Repetition
...Once is never quite enough,
Once again feels more like trust.
Once more, close to sure—
Eat, has eaten, ate, will eat—
Breath itself repeats,
A ritual done compulsively,
Yet never f...
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Categories:
retake, character, confidence, creation, education,
Form: Free verse
A senior moment experienced by this drip
...A senior moment experienced by this drip...
awash with intermittent amnesia.
Scant number of minutes elapsed...
before I forgot whether yours truly
took another dose of glycopyrrolate
ingest...
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Categories:
retake, 12th grade, anger, body,
Form: Free verse
go be it
...Metaphors are of no use;
symbols but offer excuse,
attempting to cage the breeze,
putting our mind in deep freeze.
The thought of love is not love,
head and heart not hand in glove,
aloof in ...
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Categories:
retake, spiritual,
Form: Jueju
LEAP OF FAITH
...A connection endures,
As it's host surrenders,
To the possibilities,
An infinite world before thee.
A projected reality,
From 2 eyes i see,
A life created for me,
Stemming from t...
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Categories:
retake, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
An Angels Reprieve
...Stealing your thoughts
a crime of dispassion
the penalty fatal
my name stays unknown
A larcenous caper
whose felony looming
authorities chasing
though lost will they roam
Returning your m...
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Categories:
retake, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Petulas touch
...A story I came across recently. Hail to Petula Clark….
Petula’s Touch
She was a singer of some renown
Downtown and My love was her popular sound
And on 2 April 1968 she was still top
Renown ...
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Categories:
retake, angst, prejudice,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Absence Doesn't Make the Heart Grow Fonder
...I didn't go to school yesterday
Didn't feel like it
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, they say
Nobody was very fond
When I was absent from school with no good reason
Whoever "they" is...
You...
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Categories:
retake, humor, humorous, school, silly,
Form: Free verse
Reclamation Project
...My invasion
Retake the cake
Shifty snake
Answer the bell
Perpetually on the go
Around the edge
Of certainty’s glow
Burn marks you’ll see
Journey is stark
Through shadows deep
And fading spa...
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Categories:
retake, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Leap of Faith
...A connection endures,
As it's host surrenders,
To the possibilities,
An infinite world before thee.
A projected reality,
From 2 eyes i see,
A life created for me,
Stemming from t...
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Categories:
retake, america,
Form: Lyric
Miles and ahead
...A mile and ahead to summit,
Can’t stop although I lack permit.
I am always so eager to admit ,
It matches my way and habit .
A game beyond any loss or profit,
I deny to quit and never retreat.
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Categories:
retake, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Dena's Life's Story Introduction
...Dena, was born in Yakima Washington May 1943. Carole, her sister was born
nine months and twenty days latter on March 1944. Carole was born,
prematurely. To save to her life, she was placed i...
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Categories:
retake, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Narrative
Down the Roads of Pride-
...Down the roads of pride
The street of greed
The path of wrath
The avenue of Envy
Transport causeway on the thruway
I'll pass the corridor of by pass on the superhigh
In the alleyw...
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Categories:
retake, allusion, analogy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Capture Each Moment
...Capture each moment
Take a picture
Through my lens
See if it has been cleansed
When you look have you taken the perfect shot
Or not
When it comes to capturing
We capture the moment
St...
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Categories:
retake, art,
Form: Free verse
She Had a Dream Ii
...Taking a nap became super busy and hot
What could become of the dream she got?
Keeps coming back to hunting eyes' jot
Viewing afar her possible lot
Maybe or not would be as plot
Or probably weir...
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Categories:
retake, anxiety, art, blue, change,
Form: Rhyme
An Unplugged Medicinal Walk
...taking a walk alone
at home i leave my phone
my purpose will not be defeated
my opinion in many minds have been deleted
so many things here for years i have missed
taking a walk alone and unpl...
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Categories:
retake, beautiful, sweet, time,
Form: Rhyme
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