And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
...And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
Preface: On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," Presiden...
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Categories:
splitter, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Seeds of Deeds
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~ Limerick Style * ~
Some maintain that ‘thought is for aught’
At least that’s what I have been taught
But thought fathers the deed
It plants the tiny seed ...
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Categories:
splitter, garden, growth, uplifting,
Form: Limerick
Roosters From Another Creek
...Urban jungle roosters,
born-again scarecrow,
to untutored city eyes,
tawny pipit stonewall nester,
jet black Inca dove bereft,
of dovetail on a croque monsieur,
idle bone grub crawl,
mother h...
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Categories:
splitter, art, beautiful, beauty, environment,
Form: Ekphrasis
I pardon no one
...Within this ink is a taste so bitter
Warn you though I am no quitter
I don't follow fake pomp and glitter
Find within me a devotion emitter
The crosses your bearing, I was for her there l...
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Categories:
splitter, dad, daughter, devotion, father
Form: Monorhyme
My Soul Shattered By The Bullet Of Betrayal
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Shivering shards sliced through my sullen system.
nightss nag with naissant nightmares
mornings moved as malignant monsters
trust twisted in tabescent thorns tearing within me
I ignor...
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Categories:
splitter, anxiety, betrayal, change, conflict,
Form: Alliteration
Perish Puzzle
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death
last breath
questions haunt
splitter prayers
hello? hello? hello?
climbing grief sunset mountains
pearls placed upon requested peaks
angst of still buds in the heart of souls...
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Categories:
splitter, angst, bereavement, death of
Form: Etheree
Ford's Theater April 15th 1865
...Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865...
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.
I admit to own a passion
for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president in particular
bet...
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Categories:
splitter, absence, age, america, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
Feeling Fetter Everyday
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We were told at a young age,
capitalism is long-term better
Got the short end of the slave trade,
now everyday I’m feeling fetter
Working the industrial fields,
come rain or shine
Br...
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Categories:
splitter, allegory, history, how i
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Poem For the Ladies - Now a Collaboration
...My bladder behaves through the night
Each morning my flow is just right....
But throughout the day
There is hell to pay
It's bursting; I cross my legs tight
WRITTEN BY JAN ALLISON...
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Categories:
splitter, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Money Twisted and Time Blistered
...My current days are trails paved abhorrent
for I wail money twisted and time blistered
within knot plots I cannot get untwistered.
I live as a searcher of dollar measure flexers
and as an oh what...
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Categories:
splitter, angst, conflict, confusion, crazy,
Form: Lyric
Time Has Turned a Page
...Pedants fume helpless and seethe with rage,
But linguists surrender to the age,
Media always misuse
Commoners to confuse,
But rage not, time has turned a tired page.
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Categories:
splitter, humor, time,
Form: Limerick
Need Rehab On Cold Slab and More
...Need Rehab on Cold Slab
Could be because I became a crab;
What we really need is some rehab;
For while waited;
Was reactivated;
They found us lying on a cold slab.
Jim Horn
My Goodness a...
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Categories:
splitter, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
L O L
...When texting was just starting out, my friend texted LOL to me.
Little ornery lunatic?
Lovely ordinary laugh?
Luxuriously outstanding lady?
Lobe-oriented log-splitter?
Land over Lithuania?
Li...
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Categories:
splitter, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Parker's Premise
...From 1998, I was born while my existence was pronounced a fluke
Evil twin, though an age gap, I sat myself flat after physical abuse
I salute to the man who fouled my head off a saw splitter
Mad m...
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Categories:
splitter, analogy, anxiety, confusion, holocaust,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Mocker of My Midnight Bliss
...Have not thee raised thy ugly self
A killjoy upon life's shelf
So much that thou art truly known
By both the young and grown
Thy rays a burden to my face
Which bringeth forth no grace
To ...
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Categories:
splitter, 10th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Verse
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