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...In the quiet still
in the sable night
dreamy dotted with
punctuates of light
I recall
my youthful days:
no balcony too steep
nor high – those I could
not climb, then~ simply I
would f...
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Categories:
punctuates, dream, funny love, humor,
Form: Free verse
Burlesque Bernadette
...Flagrant bird Bernadette feathery flair flamboyant
Towers over average plumage
Parades tassle twist pantomime pow wow warbonnet
Cascade costume illuminating
Cheyenne ...
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Categories:
punctuates, angel, animal, beautiful, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Within My Quasi Moat Toad Lily Padded Immediate Environs
...Within my quasi moat toad lily padded immediate environs
Meaning the corporeal complex edifice
housing these lovely bones,
where linkedin logorrhea ably
strives to break out
in meaningless s...
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Categories:
punctuates, adventure, age, allusion, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
How a Perfunctory Poet Punctuates a Piece
...A period here. a question mark there?
A handful of commas,,,tossed in the air
To fall all willy-nilly but he doesn't care.
Then he closes his eyes so he never sees,
And does it again with apostro...
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Categories:
punctuates, humor, writing,
Form: Light Verse
Different Kinds of Quiet
...The squawk of seagulls punctuates
The quiet by the beach,
Yet the lack of other noises
Makes relaxing within reach.
The wail of sirens doesn’t let
The city quiet stay,
For even in the early...
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Categories:
punctuates, silence, sound,
Form: Rhyme
The Smarter Man
...We take great pride in our knowledge
Each generation thinking they are smarter than the ones before
The problem, it's a subjective egocentric perspective
There's an air arrogance that's hard to ig...
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Categories:
punctuates, america, anxiety, courage, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Clusters
...CLUSTERS
a retrospective
repurposed
in
colour
transformations
identified
& sampled
the
meticulous
punctuates
the
fascinating
variety
&scope
continuing
in
the
relished
lyric...
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Categories:
punctuates, poetry,
Form: Other
Voice, Crying
...A piercing cry punctuates the silence
Make way
Pierced side and hands and feet
Pricks ears, pierces hearts
Unquenchable fire, unquenchable love
A wilderness wasteland or a narrow path
Choose th...
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Categories:
punctuates, fire, love,
Form: Free verse
Cut To the Chase After Tan Hat Man
...Cut to the chase after tan hat man!
Though reading horror stories
gearing up as strawberry spring fest
full throttle danse (macabre),
an only every now and again predilection
genre crazy wave...
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Categories:
punctuates, 12th grade, analogy, august,
Form: Rhyme
Paw
...My cat's P's of poetry –
punctuates everything I write
with a paw; when I'm composing, he slaps
at my pencil with...you guessed it,
his paw – yesterday, the fan blew my
precious creation, off...
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Categories:
punctuates, best friend, cat, humor,
Form: Free verse
Sounds Squirm Up
...Rain-steps publish worms,
wriggles scribe themselves.
The thrown thud of a newspaper
punctuates the wet and written.
Sparrows scrawl and scrabble,
foraging starlings attack the earth
so...
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Categories:
punctuates, poetry,
Form: Free verse
High Desert Scene
...Rolling hills dim in the distance
Beneath low-hovering mists,
While an occasional stand of pines
Punctuates the shallow canyon rim,
The steppes to the summit appear
Like wrinkles ...
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Categories:
punctuates, art, nature, places,
Form: Ekphrasis
Auld-Lang-Syne
...I thought about you today as I so often do.
I felt the sad familiar feelings
that will not go away.
You came to mind in a flash of memory
While I was doing something else.
I never seek these t...
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Categories:
punctuates, anger, betrayal, break up,
Form: Free verse
Breathe
...Breeze, storm, tempest, tornado, wind,
Typhoon, you are named, yes, whirlwind,
Yet, you have well compressed yourself;
In me, into a gasp, named breathe,
Without which I have a mere death,
Thus ...
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Categories:
punctuates, life, universe, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Warfare's Veto
...subtitled: Lyrics by Lamoureux
He writes upon his poet's harp complex chords of life,
motivational music to halt us
from following malicious men -
fractured minds of mankind.
He wr...
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Categories:
punctuates, 11th grade, angst, music,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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