Tackling Poems

The Silent Kiss

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The silent kiss can come with secrecy
minus a face to reveal its patron.
           Easily detected singing love’s strong melody,
           best surprises come from unknown mister or matron.

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Categories: tackling, 11th grade, character, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme

MAD

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Mentally insane person or a wily wise sage?
Alternating between tackling worldly or mystical matters
Diminishing the fine line between madness and genius.
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Categories: tackling, mental illness,
Form: Acrostic


They're called Crisps not Chips

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Across the Atlantic ocean

They have a pedantic notion

Quip us Brits have a frantic lisp

Did slip..meant to say chip not crisp


Semantic antics causing a commotion

Misunderstand ...
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Categories: tackling, food,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberReflection

...Tackling a slick problem like D’Alembert’s paradox— 
a cylinder set in motion, destined to roll on and on— 
My fresh numerical method spoke in the same voice, 
but sparked sharp debate—someone bla...
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Categories: tackling, humor,
Form: Free verse

Movement

...Moving my hands. 
My hands twisting and almost tackling each other. 
Colliding knuckles. 
Frantic and desperate. 
Eyes grazing and chewing. 
Jaw moving side to side. 
Everything seems so much l...
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Categories: tackling, mental illness,
Form: Free verse


Curves

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An easy type of quilting 
Is to sew two fabric squares 
Which are pinned and lined up neatly;
Nothing else, for ease, compares.

Once you make the shapes more complex,
Like a triangle or curv...
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Categories: tackling, growth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOf Problems And Solutions

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                       problems
                  knotty, stressful
       resolving, tackling, diagnosing
conundrums, complexities, result, ideas
     proposing, brainstorming, solving
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Categories: tackling, creation, poetry, words,
Form: Diamante

Premium MemberThe Rose

...A single witness,
A lone rose,
Who stands proud and majestic.
A single red rose,
Honorable and regal, 
As she brightly lights the room.
Yet, she senses darkness looms,
As the storms approach,
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Categories: tackling, abuse, beautiful, blessing, encouraging,
Form: Free verse

Addiction

...Addiction is debilitating and changes who you are
I have watched my friend's life empty of all meaning, losing everything she loved and it can be difficult to reconcile her choices
But are they cho...
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Categories: tackling, addiction, sad,
Form: Free verse

The Edge of Darkness

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Molten lava spews from my eyes
My mouth feels dry like the scorching desert
Fear, like a heavy boulder, sits on my chest 
My heart seeks where the Chimera dwells
A pit is forming in my stomach
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Categories: tackling, dark, death,
Form: Free verse

I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather

...I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather

I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re: 
long in tooth sexagenarian 
nostalgic for the following imagery 
ev...
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Categories: tackling, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberENTHUSIASM

...ENTHUSIASM 
                                                                                       
      Ensuing enabling efficiency, energy in exulted endeavor
      Noted noble nice notion in a...
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Categories: tackling, appreciation,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberPRAISE BE TO GOD WHO CONFIRMS OUR PRAYER

...May 4 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Chronicles 14-15

Key Verse – 1Chronicles 14:2 And David perceived that the LORD had confirmed him king over Israel, for his kingdom was lifted ...
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Categories: tackling, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration

THE BIG 3

...THE BIG 3
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In the pantheon of rhyme, where legends intertwine,
Three emcees blaze trails, so divine.
Kendrick, Drake, & Cole, in that revered line,
Emcees crafting worlds, be...
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Categories: tackling, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTitanium Quill

...I am an unvoiced breeze~
a sea warrior 
    kite-surfing through 
    heinous waves, 
knitting cobalt chronicles 
    from smooth syllables~ 
tackling chaotic currents 
with chamomile magi...
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Categories: tackling, courage,
Form: Free verse

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