Dance of the Seasons
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Spring blooms bring
joy, spreading
their fragrance
Summer heat
Sizzles us
with its rays
Autumn winds
make leaves dance,
chills us out
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Categories:
sizzles, nature,
Form: Other
Onions
...my dear friends,
i am writing to address
a memory of sorts:
a lovely barbecue,
evening, on the beach.
you all brought
ingredients
to pile on my barbecue.
you all brought your onions
yo...
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Categories:
sizzles, addiction, extended metaphor,
Form: Blank verse
new york sizzles
...No city moves as fast as New York
With eclectic promises and dynamite ideals
The ones who survive it were full-ready for a challenge
not a place for the faint-hearted...
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Categories:
sizzles, travel,
Form: Free verse
Mister Golightly
...... is wearing his tall white top hat
Where his brains should be
Wearing his rainbow bow tie
Where his vocal cords should be
He fancies his dragon cane in his hand
No surprise h...
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Categories:
sizzles, fantasy, world,
Form: Free verse
Fireworks
...With booms and wheezes
The fireflies it teases
With sizzles and cracks
We remember our anger of tax
With smoke and lights
We remember our rights
Children scream with fear and joy
This is gre...
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Categories:
sizzles, america, celebration, patriotic,
Form: Lyric
Onomato-pea-a
...I’m Onomato-pea-a
The window is my home.
I love the sounds of cooking
At day, at dusk, and dawn.
Mom clomps into the room
And clicks on every light
The curtain whooshes open,
I wake up, “No ...
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Categories:
sizzles, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Summertime crash
...The sun SIZZLES on the scorched dry sand
As he sits before me and brushes my hand
He runs to the ocean to SPLASH in the sea
He SHRIEKS with delight whilst he's looking at me
The ocean it BABBLE...
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Categories:
sizzles, death,
Form: Rhyme
I want to be your home a music video
...I want to be your home
to welcome you in, just so you know
you will never again be so alone
For though we are temporarily apart
and for this time we work on righting our apple carts
before the...
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Categories:
sizzles, home, inspirational love, miss
Form: Lyric
SUM SUN SUM SUN
...There's a secret in the SHIMMER
A shadow in its glimmer. SUM SUN? We say night? Its daylight.
ETERNALLY REALITY! IS there fright in the DIMMER? LOOK THE SUN SIMMERS when it sizzles
Day to day...
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Categories:
sizzles, anxiety, appreciation, nature, new
Form: Rhyme
Umpteenth heat wave since onset of summer sizzles Delaware Valley today July 16th, 2024
...Umpteenth heat wave since onset of summer
sizzles Delaware Valley today July 16th, 2024
Said geographical area composed of counties
located in Southeastern Pennsylvania,
South Jersey, Delaware,...
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Categories:
sizzles, america, earth, grave, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Raw Emotions Trimeric
...I’ll bet on that Summer anthem,
roll those dice and take a chance;
Open my heart and try extreme,
wandering a new venue or back road;
Roll those dice and take a chance;
So spontaneous you’re ...
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Categories:
sizzles, emotions, feelings, music,
Form: Other
another day
...mountains tumble
across the horizon
twisting the last splinters
of warmth
through heavy hanging
gray soup
listless lifeless
endless sigh
dogs roll over
mown grass
clinking ice
gentle...
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Categories:
sizzles, god,
Form: Free verse
Stranger in a Strange Land
..."I have been a stranger in a strange land." Bible, Exodus 2:22
The compass whirrs.
North toward rock, south toward sand.
East toward ice, and west toward river.
Like a game of spin the bottl...
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Categories:
sizzles, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Raining in Summer
...Like a welcome Summer rain, humor may suddenly
cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
—Langston Hughes
RAINING IN SUMMER
The little teapot leaned over, steam pours out...
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Categories:
sizzles, rain, summer,
Form: Rhyme
The Rain when it comes
...The rain - when it comes;
It brings out the poet in me!
Bathing peaches and garden plums,
Tapping the leaves in the backyard tree!
The Mizzle and mist, the drizzle and fog
Sodden the silent, l...
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Categories:
sizzles, love, nature,
Form: Rhyme
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