Novella Poems

Premium MemberBREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S

...BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S*
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While nibbling on French croissant so fine,
Audrey sipped coffee, feeling divine.
     She struck a pose, twitched her chi...
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Categories: novella, 12th grade, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberTake Me Back to Summerton, Arizona

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She was certainly the most beautiful woman I would ever see.
Not appearing to age at all, the young lady's name was Nefertiti.
As my guide, Nef gently took me by the hand.
I saw a beauti...
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Categories: novella, adventure, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberSea nymph

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sea nymph falling prey
to harsh world realities
~ love overrated



Inspired by Ondine which is a play written in 1938 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, based on the 1811 novella Undine by ...
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Categories: novella, betrayal, heartbreak, love, relationship,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberNovella

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She felt like a queen with sweet memory and life nestled in her fortress of lush poetry and light a place of passion where the world could not go as she forged on with sweet memories and ...
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Categories: novella, beauty, heaven, life, lost
Form: Free verse

Unpoetic Justice Example 2

...Another man, a Native man who won't be named, published a poem I wrote about stars without permission. So I wrote another poem about stars, different from the original, and had it remixed by AI Chatb...
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Categories: novella, allegory, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse


An Obituary for Francois Mitterrand

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I was a schoolgirl then, in nineties
Braided hair and full-blown inundation of dreams
Yes. They still are strumming these to stack those feelings, intact
As an old page of a novella still wash t...
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Categories: novella, for him,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIn the whisper of twilight, where shadows meet the edge of dreams

...In the whisper of twilight, where shadows meet the edge of dreams,
Lies the truth of our times, a somber murmur carried by the wind of mediocrity.
Once, the soul soared with the ambition of stars; ...
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Categories: novella, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNovella DeVil

...(To be sang to the tune of "Cruella DeVil" 
   from Disney's 101 Dalmatians)

Novella DeVil. Novella DeVil.
She writes to humour,
To move and to thrill.
She stirs her readers feelings
With her...
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Categories: novella, character,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberThe Cloudy Bookshelf

...When that storm arrived,
the entire congregation 
in genuflection 
knelt before 
Her poetic prayers,
they saw themselves shining,
eventually, in Her reflection 

scandalously quiet 
like per...
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Categories: novella, i am, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Novella

...Eyes move across her page,
I have read her before,
memorized her mind.

The book on her lap
is a tragedy.
Her lips move, as I approach,
as if she is reading a sudden thought.

Are we still w...
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Categories: novella, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMore Moments In Between

...I’ve mentioned how I love celebrating those big moments in our life…
weddings, Christmases, birthdays…you know the ones I mean…
but how I also love the everyday moments of wonder and beauty…
you k...
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Categories: novella, happiness, life,
Form: Rhyme

Catharsis: Cockroach Samsa

...You stayed in your home 
yet not alone, but with others, 
and fate did mock at you
and you borrowed a different form.

They locked you in 
and often hurt you,
and you fled from hurt 
and came...
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Categories: novella, fate, humanity, violence,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOther Faiths

...Some say you are lost
If you are not found
On their ground

Some think you are blind
If you do not find
What they find

I am an atheist who believes

The universe is a tapestry
Not a threa...
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Categories: novella, atheist, caregiving, community, how
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDisarray

...To Dis a Ray

Tim felt prismatic and took off his polychrome Ray Bans

He had to revisit his novella and needed undistorted vision

To sort out gems from false gold and writer’s confusion


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Categories: novella, devotion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWordsmiths In the Woods

...~Once upon a rhyme, many years ago~
a charm of wordsmiths gathered on an emerald mountain 
took dreamy strolls on piney paths along its golden crown
dipped their wits and winsome in a pastel paint...
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Categories: novella, friendship, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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