Blood On the Brooch
...Most of the time flowers will do.
Those gentlest of ambassadors
commissioned to disarm the caustic ego.
Trim burrs from misunderstandings.
Temper the burn of good intention gone awry...
To most ...
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Categories:
stompers, peace, war,
Form: Free verse
First Winter
...First Winter
My hat is;
My hat was a gift from my guy.
It keeps my head warm…
and I can think now,
more clearly.
(The cold, it was bitter indeed)
My hands;
My hands have new gloves.
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Categories:
stompers, hero, kiss, love, marriage,
Form: Narrative
Family's Furiously Fab Reunion
...Anecdotal ancestors are anxiously arriving.
Bringing Betty’s bugs behind Beauty’s book bag
Creepy Clementine chases Crazy Charlie
Deliberately doing dainty delicate dynamics.
Effortlessly engagin...
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Categories:
stompers, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: ABC
Not Even Close
...A musical throng of 400,000 strong invaded a dairy farm in New York in 1969,
which set fire to the 70’s; but there was no chance of me being there;
I was a good girl, 17 years young; sheltered, n...
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Categories:
stompers, growing up, life, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Reaping What You Sow--The Karma Drama
..."Reaping What You Sow!"
"The Karma Drama!"
There is a rule in this life that no one can escape!
To this very day not one person has!
See, this rule each person d...
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Categories:
stompers, judgement, life, symbolism, truth,
Form: Rhyme
This Thingamabob Poem
...dang,
grandma was a real hubba bubba-
killer-diller
khaki wacky boycrazygirl
a spiffy hot damn hoofer
during the dark hours of WWII
and the devastation
followed with
unrestrain...
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Categories:
stompers, grandparents, history, word play,
Form: Free verse