Summer Solstice 2025
...Summer Solstice 2025
Friday, June twentieth
at 10:42 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun.
This demarcates
most daylight hours of the...
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Categories:
sally forth, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse
A Tipping Balance
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A cruise to an island
or someplace way up north?
To Alaska I
maybe could sally forth.
Alaska has scenes of
fjords and so much more:
mountains, lakes and places
with interesting lore.
Wi...
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Categories:
sally forth, fun,
Form: Rhyme
The Gauntlet
...Step where I have stepped,
tread where I have trod,
weep what I have wept
and crawl where I have clawed.
Then, and only then,
may you judge what I've selected -
only then have you earned my y...
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Categories:
sally forth, death, death of a
Form: Rhyme
The Daily Star Thursday issue
...The Daily Star Thursday issue...
announces Summer Solstice 2024
regarding purr ray zing planetary earthlings
paying obeisance to god/goddess of the sun
Thursday, June twentieth
at 4:51 Post M...
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Categories:
sally forth, anniversary, beauty, celebration, june,
Form: Free verse
Hostages Kidnapped: Casualties of War
...Hostages kidnapped: casualties of war
After extorting pound of flesh
lifetime humiliation drummed into captives
hammering indelible nightmare
no amount of therapy can expunge.
Lifetime traum...
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Categories:
sally forth, anger, angst, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
The Daily Star Tuesday Issue
...The daily star Tuesday issue...
announces Summer Solstice 2023
regarding ray zing planetary earthlings
Wednesday, June twenty first
at 10:57 Ante Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Ea...
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Categories:
sally forth, age, angel, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Tell It Like It Is
...So I am supposed to be this ray of light, the one with the brilliant upon brilliant idea
The one with the cute memes and gifs
I am the one who always bounces who always smiles and yet
I am the on...
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Categories:
sally forth, desire, emotions, goodbye, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
The Daily Star Announces Summer Solstice 2022
...The daily star announces Summer Solstice 2022
Tuesday, June twenty first
at 5:13 Ante Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. This demarcates
...
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Categories:
sally forth, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Wild Goose Chase
...Pursuit for elusive prey
teases yours truly
into treacherous catacombs
dangerous mentally
challenging pitfalls,
sets small hairs of back
on camp creeks edge
of night, where dark shadows
evo...
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Categories:
sally forth, adventure, allegory, america, animal,
Form: Free verse
To Be Cold Or Not To Be Cold
...That is the question
We sit and contemplate the cold outside
Plan is to walk, out there, outside, and there is it a cold day indeed
So here we sit, inside, warm, comfortable, protected
And we mak...
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Categories:
sally forth, weather, wind,
Form: Free verse
My Secret Place
...Sometimes when life's a hectic mess and I feel most alone,
And things don't seem to turn out right, my heart feels like a stone,
Buried deep inside my chest and I need consolation,
I have a secr...
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Categories:
sally forth, angst, courage, inspirational,
Form: Couplet
Summer Solstice 2021 I
...Sunday, June twentieth
thousand nineteen at eleven fifty
at 11:31 Post Meridian
Eastern Standard Time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. This demarcates
most daylight hou...
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Categories:
sally forth, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Fail To Plan
..."I feel inspired", the poet said,
"to lay down words to earn some bread".
But words would not come to the starving bard
and, although he tried really hard,
the words he sought just would not come...
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Categories:
sally forth, allegory, fantasy, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Time Again For Daylight Saving Time-
...Different peoples infest.
Aimless swoops pluck.
Yellow swoops prowl.
Local societies loll.
Industrialized societies sally forth.
Grand impieti...
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Categories:
sally forth, adventure, analogy, anxiety, day,
Form: Acrostic
Pssst,Pssssst,Pssssssst
...as sunset burns the distant sky
awakening small things that fly
to sally forth into the night
to sniff you out and take a bite
while others like a drilling rig
not quite so small, but not real b...
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Categories:
sally forth, insect, night, sunset,
Form: Rhyme
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