Skepticism-Happy
...I like to invite Happiness over for tea
But I'm always anxious when it stays longer than I expect
While it sits in the living room, peacefully drinking from it's cup
My heart beats faster
Anytime...
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Categories:
sneak in, feelings, i am, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Cacoethes
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Written: December 30, 2024 for Contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
Fearful individuals may find claustrophobic environments enticing. He battled his formidable opponent Cacoethes for t...
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Categories:
sneak in, conflict, health,
Form: Rhyme
Cacoethes
..."Alone is an addiction for Agoraphobics," ... by The Poet
Fireplace, beg a question; spark fuels naught?
Tired face lit the embers that awaken,
iron mace walled, beyond, fox and bear...
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Categories:
sneak in, absence, addiction, anxiety, character,
Form: Lento
NIGHT TIME BOY
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Night Time Boy
It’s almost nine o’clock and its time to go to bed
So climb under your covers and rest your weary head,
Get yourself real comfy and I’ll tuck you nice and tight
And tell me of ...
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Categories:
sneak in, boy, character, children, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Spotlight On Trump
...What Trump Wants: according to John Kelly- Retired Four-star General Trump’s former Chief of staff
—Unchecked power
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Categories:
sneak in, america, angst, change, character,
Form: Political Verse
You wild bird, you little infinite!
...Half-a-reflection is but the world
Half-a-reflection beams within
The wild bird that you are
Mindless milieu or mortgaged mirror
Souls behind bars of fear
Half one’s voice hums lullabies
The ot...
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Categories:
sneak in, dedication, dream, flying, heart,
Form: Free verse
Nursery Time--Fantasy
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Soap bubbles float through August
breeze
as children sneak in hushed delight, where fables reel 'neath maple trees
to glide away like jewels bright.
Now listen...elves and wizards hop
thei...
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Categories:
sneak in, children, fantasy, summer,
Form: Quatrain
WHIMSY IN THE MEADOW
...In a meadow where wildflowers twine,
Two little friends, in sunshine, align.
A bunny with fur as soft as new snow,
And a cheeky squirrel with eyes all aglow.
They bound through the clover, ch...
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Categories:
sneak in, friendship, friendship love, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Snow Day
...The cat jumps off the bed.
I wish he would wake her up instead.
I sneak in.
I almost trip over a bin.
Why am I being quiet now?
I have to wake her, anyhow.
I see her roll away.
Which makes me ...
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Categories:
sneak in, school,
Form: Rhyme
The Whispers Of Autumn
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As summer ebbs, the silent whispers start-
for, by late August, changes will begin.
The Autumn vibe is felt in every heart
as shorter days and cooler nights sneak in.
These whispe...
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Categories:
sneak in, autumn, beauty, inspirational, seasons,
Form: Sonnet
Naughty Tom
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Tom was such a naughty kitty cat,
when he saw spike asleep on the mat,
came up with a plan, ever so sly,
he thought he'd sneak in and eat his pie,
Tom began to plot his little scheme,...
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Categories:
sneak in, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Elegiac blue
...Whenever it is dark tonight the nocturnals will sooner
take over that any sort of human's colonisation?,
or whenever there is a plague or drought or confrontation
or grudges or war a l...
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Categories:
sneak in, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Changing Ends
...The gravedigger’s spade shall dig and not waver
Theres gossip abroad and it’s gossip to savour
Four dozen worms that were once many more
Awaited the man they’d encountered before
It wasn’t just...
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Categories:
sneak in, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
envenomation
...black scorpions mate
snakes sneak in sensing the scent ---
flowerbed lies dead
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Categories:
sneak in, crazy, nature,
Form: Haiku
In the whispered twilight of existence, where shadows dance with the ghosts of dreams
...In the whispered twilight of existence, where shadows dance with the ghosts of dreams,
the wanderer, society’s friend, roams with an open heart and weary feet,
a seeker under the vast canopy of sta...
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Categories:
sneak in, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
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