You
...You were there again just like before your eyes shifted a bit your smile still warm as that March madness the pile pastel poker chips the smell of disguarded cigarette butt's the feel of a bus statio...
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Categories:
silver dollar, allah,
Form: Naat
Our Arcade 1985
...Is how it all began our beautiful thing we both knew it was arcade concealing it the way we did and was we wrong for protecting the jukebox the many simple pleasures hidden treasures would create a c...
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Categories:
silver dollar, allah,
Form: Quatorzain
Stars Of Night
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The art was most masterful on the dark canvas
Within the thick of night his hand was full of sweep
beneath the Muskan moon the artist quivered not
Etching silver do...
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Categories:
silver dollar, appreciation, art,
Form: Rhyme
We as Characters of Narratives
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Each of us is born the main persona
in the narrative of his or her own life.
Through ever-changing atmosphere,
supporting characters and diversity of settings,
we help to mold the rising acti...
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Categories:
silver dollar, life, metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry
As I Watched the Fiery Red Sun Slip Behind the Mountain
...As I Watched The Fiery Red Sun Slip Behind The Mountain
As I watched the fiery red sun slip behind the mountain
I tossed a silver dollar in the wishing well fountain
My dear wish was for the han...
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Categories:
silver dollar, beautiful, fire, heart, love,
Form: Sonnet
When We Ride
...Written By: D. Collins 8/18/23
You know what happens when we ride.
The n...
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Categories:
silver dollar, hip hop,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
This Old Frugal
...Sung to This Old Man
This old frugal
He bought one
Silver dollar
Just for fun
With a thick stacked, natty pack
Filled with silver eagles
He’ll beat inflation
And live regal
This old f...
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Categories:
silver dollar, money, silver, song,
Form: Rhyme
Three Wishes
...Standing by the wishing well,
A silver dollar in my hand.
Made my wish and dropped it in,
Out popped a golden wedding band.
I slipped the ring on my finger,
And tossed another dollar in.
No s...
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Categories:
silver dollar, love, marriage, wife,
Form: Rhyme
Climb Me To the Stars
...Quote by: Mystic Rose
When imagination flies like a wingeth butterfly of joy
towards the ladder of hope, inside a deep blue sky,
I am there, I am there, ... I am everywhere !
C...
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Categories:
silver dollar, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Valentines Verdict
...they fall into my lap, unresistant.
chocolate, the size of a silver dollar.
sensation of mint betwixt my fingers.
I bite into each one, its cool breath
second to none. Godiva
ceased product...
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Categories:
silver dollar, valentines day,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Tomatoes and Red Mary Janes
...Ripe tomatoes in the supermarket
The red tip of my own nose.
Their lime green imagination
Marauded by Edgar Allen Poe.
Her silver dollar face raises hellfire
Says the stringy girl who believes i...
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Categories:
silver dollar, autumn, beauty, butterfly, fairy,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To the Moon
...oh mighty mother,
protector of calm
reveal your silver dollar face
kiss my brow.
whisper in your misty breath
secrets of the past;
what have you seen
oh ancient one?
_________
silent ...
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Categories:
silver dollar, fairy, moon,
Form: Free verse
Born On the Same Day
...Grandpa and his sister, Aunt Jay,
born on the same day —
not twins, yet
they departed the earth’s way
within days
of each other.
Today is Grandpa’s birthday —
how many years I don’t know.
H...
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Categories:
silver dollar, birthday, grandfather, memory, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Man, Who Wrote His Inner Story
...Who remembers subway token,
Nickel, penny, silver dollar
Man who wrote his inuner story
Was he stranger to the glory?
Moonlight dust and darkness blurry
Lipstick lost its cherry color
Love t...
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Categories:
silver dollar, anti bullying, destiny, history,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
The Emotional Flinch
...Surging like electricity to the esoteric abyss of my soul,
felt in all body parts, the flinching brought to the shoal.
Even the slightest stub of a toe, a beloved child in distress,
causes bile ...
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Categories:
silver dollar, emotions,
Form: Couplet
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