There's a
...House that sits somewhere in France
A chalet on a lake
It only has one occupant
He waits there for her sake
He knows he may not ever see
A day when she'll be there
But still he picks her fresh...
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Categories:
occupant, i love you, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
One Wonders
...One wonders of the
flexibility of Time…
3 minutes hardly enough,
or the perfect egg --
Our times together
never seeming enough
and the parts away, painfully
protracted, occupant of my
ev...
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Categories:
occupant, introspection, longing, love, missing
Form: Free verse
And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
...And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
Preface: On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," Presiden...
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Categories:
occupant, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Time Traveler
...(Onam is Kerala’s state festival based on the belief of the annual visit of Mahabali, the legendary king of the land, now an occupant of the netherworld.)
I am Mahabali, the king who r...
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Categories:
occupant, betrayal, celebrity, jealousy, visionary,
Form: Narrative
Number forty seven White House occupant against all odds
...Number forty seven - White House occupant against all odds...
regarding President elect
Donald John Trump.
As a cruel joke to self,
I imagined myself as a Republican
for that one glorious d...
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Categories:
occupant, abuse, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
shabby chic doorway
...the found map led me to an
asymmetrical doorway, created by an artesian
I wondered at the builder as I approached
the boards were placed diagonally
skillset many carpenters have not mastered
I k...
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Categories:
occupant, house,
Form: Free verse
Terrified by the green gob ghostie
...the door had a magical mystical medieval look
adored with verdant mosses, vines, snails and turtles
my throat pounded with heartbeats as I approached
the knocker intimidated me; dare I disturb the...
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Categories:
occupant, 11th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Narrative
The old fart alter cocker shuffle
...The old fart (alter cocker) shuffle
as one fairly long run on sentence
unwittingly made locally famous
courtesy residents here at
Highland Manor Apartments
as first one foot and then the oth...
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Categories:
occupant, age, courage, death, grave,
Form: Free verse
All these things I could do
...I wish I could scrumerge your vista
hurt your emotional calibre
pique your errant sojourn
Run counter to your plans
Turn off your sunshine tap
Un mistletoe your golden spleen
accommodate you i...
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Categories:
occupant, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Journeys
...
A baseball glove lies on its back
in a trunk of items
once fresh and youthful
now discarded for
love and marriage
perhaps a stroller
whose blue-eyed
blue-bootied
occupant ...
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Categories:
occupant, baby, baseball, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Dauntless
...“Put on the dauntless spirit of resolution”. ~ By William Shakespeare
Meet this dweller of the icy continent
Among the few, he is the chief occupant
Out in that territory, it is freezing cold
...
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Categories:
occupant, animal, appreciation, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
from the morning paper
...From the morning papers
We read the woman, a former actress
who stole a prince and was hated by the kingdom
is a duchess selling jam and pottery
Her husband, the prince, looks bewildered
We...
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Categories:
occupant, art, change, creation,
Form: Blank verse
Try mumbo jumbo chicken gumbo soup saith dumbo
...Try mumbo jumbo chicken gumbo soup saith dumbo
Yours truly an unfortunate hostage
within *****sapien zoo
presenting poetic hodge podge
and mish mash to you
looking for unwitting subject(s) to...
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Categories:
occupant, america, appreciation, april, food,
Form: Rhyme
In the Belly of the Whale
...darkness, like Jonah
held in the belly of the whale,
the end of a world;
closed-in time in dark spaces -
gives one, a hell of a time to think
in the belly of the whale
grew a whole world, ...
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Categories:
occupant, birth, child, dark, light,
Form: Free verse
Bittersweet pyrrhic victory
...Bittersweet pyrrhic victory...
if a 2024 November presidential Biden win
pandemonium likely to occur,
subsequently figurative tectonic upheaval
might set United States in a tailspin.
Thou...
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Categories:
occupant, 12th grade, abuse, america,
Form: Free verse
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