A Passerby By The Cove
...Dig, dig, dig,
What a catchy phrase,
It is a phase,
When I gave time to pace,
I untie my lace,
Set time to race,
I cut to the chase,
To let my body move,
The sand I shove,
Grain by grain of ...
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Categories:
swatch, 12th grade, age, angel,
Form: Kyrielle
The Trails of Sanity
...The Trails of Sanity
Why do I care if the disturber carries on
Why is it I cannot just wait it out, bide my time
Be more mindful, try and bond
Embrace what I don’t understand
Welcome the s...
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Categories:
swatch, change, character, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads
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Veronica Sawyer, a rebel in plaid
She joined the Heathers, but they were so bad
They ruled the school with their cruel games and lies
But Veronica had enough of their fake smiles and ...
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Categories:
swatch, angst, betrayal, crazy, death,
Form: Rhyme
Tailoring Thoughts
...Everything’s been said before;
The goal’s to find a way
To tailor those familiar thoughts
To fit beneath your sway.
You choose a pattern and a swatch
Of fabric that appeals,
Then cut and stit...
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Categories:
swatch, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Patterns of Our Fabric
...You're clothed in the nuanced expression
of variety, in the unique alchemy
of weave in proximity to the bridge
of wear and wearer at Gaia's boutique.
W...
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Categories:
swatch, art,
Form: Rhyme
Jane's Ice Cream Treat
...Jane ordered ice cream topped with butterscotch
It melted and dripped onto her Swatch-watch
Though a hundred degrees
She still giggled with ease
when she felt a chill running down her crotch...
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Categories:
swatch, humor,
Form: Limerick
Prelude
...Tonight the act of naming fell through the floor.
We speak permeable solids inflect’d by light.
Things move indistinctly: a pine palette floats
momentarily from semi truck’s bed, crosses
its body...
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Categories:
swatch, angel, art, assonance, beauty,
Form: Blank verse
Vicious Haunts of the Dead
...Ghastly sights on the day of the dead frighten me,
Zombie ghouls from the grave will arise from afar
With a howl and a scream sodden ghost running free
Come the fear of dying ‘neath the m...
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Categories:
swatch, death, eve, halloween,
Form: Sonnet
The Die Is Cast
...hard to remember an image as precious as this offering
the gods must have been in jubilant spirits
jagged edges through out this ocean~view
the aqua blue splattered in coral a first for this sal...
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Categories:
swatch, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Scruffy Bear
...I sit and watch you everyday
From a bookshelf where I will stay
Not quite like new, patched with a swatch
You everyday, I sit and watch
You used to hold me so much more
When I was softer, not ...
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Categories:
swatch, love,
Form: Quatrain
The Wind
...The wind
comes in at night,
bringing with it new ghosts
but I'm wrapped tight in mother's quilt,
each painstaken swatch stitched by her own hand
She sings a breathy lullabye
and rocks me to sl...
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Categories:
swatch, good night, loss, Lullaby,
Form: Rictameter
The Death of Rock and Roll- Corporate Sponsored Punk Rock Bands of the Future
...Jose Cuervo’s Spit Cocktail®
Anonymous Nazis® from Swatch
Ocean Spray’s Sl*t Juice®
Playtex presents Toxic Stockings®
Fortress of Deception® by Hormel
Time-Warner’s Urban Tan®
Flesh Box® by Ban...
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Categories:
swatch, allegory, music,
Form: List
Mother's Day Parade
...You can feel them move through streets
Emblazoned with sirens' primary colors,
A swatch of fjord's colonial flagship hues
Left to slap in the wind of reorderd forms
Until sheared into confetti st...
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Categories:
swatch, absence, addiction, america,
Form: Blank verse
Garish Should Be
...Garish should be the undertone
so say the ones who hold the line
desiring only that mutes explain
the breadth of life beyond the pale
until the souls who dare to dream
demand expression beyond...
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Categories:
swatch, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Glowing Forever
...Glowing Forever
As simple as bringing a flame to a candle
I now hold the match ever tight in my hand
Striking the swatch in an emery fashion
Watching the flame as it takes its com...
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Categories:
swatch, good night,
Form: Rhyme
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