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A way for you to know memy cigarette carton smells like gum
like my mothers bag when i was young.
the cicadas are hidden in the bushes
as if surrounded by the dwell of freedom
which follow me throughout the country.
i prefer...
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Categories:
simple, anger, angst, deep, imagery,
Form: Free verse
SimpleHe loved the poems
I wrote about him.
It’s as simple as that....
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Categories:
simple, crush, cute, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Standing
In a box,
Four square walls,
A lid to hold me in.
Bursting the seams,
Spilling out,
Wandering all about!
Finding my way,
Only I...
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Categories:
10th grade, freedom, simple,
Form: Rhyme
Love Is Only Four LettersLove is easy to say.
Just four.
L.
O.
V.
E.
See!
So easy.
Love is so easy to say
So why do you never say
I love you?
...
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Categories:
love, simple,
Form: Free verse
Hidden
I found a sunny spot,
Not that it means a lot.
Everyone has a sunny spot,
The one I have is under a tree,
The sunny spot always finds...
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Categories:
4th grade, simple,
Form: Free verse
A Pair of HandsHe places his hand right here,
below the one of someone else.
That one hovers. He sits.
Is this an intermission?
Perhaps it will fall, slowly, gently;
perhaps it will touch.
The pause continues.
It floats. He waits.
The movie will proceed.
That hand...
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Categories:
simple, cute love, emotions, first
Form: Free verse
The JanitorHe's a hard worker,
Charged, Oh! Heavenly laden,
Of stick and broom....
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Categories:
encouraging, humanity, simple, work,
Form: Haiku
PAUSEPAUSE
all contentious ideas warrant a pause, to draw breath or laugh
...
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Categories:
simple,
Form: Monoku
Quietness In The ShadowsThere’s a quietness in the shadows.
A lonely place where sadness grows.
A place in time where my mind goes.
Thoughts and memories are my foes.
But I have learned to not resist,
for when I do, they just persist.
I...
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Categories:
simple, dark, introspection, life, light,
Form: Sonnet
Wandering AwayWhen did we grow up?
When did we think imagination was not worthy of our time?
When we thought we were a superhero with just a blanket on our backs
When our eyes sparkled at the word, play
When...
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Categories:
simple, change, children, growth, sad,
Form: Free verse
Vanilla Charisma
Walking together entwined in the moonshine,
you whispered the tune of the autumn breeze.
Your enigmatic smile, the mirage of illusion,
sparkled in my stellar sky of yearning.
When the freezing wind of discontent blew,
your insipid lips curled like...
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Categories:
analogy, change, simple,
Form: Free verse
VanillaThere’s better flavors galore
They’d rather have chocolate or mint chip
They call vanilla a bore
I know it's not very exciting
Nothing more to it than sweet
But I’ll always choose it over chocolate
When I’m looking for a treat.
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Categories:
silly, simple, sweet,
Form: Rhyme
A Good DeedMany people are suffering just because they don’t know where you have been; many people are suffering; they are walking around with their hand on their chin.
It was just the other day their...
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Categories:
confidence, integrity, international, simple,
Form: Free verse
What People Call MeMost all have known me, a few know me well.
Ask people about me, here’s what they’d tell.
Sometimes when happy or sad I appear.
Here’s who I am, these statements make it clear.
I may happen while you’re...
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Categories:
simple, emotions, fun, humor, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
A SONG FOR SIMPLICITY
Categories:
simple, appreciation, how i feel,
Form: Couplet
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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