The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown
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“The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown”
That man built a house
of straw and sticks
and the stories that burned within -
all consuming the titled prize;
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Categories:
sponged, muse,
Form: Narrative
SPONGE art
...art fusion
her particular spur
in transparent
stain
watercoloured
to cause
quite
a stir
amongst abstract
art folk
sponged
&
then allow...
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Categories:
sponged, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
A Thing You Say Response To Beauty Queen
...Plush lips and a pouty face,
still I can’t hear a thing you say;
Distracted by all the work done
in the name of high fashion;
Now you look just like a toon,
sponged with what’s real covered ...
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Categories:
sponged, emotions, feelings, women,
Form: Ekphrasis
Nearer My God to Thee, Be A Cross That Raises Me
...The hour matters none ... for the energies have exhausted.
In the year of our Lord ... nineteen hundred and twelve, April fifteenth.
Writes a future living star ... wish their joys so h...
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Categories:
sponged, anxiety, courage, death, emotions,
Form: Sijo
The Soothsayer Part 1
...At the beginning of my shift at Like Home Inclusive Care, I always check in on Miss Rosa first. I usually check her vitals and get her ready for her breakfast.
She was one of my favorite residents....
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Categories:
sponged, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Just a Snapshot
...How times i pulled your hair from basin half sick filled
and cold sponged slurring love yous
borrowed always kept
tear always swept
How many midnight visits
and sofa turned to bed
breakfast sme...
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Categories:
sponged, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Greyhound - La To Ny
...Taxied to the terminal. The fare paid,
vagrants begged for alms, some too drunk to care.
Shrunken faces, weather beaten, they played
a sad tune of which I was unaware.
Some had the means, even po...
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Categories:
sponged, adventure, america, city, journey,
Form: Sonnet
Stephanie Dodds
...My never ending
search for whatever
this psychologically gout
riddled rhyme stir to
write (a poem) about
found me figuratively
staring at a theme without doubt
devoid of an...
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Categories:
sponged, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Elegy
My Hands
...My hands are full of sandwich,
Smell of peanut butter, too.
Is that bite of grape jelly
Shirt worn by little ole you?
My hands have finished eating.
Shirt has been sponged almost clean.
My fa...
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Categories:
sponged, life,
Form: Rhyme
Caravanserai Heading Toward the Levant
...a tsunami catapulted cruising skiff
skyward landing with quiet thud
across undulating infinite granular waves
formerly solid state rocks and minerals
optimism vibrant upon initial unforeseen
c...
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Categories:
sponged, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Blank verse
Furtive Screams of a Christian
...Though I've created my own Egypt
Doing things as if God does not exist.
Could not wait for the unknown.
I'm burning with passion, inflamed with lust.
Just! Because sin is the matter in the hea...
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Categories:
sponged, anxiety, autumn, christian, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Film With a Friend
...On a sweat sizzling and scorching summer day,
I sponged my eyes with chilled water and said good morning.
I showered my mind with new notions and greeted every minute.
I sauntered to living rooman...
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Categories:
sponged, adventure, appreciation, character, creation,
Form: Sonnet
Flash Flood
...a storm is brewing
dark hordes bristling to descend
dissenting thunder
coalescent scouts
in tentative teams essay
sun-parched earth awaits
sizzle of drizzle
pheremonal petrichor
harbinger...
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Categories:
sponged, environment, nature, rain, storm,
Form: Haiku
Belle's Chime
...How do I deserve the treasure
Of your nightly presence,
Holding me, welcoming me
To this bed that we share,
Where cares of the day
Are sponged away by downy comfort?
Never have I experienced su...
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Categories:
sponged, love,
Form: Free verse
Starlit Fantasy - Spell-Bound
...I look up at the ebony, starlit sky…I’m gravity-bound…I’m awestruck
& I don’t know why I feel stuck in place…I’m searching all over the place…the
only thing I seek and prize is your striki...
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Categories:
sponged, addiction, adventure, beauty, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
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