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Sleights Poems - Poems about Sleights


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... don't talk, you'll spoil it— this version of me I've been trying to see as you— don't say anything, let's enjoy our basic witch status, excel in the practice of angles— let's remain ......

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Categories: sleights, extended metaphor, magic, word
Form: Free verse
Puff and Whistle, Long Train
...Winter has slowed you down on snowy tracks, unhappy you sound, you caught a cold from clouds chugging through big forests and mountains; it's a short distance to the city, but it seems miles! P......

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Categories: sleights, january, journey, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Christmas Abecedarian
...Amorous is the tingling touch they feel Blooming kisses as flaming as red bells Convey passion in their glowing eyes Directing fantasy-filled thoughts outside Enamored by the heavy snowfall on t......

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Categories: sleights, christmas, culture, faith, family,
Form: Abecedarian
A Bizarre Reversal of Seasons
...Instead of fluffy snow, it's steady rain; cherry trees have blossomed in Brooklyn, so did the tulips along Sheepshead bay... even New Jersey has seen Nature in play! Unlikely last year when all......

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Categories: sleights, december,
Form: Rhyme
Jingle Bells
...Three silly kids from beautiful Montana thought there was snow in North Carolina, and sliding down the fluffy slopes..... they kept going for months 'till they hit rocks! They were shocked and real......

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Categories: sleights, christmas, funny, christmas, beautiful,
Form: Quintain (English)



Dead Winter
...No January morning is ever so devastating, the heavy icicles dangle from the frozen shingles of houses with puffing chimneys; no eyes will see the misery of scattered, broken snow flowers... all p......

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Categories: sleights, fear, nature, places, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Freeloading
...Experience is not the best of teachers The sharpest blades The finest men and women Have all been tempered with care As have the tools and sleights of working class Responsibility is the best o......

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Categories: sleights, education, family, philosophy, social,
Form: Free verse
Crazy
...The talk I hear is crazy talk, Peppered with imagined sleights; The words I see are crazy words, Bloody tomes in blackest nights; The points I get are crazy points, Fact and fiction not di......

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Categories: sleights, life, crazy,
Form: Verse

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