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Joyful Dare Valley lake, Aberdare, Wales
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Jeffrey Heathfield
| Free verse |
sponge, appreciation, autumn, beauty, happiness,
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Caught Undertow
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
| Villanelle |
sponge, allusion, imagery, love hurts,
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Sponge Count
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Wayne Wysocki
| Light Verse |
sponge, humor, sympathy,
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Nostalgia For Yesteryear Of Boyhood
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matthew harris
| Free verse |
sponge, 10th grade, 12th grade,
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Granny's Recipes
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Kay Roberts
| Rhyme |
sponge, birthday, childhood, family, food,
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SOAKING
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Line Gauthier
| Senryu |
sponge, appreciation, summer, sun,
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Cleaning windows by the Bored Bard
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The Bored Bard
| Rhyme |
sponge, imagination, sun, work,
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Stigmata
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Kurt Philip Behm
| Free verse |
sponge, feelings, words,
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LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED
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B Nhlakanipho Fortune Sikhakhane
| Crown of Sonnets |
sponge, inspirational love, love,
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That one man
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Kathryn Sweeney
| Free verse |
sponge, childhood, fate, friendship love,
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Demonically Dispossessed
by Winged Warrior
Demonically Dispossessed
...man has the ability to express great love,
and dispense great evil...
The legions of darkness descend as they beastly bewilder and offend
The serpents of Babylon...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
sponge, conflict, evil, fear, humanity,
Again and Again
by Abubakar Muhammad Musa
Still happened again?
Or I'm the one who can't explain?
I've tried baby, can't you see?
Is it true you liked to unite like a bee?
Or you will...
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Imagism |
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Categories:
sponge, 11th grade,
Kings Before Your Hand
by Chime Justice Ndubuisi
Go out,
show your naïve black hair,
sponge-like and strong and dripping water
because you just finished washing it.
Brave and proud, that's what makes you
the most enchanting of...
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I do not know? |
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Categories:
sponge, appreciation, beauty, bird, black
Invisibility
by Kapri Wilmoth
I’m talking to you.
Can’t you hear me?
I’m standing with you.
Can’t you see me?
I’m giving you my heart.
Can’t you feel it?
Why...
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Categories:
sponge, 12th grade, lonely,
Love is my nicotine
by Aa Harvey
Love is my nicotine
In a world of material girls, I don’t need a thing.
There is no possession I could not live without,
As long as I...
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Categories:
sponge, addiction, journey, love, money,
A Connection of Affection
by Lu Loo
I must have been three or may be four,
when Karen took me to the candy store.
My awesome older sister was she,
she’s was everything I...
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Categories:
sponge, childhood, sister,
DONALD TRUMP MUST BE PERMANENTLY BARRED AND FURLOUGHED TODAY
by matthew harris
FROM WHITE HOUSE
I ham aghast at increasing banality, deviltry, ferocity,
imbecility, liability, obscenity, rapacity, ugly
offal popularity witnessed by Donald trump
hence...
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Cowboy |
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Categories:
sponge, 10th grade, 11th grade,
I Must Not Taste Your Tears
by Martins Deep
I know the bitterness
Of your soul,
I must not taste your tears-
To know.
It is clear in your weary-
Beautiful eyes,
And more scary-
To me you become when you...
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Categories:
sponge, cry, depression, girl, grief,
A Ruptured Heart
by John Newlin
A Ruptured Heart
A ruptured heart spews out
all its love, all its care,
like a punctured balloon
frenzied flitting through the air.
A deflated heart lies
on the floor...
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Categories:
sponge, love,
In the House of Death
by Andrea Dietrich
In a house too huge for them to maintain,
a man hunched over with back pain lives
with a disabled daughter and
his very elderly wife.
A recent heart...
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Etheree |
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Categories:
sponge, death,
complete
by Kathryn Sweeney
I cannot see
the future,
be it bleak or beautiful,
it's lost deep in the stars
of eternity......
earth cannot see into it's vastness,
the geologists warn,
the palm reader predicts,
duo lukewarm
authorities.
And...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
sponge, analogy, destiny,
Literal Stuff Again
by Jack Ellison
A dad was washing the car with his son!
Here we go again with the literal stuff, so dumb!
Son said next time, let's use a sponge
This...
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Limerick |
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Categories:
sponge, silly,
World wonder
by Treasure Nkosi
Wolrd wonder that you are,
You boast with so much beauty
Stolen from others but put into good use
You're gods right hand woman
You're flesh full of life...
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Blank verse |
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Categories:
sponge, 11th grade, 6th grade,
Spectacular Sunrise
by curtis johnson
For 2017, I felt inspired to read all the Books of the Prophets. Books like Isaiah, ...
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Free verse |
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sponge, bible, christian, jesus, love,
Kitchen Sink
by Oliver Furlong
By the kitchen sink my time is lost,
hovering by a random fruit fly flies by,
by a hanging holiday trinket of a glass blue-eye
foreground to...
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Prose Poetry |
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Categories:
sponge, city, house, loneliness, parents,
Sending empathy to where it is needed
by Aa Harvey
Sending empathy to where it is needed.
Tears rolling down,
Words best left unsaid.
Lie to the world,
Let them just forget.
I’m just a poor boy,
Never had a hope...
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I do not know? |
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Categories:
sponge, cry, friend, sad, silence,
misting intangibles
by pipping stars
missing intangibles
kissing everything
thats
tangled
frozen
robin
feet
claw me
hear me
as we
cry
each teardrop
canyon soaked
caves sponge soaked
with sorrow grown wings
bound
am
i
each drip
of
sorrow has me
consumed
still we breathe
still we breathe
still we breathe sorrows last breath
exhale...
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Lyric |
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Categories:
sponge, art,
Trifles
by Mike Smith
Custard in trifle is not bull-shark infested
Despite popular myth, ah but so easily tested
Pour jelly and sherry, sponge biscuit for bedding
Add fruits of the tropics...
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Carpe Diem |
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Categories:
sponge, howl,
A Case For A Clown
by Jonathan French
To help a sad and troubled soul,
I packed a case for a clown.
Clothes to make the people laugh;
Greasepaint to mask his frown.
A wide-brimmed, bobbled hat...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
sponge, voice,
A Christmas Story
by curtis johnson
...
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Couplet |
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Categories:
sponge, christmas, family, tree,