Memorial Day Thoughts
...the sun is happier to see me than my mother
appreciating her joy of me I take a seat
loving what she adds to my day
happy bird speak reiterates my feelings of well-being
this is Memorial Day we...
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Categories:
reiterates, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Where Music Takes Me
...WHERE MUSIC TAKES ME
When I close my eyes and relax
Put on that old analogue LP disc
The vinyl version, all nine tracks
And of any interruption, no risk
Soon I am due to be transported
To a...
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Categories:
reiterates, music,
Form: Rhyme
Celebrated Collections
...CELEBRATED COLLECTIONS
moving&imaginative
.modes of interpretation
in dramatic structurein
sequenced
bestowed
a semblanced
with integrity
a consenus
compiled
in
simple variega...
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Categories:
reiterates, poetry,
Form: Other
Ode To Poets
...Ode To Poets
Poets have vivid imaginations because their minds work differently.
They see things others don’t, with an understanding that goes deeper.
They bare words on paper smudged by ...
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Categories:
reiterates, emotions, imagination, inspiration, poets,
Form: Verse
Oak Faerie and Her Belief In Heaven
...Oak Faerie knows there is a delicate balance
Between accepting a gift, and feeling it is charity
He has to be particularly careful in Mother Chipmunk’s case
Her baby fell out of the oak and died.
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Categories:
reiterates, fairy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Woman In Chains
...Arousing opulence of ancient ballrooms
She creates her own make-believe world
Waltzing coyly in terpsichorean rhythms
Upon glittering stage where they sell love
Each time she caresses arms of a s...
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Categories:
reiterates, betrayal, emotions, woman,
Form: Free verse
Purging Anxiety Thru Transcendental Meditation
...Temporary nirvana (albeit elusive),
nonetheless I strive to access
attaining bliss mine soul bless
exceeding exhilaration winning
(with fewest moves against
deadly opponent) bittersweet game,
...
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Categories:
reiterates, angst, courage, freedom, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Life Happens
...Life Happens
Life happens says the preacher
Preaching to the masses en mass on the day of the sun
Words so heavy,it depicts finality
And desperately i seek tranquility
In all sense of serenity...
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Categories:
reiterates, allusion, art, birth, books,
Form: Didactic
Suffusion of Profuse Elation
...Ah...herewith ma usual
dose of pablum from this meal
lee mouthed muttering
doggerel wordsmith,
who now writes...
so here's the deal,
which reiterates a former zeal
namely,...
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Categories:
reiterates, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Part 2 You Have To Whistle
...Neither Tray or I take any guff from adults, especially adults in authority; it’s a result of having had the belt when you are young, thus learning you cannot trust your care-givers or anyone else.
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Categories:
reiterates, child abuse, giving, i
Form: Free verse
Good Faith and Bad Seeds
...The good faith of a seed
is to live together
before we die apart.
The bad faith of a seed
or an unfertilized egg
or a barren matriarchal womb
or a fake-gospel message
despite MotherEarth's ...
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Categories:
reiterates, fear, gospel, health, integrity,
Form: Prose Poetry
On An Outlaw
...We are antonyms—of each other
(an in-law, a retired Colonel,
Who very often forgets
That he’s retired)
And I.
He’s an in-law,
But I think of him as an Outlaw!
We are of a family.
He lives u...
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Categories:
reiterates, funny, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Trees For Life Against Death
...Imagine with me
if you would be so kind
to assume each relationship with a tree
as iconic,
at least worth the sacred paper
humane scripture is written on
a timbered tree.
Imagine as a Tree
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Categories:
reiterates, earth, health, imagination, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Darkness
...Darkness had consumed me,
So darkness I became.
I sold my colors to the sea demons,
So that I may live in vain.
Through blind eyes I could feel the rain,
See the pain before it ever came.
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Categories:
reiterates, dark,
Form: Free verse
A Continuous Today
...For the past, the future was never apparent
its dormant projection lay in unformed
no thought ever counted it of concern
Time tripped and dawdled, discovering playful as children do
a continuou...
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Categories:
reiterates, trust, truth,
Form: Free verse
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