Here for the Moment
...Janice Avery loved deep green nature; like cherry sunset owls, gawping.
She dwelt with her parents and Sissy, when old, golden days were walking.
They lived out in the hilly country, wher...
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Categories:
rivaled, bird, color, fantasy, memory,
Form: Couplet
Keep the Tattoos to Yourself Lulu
...Lulu wanted this, that, those, these and the other.
Thought she deserved them, she dated a rich mother.
He liked tattoos, pretty soon her legs were tatted up.
So many tats, it rivaled the hair on ...
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Categories:
rivaled, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Panhandling the Panhandler
...Met an eager charming panhandler today
His smile was unusually bright and gay
Hi he said with friendly eyes and big smile
I was on a jog, had gone about a mile
Hi yourself I sang out in a voice...
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Categories:
rivaled, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Avariciousness of King William B
...Avariciousness of King William B was weird
The restlessness of his marauders feared
His greediness was well-known in his day
Many were dead, so he could collect right away
His coffers were fill...
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Categories:
rivaled, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Echoes of the Silent Shore
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"Hush your crashing," whispered the moon to the sea,
as the sound slowly faded from the mermaid's laughter.
Luna heard only echoes on the shore, a silent symphony
that had been ebbing across the...
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Categories:
rivaled, sea, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Angry Goddess of Daisies
...irate Goddess of Daisies did not get her due
wrath of her anger rivaled that of old Sue
I’m a major deity, she yelled to bells blue.
with complete jurisdiction over the likes of you!
bluebells ...
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Categories:
rivaled, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Lady Paused
...The lady paused, it was not fair
That one should boast such raven hair
And ample breasts so round and flush
On waist an hourglass would blush
The lady paused, her mir...
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Categories:
rivaled, age, beautiful, beauty, growth,
Form: Couplet
Moments Into Memories
...Trinkets sparkling in the crisp night air.
Begging watchers' eyes feast on heavenly fare.
All is quiet, save soft symphonies of leg and wing.
Nocturnal notes, chittering.
Moisture from the st...
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Categories:
rivaled, allegory, america, love,
Form: Free verse
Trumpeting future mercurial villain of history
...Trumpeting future mercurial villain of history
Predicated on his paying obese sense
to Ronald McDonald patron saint
buzzfeeding his pie hole
courtesy "two Big Macs, Fillet-O-Fish
and a chocola...
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Categories:
rivaled, abuse, age, america, angst,
Form: Free verse
In Concernment
...She studied the Space exploration
act of 3033 to find where
in history she might
use her Time traveling Machine
It had been said that
she was likely to be seen
as one who interferes in
the ac...
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Categories:
rivaled, devotion, environment,
Form: Bio
The Rainbow Bridge Church
...Book One: Ancestors of the Ark
Ch.1: Welcome to the Village of Chapel Hill
In a quiet little village far away from here, lives a Minister ...
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Categories:
rivaled, animal, bible,
Form: Rhyme
river walker
...River walker ran out of the pond today
They saw her coming, and some ran away
She is mystical, said the faeries beside the bay.
They wondered why she had chosen that day.
Her hair and clothes w...
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Categories:
rivaled, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Opposing-White Rose in a Summer Garden
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A white rose grew in her Summer garden.
"Beautiful rose, I must beg your pardon.
for I must clip you from your flower bed
to enjoy your aroma in my home instead."
In crystal vase...
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Categories:
rivaled, fate, rose,
Form: Rhyme
Get Ready
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Written: December 12, 2023, For Shadow Hamilton Contest
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People can only thrive on this wealth scale
With undying faith, we admir...
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Categories:
rivaled, analogy, community, confusion, corruption,
Form: Villanelle
Jealous Hearts
...banned in the shadows behind the scenes
of a play,
he carried on along his path without missing
a step
his poetic gnosis stoked a fire without lighting
a match,
for its invisible to the masses ...
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Categories:
rivaled, allusion, endurance, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
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