a modern girls delay
...(a disastrous morning Sonnet)
I am the very model of a girl who’s late for morning meal,
my charger failed, the printer jammed, the morning’s start has been surreal
I lost a scrunchy an...
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Categories:
scrunchy, angst, emotions, endurance, humor,
Form: Sonnet
My Style
...I know my clothes are a little crazy.
It’s not because I’m lazy.
I do care about my looks.
I just don’t read fashion magazines and books.
I prefer to make my own style.
Even if it’s a bit wild.
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Categories:
scrunchy, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Falling Foliage
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It is Autumn and foliage is falling
Crisp, brittle and dry that make a crunch-crunch sound
Floating down in clusters, to trees they're calling
Not to let them go, but they have touched the g...
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Categories:
scrunchy, autumn, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Persephone's Finger
...Persephone’s Finger
By Sy Roth
It wormed its way to the surface.
Pointy finger tested the air,
Wriggled in a sensuous Fatima dance
Etch-a-Sketching the crepuscular sky above,
Shaming the ...
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Categories:
scrunchy, angst, character, day, death,
Form: Free verse
Two Lovers Viii - She Leaves Tomorrow
...She sleeps
He watches as
fine strands of brown silk
have escaped her scrunchy
and flutter near her face
riding the even breaths
from her acquiline nose
and slightly open mouth
He carefully ...
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Categories:
scrunchy, absence, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Porous Pen's Pear
...crushed concerto cruised
bounty braces bruised
salient seal scrunchy
dark diminuendo dusty
lanky hoists lured
vying voluptuous lurch
wet wits wanky
punctured pills curvy
hoisted heels hefty...
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Categories:
scrunchy, hero,
Form: Sonnet
Wearing Mama's Gown
...Scrunchy loud turquoise satin
Bustling and rustling
Dedra tiptoes onto a balcony
wondering if her mother knows
Delighting in the oranges
Unaware she is the prettiest
Entity in the landscape
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Categories:
scrunchy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Ballad
Barbeque Chips For Writing Ideas
...It is six minutes to midnight
I have been drinking Red Bull for three hours.
It usually inspires me.
Nutbush is going around in my head,
but it has been done.
By Tina too.
The deadline my songw...
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Categories:
scrunchy, write, writing,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Big Head Little Girl
...She was four and I was six.
We held hands and ate pixie stix.
The big head little girl whom followed me around the corner.
Soon we became friends.
We held hands with skin like bricks.
I ...
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Categories:
scrunchy, black african american, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Winter Blues
...Tiny tips of green thrusting their way through the cold earth
You look and scratch your head and wonder, what did i plant there
Its cold, the tiny bulbs shiver as though close to death
Being a friend...
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Categories:
scrunchy, spring, winter, winter, green,
Form: Rhyme