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Straightaway Poems - Poems about Straightaway

Hangover - Mar 31, Apr 1
...Remember, long ago, enrapt of Venus, in college, brought to meet by chance, how, falling into that first, most fateful glance a straightaway spark flirted between us? And, too, can you recall t......

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Categories: straightaway, break up, feelings, grief,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member A Wannabe Gameplayer: New Poetic Form--TEARASSONANCENET
...Hark, Hallow Dark my dear pal, Titans Mars rally Martian stars, tag team game Play--Card Black, Naturals -- rare place reason, Blackguard quandary, battlescarred, halt? Pass? Have cigars? Sm......

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Categories: straightaway, analogy,
Form: Italian Sonnet



Premium Member The Jeffersons: Ms Sanford
...Now at my workplace, waiting for my corporate lead, and no sooner said there she was as everybody behind me being fellow workers--not working, before she reached the front desk counter, I tur......

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Categories: straightaway, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Veiled
..."Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks, when she saw what she had done, gave her father forty-one, she washed herself from a watered pail, she claimed their lies an......

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Categories: straightaway, allusion, analogy, evil, father
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Straightaway
...straightaway bb cuts air heading for tin can - sudden gush of sprite......

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Categories: straightaway, sports,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Powdery-Snowfall Embraces
...When the sky above's azure blue the grass below Irish green My thoughts straightaway turn to you Reflections of visions yet to be seen Winding lavender stair......

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Categories: straightaway, color, fantasy, passion, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Ever Since I Experienced Being Significantly Monetarily Sidelined
...Ever since I experienced being significantly monetarily sidelined... (how about that topic for a change of pace?) Yes back to getting walloped, decked and clubbed courtesy cold hearted brute, w......

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Categories: straightaway, absence, abuse, angel, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Heroes
...Heroes, To some people a killer can be called Hero To other people a defender of their rights is called Hero. There are many untold true histories as some people wanted to be celebrated. Le......

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Categories: straightaway, freedom, history, peace, political,
Form: Free verse
Spreading Happiness
... S hare your love along the way, P ray for others every day, R ejoice and always be gay*, E ncourage in what you say, A ppreciate straightaway, D onate your time, stop to play, I nsp......

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Categories: straightaway, cheer up, happiness,
Form: Acrostic
Groundhog Day - Thursday, February 2nd 2023
...The date of the celebration (the second day of February) coincides with medieval feast of Candlemas, and its pre-Christian predecessor, Imbolc, a day also rich in folklore. An old Scottish pro......

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Categories: straightaway, 12th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dear Dale, So Loved
...Dear Dale, so loved were you that even now, thirty-nine years later, you live inside the dreams of your siblings. I suppose this to be true since I, at least, have had you in my dreams. ......

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Categories: straightaway, brother,
Form: Free verse
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
...Chief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag. I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine, and came acro......

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Categories: straightaway, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ides of March
...Upon a sullied slate sky of alabaster and aquamarine, floats a formidable flotilla of charcoal-colored clouds. And on this mild, melancholy mid-March day; they dawdle, dribbling drops o......

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Categories: straightaway, anxiety, april, beauty, change,
Form: Alliteration
Notes of Life
..."In my fragile little ship, I sail, sail In the tempestuous sea of life Dodging life's pressures, to doldrums outlast"~ by poet Breathing in and out the notes of life, from first cry to last s......

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Categories: straightaway, life,
Form: Free verse
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
...at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School As a Halloween costume, one year during early grade school, my father got the brilliant idea for his sole son to be dressed with one of a kind getup.......

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Categories: straightaway, 5th grade, adventure, autumn,
Form: Free verse

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