Abcedarian Poem Because it is Great Practice for Me
...aristocratic antelope alarms and annoys
blue-eyed baboon’s billy goat buster
causing confusion, consternation and crying
distressing and disturbing deliberate donkey
egg-producing egret elevates ...
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Categories:
swizzle, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Abecedarian
Rain Poem
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OH! Then in a
Water-A-Story! River arrives
An indestructible journey I
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Categories:
swizzle, nature, rain,
Form: Concrete
swizzles
...Three days in - three days of school - and it’s like I never left.
In school, you can get oversaturated with screens. I like books.
They have a sense of permanence, they don’t glare back at you,
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Categories:
swizzle, homework, school, student,
Form: Free verse
pandemic, positive
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need me …
for I feel … good …
truly down-to-the-core good
I always do
and that’s why you want me
I know you want me
you can feel me stirring … deep
ever since THEN
when you watched it -
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Categories:
swizzle, analogy, love,
Form: Free verse
Nocturia Rap Lyric Crossover
...Nocturia (Rap, Lyric, Crossover)
Ooh! wee!
I've gotsta gets
up and pee
it is the late night's
wee, wee!
i gotsta go and pee-e
can't hold it in
it about to
blow in thee wind
can't hold...
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Categories:
swizzle, appreciation, blessing, drink, encouraging,
Form: I do not know?
We Have Kept the Toads
...Once we shared
the same swizzle stick and paper plate,
ate the casserole no one else wanted,
but then there were the toads.
The Atlantic flushed, hands were washed,
the toads stayed to be reas...
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Categories:
swizzle, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ideas Will Not Leave Me Alone
...Ideas come prancing but I do not have the time
They try to open me up, to swizzle around in my mind.
I intentionally ignore them, hoping they will go away.
They dance a watusi, fully intending to ...
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Categories:
swizzle, imagination, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Grisly Grizzly Bear
...The Brown Grizzly Bear is so called,
not for its grizzled hair, grey-tipped
but because it is truly grisly, horrible!
(Ursus arctos horribilis)
This brown bear is gruesome and deplorable.
The...
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Categories:
swizzle, nature,
Form: Free verse
Nocturia, Rap, Lyric, Crossover
...ooh! wee!
I've gotsta gets
up and pee
it is the late night's
wee, wee!
i gotsta go and pee-e
can't hold it in
it about to
blow in thee wind
can't hold it back
its about to be
a late ...
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Categories:
swizzle, dance, funny, giggle, hip
Form: Lyric
Coloring
...Just color me galactic
Planetary blues and reds
Gold brown and purple hues too
Then swizzle stick’em....
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Categories:
swizzle, appreciation, art, blue, color,
Form: Dodoitsu
Winter Blues - I Cry For Color
...I shiver tears.
My joie de vivre;
summer esprit’s lemon zest,
lilac flirts and coral whispers
have escaped me ~
grievous gray
now flows through my veins.
I shiver melancholia,
entombed w...
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Categories:
swizzle, depression, loneliness, longing, sad,
Form: Free verse
The Most Dangerous Roads
...THE MOST DANGEROUS ROADS
i've got the head of a rattle snake
on the front end of my hood
i've got a chilled clorox drink
in my steel-knuckled hand
and we're rolling down I-10
across the stre...
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Categories:
swizzle, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Flirt- For Contest
...Well, hi there, striking blue eyed blonde with velvet scarlet lips
twizzling your swizzle stick between your fingertips
I'm pretty sure that you have lured some lookers to your bed
so step outside...
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Categories:
swizzle, romance,
Form: Free verse
Paradise Island
...The kids are gone! I'm retired! I'm gonna take a long vacation!
To an island with sunny beaches - that's my ultimate destination!
I'll spend the days savorin' a climate of seventy-two degrees,
Snooz...
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Categories:
swizzle, dream, fantasy, funny, me,
Form: Rhyme
Sunset In Bermuda
...Relaxing at Ye Olde White Horse Inn in quaint St. George's Towne,
I enjoy another rum swizzle as I watch the crimson sun go down!
Its rays cast a blush of red on fleets of sails cruising St. George...
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Categories:
swizzle, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
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