A CRACK IN THE SIDEWALK: When My Life Changed Poetry Contest
...A CRACK IN THE SIDEWALK
Poem written for and submitted to “When My Life Changed” Poetry Contest, Kai Micheal Neumann, sponsor.
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Categories:
rhythmically, 12th grade, strength,
Form: Free verse
Fantasies
...Peerless paintings mystically mingle.
Bells of my shrines rhythmically jingle.
Hues of heaven and earth amalgamate.
Logic and love lawlessly agitate.
I see Morpheus moving around my mind.
Cele...
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Categories:
rhythmically, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
I'M ALSO A SONG
...I’m Also A Song
Hey…
I’m also a song
And I’m not afraid
To sing my own tune
But don’t
Think me
Arrogant
Or selfish
You too
Are a song
To be sung
But this song
Is about me
Rather th...
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Categories:
rhythmically, allegory, analogy, character, extended
Form: Free verse
Is It All In Vain?
...Is It All In Vain?
Experimental scientific observations inside a laboratory
Consequential specific consecrations that combine to form a sacred story
Monumental consternations that speak beyond...
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Categories:
rhythmically, life,
Form: Rhyme
Creative Communication
...We poets, writers, misfits of the world
like artist or mystics or troubadours
use our gifts to give insight to others
we offer more pulling back the covers.
We did not fit in with most of our ...
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Categories:
rhythmically, art, community, creation, giving,
Form: Sonnet
ANDY'O ON THE SHOW
...Andy O’(Snaps fingers rhythmically) The air hangs thick with midnight blue/And the city hums a graffiti tune/ a voice cuts through, a velvet blade/Andy O’, where stories are made/Poet, Musician, Bro...
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Categories:
rhythmically, culture,
Form: Spoken Word
Love Leaves One Breathless
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“Love can change a person’s life, leave him breathless, either building him or breaking him”~ By Poet
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Cupid the great archer,
Shoots his ...
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Categories:
rhythmically, anxiety, love,
Form: Free verse
Mark Murphy Moments
...(Snapping fingers rhythmically) Vocalese with ease... yeah... moments… improv… Off the top, breath bubbling, a spontaneous combustion of sounds, to be boppin' the melody/
Jazz popping vocal notes o...
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Categories:
rhythmically, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
X,UNDERGROUND,
...(Snaps fingers rhythmically, leans into the mic)
Ninety. X. Underground/ The hiss of the tape, a constant companion/
Atmospheric pressure, a concrete room, sweat slicked on foreheads, illuminated...
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Categories:
rhythmically, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Temptation
...Temptation
Foundation.
In such a fluid interconnected world, are long-term relationships dwindling in numbers?
Is temptation saturating society, and creating an influx of such communication...
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Categories:
rhythmically, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Just Visiting
...I came to dance to my song;
to move well and rhythmically, but not for too long
To dance like nobody's watching, just feeling the groove;
moving like nobody's business with nothing to prove...
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Categories:
rhythmically, adventure, appreciation, education, feelings,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
REJOICED AND GLAD
...REJOICED AND GLAD
Awakened naturally—no need to go
to the bathroom—I peeked through
the blinds of the bedroom window,
and there it was: had I been dreaming, or
was this all just a gl...
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Categories:
rhythmically, beauty, change, good morning,
Form: Prose
Snapping fingers rhythmically
...(Snapping fingers rhythmically) Cobham's downbeat/ A thunderclap birth/
Shorter's sax, a comet's fiery girth, blowing jazz-poet notes, a furious chase, too quick for the tongue, lost in sonic space...
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Categories:
rhythmically, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
REJOICE AND BE GLAD
...Awakened naturally—no need to go
to the bathroom—I peeked through
the blinds of the bedroom window and
there it was; had I been dreaming or was
this all just a glorious morning awakening?
The...
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Categories:
rhythmically, allegory, beauty, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
crystal
...crystal
she held me captive with her fingers
nails rhythmically tapping on sand-colored stone
like a general marching to war
ready to go but wanting to stay
with my eyes i could tas...
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Categories:
rhythmically, desire, feelings, goodbye, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
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