Spice
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They took my money again!
When will it end?
Lunch money is gone.
Even the milk money,
Not very funny.
Left my bus token,
To get home.
Now I'm hungry,
And all al...
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Categories:
prunes, 10th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
I LOVE U
...Three words so powerful that it sends us over the rainbow, I love you, can inspire our world.
Like the feeling of sweet ice cream, we love the words, I love you.
They make everything better, the ...
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Categories:
prunes, america, caregiving, garden, god,
Form: Rhyme
An Interview with the Color Purple
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Hello, everyone. Today we welcome the famous color Purple to our show.
Hello. I’m so happy to be here.
So, tell me, Purple, Why do people refer to prose sometimes as purple?
Ha!...
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Categories:
prunes, color,
Form: Narrative
Out of Sight
...tell me a color
I'll say
something
juicy
to you
I picked
my favorite fruit
by palate
hues too
bare feet shed
more than dead skin
exposed limbs
transport knowledge
<>
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Categories:
prunes, dark, dedication, endurance, identity,
Form: Free verse
morning poem
...Morning poem
This morning, sky and sea had the color shiny grey and I could see forever and saw a man and his son on the deck of big ship, eating prunes because it was good for digesting heavy foo...
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Categories:
prunes, absence, adventure, age, betrayal,
Form: ABC
So Much To Lose
...With a look in the mirror I see
I'm as round as a bumble-ing bee.
Having so much on show
(yes, wherever I go)
a tri-kini I'll need at the sea
Though some people may say tha...
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Categories:
prunes, beauty, humor,
Form: Limerick
day twenty six
...day twenty-six
Today is the day after people are tired
And the toilets on the first floor of the building
Were blocked and had taken a heavy load
The silence is eerily; a man on the fifth floo...
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Categories:
prunes, cinderella, cute,
Form: Free verse
First Quarter Moon
...First Quarter Moon
The first quarter moon wants me to
learn to
speak curly hair language. If I don’t their
rage concerning being bullied by
prunes the size of
cement trucks will
cause: m...
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Categories:
prunes, humor,
Form: Free verse
Anywhere But Here
...But wherever you are, I no longer want to be:
for you are thunderstruck moonlight,
and I am a scarred sunset ~ a secret in saffron,
melting into the myth that floats forever,
within silenced...
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Categories:
prunes, angst, dark, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Cockaleekie
...CockaLeekie
I love my cockaleekie,
and if I could have my way.
I’d have my cockaleekie,
almost each and every day.
I love my cockaleekie,
and to it I will be true.
For in my cockal...
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Categories:
prunes, culture, food, funny,
Form: Quatern
political ruminations
...Whereas and wherefore hence and hereafter
An idle balloon sits high in the rafters
It’s hard to decide which one is dafter
The one who just bought it or the “arts” crafter
the media just primps...
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Categories:
prunes, america, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Another Family Dish
...Another day, another dish
Time to make the meal for the family of five.
Fresh from the store, lay a huge red fish
Here in the kitchen is where she will strive.
The family on the couch, Sitting...
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Categories:
prunes, family,
Form: Free verse
let s talk about jams
...Il existe une confiture de myrtilles,
Ne parlons pas de la succulente confitures de mûres,
De la marmelade d’oranges, de la confiture de rhubarbe,
Il existe des confitures rouges, des confitures v...
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Categories:
prunes, 9th grade, food, relationship,
Form: Free verse
For this Strumpet, No Trumpet - Open Poetry 9 Contest
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Donald ate beans to full capacitance
Added pitted prunes for extravagance
He courted the town strumpet
She said, Put down your trumpet
All Donald could produce was ...
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Categories:
prunes, humorous, music, romance, sound,
Form: Limerick
The Mountain People
...Daylight breaks through the gate and a bright light shine intensely on my face from a distance. I wasn’t sure what was going on, but I fold one arm and held on tightly to the other arm. I knew it was...
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Categories:
prunes, best friend, books, business,
Form: Narrative
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