OLD FRUIT
...You are getting on, old fruit
Too obese to wear your new suit
Your face resembles a wrinkled prune
Old age is showing on you too soon,
What has happened to your lustrous hair
Your scalp is shi...
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Categories:
noticeably, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
That Red Tractor
...
Now late April, and the grassy fields of winter have disappeared
in response to the airplane sprays of very effective weed killers.
The land is moist and brown, seeded for the crops of 2025...
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Categories:
noticeably, farm,
Form: Free verse
Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day
...Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day
Location: Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. First held on February 2, 1887 prognosticating how many more weeks of winter weather without a shado...
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Categories:
noticeably, adventure, animal, anniversary, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Artic Air Assassin
...Blowing through my area for a few days
gust making temperature bitterly cold
rushing underneath my coat; soo bold
penetrating my layers of clothing and boots
siphoning my body natural warmth
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Categories:
noticeably, allusion, analogy, heart, pain,
Form: Free verse
The Echo Chamber
...So, the glistening aim noticeably passes by,
So, the dangerous motion formidably goes by,
So, the unknown one remains unknown for the time being,
So, one is ahead of the petty singing.
The one...
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Categories:
noticeably, creation, dark, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
My Bike and I
...
Standing in the corner of my room is a
sturdy piece of metal, a tool that can
transform,
Finally, the pedals, seat and display are
all ready to test my form,
The wheels spin like the thou...
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Categories:
noticeably, health, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Mother's Love
...A Mother's Love
Do you ever wonder at the love Mother's contain in their hearts? What will we not do for our offspring? Allow me to tell you about the mother who gave all for her children…
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Categories:
noticeably, baby, birth, caregiving, children,
Form: Narrative
Umpteenth heat wave since onset of summer sizzles Delaware Valley today July 16th, 2024
...Umpteenth heat wave since onset of summer
sizzles Delaware Valley today July 16th, 2024
Said geographical area composed of counties
located in Southeastern Pennsylvania,
South Jersey, Delaware,...
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Categories:
noticeably, america, earth, grave, humanity,
Form: Free verse
I Samson wannabe feel aghast at latest turn of events regarding Gaza
...I (Samson wannabe) feel aghast at latest turn of events regarding Gaza
Omnipresent grief and horror
abounds toward ceaseless killing fields
impossible mission for me
to summon forth fading magi...
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Categories:
noticeably, abuse, anger, angst, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Silence Speaks
...Amidst cruelty, bigotry, and hate,
silence vindicates a crocodile tear.
The sound silence makes can influence fate;
speaking softest in the presence of fear.
You see a drunkard threaten...
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Categories:
noticeably, anger, angst, anxiety, fear,
Form: Sonnet
hospital-at-tea
...finally out at last...
spent seven 'daze'
in the hospital...
was blacking out
collapsing in a haze...
an 'imp' proved
to be bacterial...
noticeably better now
glad to be back...
stan lee
...
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Categories:
noticeably, absence, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
THIS ROSE OF MY LOVE
...There you dear my gentle
Petal particular poetic rose of
My love. My subtle sultry noticeably
Rose! aaah WHERE IS my most
Lovely pleasant bouquet of dismay?
Masterfully disturbing beauty of
P...
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Categories:
noticeably, color, confidence, deep, devotion,
Form: Alliteration
Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice
...Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice
Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted
to post poem acknowledging
the second of February,
where eponymous ground...
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Categories:
noticeably, adventure, america, animal, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
The Last Supper
...Jesus made the announcement that caused bewilderment and shock.
His disciples took time to accept his words and take stock.
He announced that by one of them He would be betrayed.
Surprise ...
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Categories:
noticeably, betrayal,
Form: Ekphrasis
Chump Change
...
Were you even supposed to return here?
It feels like you should be noticeably
different, even if just slightly, improved—
a worm seeking escape from a hooked fate,
its visible squirm an apol...
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Categories:
noticeably, identity, time, vanity,
Form: Free verse
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