Moonlight
...Chakpii!
Wooo! ! !
We have gathered
On grandfather’s stoneseats
After a hurried meal,
This moonlight...
Assemble, children, and hearken
To the tales we know
And heard from
Our fathers...
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Categories:
quizzes, africa, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
The Espresso Salon
...He’s behind the bar,
polishing glasses
like they’re his last remaining purpose.
“I know things!” he insists.
“I watch Question Time!
I once bought quinoa by accident!”
He pours stout
with ...
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Categories:
quizzes, perspective,
Form: Free verse
4x10
...The Killing Field”
Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it d...
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Categories:
quizzes, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse
4x10
...The Killing Field”
Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it d...
...
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Categories:
quizzes, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse
Time to fly
...
The cage has been far too long
Heaven has been calling me
I want to break the door
...
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Categories:
quizzes, truth,
Form: Free verse
Ode to Zilch
...Oh, Nothing! You sly, elusive spud,
You’re the star of this poem (though technically dud).
You haunt empty fridges, blank quizzes, and minds,
The gap where my keys hide and my weekend plans ...
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Categories:
quizzes, funny,
Form: Free verse
She Quenched our Battle
...It has been a long wait,
Longer but reached
The battle that enemy started
Was nailed perpendicularly
With our lovely Princess!
Long, long ago!
A dream was conventional
To quench the burn...
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Categories:
quizzes, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, care,
Form: Rhyme
Autism ADHD and me
...Let me tell you about my experience with autism and ADHD
From moments of forgetfulness and yippee dee
Sorry I lost track now where were we
Oh yes
About autism and ADHD
I see the world in col...
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Categories:
quizzes, light,
Form: Free verse
Highlighters
...Highlighters
I sometimes dress up my
highlighters in
lace and
give them pop quizzes on
something’s that go on
before noon.
...
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Categories:
quizzes, humor,
Form: Free verse
coming to town
...Peter (my bf) is coming to town - tonight. I’m breathy with excitement.
My energy is so sick. “Someone scrape her off the walls,” Leong remarked, as I bounded out of my room this morning.
Lisa winc...
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Categories:
quizzes, boyfriend, humor, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Consciousness
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Within the dark mystery of evening,
he listens to two interchangeable discourses
One the gentle persuader, the other, life's ultimate blamer.
Troubled by these seething exchanges,
both consc...
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Categories:
quizzes, integrity, introspection,
Form: Verse
Eye cannot envision not wearing glasses
...Eye cannot envision not wearing glasses
Ever since second grade
an ever stronger prescription
for nearsightedness donned my countenance,
cuz myopia (inherited courtesy
both parents) rendered m...
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Categories:
quizzes, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse
Existential Exams
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Existential Exams
By Mark D. Stucky
Math problems, essay questions,
multiple choice, fill in the blanks…
Many are the tests we take
from grade school through grad sch...
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Categories:
quizzes, character, endurance, heart, life,
Form: Free verse
the rodeo
...In crowded halls, ivy clad, walk the sleepless zombies - the walking dead.
They’ve come to grapple, the chosen few, in trials by pen and pencil too.
Long ago we quietly agreed to trade studies an...
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Categories:
quizzes, confidence, holiday, school, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
The World of Coca Cola
...At the World of Coca Cola
Were mementos by the score,
All of Coke-related products,
Bottles, cans and so much more.
There were posters from the 50’s,
Coke machines and pins and toys
And colle...
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Categories:
quizzes, drink,
Form: Rhyme
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