Nighttime Phenomenon
...Listen to the trees laughing in delight
as brisk breezes tickle their leaves at night.
And watch fireflies signaling love with light
that they flicker on and off in full flight,
creating ...
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Categories:
stridulating, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Daylight Disappears
...As shifting shadows merge within the night,
darkness devours disheveled silhouettes.
And daylight disappears, fading from sight;
as a splendiferous sun slowly sets.
Twilight's crimson...
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Categories:
stridulating, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Whelk Come Chirping Crickets
...Donald Trump, Lemony Snicket ghost Spiro
Agnew, plus knowledgeable Jiminy Cricket,
all reliable, trustworthy sources, who
would never misinform gullible traveler
I know time to lather up
with p...
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Categories:
stridulating, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Short Heroic Sestet - Wild Meadows
...WILD MEADOWS
Wild meadows left and right, guarded
by hedgerows, each side with gates,
openings on sites regarded
macro, wildlife wonders, elate's
scientist, biologist, all.
We ve...
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Categories:
stridulating, nature,
Form: I do not know?
A Haiku Anthology - Theme Summertime
...wildflower meadow
as tall as a muntjac
cuckoo cuckooing
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farmers haymaking
grasshoppers stridulating
don't touch a stinkbug
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wood admiral glides
honeysuckle its host plant
humid t...
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Categories:
stridulating, june, nature, summer, sun,
Form: Haiku
A Chirping Message From Jiminy Cricket
...Brother and sister crickets please recognize grasshoppers,
katydids, and locusts as part of well schooled, politely
ordered named league known as Orthoptera, (pronounced
or th hop tara), which ...
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Categories:
stridulating, allegory, appreciation, creation, dedication,
Form: Light Verse
Phantoms Of The Moon
...Approaching the end of the day,
shifting shadows scurry away;
as cobalt skies morph into grey.
Scarlet and crimson rivers run
as red bleeds from a dying sun;
day ends defeated; night h...
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Categories:
stridulating, beautiful, dark, feelings, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Night Sounds
...Yes, I heard that
The crickets stridulating
Just when day was darkening
The frogs all flat
And bass drums in need of tightening
Late owl asking
Who was listening
The quarrels of the dogs
The night's ...
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Categories:
stridulating, social, war,
Form: Free verse