Chocolate Eggs
...In July, no air cooler will dissipate the heat.
I squeeze the bag, it squishes, like paste within my hand.
The chocolate eggs were perfect, the kind one loves to eat.
April's chocolate ovals now a...
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Categories:
ovals, candy,
Form: Rhyme
A Secret Escape To A Heavenly Ancient Place
...Tell me
Have you ever felt you could runway
Far away to a secret place
Where time stands still
The hot sun mostly shows its beaming face.
Well come!
Take my hand
And I'll take you to that pl...
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Categories:
ovals, beautiful, bible, desire, faith,
Form: Free verse
Standardized Test Taking
...Some students finish standardized tests quickly
Others take elaborate amounts of time
My cousin Suzette always finished first
She filled in the oval bubbles with faeries and butterflies
Made elab...
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Categories:
ovals, school,
Form: Free verse
Testing Testing Over Testing
...Entertaining myself at work today
Easier if I did not have a glass wall
But I do and I am right across from the sign in sheet.
People see and they scoff.
Probably thinking this is all that I do.
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Categories:
ovals, school,
Form: Free verse
Falling Elm Leaves
...Falling Leaves Specific to the Elm
Long before Fall, Elm trees thin their leaves,
And Elm trees are the ones we have plenty of.
Tiny little ovals turn tan and gold and green and drifting,
Ridi...
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Categories:
ovals, 9th grade, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Give Me Something Round
...Give me something round
Edges to life should be circular
Beware of the elliptic mystery
Rotate your marbles frequently
Give me something spherical
Two hemispheres in harmony
Held together wit...
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Categories:
ovals, appreciation, creation, mystery, universe,
Form: Quatrain
Garden Faeries
...Photographs of
Orbs in gardens
Shiny yellow ovals
Attracted to flowers
Faeries and elves
Disguised, flitting
Among the geraniums
And zinnias.
They spread out
In a gloriously beautiful
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Categories:
ovals, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
In the Void
...No voice is whispered in the void
Explosions inside the nest of stars
Ignite into the operas of the galaxies
Noiseless vacancies full of mysteries
Evolve, remain as vacuous as they are
Space,...
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Categories:
ovals, adventure, appreciation, image, nature,
Form: Free verse
motif mortal -
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a thousand orbs bearing, thus
connected, all, or put to dust
focused photons press the link
escaping matter's tacit brink
stretched to ovals, masses bent
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Categories:
ovals, beauty, creation, earth, humanity,
Form: Couplet
Fact Or Fiction
...6/13/17
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Better get a grip or slip
In a world where it's hit and miss
Despite any similarites and differences
Involving shapes like diamonds, square, circles and ovals
Above or below bur...
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Categories:
ovals, fun, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Poems Have Their Verses
...Poems have their verses
Blinded by the light
Stood outside to stare
Counting clouds in groups of two
If only you were there
Dreams may come in circles
Rounding out the bend
O...
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Categories:
ovals, love,
Form: Rhyme
Truth As I See It
...How could this possibly be a anything fake
For that would be true if you were Rod
Or Todd
Or Harry
Or drake ...
But no, you seem to arrive at just the right pace
Perhaps anyone else it woul...
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Categories:
ovals, cute love,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Sky Is Falling
...If the sky took time to form would be like a storm with out the forecast could one forecast the weather,
moons that look like ovals with no meaning of bright lights and no shoes to hold us steady,
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Categories:
ovals, art, love,
Form: Lyric
Horses
...Fine tussled forelock hides unbridled pain
from stifle-lameness acknowledged too late,
withering lesser those few that remain
watching as Stormcloud takes one final gait.
Soft ...
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Categories:
ovals, horse,
Form: Quatrain
Making Moussaka For Neil
...We begin at the beginning: a clove of garlic, too hard-headed
for its own good, combined with two large onions, their first denuding
revealing fallow gold: the second layer, a pale green puberty,
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Categories:
ovals, absence, bereavement,
Form: Blank verse
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