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Twas The Night Before Inspection
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matthew harris
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surcease, 11th grade, 12th grade,
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Surcease
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Eve Roper
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surcease, age, loneliness, old,
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Apollo Devotee Bathed Earthling Coppertone Fresco
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matthew harris
| Free verse |
surcease, 11th grade, 12th grade,
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Carolingian Minuscule
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matthew harris
| Free verse |
surcease, 11th grade, 12th grade,
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Death Becomes Me
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Rebecca Huxley
| Terza Rima |
surcease, abortion, bereavement, depression, grief,
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bullied as a kid
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matthew harris
| Lyric |
surcease, 10th grade, 11th grade,
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A Dylan Thomas State of Mind
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Barbara Dickenson
| Bio |
surcease, anger, angst, anniversary, anxiety,
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Dear God, WHY
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ben burton
| Rhyme |
surcease, christian, religion,
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leaving home
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PATRICIA CRESSWELL
| Free verse |
surcease, fear,
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Thirteen Thousand Miles - Spanish Septet
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Alfred Berggren
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surcease, ocean,
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Elysian Fields
by Alfred Berggren
Will you now place your sweet hand close in mine
and we’ll walk fair Elysian fields of peace.
Together we’ll talk knowing we won’t pine
earth’s scene where...
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surcease, religious,
Introduction
by Alfred Berggren
Intrduction -Byron’s Sonnet
If I can say the lines that make her mine,
and stay from speaking trite words she would hate,
but rather play her praise of...
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Categories:
surcease, desire,
Without Surcease -Echo Sonnet
by Alfred Berggren
When I'm with you the time slips by with ease
This pleasant interlude is most complete
It's break from life's thoughts, dear, without replete
of never ending cares...
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Categories:
surcease, romance,
Fragile Hearts
by James Inman
Feeling lost in twilight schemes through glowing lights of starlit dreams,
raw, my thoughts, like frozen streams, soon melt as mist in iced moonbeams,
and you, your...
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surcease, heartbreak,
Monsoon Blessing
by Tom Quigley
--Anacreontic Verse--
Dry heavens build
Temple to the North
Fluff billows up from
Crags to stratosphere
Midnight cover
Issues forth
Engulfs solar orb
Cloud King’s dance begins
Footfalls fill the sky
Grape...
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Categories:
surcease, earth, nature, rain, water,
The Odyssey Redux - Part IV - Helios To Ithaca
by Karam Misra
So once again, with grim countenance, the ship sailed on with all bemoaning their woes
Till calm seas prevailed, with balmy sun, sweet zephyr song, they...
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surcease,
Librium Equilibrium
by Karam Misra
remains of rehab
bottle no longer beckons
sweet pills give surcease
scylla defeats charybdis
librium now liberates
Syllable count...
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surcease, addiction,
April's Babbling Foolishness
by Tom Arnone
(Created using the bAbBlE sentence generator, various text excerpts, and a minuscule bit of human editing.)
And she smells good without keeping all ...
Beef, sitting...
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surcease, art, computer, crazy, food,
The lovers walk
by Shane Cooper
~The lovers walk~
As we walked upon the sand,
Ambling along hand in hand.
We talked of life and other things,
Of a lovers kiss and golden...
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surcease, passion, romantic, true love,
Sahara
by Rizwan Saleem
Only when on my knees
I saw how far I had fallen
The azure skies above me
Bereft of clouds of shelter
Had perhaps shown me enough mercy
The...
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surcease, dark, depression, faith, pain,
Sea Therapy
by Faye Gibson
Glowing orange, cloud coals burn
reflections into low tide evening surf,
slap lapping against scattered shells,
ripe fruits for hungry sea tramp's picking.
Itinerant thoughts, aimless as seaweed drift,
scatter...
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surcease, beach, peace, sea,
The departed
by Rizwan Saleem
THE DEPARTED
Covered, closed and sealed
Fist after fist of moist sand
Laid to rest
The walk back now for the living
A drive to return to an empty abode
Wouldn't...
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surcease, absence, break up, death,
The Empty Shell Of Me
by David Olyott
I lie and I hear,
A shouted cry,
A desperate plea,
Silently asking why?
Cast in stone,
No feeling, no pain,
Cried myself to sleep,
And the act was still...
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Categories:
surcease, betrayal, childhood, confusion, divorce,
Joan of Arc
by george seal
This quest arose for Jeanne d'Arc,
A peasant girl engrossed in prayer.
When voices deep inside her head,
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surcease, death, religion, war,
Eirenikos
by Andy Sprouse
I remember a young man of long ago,
I as fond of him as he the bow.
We thrived together, discovering astride,
grew into our own side by...
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surcease, history, hope, introspection, life,
Winter's Garden
by Andrea Dietrich
High shadows loom on garden walls.
They tremble in the winter’s breeze.
As from the heavens powder falls,
they mimic naked limbs of trees.
They tremble in the winter’s...
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surcease, winter,
Jusy Hold Me- a collaboration with Eileen Manassian
by Shane Cooper
Just Hold Me
She:
Just hold me here close to your heart
Let me stay tranquil a while
This world has wrested my joy away
And...
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surcease, love,
Just Hold Me- A Collaboration with Shane C
by Eileen Manassian
She:
Just hold me here close to your heart
Let me stay tranquil a while
This world has wrested my joy away
And has robbed...
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surcease, beautiful, love,
Then Comes the Rain
by Darkland Poetry
The darkness falls, then comes the rain.
Hell's demons call again, my name.
My soul cries for surcease of pain.
High hopes they had for me, in vain.
Their...
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surcease, depression, emotions, feelings, hurt,
Love's the Soul's Fire
by Gary Bateman
Love’s a mystical force, that’s laden with nectar and emotion,
That many people sacrifice so much so often for in this life.
Love has the properties of...
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Categories:
surcease, allegory, emotions, feelings, god,