ABC Beauty
...Amethyst beauty cheerful dainty elegant frilly girl
Holy intelligent joyful kind loving mahogany nice onyx plats quick replying simply truthful understanding virtuous with xenial youthful zest...
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Categories:
plats, girl, poetry,
Form: ABC
4 Single Dads
...Sun rays slide across your face
Inviting silhouette artistic shades of love
Needling fingers plats a braid
Girl dad doing her hair not a fad
Little rituals she enjoys
Emerald ribbons matching j...
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Categories:
plats, america, appreciation, black love,
Form: Acrostic
Plunk Plick Plat Splat
...Plunk plick plat splat
The drip of faucet compels me to
Throw down a few notes
Words I had not thought of six seconds before
Cardinals and sparrows
Twittering and chittering
I listen hard, ...
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Categories:
plats, poetess,
Form: Free verse
Rodeo and Juliet
...On the spur of the moment forecast by eternal script in the stars
The Bard strummed his guitar and sung a ballade from heart’s lute
Wild horses would not keep him away from her as he unbridled...
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Categories:
plats, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Anticipating
...Anticipating a brand new year,
White bows in your plats
and fresh new gear,
excitement bubbled, smiles ear to ear.
All I could say is,
"I love you dears."
I waved with excitement as you both ...
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Categories:
plats, growing up, love, parents,
Form: Rhyme
Eric Mottram's the Cat Sat On the Mat Translated By T Wignesan
...Translation of Eric Mottram’s The Cat Sat on the Mat, La chatte s’est assise sur la natte by T. Wignesan
(Unless I’m sorely mistaken, this’s EM’s first published poem: Poetry Magazine/Poetry Fo...
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Categories:
plats, cat,
Form: Free verse
Almost Ex Nihilo
...There is you.
There is I.
We have never met,
nor have we ever heard of us
until this moment when together
you and I created something ponderous
never born of God,
or any time at all.
It is...
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Categories:
plats, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Lacs Italie
...Aux lacs italiens
Douce l'italie, ca n'est pas moi qui raillerai jamais tes
amants, méme quand la passion les emportant Bien au contraire,
les exces m'enchantent. Je me rapelle l'ent...
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Categories:
plats, appreciation, heart, uplifting,
Form: Romanticism
Molly My Love
...Young Molly is topping the death charts at number 1 with a stray bullet. The gun is led by a headhunters scorn. Desired by many and made in the forsaken pulpit. No warnings entail, as many now morn. ...
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Categories:
plats, abuse, addiction, adventure, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
What Happens To the Brown-Skinned Girls
...What happens to all the brown-skinned girls?
Sitting on the stoop waiting for the ice cream man to come
20 plats in their hair
Turning the double dutch rope
Sitting in the middle of the classroom
Yo...
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Categories:
plats, black african american, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Where the Antelope (Used To) Play
...Where the antelope used to play is now shopping malls and plats.
Man in his insatiable greed has encroached upon its ancient habitats.
Not so very long ago on the plains just a few miles out of tow...
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Categories:
plats, nature
Form: Rhyme