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Bug CollectorBrush off your ant bites.
Blind eye the hornets sting.
Gone so long with ways of violence.
Creatures having done nothing wrong.
But it’s fine “they aren’t important”.
Legs or wings or hair you just can’t bare.
Squash and flush because...
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Categories:
simple, children, cute, happy, insect,
Form: Couplet
Real fun beginsHad I been thinking fast,
gladly would I
put this person
in my past.
He is not worth the time
it takes to whoop his ass.
I don’t mean to make a fuss.
But he makes me...
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Categories:
simple, feelings, friend, humanity, moving
Form: Free verse
TeaTea leaves, tea bags which is the way to go,
Square, round or triangular, stirring them to and fro.
Milky, sugary or a builders brew,
Have you thought which best suits you.
Whichever you choose it has to be...
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Categories:
simple, appreciation, celebration, culture, drink,
Form: Rhyme
NumbersFew is three or four,
Several: seven or more.
A dozen is twelve....
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Categories:
simple,
Form: Senryu
The Buttermilk MaestroI have decided to live on buttermilk.
It contains all the ingredients
to sustain a happy and productive life.
No more worrying about the next meal.
I can spend more time seeking perfection-
picking flowers and counting stars.
I can find...
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Categories:
simple, feelings, happiness, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
William O'RourkeA patriarch falls
Clear summer morning fog stings
Family silent
...
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Categories:
simple, death, family, father, i
Form: Haiku
Questions of SchrodingerWhat if I dreamt of a cat?
Would it be alive?
It now exists in the past
With all the memories in my mind
And with brain it did act
Does it matter if it was mine?
But then could I...
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Categories:
simple,
Form: Rhyme
The boxer brownie bandit 2I fear I've lost the light
In this storm of chocolate rain
Muddy waters cloud my sight
Within this foul smelling haze
But I know I'll make things right
I'll escape this hell someday
And my tights will finally...
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Categories:
funny, simple,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
funny, simple,
Form: Rhyme
Creek in the sheetsMy heart begins to sink
As my skin begins to quiver
I've been swept to the brink
By regrets flowing like a river
So what am I to think
As the cold world let's me shiver
Stains mark like...
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Categories:
funny, simple,
Form: Rhyme
Fall
On the last day of fall,
Laying on the bed of flowers,
Curled into the warmth of the beds.
...
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Categories:
simple, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Simplicity~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
simplicity
in thought
and
in living
creates
space
for
profoundness...
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Categories:
simple,
Form: Monoku
note to selfFor my new job, I gotta get used to getting up early
with plenty of rest, and a big breakfast, so I'm not surly...
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Categories:
simple, food, health, how i
Form: Couplet
I Amdon’t make fun of me,
I’m only a foppotee,
with a flair for art...
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Categories:
simple, art, feelings, how i
Form: Senryu
Unadorned
So unadorned is nature's gift to us
with flawless forms of animals so pure.
Their coats and faces stand out with no fuss,
as nature does provide inborn allure.
So unadorned- no false external signs
to re-enhance the beauty they...
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Categories:
beautiful, nature, simple, surreal,
Form: Sonnet
Specific Types of Simple Poems
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kids, life, love, nature, rhyme, slavery, sonnet, valentines
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Definition | What is Simple in Poetry?
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