Birds
...Birds can glide high above the sky,
They see everything and can see through a lie
They can go up up and high,
And can always go faster than a fly.
Birds nest where predators can’t rest,
Fight ...
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Categories:
scare off, 9th grade, analogy, bird,
Form: Free verse
Celtic Hallows
...Near our late year approach, A Celtic feast and festivities, around a wood blaze Hoge. On the first of the eleventh month, wine and beer by the barrel is sunk, and merrily a few of many will start t...
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Categories:
scare off, halloween,
Form: Free verse
If I Could Choose My Imaginary Friend
...It might be a T-Rex dinosaur
to scare off big bullies with a roar
or Archimedes to help with math;
while I linger, ponder, in the bath.
A space astronaut would be quite swell
to give me some sup...
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Categories:
scare off, anxiety, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
In the Darkest and Coldest World
...In the darkest and coldest world
one can find a flickering flame,
never allowed to shine brightly and widely
and break the macabre darkness;
nothing could escape from here,
from its torturous an...
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Categories:
scare off, absence, dark, death, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Of Plants and Men
...Of men and plants
The endless growing of new leaves
of my indoor plants, shedding the excess
all over the floor, as disregarded dreams
getting in the way of the day.
Female hyenas are goo...
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Categories:
scare off, allusion, animal, books,
Form: Free verse
Bat and Gat: Danger In the Meadow
...A Nubian goat they called Split
Was rehabbing her front leg a bit.
She was having a blast,
And the time flew by fast,
But she wasn’t quite ready to quit.
She suddenly realized she’d dozed;
It...
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Categories:
scare off, cat, courage,
Form: Limerick
A Nuclear War Is Really Dumb
...Everyone agrees that war is cruel
Everyone agrees that war is suicidal
Everyone agrees that war brings mortar, anger
Hunger, pain, suffering, death, horror and terror
But a nuclear war is deadlie...
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Categories:
scare off, anger, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Sing
...You've got to sing, sing on top of your voice,
You've got to dance, dance like it is your last chance.
You've got to feel, feel like you still have a choice...
When the troubles surround you all y...
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Categories:
scare off, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
Wait
...The realisation that this violent red came up in me, that it had put
itself out there, against a peaceful blue
hidden underneath my skin I thought, but once this disconnection
came up, an unsafe...
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Categories:
scare off, character, courage, deep, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Lonesome Cowboy
...I heard tell some folks think cowboys built the West.
The only thing I know for sure is I always did my best
to give a man a good days work for an honest wage
ridin' among tumbleweeds and dried br...
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Categories:
scare off, horse, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
The Moon
...I look up at the sky
The moon ,it's on its way up
There is something that makes me hiccup
Hiccup with fear
That something is very,very near
Werewolves ,zombies
It is unclear
All I kn...
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Categories:
scare off, halloween, moon, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Scarecrow
...Scarecrow
You'll find me
in paddy fields and gardens;
even on front porches.
I'm a decoy, as lonely as can be.
I look frozen in time,
mimicking Jesus
crucified on the cross,
but I swe...
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Categories:
scare off, analogy, anger, humor, perspective,
Form: Personification
On Finding a Dead Deer In My Backyard
...I saw them a few weeks ago. My wife called me, something urgent,
so I left the computer and went to see what excited her.
Three deer, 3 young deer meandering round our 1/4 acre backyard.
They lo...
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Categories:
scare off, animal, appreciation, beautiful, death,
Form: Free verse
Seedlings
...Of men and plants
The endless growing of new leaves
in my indoor plants, the shedding of leaves
all over the floor, like discarded dreams
getting in the way of the day.
Female hyenas are ...
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Categories:
scare off, august, baptism, birth, celebration,
Form: Blank verse
Monsters Beneath His Bed
...“Daddy!” the young boy screamed one night,
his voice was filled with dread
When his dad arrived his son cried out,
“There’s a monster beneath my bed!”
His father touched his son’s cheek and sm...
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Categories:
scare off, dream, father son,
Form: Verse
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