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Primers Poems - Poems about Primers
Millie the Mermaid was a Reading Machine
...Millie, the mermaid was a reading machine. It started with a shipwreck, among the marine. A library for a king had gone down in the wreck. I can teach myself to read, she said without genuflect. ......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
primers,
books,
Form:
Rhyme
Improvisus
...A jazz musician wonders back to his days at the keyboard… each note over practiced until melody pure and magic releases A poet in laurels wonders back to his primers and notepads… each wor......
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©
Kurt Philip Behm
Categories:
primers,
music, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Reading 101's Wild Ride
...So boring were 1950's school reading primers -- See Dick. See Dick run. Run, Dick. Run, run, run. See Jane. See Jane run. Run, Jane. Run, run, run. -- The status quo reigned. Schookids' fu......
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©
Gershon Wolf
Categories:
primers,
change, fun, funny, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Mirror of Peace
...Looking through frosted glass of windows' sorrowed pain I who Reflects upon the frozen condensation in the shelter of my mind Delight that there are crystals on the panel which refract the joy ......
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©
Kai Michael Neumann
Categories:
primers,
appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Paint a Picture Black and Gray
...Pull out the easel set the canvas positioned long and slender clean slate. Sketch the figures huddled and dark-bound hostage to charcoal-cooled coals etching in shadow images; F......
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©
DM Babbit
Categories:
primers,
africa, art, dark, grief,
Form:
Imagism
Our Preposterous Fictions
...The preposterous fictions many profess to be unvarnished truth warp the very fabric of our universe -- cause those long dead to walk among us through the spectral midnights in o......
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©
Leo Larry Amadore
Categories:
primers,
books, bullying, change, character,
Form:
Free verse
Ecology of Happytime
...Ecology of Time explores resonant rings of sustained health vitality, a red strong-willed loving heart pumping Earth’s nutritional wealth through our circulating and dynamic biosystems, beautifu......
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©
Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
primers,
culture, earth, earth day,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
All Crushed
...Was round about the 60's And I a budding teen Was influenced and touched By a program I had seen Rod Sterling was the narrator Of a series quite well known With weekly visits to a world Name......
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©
Michelle Prital
Categories:
primers,
loss, natural disasters, passion,
Form:
Limerick
Constance
...Prithee how could i describe thee You are the morning glory, beauty and virtue, Mind and soul symbolically personify Your image send relief to ease my longing soul, I can hear your silence subdue......
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©
Afolabi Taiwo
Categories:
primers,
friendshiplonging, hair, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Action.Able.
...”…any action causes reaction…” that makes all things Able…. Systems are up and STable Horse shoes hanging in wait Steady hands writing right dates Wheels turn unlatching gates Step inside if th......
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©
Izzy Gumbo
Categories:
primers,
faith
Form:
I do not know?
The Blue Syndrome
...A little of you each day brings sweat and nausea, Once bitten twice shy I lust deeply for you, But you flow to flout my very existence, Seduced to quiver I live only for you. Lips touch and y......
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©
Jai Garg
Categories:
primers,
life
Form:
Free verse