I AM YELLOW
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I’m as vibrant as the core of the chromosphere
Sometimes I’m radiant like golden sunflowers
I can be pale as primrose or as bold saffron spice
But to name my different hues may take ...
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Categories:
staunchly, color,
Form: Couplet
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part ii
...Highlight of Goofus and Gallant
bred within the survival instinct
of hungry hordes of prey,
when Earth in the balance
against an uncomfortable truth
smug smurf like scavengers.
Pun...
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Categories:
staunchly, absence, adventure, africa, america,
Form: Free verse
Waltzing Over Ashes
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Written: January 21, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Brian Strand
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We waltz on the edge of a wildfire
where fiery flames ...
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Categories:
staunchly, analogy, love,
Form: Free verse
restless is Portugal
...Restless is Portugal
There is mayhem in Paradise
the citizens of Lisbon are tired of the bother
and street fighting, where knives are used by
migrants
Gang fights, robbery, and shop theft is...
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Categories:
staunchly, 2nd grade, africa, age,
Form: Blank verse
Awakening
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Whilst at school, in the years gone by, when as a child,
Impish I was, and sprightly too, but not so sure of my mind;
Followed the old teacher’s dictum, “memorise by rote,
To succeed ...
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Categories:
staunchly, age, education, innocence, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Youngsters and Their Free Souls
...Having journeyed through North, South, East, and West,
Witnessed the spirit of young souls at their best,
A psyche befreed from detest,
Unmatched souls amidst the rest.
Their zeal be fierce and...
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Categories:
staunchly, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
There Oughta Be a Law
..."Aequum et bonum", Latin for "what is right and just".
Laws are the pillars of civilizations,
They underlie great cultures
And shore up great states and nations.
But laws are only as good as th...
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Categories:
staunchly, political,
Form: Political Verse
Chasing the Unworthy
...Finding the existence of something which never existed,
Heart went on and on despite the mind staunchly resisted,
'Kind-heartedness' was the one considered to be vulnerable,
'Presence of mind' bec...
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Categories:
staunchly, how i feel, love
Form: Quatrain
Tiger Lily Teases Daffodil
...Tiger lily does yoga into the wind
Driving Daffodil crazy
He has loved her for days now
She bends and flecks,
Her petals twinkle like leaves
She has no idea what she is doing to his libido
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Categories:
staunchly, flower,
Form: Free verse
She Looks Calm
...calm she looks
i know better
her blue eyes bore a hole through the humans
she has been mistreated by many
she stands staunchly rigid
unyielding
hating them in more than a few ways
her wr...
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Categories:
staunchly, emotions,
Form: Free verse
White House
...Built by the tired hands
Many from far off lands
Taken away from farm and spouse
Yet they built the sacred House
A house leased for 4-year terms
Unique privilege to be confirmed
To an America...
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Categories:
staunchly, america, appreciation, celebration, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
It Shadows
...funny how heavy a sadness weighs
and angry rage which surely stays
pyre fierce fire an unfair blaze
attempting to burn me in its haze
hotly blinding your tearful gaze
this solemn haunting eulo...
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Categories:
staunchly, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Oak Tree
...Though torrents
of blinding snow
fall furious
though storms
spit lightning
cracks limbs
shreds my cloaks
diminishes me
reckon this
I endure
I fight
I prevail
My stoic
resolve undau...
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Categories:
staunchly, introspection, strength,
Form: Free verse
Young Rebel
...You placed yourself in harm’s way.
I hated that you would join the fray.
Now you bravely faced and fought
the devil I had stupidly bought.
It was unwise, absurd from the start,
Foolish and...
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Categories:
staunchly, bullying, conflict, courage, friend,
Form: Couplet
Writing In the Now
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Stop present time now!
Let us go no further.
Let's enjoy the now, somehow.
Muses and we, sisters and brothers.
Batten down the hatches on reality.
Only stars dance, we staunchly state....
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Categories:
staunchly, feelings, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
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