Stop Using the Finger
...I’m told the pen’s mighty and outwits the sword
but my finger is stronger and won’t be ignored.
It pokes and it swipes and it rants in a roast
then it quickly DELETEs to disguise my last post.
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Categories:
outwits, anti bullying,
Form: Couplet
Rose and Me
...She, like a pink Garnet or rubies, has attracted me,
Her, as my playmate of childhood, all around I could see;
Amid dahlia, daisy, cosmos, crocus, phlox, rue, and pinks,
She has pervaded my garden...
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Categories:
outwits, flower, life, love, rose,
Form: Sonnet
The Generous Spirit
...The daily task of life sustained by care,
the generous spirit by endeavors in dare.
The eager force that creates the path so bright,
taken the courage to the darkest invisible light.
That natura...
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Categories:
outwits, 12th grade, discrimination, endurance,
Form: Ballade
Hurricane Harvey Landfall August 27th 2017
...This long time doodling Yankee
(who calls Southeastern Montgomery, Pennsylvania LV
plus III four seasons visited
upon swath of topography to see
and hear flora and fauna over run
via in...
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Categories:
outwits, america, courage, environment, loss,
Form: Imagism
Quilt Patchwork
...Quilt patchwork lines from verse of old,
Urge of past poise hurls a fine say;
Ink stains not mine in grooves once told,
Look to shape voice in a new way;
Touch thrills clear flow to cast clear mi...
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Categories:
outwits, allegory,
Form: Sonnet
Project
...Meet moments meek through troubled times,
Yield to the soul what heart knows best.
Give what you seek as contrast rhymes,
Reap a true whole that flavours quest;
Align with mind that you may know,...
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Categories:
outwits, change,
Form: Sonnet
Batman - For Contest
...Terror has returned to the heart of Gotham City
Commissioner Gordon’s task sure isn’t pretty
Penguin, the Joker and Riddler are back on the scene
Stirring terror in our hearts, they sure a...
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Categories:
outwits, fantasy, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Our Green-Eyed Monster
...My husband and I, we are not the jealous sort.
But once in a while a green-eyed monster peeks in.
He comes lurking about to diminish our joy.
Not enough to destroy, but too often to toy.
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Categories:
outwits, jealousy, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Woman
...Woman
Outwits with her smile
Men’s roughness.
An angel that
Never leavs in his despair...
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Categories:
outwits, woman,
Form: Acrostic
Swinging On a Star
...Each twinkle, spark and
glitter of a shining star
outwits the dark sky
illuminating full moon
a "beauty" for my pure heart
karen croft...
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Categories:
outwits, happiness,
Form: Tanka
Echoes From the Street
...ECHOES FRO THE STREET
VOICES OF DECEIT
FLAMES OF FURY FREELY LIT
DANCE STEPS AND RHYTHMS OF A DRUMLESS BEAT
SICKENING THOUGHTS IN SICKENED MINDS
IMPENDING MELEE WITHOUT SIGN
FORWARD AND ONWARD MOVEM...
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Categories:
outwits, adventure, urban,
Form: Lyric
We Wish It Is Not True
...Our crazy hurry outwits our wits
We wish it is not true. the car speed.
The restaurants. the caution in the winds.
The rape and early sex the little child
Now knows, whose overwhelming juvenility...
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Categories:
outwits, satiremen,
Form: Free verse
Cheater
...... cheating fair and square,
outwits himself even when
playing solitaire !...
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Categories:
outwits, life, people, social,
Form: Senryu
Within, the Secrets of Whim
...As to when,
the pen falls eerily.
The sadness of lust,
a perilous dusk
for thee that settles
upon the many wary.
As Edgar's Lenore,
reminded,
the Crow's greed
and nestle.
There spied the...
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Categories:
outwits, confusion, death, loss, lost
Form: Enclosed Rhyme