Just One More Letter
...Just one more letter from you
Delivered by an angel to my door
To see that familiar handwriting
Read your precious words once more
You so loved writing letters
On small paper you did pen
Le...
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Categories:
speller, longing, love, miss you,
Form: Rhyme
For More Effective Communication
...Do you remember Helen Keller?
She was a really awesome speller
Who couldn't hear nor see nor speak,
So to communicate
She would ges-tic-u-late.
Marcel Marceau spoke perfect French,
But he was...
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Categories:
speller, humor,
Form: Light Verse
From Holly
...From Holly
Dear Oliver, how long has it been?
Sixty plus years have grown between us.
We were seven or was it eight years old
but we were madly in love—remember?
I would wear my hair o...
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Categories:
speller, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Speller
...Back story: I wrote this is reference to a lady expressing your struggles when she was homeless on a community app and someone commented and stated that they could not take her seriously because she ...
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Categories:
speller, africa, america, bullying, england,
Form: Free verse
Please Just One More Letter
...Just one more letter from you
Delivered from an angel to my door
To see that familiar handwriting
Read your precious words once more
You so loved writing letters
On small paper you did pen
...
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Categories:
speller, missing you,
Form: Rhyme
Teacher's Refining Fire
...You were my least liked teacher,
ball of fire
Your red tresses bouncing,
your flaming ire
When misspelled words
in ash
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Categories:
speller, appreciation, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Peace By Peace
...I was never a great speller…in school…when my teacher called on me
I was never really sure if the ‘I’ came before…or after the ‘e’
When it came to certain words…I always found it telling…
how tw...
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Categories:
speller, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Mueller and Stellar Performance
...Mueller and Stellar Performance
Instead of meow has been Bob Mueller;
Had great performance which was stellar;
Came to collusion,
With no delusion;
Is great speller, fortune and story telller...
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Categories:
speller, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Do Make Mine Poem of the Day
...Do Make Mine Poem of the Day
What I have heard that many may say,
Is should make mine poem of the day;
Be prepared;
Never scared;
Will have done it all without any delay.
Instead of bein...
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Categories:
speller, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Juvenile Spelling Bee
..."Playing the other day, I behold this man
Sky was cloudy and grey, he could use a fan
Held a locket. I think he wanted to sell
To fill his wallet and pocket to excel
Listened to a small voice, th...
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Categories:
speller, drink, funny, hope, symbolism,
Form: I do not know?
Books
...5/18/17
Never have I been the best storyteller
An average speller
And easy going feller
Shoutout to 'Old Yeller'
Above, below and within any cellar
With or without the use of propellers
In...
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Categories:
speller, poetry, rap, wisdom, word
Form: Rhyme
The Best Poet Ever
...Wouldn't it seem to persist an unspoken personal longing for perfection?
Is insinuated toward poetic supremacy; obviously . . .
I would feel confident in generalizing the presence within us...
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Categories:
speller, adventure, art, beauty, character,
Form: Lyric
Cuba
...Cuba…Mamma Mia…like most of the Caribbean; part of the 1492 slam…
Slavery, sugar plantations… invasions, upheaval, independence…
Then the American kisses; with a slight twist…who initiated the ’dis...
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Categories:
speller, inspirational, international, political,
Form: ABC
A Fancy Painting
...I have lived for all of my life without a sister,
I could have survived and went on forever,
Without any trouble nor a single disaster,
It is fate and I could not change a single matter,
She does...
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Categories:
speller, cute love, sister,
Form: Rhyme
Eating His Words
...Jordan is a genius.
He's the spelling bee champ
at our school.
There's not a word
that he can't spell.
And that, to me, is cool!
"Jordan, how did you get
so smart?" I asked.
"Because as I ...
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Categories:
speller, childhood, school,
Form: Rhyme
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