The Disadvantages Of Development
...It's a good feeling to see
The natural voice of nature
Is so soothing to hear
The sounds of the birds singing
It so sad because the experience
Is short lived and unexpected end
It's near to be ...
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Categories:
subdivision, discrimination, feelings, nature, technology,
Form: Free verse
Lawn Mowing Wars
...The thick numerous shoots of grass have come out,
no more snow shovels til late autumn comes about.
I hear the robins chirp as they tend their nests,
wait....the sound of a cranky lawn mower chugg...
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Categories:
subdivision, 8th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Unwinding
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Brain-fuzz falls like dandruff,
clearly the clarity of a strain-free smile
is back to work.
Summer is breaking its glass sky.
I'm unwinding a Slinky soul,
after a dark thought
dropped me into...
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Categories:
subdivision, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Football is Religion
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Football's my neighborhood's religion
its altar, the couch near the kitchen
Worshiping the big-screen television
every home in the subdivision...
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Categories:
subdivision, food, football, religion,
Form: Couplet
The Subset
...I carved a circle on the ground to search for a new path to go home, I carved a circle on the ground to find where destiny is bound. I stand on the circle time and it keeps taking me around and aroun...
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Categories:
subdivision, america, career, change, courage,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
subdivision, animal, bird,
Form: Haiku
Ballet On My Lawn
...A subdivision of sparrows came dancing,
Did a ballet all over my lawn.
What a wonderful sight,of pure delight,
For a handful of seed and crushed corn.
Everyday the performance is different,
Bl...
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Categories:
subdivision, beautiful, bird, cute, dance,
Form: Free verse
Beige, Brown, Cream, Tan -
...As I have walked pass or visited high-in rich subdivisions and gated communities, I have noticed all the homes are from the same color bracket. They are either beige, brown, cream, tan, camel, oatmea...
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Categories:
subdivision, change, color, environment, home,
Form: Narrative
My Emperor's Three Legged Throne
...Nimblest stick skims hit drum skin
Bring submittance to my ears afore deafened
Transmitted rhythm rips something
Transcribes fusion to percussionless essence
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Categories:
subdivision, animal, art, for him,
Form: Rhyme
Wall of Division
...A sunken tombstone lay on either side,
The wall itself enswathed in moss and fern,
Fragmented, as the bond of blood which died
Before the grave envelopped each in turn.
Two brothers who had onc...
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Categories:
subdivision, father son, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Run the Gamut
...Can't stop, I'm driven to an extreme intense vision
Of power and control much like the guy on television
Lead the whole planet
To run the gamut
Making sure we're still here in our lovely ...
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Categories:
subdivision, inspirational,
Form: Limerick
Happy 105th Birthday, Dad
...My dad, born today, the 17th of February
bucked fate head-on, courageous and daring
Raised in a home on a block so poor
he swam upstream, de rigeur
In 1926, all his teeth fell out
l...
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Categories:
subdivision, birthday, courage, growing up,
Form: Couplet
Me, God and Hot Tamales
...You ever had a day off from work where God placed it upon your heart to go walking with Him? Well, I did just that today. I started my walk in this beautiful subdivision. After walking for a while, t...
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Categories:
subdivision, blessing, god, peace, silence,
Form: Narrative
Memories of Our Father and Mother
...I have such good memories of our beautiful mother and handsome father,
Days and nights of growing up with them.
We lived in beautiful houses, the Magnolia house, the Chopin house and the Lorne Pa...
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Categories:
subdivision, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, friend,
Form: Free verse
Let It Go - Give It Up
...Our stay in the
mushrooming subdivision
Ashley Springs
can achieve full ownership only
by meeting the developer’s
latest requirements...
six bushes and two deciduous trees,
k...
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Categories:
subdivision, 11th grade, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
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