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My Jouncing Gait During Boyhood
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matthew harris
| Elegy |
ranging, 10th grade, 11th grade,
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Carl Ray
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Jimmy Coker
| Ballad |
ranging, dad, depression, devotion, family,
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When I Am Old
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curtis johnson
| Rhyme |
ranging, age, culture,
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The Need
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Jessica Thompson
| Rhyme |
ranging, addiction, desire, feelings, longing,
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Becoming Righter
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Gerald Dillenbeck
| Political Verse |
ranging, health, humor, integrity, math,
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Fire
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K.S. LAKSHMI
| Rhyme |
ranging, environment, fire, firework, future,
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UNION OF EXPECTATIONS
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Samuel Otieng
| Free verse |
ranging, life, marriage,
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The Formula
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Piercing Words
| Free verse |
ranging, deep, image, imagery, imagination,
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Eutrophication Of Golden Pond
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matthew harris
| Free verse |
ranging, 10th grade, 11th grade,
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The Clam Sham Debachcall
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Allan Terry
| Dramatic Verse |
ranging, analogy, anger, anxiety, art,
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Temporal incarnation of Aphrodite act two
by matthew harris
while playboy hallucination at my male member does yank
key mud hood dill, where reality doth usually tank
with muss elf feeling prick
sans...
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Elegiac Lyric |
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Categories:
ranging, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Reminiscing
by Piercing Words
In the beginning there was a word
Which was I, so I couldn't be alone
So I flied, reminiscing about those days with boom box's
and listening to...
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Verse |
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ranging, age, day, imagery, remember,
Fortune Cookie Maxim Minimizes Apple Macbook Pro Update Process
by matthew harris
agonizingly dutifully didst wait
to distract anticipatory anxiety,
(analogous to an expectant father)
while protracted procedure promised
nothing short of a millennium
whereby echoing thru the corridors of time
olly olly...
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Prose Poetry |
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ranging, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Family Health Assessment
by Gerald Dillenbeck
I have watched my youngest son
while nurses give him baths
using diverse models of health optimization
ranging from PositivEnergy Promotion,
restorative ego-eco
I-Thou therapies,
to lower, not too much...
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Political Verse |
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Categories:
ranging, earth, education, health, humor,
Three-Hundred Sixty-Four Days
by kewayne wadley
Gifts and corporations do not equate love.
Although I admire a certain aspect.
The after effect.
Everything being restricted to one day.
Three-hundred sixty-four days in comparison.
To show how...
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Free verse |
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ranging, black african american, cute
Escalating
by Piercing Words
My dreams are obese
So I'm holding weight
hardworking From morning to evening
I do it for the benefit
One side right others left
So im...
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Imagism |
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ranging, dream, life,
cock rock schlock ad hoc
by matthew harris
seminal squirt didst sanctify
an anonymous boulder
when mercury dipped below
hashtag mark registering colder
than usual temperatures circa
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I do not know? |
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Categories:
ranging, betrayal, body, father, funny
The Flowers' Ally
by Adejumoke Adewuyi
Alamandas are green,
Violets are purple,
Holly-hocks are pink,
Mari-golds are yellow,
Sun flowers,yellow too,
all in beautiful colours of nature.
There goes the wasp out to suck up the nectar.
The...
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Free verse |
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ranging, birthday, flower, friend,
ode to ouster order at home of imperiality
by amarantus lauriere
gale to bluster, sleet to bluster, worst whacked are hobos around huts cluster.
nowhere to doss, tempest to toss, yet another sucker punch sweeps across.
with big...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
ranging, abuse,
Food Glorious Food third helping
by matthew harris
Thus upon a strategic seat we hoped for,
or politely sought from manager of the house
ah, our luck to be situated in close proximity,
where impossibility to...
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Light Verse |
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ranging, america, appreciation, celebration, christmas,
Molesting the Political Fire - How Touching is That
by Richard Olson
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Senryu |
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Categories:
ranging, child abuse, political,
It
by CayCay Jennings
It is a horizon of dreams aloft in hope.
It is love, stirred with hate that drips need
to bleed us, heal us and force our tired...
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Dramatic Verse |
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ranging, emotions, humanity, life,
A Reason for Moral Treason
by Richard Olson
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Senryu |
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Categories:
ranging, abuse, judgement, women,
Journey to Independence
by Eedee-Bari Bawoh
57 years aback,
Millions of ebony shinning skinned individuals,
Meddled in this part of the world to form a country named Nigeria.
From the stand point of crudeness,
How...
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Prose Poetry |
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Categories:
ranging, adventure, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
A Nightcliff Evening
by Edward Clapham
A Nightcliff Evening
The pastel light of evening fades to the indigo of night,
Trees brooding silhouettes above, save where the string
Of lights picks out the furrows...
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Verse |
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ranging, friendship, imagery, social,
Transgendering Trumpisms
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Trump started it,
with his arguments against transgender people
in the military violence business
of nationalism.
He seems to think trans-thinking
could not be sufficiently focused,
disciplined,
willing to accept ego-sacrifices
as necessary...
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Political Verse |
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ranging, color, courage, gender, health,
On Hotel California
by Ram R. V.
Kudos to Eagles for their wonderful pastiche that renders a polyphonic message to all,
Ranging from LaVey's Church (of Satan) through marijuana to clandestine corporate world,
Which...
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Lyric |
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Categories:
ranging, corruption, culture, drug,
pivotal moment
by shari thomas
a pivotal moment
vital to the formation
of the future self
a decisive event
within the past self's
life's course that helped
to create the present self
a...
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Lyric |
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ranging, inspirational,
The Time is Now
by Terrie DeLay
Jesus is calling come my people come for the Kingdom of God is at hand.
Arise out of your spiritual graves, look into me and...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
ranging, inspiration,
Conch
by Dalton Ogletree
4/21/17
Near and far from any kind of conch
Animals and humans with a paunch
While others are gaunt
Some just want
To flaunt
What they got
Like it or not
A stance...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
ranging, poetry, rap, word play,