PIDGIN ON THE ROOF-
...~PIDGIN ON THE ROOF
Holler ya voice git down
Talk to me roost, nest, and dance.
Talking rooftops their height, providing a safe vantage point
Speak out potential threats moral sources.
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Categories:
nooks, analogy, appreciation, community, confidence,
Form: Lyric
MOLLY THE MOUSE
...MOLLY THE MOUSE
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Molly the mouse, dressed in flair,
wore sun flowery dress with ribbons in hair.
With a hat on her head,
and her shoes paint...
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Categories:
nooks, 12th grade, fashion, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Combinations of Catastrophe
...Combinations of Catastrophy
Combinations of catatstrophic scenarios everywhere I look
Invocations of prehistoric evidence collides with the big book
Complications that are caustic that ...
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Categories:
nooks, life,
Form: Rhyme
Tale of Two Cities and Two Captains
...Well what the Dickens is going on?
My choice as the greatest scribe and voice of our tribe
Charles not himself a cricketing man but definitely a fan
Twas…the tale of two skippers and two cities
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Categories:
nooks, sports,
Form: Prose Poetry
WTC Postman Pat
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Another hallowed arrow from his quivers
One of cricket’s greatest shiver givers
Coursing down your spine like rivers
Fine line..never dithers as slivers
Of adversaries hopes on t...
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Categories:
nooks, sports,
Form: Rhyme
I Was D'Politician
...I was D'politician
I was once the hammer in this world,
I was the people preacher and also the politician,
I was in charge of life incarnation through teaching,
I was a man of the people who ha...
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Categories:
nooks, betrayal, irony,
Form: Political Verse
The Fab Four is no more
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The fab four...not Scouse superstar serenaders..
Stellar constellations of cricketing fascinations...
Connoisseur christened, humdinger harbingers..
Listen…whispers of willow wizardry...
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Categories:
nooks, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Fortress
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I crafted silence, stone by stone,
a steadfast fortress, my heart's own.
The world sings soft; I draw away,
its love a tempest I can’t obey.
Yet deep inside, a spark ignites,
a gen...
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Categories:
nooks, crush, love,
Form: Free verse
How Do I Know That I'm Not A Narcissist
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I watched the stars and felt no need to shine,
Their quiet fire was comfort, not a goal.
The sea withdrew—I did not call it mine,
Its salt and sorrow asked no claim on my soul.
I passed a mir...
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Categories:
nooks, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Plagued by Memories
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Written: April 21, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Ink Empress
Quote: "We chase the light, but darkness stays, memories twist in mysterious ways." By Poet
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Categories:
nooks, analogy, memory,
Form: Free verse
Plagued by Memories - Apr 18, 19
...how long and sourly sobs the lonely heart
depends on how grave the weight which grieves the tears
pouring from the despondent spirit’s pores.—
a witness, too, will know the surly sort
of rain t...
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Categories:
nooks, anger, emotions, feelings, grief,
Form: Italian Sonnet
The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris
...The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris
I led a boring life.
The end.
All joking aside, now the epilogue.
As a bookish fellow born Januar...
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Categories:
nooks, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse
Koropuko Falls
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Hunger for perfectly placed punga path
Snakes surely slowly..garlanded scarf
Turns & rakes fern festooned forest floor
Sun dappled glade, bathed and swathed
Glorious green sheens in ...
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Categories:
nooks, nature, water,
Form: Rhyme
Illusions
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Life has many mirrors
like a Fun House,
many nooks and crannies
different paths and roadways
that can take you
in various directions
You may believe
steadfast in your feelings
that you ha...
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Categories:
nooks, emotions, fate, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Country Pubs
...Bubbling babbling burbling banter from the bar..
Sup hush….memory lane trip...Proustian rush..pleasingly tickled.
Plushly ebbed…spidery beer swirls webbed…lace whirls..grace dimpled dappled ja...
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Categories:
nooks, culture,
Form: Free verse
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