Adapting the Craft
...Adapting the Craft
My father looked up Zealot Street
toward the mountain where ore
buckets hung to cart the coal.
“Don’t go near the mine” he repeat-
ed, the chant of elders who...
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Categories:
peppermints, father son, son,
Form: Rhyme
When Lilly Kisses Rose
...When lilly kisses rose.....
and lilly i did know..
and trees i thought...
grew very deep..
and lived...
within the forest...
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and green...
the hay is sweet...
and brown...
dry mos...
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Categories:
peppermints, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Panagiota Romios -POTW
...Panagiota Romios
Spirited, elaborate and gracefully
She weaves with ease her poetry
Wistful, yet strong, carries her own
A starry queen on her exalted thrown
She writes to please...
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Categories:
peppermints, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Im a Chocolate Candy Holic
...Chocolate? Sure. I like it several ways.
With lots of sugars, layered, and with glaze.
With caramel and peanut butter every day.
Add some mint also, I’ll eat it that way.
Truffles wrapped in fa...
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Categories:
peppermints, food,
Form: Rhyme
Mister Jones
...If you're sitting comfortably and have locked your mobile 'phones,
I'll tell you all a story about Indiana Jones
I met him on a wooden bench whilst strolling through a park
He was mumbling incoher...
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Categories:
peppermints, adventure, celebrity, fantasy, international,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas In July
...Saint Monica's Mission
Tots rushing and jostling, reaching for gifts
Three hundred and two presents we did carry
We drove to the shore, used pallet jack lifts
Children gathered about cheerful ...
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Categories:
peppermints, christmas, july,
Form: Rhyme
Twas the Night When Christmas Went Wrong
...Twas the night before Christmas - came like a flash,
Mob of gingerbread reindeer prodding elves for cache.
The Clausman reigning, doling out orders this stint.
Lady of his, keeps his tongue supp...
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Categories:
peppermints, christmas, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Finding the Throne
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Look at this throne
Riddled with cracks
And covered in bone
It's time to drop the facts
I'm the best at verse
When writing spoken word
It erupts in a burst
And you know I'll be heard
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Categories:
peppermints, confidence, growth, nostalgia, spoken
Form: Free verse
Peppermint
...He walks in and sees first the peppermints on my desk then me
“You sure do look pretty today.” He says while unwrapping the candy
I can tell by the way he's looking at me and not the mint that he...
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Categories:
peppermints, imagery, work,
Form: Prose
Awesome Kid Grandma
...I like Scrabble, and Monopoly,
And Cadoo, and Dabble too.
I like The Game of Life,
And other fun stuff to do.
I like challenges like
finding peppermints in
Chocolate pudding, using
My fac...
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Categories:
peppermints, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse
People Love a Parade
...Parades prepared for pleasure and pageantry.
Phalanx of performers pound the pavement;
percussion sets the pace; piccolos lead.
Princes and princesses pass by on floats;
painted clowns pantomime,...
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Categories:
peppermints, celebration, march, parents, princess,
Form: Alliteration
The Magic of the Oak -Part 3- Collaboration With Chris Green
...The Magic Of The Oak (Part 3 of 4)
A Green and White Production
My eyes, roaming free
Stared at that oak tree
How could a large room it conceal?
I saw a small road
and...
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Categories:
peppermints, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Dawn Is More Than What It Seems
...Dawn is more than what it seems
Take my hand, I’ll lead the way
through oatmeal frosted cookie fields
The two of us will run and play
enjoying all this morning yields
Candy coate...
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Categories:
peppermints, good morning,
Form: Rhyme
Speak To Me In the 60's
...Want you please speak to me in the 60's
In far out psychedelic rhymes
Take a ride beside the blacklight
On the Velvet Underground
Wake me up with the Strawberry Alarm Clock
Serving incense a...
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Categories:
peppermints, innocence, love,
Form: Free verse
Cowboy Joe
...Cowboy Joe
My dad Joe, often rode the circuit rodeo
He lasso'd horses from the word go
Often he'd break them for many a few
His lasso event went far, for his name's Joe
Many men tried to go ...
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Categories:
peppermints, appreciation, dad,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
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