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Pronounces Poems - Poems about Pronounces

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



Premium MemberRaining 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

Premium MemberPresidential Pronouncement

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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

Premium MemberThe 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

Premium MemberMy 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

Premium MemberDarkness

...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

Premium MemberFreshmen 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

Premium MemberGreek 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

Premium MemberVodka 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

Premium MemberCarolyn, 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

Premium MemberBoxing 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

Premium MemberPronounced

...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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