once upon a time
What if I read to you a story Starting
once upon a time
And you realised that is was your
Life spelt out on every Line.
Would you hear my voice and Wonder as it
Brushed across each word and pray my Arms have the strength to hold the truth About your world
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Categories:
once more, 9th grade, art, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Once we were Seven
Once we were Seven
Once we were seven now only one
Six gone before me
Now I’m alone
No one to reminisce with
Questions left to myself
Childhood memories but no one to share
They left me each of them, one by one
And with each passing
Came sadness and tears
Charlotte was first
We were closest in age
She teased and tormented me
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Categories:
once more, family, missing you,
Form: Free verse
Once Upon a Night
I look from my window—
the city is silent and serene.
I give another glance:
the light of bulbs moves slowly
through the twilight night.
Suddenly,
the uproar of parasite cars
breaks the seamless silence,
conspiring against the beauty
born of that celestial scene.
The wondering, waning moon—
like a besought fortune—
shy and quiet,
approaches me.
Enchanting, she whispers:
Take my light
and ignite the darkness within.
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Categories:
once more, absence, allusion, beautiful, black
Form: Free verse
Where Intention Once Stood
My thoughts walk barefoot on gravel roads—aching, slow, and scattershot.
My mind drifts like dusk in worn linen—frayed, faded, and folding in on itself.
My mind, grown tired of its tidy metaphors, slumps like a clerk at closing hour—unnoticed, necessary, numb.
My brain, vast as prairie land at sunset, lies fallow—dreaming the hush between thunderclaps.
My brain has taken
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Categories:
once more, extended metaphor, introspection, memory,
Form: Free verse
once a hippie
butterflies nature
flowers freedom love and peace ~
seeking enlightment
garland of flowers
hair wind tangled, wild and free
beads and bell bottoms _
a blue volkswagon beetle
my ride . . . adventure
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Categories:
once more, nature,
Form: Other
I am Back once more
I’m back once more.
I spent a long night contemplating which people to remove from my life, the ones who drag me down.
It’s time for a transformation in 2026, a chance to relieve the pressure in my chest.
Like a Maidenform bra that left an imprint,
What a relief it is to let them go.
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Categories:
once more, betrayal, depression, love hurts,
Form: Dramatic Verse
I once contemplated Suicide
I once contemplated suicide,
But only if I couldn’t have you by my side,
Reading my eulogy, shedding a few tears is nothing compared to the endless ocean before my eyes, we are given this one life,
Lord will you accept my apology before I do the deed?
Will you embrace me the way I’ve left
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Categories:
once more, anger, anxiety, black african
Form: Rhyme
Once upon perdition :now a dedication:
This POTD is dedicated to Di11y Da11y
who spoke the truth and paid the price!
to the unheard poet
you weren’t driven away
you moved beyond them
_______________________
Once upon perdition
The apostate looked out his window,
and started to believe
As genuflecting pylons
sent ramifications through the trees
Chaos questioned reason,
hoping for a guilty plea
but the world was too
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Categories:
once more, life, metaphor, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Stars That Once Spoke
this affair was never fated to turn into love
something that started under the moon and stars
something that was ill fated from beginning
now who should i blame? you or me?
i carried us up the summit
but you and i were both sick
the clouds were turning gray
and everything began to disappear in the haze
the castles we built, the
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Categories:
once more, pain,
Form: Free verse
What Once Was
Fragments of a house foundation
blacken by the fire.
Never rebuilt
empty lot nice size
Good shade tress and high grass
Potential promising
Did a child perish here?
People once resided
Old swing set rusting
Not long before it falls
the wind sways the swing seat
clanky cracky sound from old long chains
Half a peach tree left from lightning strike
years ago.
Blossoms bud on tender twigs of
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Categories:
once more, future, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Along came a hoopoe once again
Everyone loves him. A nice amicable guy, as he is no relative, he is no refrain. He starts within a rhythm when often a melody is surreal and soars along the flight of the song, up high, high above, where God knows everything about eternal time, beyond the worldly cacophony and hustle and bustle.
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Categories:
once more, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Why should we start to command our souls just as David once did
According to John Barnett, our souls are controlled by our sinful fleshly desires.
Left to their own devices they are double-minded and filled with doubt and dis-
couragement. Therefore, we need to follow David's excellent example, and let
him both teach and instruct us how to speak to and command our own souls.
In order for them they to
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Categories:
once more, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
ONCE AGAIN
ONCE AGAIN
Once again, we cry;
Again, a nation apart.
Our togetherness has run dry,
Whitered like a broken heart.
Division kisses oneness goodbye,
And once more and again, we cry.
Greatness is in being together;
Together, no matter the weather:-
Once again, we must sow onement;
Reaping a oneness that is God sent.
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Categories:
once more, allegory, america, conflict, introspection,
Form: Couplet
Once more I want to thank you Father
Once more I want to thank you
Father
For everything you did for me
Through all the years
You gave me the gift of life
After you had created
Me in you image
You had given me
Grey hair and brown eyes
You tell me that I am
Beautiful you in your eyes
Father I don't agree with you
At all
Father you are untitled to your opinion
I
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Categories:
once more, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Once a whale
Once a whale spent a day at the beach,
eating one too many pies of peach.
Became bloated in the sun,
to a weight over a tonne,
now has an itch she can't bend to reach
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Categories:
once more, beach,
Form: Limerick
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