Kids Prose Poems

Poetry is tangerine and other potent or poisonous colors.
It is the breath you feel at the nape of your neck and
the strong caress of flesh...

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I was off for my vacation. After a long flight and drive, I reached my cozy apartment. Stars like diamonds filled the cold January night....

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One sunny day, two big animals are walking in the field.  The first animal said, "Do you see what I see?"

"What?... Where?!", replied the...

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The sun was setting, with a beautiful color leaving in the Sky. We were heading to Edinburg. Our van stopped on the way, as that...

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Fall in love with your new brothers and sisters said the Mom.
So, they did their best, and it was not always easy.
This was the family...

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He awoke one morning befuddled, adrift in a world he could not grasp.  At breakfast he told his family he had to go and...

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Lester’s parents decided to homeschool him.
Mommy and Daddy had both been bullied when they were kids.
Kids are horrible, they told Lester.
We will not have any...

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Goodness, I nearly lost my balance on the spiral seashells and broken sea stone chipping matrix.
My quaint obsession with marine life and that skyline paradox...

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Just as well I was driving at a moderate speed.
Having resumed control I spied Lelia sticking her tongue out at those reckless varmints.
She stopped the...

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Each and every junction of a big city were blooding
Along with the relatives in dirty dark cabins
There was no age limit for the melancholic sobbing
Calling...

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The greatest performance of my life.  
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award  on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids”...

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Howling winds of Kansas made us cry out that August
We felt threatened.
Sounded like a train 
Then deadly quiet
Tornado was here

Someone yelled “get the kids!”
We survived...

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I see why kids want to be sent to the office
The office is a “happening place” – I mean truly busy 
Every second someone is...

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It was to be a lazy afternoon
  spent at a nearby park.
 Jordan, Anthony, and I 
  swung on the swings 
 ...

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Anger whisked herself into a gray frenzy of clouds, bordering on black.
A snow blizzard might be on her way; the wind picked up. I looked...

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