Camelia - Rabindranath Tagore
...Camelia - Rabindranath Tagore
Kamala was her name.
I saw her name written on her journal
She was traveling on a tram, with her sibling along, toward the path leading to the college.
I was a ba...
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Categories:
stoppage, beauty,
Form: Free verse
BLUE LIONS AND RED DEVILS
...BLUE LIONS & RED DEVILS
Against the Blues, they never lost for many seasons,
Red Devils came to the Bridge 4_3 reasons:
They came, they saw, they suffered.
Tho' they bottled it, sarcasm isn't ...
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Categories:
stoppage, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Son, You Need A Haircut: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
..."A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand."
(Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)...
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Categories:
stoppage, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Prose
No Words Rhyme with Orange
...No words completely rhyme with orange:
no orange fringe, no orange hinge,
no lozenge, no syringe, no twinge, no whinge – no nothing!
No words completely rhyme with orange.
Porridge isn’t orange...
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Categories:
stoppage, words,
Form: Rhyme
Stoppage
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Finding fellow hippies,
Not yippees,
Or zippees.
It's almost as much fun,
As finding the sun!
News remains grim,
Too much death to begin,
A day,
Or a week,
Or even ...
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Categories:
stoppage, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
Creative Constipation
...In this whole world of inspiration, a barrier I now face,
It is an ailment of the mind, of brain waves so encased,
It’s like a constipation, but of my thoughts and memes,
My muse is now held ca...
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Categories:
stoppage, anxiety, conflict, muse, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Bloomed Gyre
...Bloomed there are the starry flowers of life
On the twilight landscape of gold springtime,
The time horse runs far from the wood of Frost
Though the dream holds the sleep very warmly,
Crunchy lea...
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Categories:
stoppage, engagement, nature, time,
Form: Blank verse
Care Love To Clear
...The scythe of lover mowing the sky stars
On the night of glittering moon to drive
The heart of lovers in the fervent fairs
With the wings of whispering dove in hive
Woods of Robert Frost there ...
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Categories:
stoppage, love,
Form: Sonnet
Where Did She Go
...Where did she go
I knew of her, had seen her in adverts wearing short hair
being, sort of dubious sex, let them guess and smoking
a cigarette with the fragrance of the oriental express, yet
he...
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Categories:
stoppage, adventure, america, culture,
Form: Blank verse
Remembering Salinger
...What would fame bring
what would it change
One iota of truth
the stoppage of rain
Living exposed
the arrows to sling
You know what you know
whether knave or a king
Accolades fall
slaps o...
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Categories:
stoppage, solitude, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Prolonged Offal Bout Courtesy Constipation Turgid Song Redux
...Prolonged offal bout courtesy constipation... turgid song redux,
a worse hellish fate than perdition really sucks
As of early morning
today - September 8th, 2022,
I could not but barely move
m...
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Categories:
stoppage, abuse, adventure, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Babies Who Still Beds Wet
...Over little mothers fret:
Their babies who still beds wet;
Lionesses in A Net!
Its stoppage they’d celebrate:
High time their doctor they met
And out their frustrations let…
And Doc begins to...
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Categories:
stoppage, age, baby, care, mother,
Form: Rhyme
I Made a Beeline Bustle
...Hurriedly enroute to her royal majesty
porcelain goddess throne
whereupon earlier today
March 28th, 2022,
after incomplete defecation
sitting pretty on pissoir,
I jiggled and wiggled posterior
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Categories:
stoppage, adventure, animal, blessing, business,
Form: Rhyme
Only Time To Burn
...Meg often told Josh
to try to be less reckless
but Josh had panache
when dealing with dangerous
too often being feckless
since days of sixth grade
their hands often intertwined
Meg and Josh ...
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Categories:
stoppage, angst, change, conflict, loss,
Form: Tanka
To Write Poem With Poetry
...Poetry is intended for restlessness,
too much sweetness drives away poetry...
You can be pregnant with ideas,
stocked with what is benefit and write
emotionally without stoppage,
but the unusual...
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Categories:
stoppage, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry
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