Premonition
...I can see them.
Even after almost being impaled.
Still.
I could die without even knowing.
Instead, I don’t.
I saw them outside today.
Hot tea does that to you.
Makes everything burning ho...
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Categories:
rescheduled, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Trails
...
The tails we tell ourselves To make ourselves feel warmth. restart with goodnight then we've changed. We believe the lies we tell ourselves Need those tails to tell ourselves hugs. Kisses jumps b...
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Categories:
rescheduled, anxiety, dream, feelings, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Human to numbers
...caught or accused; arrested
handcuffed, fingerprinted, mugshot
processed through, bunk or cot
cell, cellmate(s), population
will there be a bond or nah?
anticipation for hearing: fearing
postp...
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Categories:
rescheduled, abuse, dark, money, prison,
Form: Free verse
DP7- THE DIONDRA POSH LIFE: Meeting The Landlord
...Date: August 2051
Hi diary. I have a upcoming appointment with my Landlord!
Oh my gosh! I have waited in want
For a home that can satisfy my
Need for luxury. And diary....
Luxury. HAS F...
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Categories:
rescheduled, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
DP3 DIARY OF DIONDRA POSH: Temporary Employment
...May 2051
Dear diary I think I'll try for a part
Time job which I just know beyond
Anything I'm gonna hate! So I'll work
It out um. Without a doubt. I just
Don't wanna sit at home to much!
I ...
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Categories:
rescheduled, allusion, beach, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Jack 101
...
A poem for Lillie on her christening day
Spurs game rescheduled in an unkind way
It's important and we’d love to watch them play
Need to put it into perspective though and say
We can ca...
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Categories:
rescheduled, family, granddaughter, poetry, spoken
Form: Rhyme
Not Quite Ready
...Some friends are going on a tour;
Invited us to join.
You’d think it would be easy
To decide - just flip a coin.
We’d meant to take a trip with them
When Covid reared its head.
We got our mo...
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Categories:
rescheduled, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Funeral For An Alien
...Friends,
Trumpians,
EcoFeminists
We gather here
to no longer hear divisions
across a win/lose
zero-sum aisle
so we can see revisions
within a win/win
nonzero-exponential
future free of b...
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Categories:
rescheduled, culture, education, health, peace,
Form: Political Verse
The Business of Autumn
...The Business of Autumn
David J Walker
1. The season of dry clouds and Canada Geese
Arrived over the weekend
2. The weatherman says the freeze was
too light last night to ha...
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Categories:
rescheduled, allegory, environment,
Form: Free verse
Gifts of Solitude
...
appointment rescheduled and so we wait
there being no cause for agitation
each moment complete in stillness sedate
unendingly renews bliss elation
irrespective of outer circumsta...
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Categories:
rescheduled, solitude, spiritual,
Form: Terza Rima
June 2nd, 2020 Pennsylvania Rescheduled Primary Voting Day
...(alternately titled: Whew...
so glad I chose absentee/ mail-in ballot),
and agitate (poetically)
November presidential election
brings requisite equality.
Unforeseen (unprecedented)
stiff com...
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Categories:
rescheduled, 12th grade, absence, celebration,
Form: Political Verse
Stanco Delle Tue Scuse
...I
When we first met I thought you were the one.
We were close together during that trip to the mountain.
Every activity we were together.
By the bonfire we sat together
To me you were young and...
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Categories:
rescheduled, anger, emotions, grief, heartbroken,
Form: Prose
Rainouts
...
Because of the weather, the game was rained out.
Baseball is something many of us can’t do without.
It’s the only sport we get to see throughout the summer.
When the game is postponed, i...
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Categories:
rescheduled, baseball, rain,
Form: Quatrain
The Had
...No more the curse of what is bad,
enduring cause, or so-so sad
I am the circle of the mad,
disciple of implore . . . the Had!
This venture, trusted counterfeit
the soul's combustion ~ make it fit,
a...
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Categories:
rescheduled, work,
Form: Monorhyme
You Are a Mystical Person
...Happily never ever after,
Said the frog to the princess,
"We have only til' midnight until this fairytale is over"
With a glide of a wand, the godmother reversed back all memories
Of stories made...
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Categories:
rescheduled, adventure, fantasy, funny, imagination
Form: Free verse
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