Legend
...Look up in the sky ! It’s a bird ! It’s a plane.
It’s Superman !
More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. This fearless man of ...
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Categories:
passive voice, courage,
Form: Narrative
By the Book
...By The Book
(a monoku series)
someone once called me a walking dictionary they must think i'm thick
i have been told that it has been said i use the passive voice a lo...
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Categories:
passive voice, books,
Form: Monoku
Freedom of Choice
...FREEDOM OF CHOICE
The greater blessing is the power of choice
Not gifts nor riches any way compare
With having your own mind, to give it voice
See then your many options and rejoice
That You...
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Categories:
passive voice, freedom,
Form: Villanelle
Disappearing No More
...One day I disappeared inside myself, but they found me. My children, my husband.
I dived into a bush, but the dog dug me out. I tried again, built a hide and seek closet.
Maybe I should have not p...
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Categories:
passive voice, encouraging, voice,
Form: Free verse
The Passive Voice
...THE PASSIVE VOICE (Grammar series)
In Italy a glorious Voice
Was employed by Pavarotti
In England of voice we’ve a choice
Which sounds a little dotty
When we sing our verbs of action
The w...
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Categories:
passive voice, humor, language, words,
Form: Light Verse
Really Catchy Title
...Readers acknowledge first lines as vital
Nothing grabs attention like a snappy title
People dislike poems that do not rhyme
Criticizing writers for committing a “crime”
How I hate being hated for bei...
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Categories:
passive voice, funny,
Form: Free verse
My Passive Ugly Truth
...I created this poem to teach passive voice in an ESL class in Chile (English as a foreign
language)
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My heart was brok...
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Categories:
passive voice, lost loveme,
Form: Rhyme