first,
What has been observed to make life worse.
People are not having fun,
Appear to be quite glum...
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Categories:
miscounted, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Goddess of the Campfire
...With a tail flash she transmogrified from a lightning bolt
Showing her fierceness in the most female like way
Those who looked up were terrified, and terrorized
They had heard of Ghost Dragon but ...
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Categories:
miscounted, animal,
Form: Free verse
Overanalyzing
...Deep are the questions, like quicksand sinking
Seeping into a restless mind pressing
Weeping with release, yet overthinking
Sleep comes uneasy with dreams distressing
Heaps of concepts lead to ...
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Categories:
miscounted, deep, dream, emotions, i
Form: Lento
Love In Winter
...Love in Winter
A winterbed with ice cold feet is hot.
These snowy buds outshine the season’s gray.
Her shiver lasts - in travels she’s been...
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Categories:
miscounted, love, winter,
Form: Sonnet
Galloping Gingerbread Cookie
...Fresh baked cookies of gingerbread;
a joyful scent wafts through the house.
Christmas Cheer will spread this year
as custard and cookies abound.
Mom takes out a second batch,
but s...
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Categories:
miscounted, celebration, christmas, food, holiday,
Form: Free verse
In a Whimsical Mood
...Frilly
Chilly
Hilly
Silly
Willy nilly frilly chilly chin
Loony giddy hilly silly grin
** syllable counter miscounted my syllables - 6th line is 9 syllables not 8**
Submitted for contest W...
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Categories:
miscounted, assonance, silly, word play,
Form: Tyburn
Not Long Ago
...True history indeed
'Father Time' just doing his thing
Distant memories, it seems
But Miss reality forces us to grapple with this pain
Manacles of the body and mind
Yet, is the spirit still free...
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Categories:
miscounted, america, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Cupid Pulls Back the Bow
...I have two words to say to you:
"Happy Valentine's Day!"
Sorry, I miscounted them--
I guess I'm no Hemingway
So let me think a bit
on what I want to convey,
I'm just trying to find the two
t...
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Categories:
miscounted, humor, valentines day,
Form: Rhyme
Political
... I always fall asleep on my cat
And she stays with me all night to make sure I am not faking it
What she doesn't know, is that I am NOT asleep
There I am
Lying on an ove...
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Categories:
miscounted, cat, emotions, growing up,
Form: Free verse
It Was a Setup
...IT WAS A SETUP
In the beginning the was word
And the word became flesh
It was a setup! When a virgin was with a child
And the little child shall lead them.
Et tu, Brute? Et tu, Brute?
In ex...
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Categories:
miscounted, betrayal, christian, evil, jesus,
Form: Ballad
Impossible Cues
...***Show your teeth the doctor said your diagnosis is complete you're half- dead half-alive you are suffering from Schrödinger equation syndrome.....
** Funny tales are funny because they tell our st...
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Categories:
miscounted, funny,
Form: Prose
A Poem Without P
...There is a beautiful poem
I hid it in the best place
I could find
Above the sea
Below the sky
Above your nose
Embedded within your eyes
I look to you
Looking at me
I hid it hoping
Som...
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Categories:
miscounted, longing
Form: Free verse
I Refuse To Count Sillybulls
...There once was a poet who despaired
though blessed with a fair amount of flair
that he was way too thick
to master limericks
counting words an arduous affair
Limerick-writing he'd master not
count ...
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Categories:
miscounted, light, poetry,
Form: Limerick
Santa's Promise
...Santa’s Promise
My Granny was riding a reindeer,
out back on the lawn by our shed.
It looked like a bull riding contest
but the horns were a rack instead.
My Papa was sitting and watching
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Categories:
miscounted, funny, love,
Form: Quatrain
Taking Lead
...She was surprised to see her father
Then her parents eagerly planned her future
He was college
Mom wanted marriage
They argued for hours
It was the longest she was her mother n father
No one as...
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Categories:
miscounted, death, life, people,
Form: I do not know?
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