Short Colloquial Poems

Robert Frost was at a crossroad
as his traditonal style showed
Master of the colloquial voice
rhymn so often his first choice...

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colloquialism to say is quite the trick
tells where your from by words that you pick
with diplomas on the wall
my friends I appall
when I go fishing down at the crick...

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Shamed me down away
The losses higher than imagined
Briefly here we stay
The lessons hard to learn ingrained

Slippery slopes of peril
Hopes to derail
Progress slower than a snail
No pace to shout about

Still within us all
The seasons passing
Greatness superseding madness
Colloquial of passions sadness...

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elemental
              milestones,
contemporary
               reminders
quirky distinctions
colloquial
              watchwords
mundane
            delinations
grandiose
               celebrations
of a 
       down to earth
reality..
           precursor
and
          forerunner
to the final
          overview...

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Yoruba proverb 
An old saying 
Words of the fathers of fathers 
Incentive of the wise spring of ancestral vales 
The word is just so original like a laconic phrase 
Expressing a basic truth 


It find lost words
What an helpful morpheme
An obscure saying, but
So rare in the mouth of the youths
For they should be acquainted to this colloquial, for that 
Old is coming for them soon....

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velvetine clouds with symphonic melodies
encrusted within a passion filled heart
caressed and laced benevolent thrusts
of colloquial chants of love
moondrenched clay parted with care
for undulating carousels of unanswered prayers
for seasoned affairs
bounded in silence shrouded in controversy
of folklore like times of pitted runes of yester
year waiting for subterfuge from your heart
to my soul...

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Mid conversation I remembered my Mum used to say 'a kiss, a love and a squeezie weezie woo' 
And it's beautiful to be lost in moments
That transcend other things
When you just feel that little bit healed to move forward
Other things fall away
And all of a sudden what's important is clear
I have my little girls
All those hugs are mine
In these moments

*A 'love' means a hug. Not sure if it's colloquial...

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There is a lot of love in me
It is so easy then to see
I wish to share it all with thee

So take my hand give in to it
Two hearts as one, so they will fit
The candle here to then be lit
As our love will then set us free

Cast not away the love, or die
You must at least give it a try
Together then two hearts can fly
So forever our love will be




overall rhyming scheme for the poem is aaa/bbba/ccca/ddda/... Colloquial 
language tends to be used, and 8-syllable lines are usual...

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