What is that Giant Head in the Ocean
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Was that a giant head bobbing out of the ocean?
The sightseers got out their binoculars
Something massive, a monster
Looked like a giant head
Captain of the cruise ship had seen this before
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Categories:
sightseers, fish,
Form: Free verse
Cherry Blossoms
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The cherry blossom over the Osaka River in Osaka city,
Keeps the castle overhead mesmerized in its beauty,
The pink and white blossom sparkle and shine on nice Spring Day,
Like the stars glowing...
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Categories:
sightseers, spring,
Form: Free verse
Under Observation
...A boat called the Manhattan II,
With sightseers on board,
Just glided by en route to places
That they’ve not yet toured.
Inside were people sitting down
But outside, on the deck,
Some tourist...
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Categories:
sightseers, boat, people,
Form: Rhyme
Hawaiian Eskimos
...*Image of Quebec City by LNEWS.
Hawaiian Eskimos
Quacking lone duckling on a crystal lake,
Queerly hops a loon, faux pas not a mistake,
Quebec, dad's trunk roads for sightseers,...
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Categories:
sightseers, travel, vacation,
Form: Couplet
12th Street
...12th Street
The curtain rises, the stage light
beams on the darkest street in town.
On a hot night, 12th street lives.
The old abandon buildings jump
with jazz, hot rock, and laughter.
Transi...
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Categories:
sightseers, image, lust, people,
Form: Free verse
4th of July Fireworks
...While the sky is sparkling and twinkling in a loud happy way
Shooting toward the heavens, meeting aliens in flight
There is a reverence and awe felt among the sightseers
We are clutching our child...
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Categories:
sightseers, independence day,
Form: Pantoum
Fairy Tale King and His Castle
...In the summer months, Neuschwanstein Castle hosts six thousand visitors a day.
Mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria’s ghost cannot keep these sightseers away.
He does his best to make them feel uncomforta...
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Categories:
sightseers, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Classified Part Two
...We turned off before reaching Kings Lynn and headed down a road that would take us to Henderson Aerodrome a local flying school, we were waved through the main gate and headed onto the main runway an...
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Categories:
sightseers, science fiction,
Form: Prose
Lake, Pond, and Kettle
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Lake, Pond, and Kettle
The lake is glistening beneath the sun,
and paddle boats leave ripples in the light.
The sky above, a lovely turquoise blue
with fluffy cotton-candy clouds in sigh...
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Categories:
sightseers, beauty, nature, peace,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
The Total Eclipse Experience
...Dragon took his penguins aloft to view the eclipse on that fine day.
They were careful to use the special viewing glasses as their mainstay.
The penguins were so excited and Dragon was always eager...
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Categories:
sightseers, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Fantastic Flora Masquerade
...Creeping creepy creepers, the crawling trellis
jutting out of everywhere
snaking through country and metropolis
twisting turning in floral bliss
but more like snakes that hiss
But in quietude fe...
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Categories:
sightseers, abuse, environment, flower, garden,
Form: Personification
September Alliteration
...Sweet September, see how splendidly she shines!
Subtlety submitting seasonal splendour, she
swamps summer’s splendiferous sights,
by stealthily shrouding splendid scenery,
with suffused sensuous...
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Categories:
sightseers, giggle, september,
Form: Alliteration
Allusivity
...Lethargic lucid dreams
Filled with fervency and vivid imagery
Of the gravitational pull of my alcazar
Blissfully bringing the waves crashing
Upon my distasteful catacombs
Visions of the shell sh...
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Categories:
sightseers, allusion, analogy, conflict, environment,
Form: Free verse
My Father Raised Roses
...My father raised roses from the very root
they grew in straight, taunt, magnificent shoots.
They stretched high determined to touch the sky’s very brink
in blooms of mammoth reds, whites...
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Categories:
sightseers, father, memory, rose,
Form: Rhyme
A British Diary Passing Millenium
...The ask of cultures.
Dutch to Portugal, do you think colonisation of fruit and lands and their inhabitants was the fairest exchange of our tactics of the strategy to wrestles of communication. They...
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Categories:
sightseers, culture, time, travel, true
Form: Free verse
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