Two Worlds
...When I was little,
life was supposed to be filled with laughter,
sticky fingers from melting ice cream,
and afternoons lost in make-believe,
toy cars and plastic dinosaurs battling in the living ...
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Categories:
tallness, family,
Form: Free verse
How To Fight Off Your Blues
...Here's my suggestion
how to fight off your blues:
pick up a brush and paint on a canvass
whatever comes to mind: landscape, birds or flowers;
pick up a pen and write some silly lyrics for childre...
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Categories:
tallness, blue, change, confidence, desire,
Form: Lyric
Intimidated By a Tall Pink Tulip
...I am intimidated by her tallness
How can I ever hope to climb her?
I like getting to the top, but this is ridiculous.
My daddy gives me a nod. You can do this, Kid.
I am not confident.
But she i...
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Categories:
tallness, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Personification
The Heavens Trapped
...I see you walking on the beach
with the shyness of a kite,
toes gripping the sand with eyes that float
to the ends of the sea - tell me
(why do you look to the stars, love,
when we are more am...
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Categories:
tallness, beauty, bereavement, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Animal Talk
...when I open the eyes, and squint properly
From above the Chetambe, and watch around fairly
I think is a nice , but together spent rarely
I want to chat you Mr Elephant, but then shed the ticks
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Categories:
tallness, anti bullying, betrayal, character,
Form: Personification
When We Meet
...That moment…where school uniform was all over as
the Timekeeper rang it, then noise began, with excitement
While educators had to rest so were we, we ran…
And there you were…brighter than your...
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Categories:
tallness, girl, love, relationship, romance,
Form: Free verse
Not Just a Boy
...Why can't i forget him for more that a second?
Because at this point
He is me and i
I don't know how to separate myself
Anymore
And i miss him
Like i miss myself
And if we talk i don't want it...
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Categories:
tallness, beautiful, betrayal, boyfriend, break
Form: Free verse
Castle On a Hill
...You’re such a wonder
On a pillar, oh dear
A mystical fortress
On a nerved tallness
An aptly axle
For a longing soul
04/22/16...
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Categories:
tallness, mystery,
Form: Couplet
My Shadow Walks Faster Than Me
...Believe it or not
She dares to run marathons to be first
She never waits for me to pick up where I left
She never allows me to take a break and maybe a sip of water
She tries to look better than...
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Categories:
tallness, analogy, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Each Day's Step
...Each day’s steps
Each day’s steps stolen and stinks not sinks
Taken to the success
Horrible pucks
Each day’s steps stolen and stinks not sinks
Tomorrow’s steps swallowed
Determining the det...
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Categories:
tallness, inspirational,
Form: I do not know?
Relate
...Relate
I’m caused by you
In relation with you
I remember when we were in jail
We did to our best but we fail
Are we now the tail?
In development to tale
I behave as you do
I react as you ...
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Categories:
tallness, appreciation, pain, relationship, strength,
Form: I do not know?
The Lights Ft Edgar Allan Poe
...I
See the phone towers with the lights-
Glowing lights!
What a world of mischief and sorrow their pattern foretells!
How they twinkle, twinkle, twinkle
In the icy air of night!
While the...
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Categories:
tallness, adventure, america, angst, city,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
On the Interestingness of Myths
...Let me get lost on a good thought-
This beast of beauty, smirking from under
The kind skin, at your tallness
Never fits the exciting ugliness of the barefoot love
Walking the inner softness of y...
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Categories:
tallness, absence, myth,
Form: Blank verse
The Simplest of Things
...Sometimes we overlook the simplest of things
God laid before our eyes
Like the beauty we see in all His birds
Or the majesty of the skies.
It’s the small things that surround us
That we never seem t...
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Categories:
tallness, creation, god, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Madison Square Quintain
...MADISON SQUARE QUINTAIN
Wild-haired, gangly boy from Queens ,
Garfunkel, in his awkwardness and tallness,
Like a kitten dangling in a pair of blue jeans,
But purri...
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Categories:
tallness, music,
Form: Quintain (English)
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