Hide and Seek Squirrel
...hide and seek squirrel is a pleasure to watch if you must know
oak trees fight over him, he is clever, and has humor that glows
it’s my turn they holler to him as he begins his game play.
Shh! He ...
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Categories:
shushes, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Belief
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In your eyes, reflected to me
are memories of beautiful,
trembling pieces of laughing hope
still colors of grace and belief
feelings pouring from the shadows
never just make believe
a...
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Categories:
shushes, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
Lost Track of a Ginger Snap
...Get in your room now,” as daddy fashioned a gun.
Mom grabbed me and her facial expression was undone,
something must be wrong,
I ask she looked at me and welts started to run,
down we hunkered ...
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Categories:
shushes, animal, dark, death, dog,
Form: Narrative
No Quitting In the Dark
...We pass the fire sticks near the police cars,
lit.
Bright round moon shine, that’s it.
The fit,
from the tall and small,
still they’d rather walk then sit
with grandpa in the car.
We are so cl...
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Categories:
shushes, dark, grandmother, grandson,
Form: Monorhyme
Call From a Winter's Night Up North
...I curl up
In the cradle of our cabin
This Friday night in January
The deck out back
Glows
Bright as its own light
With new snow
From my evening muted TV
Cliff an abyss two feet beyond
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Categories:
shushes, dark, forgiveness, god, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Creating Communion
...Communications among organic creations
of sacred EarthMother
are overwhelmingly rooted
in nonverbal
nonviolent communion
Complex evidence of things
within relationships of feeling
and touch,...
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Categories:
shushes, community, creation, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Poetic Mind Renewal
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~ Poetic Mind Renewal ~
Get busy and toss the mind junk out!
I know what it is like, to sink into a dark
cesspool of poetic funk.
Reading those who...
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Categories:
shushes, environment, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Where Is Liberia Hunnicutt
...Colin is a crusader, a knight, a soldier, a champion, a liberator too.
His face is handsome, but well hidden, as are his eyes of lightest blue.
His own mother fears this veiled monster when he ente...
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Categories:
shushes, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
He Charms Off Your Pants
...Initially he is so charming
He charms your pants off.
Bring flowers to your mother.
And a treat for the dog.
He is almost too charming.
Giggle. Giggle. Smile. Smile.
You fall in love quickly.
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Categories:
shushes, abuse,
Form: Prose Poetry
Daylight Disappears
...As shifting shadows merge within the night,
darkness devours disheveled silhouettes.
And daylight disappears, fading from sight;
as a splendiferous sun slowly sets.
Twilight's crimson...
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Categories:
shushes, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Breeze Shushes Fire
...dainty gossamer wings
automatic fluttering
savoring the meadow
faerie magic afoot
on this summer’s solstice
breeze feels her presence
keeps it to herself
understanding faerie’s privacy
su...
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Categories:
shushes, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Personification
Young Love
...YOUNG LOVE
Therefore young love affords a promise ring.
Angels beam with shoulders bent aquiver.
His woolen arm shushes her from shiver.
Perchance the wedding bells one day will sing.
An ...
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Categories:
shushes, love, youth,
Form: Rhyme
A Change In Season
...Scents of apple spice
Vacillating through the wispy breaths of air
Hide through the crispy iced branches
Honey-vanilla spews into the thick, lush forest
And its sap trickles onto the mushy ear...
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Categories:
shushes, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Hating the Monster In Him
...Frank frightens the ghouls with his green skin.
Greedy for more girlfriends, he reaches for them.
Lumbering along at a monstrous pace,
‘Why do they run,’ this empty thought.
‘Why do they prefer t...
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Categories:
shushes, hate, heartbroken,
Form: Light Verse
Shush Didn'T I Tell Yawl Ta Be Quiet
...Shush...DIDN'T I TELL YAWL TA BE QUIET
Be quiet, hush now;
Says the Librarian;
Mama says “Shush! Do you want to wake everyone?”
Toddler mocks mama shushes every one else;
What's the rush;
Gra...
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Categories:
shushes, sound,
Form: Free verse
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