Florence
...Florence has warm blood
and cowrie teeth that seldom clatter,
even in the chilled, fluttering dance of July rain.
She’s an element of Shiloh
in weeping quest of a promising Samuel,
and for thi...
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Categories:
pronounces, fate, heartbroken, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Lake Illawarra
...The name pronounces in a Chinese mind
Sounds similar to onomatopoeia words made
When hearts felt phonologically bored
By a misthought on linguistically decaying
Or a loss of ordered hilarious...
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Categories:
pronounces, 2nd grade, engagement, environment,
Form: Free verse
Raining in Summer
...The smoldering sun shines incessantly
Until the earth’s humidity hastens
The forming of cinereal clouds calmly covers
The spacious skies above and suddenly
Gentle rain soft but steady
Begins t...
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Categories:
pronounces, rain, summer,
Form: Free verse
Presidential Pronouncement
...
Our precocious President pronounces,
in patent ad hominem attack,
that those deplorable disagreeables
are notably Neanderthal.
He might be technically correct;
nasty Neanderthals existentia...
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Categories:
pronounces, bullying,
Form: Alliteration
The Wish
...“You can have any wish,” the genie said.
“Any ONE wish?” the girl asked, a little disappointedly.
“One wish,” the genie answered, shrugging.
“Oh.. then” she said, thinking it over. “I wish for.....
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Categories:
pronounces, fantasy, humor, surreal, wedding,
Form: Free verse
The Music Stops
...The jaws sing
As the drip, drip, drip,
Of the petroleum chorus
Dances across
The inverted aluminum
And the hissing starts
And the hissing stays
Its smell a warning
A final omen
Like the last...
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Categories:
pronounces, death,
Form: Free verse
Sunset By Text
...In the last hours of a sunset rendezvous
By the sacred ponds of mabweadziva…
Sunset peaks out after rain
Wonders around, the pond reflects
of colors bursting forth anew
to fight the fading sp...
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Categories:
pronounces, art, beauty, sunset,
Form: Free verse
My Vocabulary Is Scooting Up
...My vocabulary is scooting up like a weed
in a as-fault jungle
I mean, it's so incredulous how many
unhackneyed words I've cognized
lately... So I'm going to give me a standing ovula...
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Categories:
pronounces, giggle, growth, language, word
Form: Free verse
Darkness
...It’s midnight on June 24th. We’re returning from a “Hot Wax” concert - they were wretched. We’re heading back to Paris tomorrow, so we decided to just stop at the (Kube Hotel) lounge for nightcaps.
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Categories:
pronounces, anger, angst, summer, teen,
Form: Free verse
Freshmen Conversation
...We’re (my pose is gathered this Saturday morning because I made a pancake and bacon breakfast) listening to a Britney Spears song, off one of Leong’s playlists. “I remember when I was about 8,” I say...
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Categories:
pronounces, friendship, fun, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Greek Treats
...We were (Leong, Peter, Anna and I) eating at a popular Italian eatery (outdoors) and the check arrived - I swooped across the table and grabbed the check from the waiter. Peter whispers, “You can’t p...
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Categories:
pronounces, friendship, money, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Vodka Plus Essays
...Please Pogo music, wake me up. The night, now reduced to warm laptop light, is inching toward dawn. I pray to the patron saints of writers - is it Neri or Ávila? Whichever is on call I suppose.
“I...
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Categories:
pronounces, education, student, teen, writing,
Form: Free verse
Carolyn, Mortified
...Recipice Precipice
Carolyn Child would be
Mortified watching me
Cooking with joy and glee
Random ingredients
Thrown in a pot!
Hardly comestible
Near-indigestible
Never repeatable
Undefatig...
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Categories:
pronounces, humorous,
Form: Double Dactyl
Boxing Day
...It’s boxing day (the Brit name for the day after Christmas) and Pamela, Lisa’s grandmother is visiting our little pandemic ark. Pamela’s a Cowboys fan so we’re watching them slaughter Washington - be...
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Categories:
pronounces, grandmother, holiday, humor, mom,
Form: Free verse
Pronounced
...It’s Saturday morning, and even though it’s Thanksgiving break, Lisa and I are in her bedroom, in NYC, studying.
“Ok,” Lisa stops, looks up and says, “give me a 5ex symbol.”
“I.. I don’t have o...
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Categories:
pronounces, beauty, best friend, cute,
Form: Free verse
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