Hold My Hand To Teach Me How To Write
...Hold my hand to teach me how to write
Take me to the library. I need to shed light
On a few words that I have never seen before
Teach me how to spell, that can open a new door
For my future. I wa...
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Categories:
quorum, humor, humorous, muse, teachers
Form: Rhyme
Hold My Hand To Write
...Hold my hand to teach me how to write
Take me to the library. I need to shed light
On a few words that I have never seen before
Teach me how to spell, that can open a new door
For my future. I wa...
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Categories:
quorum, 1st grade, 9th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Beauty of Writing
...Beauty of the writer within
Heaven’s wonder
Soulful finish
Words shout out
Journey
Distance from a far
Horizon to reach
Words after words
Sentences being the escort
Emotions bound
Heart exp...
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Categories:
quorum, adventure, appreciation, art, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
A Poem For the Pentecost
...~ A Poem for Shavuos ~ *
Two Jews, three opinions
Twenty-nine of us need three minyans *
Yet when we camped at Sinai, all arguments stopped
Jaws in heaven must have dropped
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Categories:
quorum, god, humanity, jewish, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Purim Serum
...Purim Serum
Reverse the decree, costume quorum,
Dour outlooks, ingrates can wait,
To “V’Al HaNissim” respond “Amen!”
‘Til Shichur or REM inebriate,
Confusing “Baruch Mordechai & Arur Haman”,
Ch...
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Categories:
quorum, blessing, friendship, fun, giving,
Form: Rhyme
Gratitude For Running Water On Tap
...Gratitude for running water on tap...
and heat flowing with a snap
After shaving and showering,
yours truly feels winsome
though morose seeing
unwanted adipose "love handles"
inflating mine ...
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Categories:
quorum, 12th grade, america, angel,
Form: Rhyme
The Evergreen Tree
...The Evergreen Tree
Upon the tree, I set my sight,
And see, to my delight
(With head tilted up,
And hand shading eyes)
In the boughs
Sagging from the snow
Birds of various colours
Per...
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Categories:
quorum, christmas, culture, december, environment,
Form: Verse
Beyond the Grave of Perception
...He looks at the mirror and frowns at the image
‘Is it the glass or my face that lies shattered?’
Fault lines burrowed into borrowed time
Tim wonders about censorship and cracks
He s...
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Categories:
quorum, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse
Alliteration For Poets
...Alliteration always awesome
Ballad beyond barnyard basics
Crystalline calls careful consonants,
Diamante delivers deeply
Enthusiasm excites eager ears,
Fanciful frolicking faerie
Generously...
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Categories:
quorum, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Thank You All
...A true tale I will tell of an old timid man
Who was known for his strange, funny rhymes.
But his doggerel junk had this man in a funk
For he knew it would ne’r see the Times.
“Could he find ...
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Categories:
quorum, thank you,
Form: Rhyme
Political Dynamics
...political dynamics
Is it not so... that the winters are so dry to fail
The produce, as of the day we deny the curse
As If ever there's no a victor and a victim, the
Former rejoice as the later...
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Categories:
quorum, anger,
Form: Ballade
Tribalism Thoughts
...
And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you,
That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration
when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory,
ye also shall sit upon twelv...
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Categories:
quorum, religious, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Duel On Monday
...The Duel on Monday
Mark Miller © 09/01/2013
Brain woke today sound of gun shots as a dog walked in
Barks from trains regain my strength for another day filed: distilled feelings
Finished du...
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Categories:
quorum, angst, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Ballade
Don'T Buy It
...Don't buy it,
Scatter the wishes,
However (desperate and maligned),
For all of them,
The (murmur) and the (mesmerized),
Youth-paid homage,
Ill-afforded, unattended and
Graciously subversive,
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Categories:
quorum, appreciation, confidence, crazy, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Origami
...Origami
Sitting quietly chatting sipping
fragrant coffee steaming.
Mind eyes mind's eye, all independently wandering
'let slip' reins dangling.
Peace, as they individually pursue
their indi...
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Categories:
quorum, allegory, culture, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
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