blondes
...i’ve been compared my whole life
to girls who look prettier
girls who dress nicer
girls who have tanner skin
blonde girls.
blondes are the prettiest
blondes dress the nicest
blondes have the t...
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Categories:
tanner, 11th grade, color, hair,
Form: Free verse
Sunny
...Lately,
You are hotter
You have been a heater
Unavoidable tanner too,
Cool down.
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Categories:
tanner, giggle, humor, sun,
Form: Cinquain
What Pleased Pearle - Final 'e'
...
What pleased Pearle about Larry
His chest was not overly hairy
And when he stood up straight
He was nearly five foot eight
Then there were his table manners
N...
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Categories:
tanner, happiness, marriage, together,
Form: Couplet
Check Mate
...Gross misconduct bullets falling like rain drops
Mosquitoes kissing marinated children
While in the hood homeless and thugs
Suck on those the things unruly plugs
Crack-cocaine, meth, mary-jane
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Categories:
tanner, analogy, anxiety, character, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Toadstool Wizard
...Toadstool wizard with a heart of loveliness brilliant as a star
Headed toward the field where the roses and the corn stalks are.
We heard him coming, and we cleared out of the way.
He is the one ...
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Categories:
tanner, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Magic Arrives
...
“Magic Arrives”
“In love with me yet?”
she said and the
world laughed
at least
for once,
they
didn’t look
so grim
magic arrives
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Categories:
tanner, muse,
Form: Free verse
Ard Workin Lad
...Bloomin Eck,Bloomin Eck !
I just got mi-sen a job.
A mista wants his coal in,
An offed me a bob.
He told me if a hurry up,
A can chop some stiks an all.
But if tha wants another tanna,
A gor...
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Categories:
tanner, fun, funny, work, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Beijing Guest List
...Anida Mann & Baron Ready
April Showers & Wade Rivers
Bertha Saylor & Abel Crews
Bunny Bunns & Wilt Dailey
Burl E Pecker & Phyllis Upman
Candy Cane & Hedon Succor
Chastity B. Lowe & Noah Hoare
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Categories:
tanner, word play,
Form: List
Glesca Weans
...Grouin up in Glesga wis nae mean feat
Pleyin in the back courts an dreepin the wass
Plouterin in puddles manky water sploshing aboot,
Searching in yon mucky middens fur treasure
Thrown oot by the...
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Categories:
tanner, character, childhood, children, clothes,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Invention of Shoes - Part 2 - Translation
...This is the second part of the translation of Rabindranath Tagore's Poem
"Juta Abiskar”.
This poem is a translation from the original in Bengali, by Nobel-Prize Winner, Poet-laureate of India, Rab...
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Categories:
tanner, hilarious, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Harry Chapin - Story of a Life
...I’m about to tell what’s an important story,
Of a singer who is sadly now long gone,
Whose story needs some increased recognition,
He could p’raps be described a special one.
He was born in ninet...
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Categories:
tanner, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Terrible Timing
...Teresa!?!
~Tanner!
Terribly
Tardy?
Ticktock ;)
~Time?
T-minus
10
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
2
*
12:00am!
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Categories:
tanner, boyfriend, celebration, girlfriend, new
Form: Alliteration
Triplets
...Triplets Triplets Triplets
Look nothing alike
I saw them on my swim team
Such a wierd sight
There names don't even match
Justin, Braidy and Tanner
But if you make friends with them
THEY'RE RE...
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Categories:
tanner, boy, school,
Form: Free verse
The Mysrey of Girls
...The Mystery Of Girls.
When I was just a nipper
And I was very small
I didn’t really like girls
At all
I found most were very spiteful
And when at primary school
No one wanted to kiss me
W...
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Categories:
tanner, childhood, first love, funny
Form: Verse
No Longer a Quaker, Part I
...Redmon Yost lived in Iowa
with mother and siblings,
the oldest of seven children
had just turned seventeen.
His pa had passed on two years back,
Redmon had gone to work,
punching cows at Hollow...
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Categories:
tanner, conflict, faith, family, growing
Form: Cowboy Poetry
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