On Returning Leftover Peppermint to My Neighbor
...Digestion liquesces peppermint. I chew
the leaves for both of us, an aftertaste
when stillness is an afterthought.
Dust gleams like the raised plastic on a debit card.
Winds seem to bank and ...
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Categories:
play off, bereavement, community, confusion, death
Form: Free verse
Zelensky is wasting time with puppet at this juncture
...From "rare earth for aid" to blank check security guarantee, Zelensky recently made a series of blind concession to Trumpery, who trumpeted long and long for a "peace" deal with the invader. Everybod...
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Categories:
play off, war,
Form: I do not know?
Morocco Football Team- the Pride of Africa
...Morocco at the 2022 World Cup,:
Morocco is the first African nation to reach the semi finals of FIFA World Cup tournament after 92 years and 49 attempts.
Morocco entered the World Cup as FIFA's 22n...
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Categories:
play off, celebration, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Sentenced
...I wear my heart on paper
Ink fills my veins like blood
reviews cut like a razor
but I’m addicted to the pen.
I pump words with every heartbeat
I hoard paragraphs in my room
I take interjectio...
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Categories:
play off, 11th grade, words, write,
Form: Free verse
I Am the Project Air Bridge
...I am the Project Air Bridge,
The veritable virus lord-cum-felon of duty fraud.
Fumaye's privileged his bridge that projects pompous airs.
Maelstrom, mammon coextend where it forks and fares.
Tra...
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Categories:
play off, extended metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
2018 Fifa World Cup Croatia Vs England Semi-Final
...Heartbreak for England
Three Lions fight to the end-
Belgium play-off next.
Cinderella Croatia
Blazers' first World Cup Final...
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Categories:
play off, cinderella, england, football, international,
Form: Tanka
Blowing Play Off
...Joined a blowing team
We bowled once a week
Practised, practised all week
Big tournament coming soon
All my team mates members
Had gotten the high scores
I tried to do the same
To get a strike...
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Categories:
play off, games,
Form: Sonnet
2018 Fifa World Cup
...Excitement is brewing for the play-off game,
who to claim a podium close-up fame,
winner of 2018 21st FIFA World Cup's name.
Scheduling and planning their dream
to cheer on their favorite te...
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Categories:
play off, football,
Form: Rhyme
Half Free and Fighting On
...Chicago – first in violence, city of potholes,
with no public parking and over taxed people;
loud, lawless, unlovely.
Half free and fighting on with corrupt government,
breaking its words, where ...
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Categories:
play off, political,
Form: Free verse
Cafe Noir
...A man sinks his breath deep into a saxophone
He fills a smoky room with its tenor tone
All the clichés are here
From the femme fatale to the trodden tramp
The atmosphere borders on camp
Be ...
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Categories:
play off, blue, cool, dark, drink,
Form: Rhyme
Ghostly Shadow
...Do you know your shadow?
In darker times perhaps, my alternate host
Do you see it play off your role?
The way it dances to life like a wandering ghost
It only feels like someone to know
Shadow...
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Categories:
play off, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Break Those Chains
...You've tired to run so many times
You've tried to get away
From the demons breathing down your neck
Life doesn't have to be this way
You've heard that there's a God above
You wonder if He cares
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Categories:
play off, freedom, god, life, love,
Form: Lyric
Tis the Season of Football
...All has come to an end, except for who to proclaim
The winner of The National College Football Championship Game
Excitement is brewing for the play-off game
Some will be at the game ...
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Categories:
play off, football, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Last-Minute Autumn
... dodoitsu series (rhymed)
Winter is taking the reins
speeding past days of autumn -
Jack Frost smears the windowpanes
forefingers and thumb.
You who have no house to own,
too proud ...
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Categories:
play off, 11th grade, home, winter,
Form: Dodoitsu
A Play Off of a Short Story
...A frown 'pon his face_ bills, bills,
into file thirteen
As she cleans, empties the trash
The unopened letter catches her eye
She p...
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Categories:
play off, imagination,
Form: Free verse
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