Suffer The Children
...They sat and they stared straight ahead
Absorbing each word that I said
Angelic and silent, no whispered abuse
No Alpha I felt I should dread
The lunch bell was rung and their heads turned as o...
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Categories:
single file, education,
Form: Rhyme
Regression Whispers
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Regression Whispers
ancient almond wild stood still
stark in dark forest through which
moved determination
a quick tobacco roll
cold beer
AK the companion
whispers ...
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Categories:
single file, africa, allusion, animal, character,
Form: Carpe Diem
A Snappy Comeback
...Little Miss Mary was thirteen years old, and lived in gold, olden days;
Like the longed for future, peeking at past, both of them full of praise.
Miss Mary lived in a western town, with h...
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Categories:
single file, animal, dream, fantasy, fun,
Form: Couplet
ROADWORKS
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Day after day, week after week, when rush hour traffic’s at its peak,
I’ve had to sit and wait and wait, knowing that once more I’d be late
And have to face the boss’s frown, who lives the other ...
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Categories:
single file, work,
Form: Rhyme
Gray Blue
...Gray Blue, by Lisa Norton
Gray skies. Gray cement walls. Gray gravel. Gray emotion as I lead myself single file into the long line that yet again stands before me.
Yellow shirts. Yellow skin. Y...
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Categories:
single file, character, girl, life, morning,
Form: Ballad
april days
...infant shoots grass dew
red ants single file march bold
april first mow day...
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Categories:
single file, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Haiku
Imitating Abbey Road Cover
...The most recognizable album cover in history, the photo of the
Beatles crossing Abbey Road, taken in the summer of sixty nine,
fifteen minutes before noon on August eight to be précised.
An iconic...
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Categories:
single file, fun, memory,
Form: Free verse
Thinking About Abbey Road Album Cover
...The Fab Four crossing Abbey Road in single file, led by John in white suit
and shoes, followed by Ringo in black suit and shoes, bare footed Paul
in gray suit and George in denim and white shoes, a...
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Categories:
single file, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Cross references of Daniel 12:11-13 part four Q and A
...V 11 Daniel 9:27 The he (the Anti-christ) shall confirm a covenant with many for
one week: (Israel and other countries for seven years.) Rev. 11:2,3 "But leave out
the court (of the temple of Jeru...
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Categories:
single file, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
everybody's dying
...everybody’s dying
everybody’s dying, everybody’s dying
in this world we call insane
and nobody knows it,
‘cause it’s part of the game
and there is no resurrection
once ...
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Categories:
single file, betrayal, bible, christian, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
SOLILOQUY
...Silence pierced through the thick blanket
Of his thoughts, heretofore plagued
By a quaff of exhaled tobacco,
Spiralling and somersaulting in the air,
Like a fierce missile
Sent on a sinister mis...
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Categories:
single file, life, nature, poetry,
Form: Free verse
THEM NIGHT WHISPERS WON'T LET YOU GO-
...Night Whispers hearing it's own tune
subjected to the light the switch
is turned on while people are living in the room
cordial circumstance light and reprimand
everyone single f...
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Categories:
single file, addiction, analogy, assonance, character,
Form: Rhyme
The Craft
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(A lone voice speaks to a crowd of poets)
You do know everyone has their own magical style
A style filled with such wild illustrious promises and kaleidoscope's of such deep vivid depths
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Categories:
single file, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Swans
...Swans steam across the lake.
Streaming in, heads held high.
Strung out in single file.
Stippling surface with wakes.
Signaling flock to join.
Sensing storm clouds brewing,
Shuddering storm ahea...
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Categories:
single file, autumn, bird, storm,
Form: Pleiades
The Scientist's Verdict
...The One who made this Earth
llooks upon my devices with a flavorful derision.
A reaction I perceived to be fear,
which could very well be an illusion
just like the remainder of all physical truth...
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Categories:
single file, science,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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