Big Sandy: Recollection in the Free State
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The hollow remains unphotographed.
Memory, not landscape, frames it—
a road cleaving winter in two,
children laughing while gravity
negotiated its own terms.
Neighbors spoke without flou...
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Categories:
surname, childhood, community, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Alexa echo rocks ages of generations!
...Alexa echo rocks ages of generations!
The species and genus
known as *****sapiens
predominated across the webbed wide world
for tens of thousands of years
until many brain children teamed toge...
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Categories:
surname, adventure, age, allusion, america,
Form: Free verse
July first two thousand and twenty five
...July first two thousand and twenty five...
signals the eighth year we lived
at our present location,
where fringe benefits (a plug) for perks
living at 2 highland manor drive.
Expanse of green...
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Categories:
surname, adventure, america, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
THE EMBERS OF MY MEMORY
...My heart of stone quenches its thirst in the dirty hands of misery.
The tears of my family tree run down the scarred faces of their history.
The pain of my color screams in silence the secrets thes...
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Categories:
surname, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Irrational exuberance at respite from reading
...Irrational exuberance at respite from reading...
(on a rainy May thirteenth
two thousand and twenty five)
as a balm against ennui
becoming engrossed, immersed,
and lost in space of orrery
reg...
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Categories:
surname, adventure, america, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
I've been searching'
...I've scoured t
he earth..And all heavanly realms..Searching
For someone??? Who will really be well? Righteous and
Upstanding its been an interesting stint.' I did find some
Willing..I'd say the b...
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Categories:
surname, bible,
Form: Didactic
Two individuals
...2025.3.22
Life is full of surprises and mysteries.
It enfolded when you were least worried.
I met two individuals within 12 months,
At first, I thought they had something in common.
As time we...
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Categories:
surname, desire, faith, for him,
Form: Free verse
Joshua Moore’s Military Teens
...Dive board jumpers Korea Germany
Like wandering Jew eternally
No surname are necessary
Everything is transitory
Can’t remember the names of anyone from 1st to 5th grade
I wonder what it is li...
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Categories:
surname, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
Why only girls!
...Why is a girl's birthday present always a cookery set..
Why girls are always asked to make tea...
What is the difference in tears of girls & boys
Why children use their father's surname,, ever wa...
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Categories:
surname, autumn, birthday, bullying, child
Form: Free verse
Fruits and mind
...Delicious green and red apples,
Grow in the farm by hard working people.
Carefully transported to the fruit stores,
Displayed for the shoppers to adore.
Then they were in my possession,
Planned ...
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Categories:
surname, emotions, feelings, fruit, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
The Teacher
...A teacher,
A strange identity,
Nameless, without a surname,
Wordless, without recognition.
A shared identity,
A heartfelt tale in silence,
A rebellion hidden within words.
He, the veiled rev...
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Categories:
surname, discrimination, education, freedom, identity,
Form: Free verse
My lost cousin
...I sat on a chair completely nervous
to know where I would do my youth service.
Then came the rudest shock of my whole life,
I'd have to go up north where strifes were rife.
I didn't even try to...
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Categories:
surname, angst, anxiety, cousin, family,
Form: Rhyme
NUMBER ONE
...As you take your last wish
Let it all out
The pain and the disappointments
As the pronounce your name
Embrace it
Be grateful it' is yours
A soldier,
I should have
Written a letter
But you...
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Categories:
surname, adventure, africa, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Hooray for Captain Spaulding
...Hooray for Captain Spaulding...
though he played only a cameo role
helping me secure corrective eyewear I sport
mucho gratitude to all parties involved
including the missus,
cuz she needed to ...
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Categories:
surname, 2nd grade, adventure, blessing,
Form: Free verse
CLERIHEW tongue twister
...IT Professor Simon Rogerson
a first-name his surname began
Folks often twisted the two
thus Roger Simonson came into view...
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Categories:
surname, confusion, word play,
Form: Clerihew
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