September Falls
..."My arrangements with destiny weren't arduously demanding or beclouded with nit-picking details, so I merely ask for a day, any day, pick a day, and then for the year, give me a year, pick a ...
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Categories:
next to last, birthday, destiny, dream, happiness,
Form: Acrostic
5k
...5K run was so much fun!
Never thought, I'd get it done!
One foot in front of the other,
Good friends cheering me on,
Talking my feet into moving along.
Out of energy,
Stumbling alon...
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Categories:
next to last, 6th grade, endurance, fun,
Form: Free verse
Imagine
...Imagine a black velvet curtain
Pinholed to allow specked light
Now imagine that same curtain
Endlessly stretching out of sight
And there you have the immense
Velvet blackness of outer space
In ...
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Categories:
next to last, fantasy, imagination, space,
Form: Rhyme
The Listening Heart
...I had spent recent years in mourning, since I had lost someone very dear;
As when pallid moon is hidden by clouds, and bright stars will not appear.
My job as a professor consumed me, and I was h...
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Categories:
next to last, christian, death, faith, god,
Form: Couplet
How Pale the Poem - An Echo Poem
...How Pale the Poem!
(An Echo Poem) (1)
Are poems lovely as night's stars?
Aren't all more fireflies viewed in jars?
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Faint points of light ma...
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Categories:
next to last, humor, poetry, science,
Form: Rhyme
Raindrops From the Inside
...Ever so drowsily awakening to
the seminal dark and next to last
Falling leaves barely still clinging
and hanging onto the winter tree
I myself from here safely snuggly
wedged inside
Now ...
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Categories:
next to last, slam,
Form: Free verse
Imagine
...Imagine a black velvet curtain
Pinholed to allow specked light
Now imagine that same curtain
Endlessly stretching out of sight
And there you have the immense
Velvet blackness of outer space
In ...
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Categories:
next to last, death, future, peace, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Moneyball
...The first three boring innings ended scoreless.
Then, in the fourth I took a walk to first.
She was managing her business in the dugout.
I was ready when a double’s gusher burst.
I beat the thr...
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Categories:
next to last, allegory, baseball, relationship,
Form: Burlesque
Food For Thought
...Changing directions doesn't mean that you have changed your mind
Do not accept a "No" until you have heard it again and again
You feel 'less' in everything, thinking you'll never win
That's the...
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Categories:
next to last, courage, desire, endurance,
Form: Couplet
The Grouch
...This person is so mean
it is a shame to be this grouchy
sometimes wondering why is this?
it just seems so misleading
what is really going on?
lack of fun?
how can you feel this way most of the ...
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Categories:
next to last, anger, butterfly, freedom, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Marauders On a Night Raid
...(alternately titled ringleader Harris hooligan,
Hence, any resemblance
between characters port
rayed, and living persons
purely coincidental.)
Claim to fame creating
an overn...
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Categories:
next to last, 4th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Epic
Gymnasts and Poets
... Gymnasts and Poets
Poetry writing, a practiced passion,
Gymnastics, practiced poetry in motion,
Choose your form with the first line.
Move quickly into the mood,
directly spoken, intimate...
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Categories:
next to last, analogy, poetry, sports, ,
Form: Free verse
The Cemetery At the Old Home Place
...The dusty road is now black topped
Windows can be opened
to let in plenty of clean fresh air
though no house stands chosen
The fence still stands in some places
The pasture filled with tre...
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Categories:
next to last, death, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Buried In Backwoods
...The dusty road is now black topped
Windows can be opened
to let in plenty of clean fresh air
though no house stands chosen
The fence still stands in some places
The pasture filled with tre...
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Categories:
next to last, death, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Gravitational
...Ordered by name, sights and tree trippers the climbing elephants sustain a marvellous wealth of injested missionary window ledges. Whilst eleven fleas are whipping cow excrement vast spectacular visi...
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Categories:
next to last, birth,
Form: I do not know?
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