Tears of a Clown
...S t r e n g t h ~
a somersaulting sigil
you wear in stillness,
when the gold of ascending dawn
kisses the skin of sleeping sand,
when the skylark softly
serenades serenity for the unseen,
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Categories:
somersaulting, 7th grade, deep, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Nightingale and Roses
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“Nightingale and Roses”
the heart burst open
like a canary cracks open its cage with a song
listening to the nightingale with roses
flying like a throatful soul escapi...
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Categories:
somersaulting, muse,
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:
somersaulting, life, nature, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Pickled Onions
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They don't taste the same
as the ones that filled
those big jars which sat
in a cupboard serving out
the four week wait.
My mouth still craves
for that first crisp bite,
the tangy, sweet ...
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Categories:
somersaulting, childhood, grandmother, love, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Tickled Silly
...An idea whispers,
sneaking in on cat’s paws,
a sly grin curling at the edges,
as I sip morning coffee, unaware.
It dances on tiptoes,
skipping across my mind,
twirling, pirouetting,
a baller...
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Categories:
somersaulting, hilarious, humor,
Form: Free verse
Another Better World
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"Another Better World"
These little sins
you smoothly skip across the waters of fairweather lives
like darkness hidden underneath deadly white lies,
like throwin...
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Categories:
somersaulting, dark, light, muse,
Form: Free verse
Bad Behaviour
...She smiles
and considers the crowd,
all backward somersaulting
detached vagabonds, all,
serious soft smalls revealed -
marshmallows imbued
with the glee of writing
irregular poetry;
works of...
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Categories:
somersaulting, humanity, journey, poetry,
Form: Free verse
One Time
...I turned the clock of time to look deeper into the divine; I turned the clock of time to see what is mine. The wheels keep spinning and the machine keeps rolling and I behold an oracle rising up from...
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Categories:
somersaulting, adventure, beautiful, business, community,
Form: Narrative
Almost Xanadu
...Is it a reverie or a true slice of life?
Have I landed in Arcadia or an earthly paradise?
All seems so magical, eyes refusing to believe.
Am I dreaming or do I simply fantasize?
I s...
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Categories:
somersaulting, appreciation, beauty, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
The Running Moose
...I see some moose running down the street with antlers sticking out like guns, bursting through the crowd sending people on the run and scavengers flying around the sky landing on power lines beating ...
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Categories:
somersaulting, absence, anger, anxiety, confidence,
Form: Didactic
Fork Git About Spooner Hiz Ham
...Fork git about spooner hiz ham
And join (singing the words
in the next paragraph) whether alone
in a traffic jam
basting, cooking, then eating a lamb
prepared by thee missus
a superb culinar...
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Categories:
somersaulting, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Fiddler and the Frog
...Bored with the ambience of his room,
He needed a place where he could take off the gloom,
He decided to take a walk to the riverside,
Where his thoughts would go on a serene glide,
The tranquil ...
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Categories:
somersaulting, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Somersaulting Rebellions
...Clocks somersault to drive time;
Can we stop time by breaking all clocks and alarms?
The Earth somersaults to sail through years and centuries;
Would we request our ship to pause the aging of ma...
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Categories:
somersaulting, character, encouraging, future, literature,
Form: Free verse
Hitchhiker From Another World Part 3
...Just as well I was driving at a moderate speed.
Having resumed control I spied Lelia sticking her tongue out at those reckless varmints.
She stopped the minute I noticed.
Odd.
“Children …….someti...
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Categories:
somersaulting, art, august, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Prose
Under the Magical Spell
...On the woolly folds of sleep, I sailed to a place
Where thoughts and fancy made an alliance
A place that never existed anywhere on the Earth
And never seen or glimpsed by any human eyes
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Categories:
somersaulting, appreciation, beauty, dream, fairy,
Form: Rhyme
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