SUMMER'S PROMISSORY NOTE
...Option #5 Poem Written for “Half Past Summer, Two Months 'Till Fall Poetry Contest,” Andrea Dietrich, sponsor.
SUMMER'S PROMISSORY NOTE
Summer: I relish its tastes, s...
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Categories:
tartness, 12th grade, seasons, summer,
Form: Free verse
Sestina of Autofill
...I am an evening of scented season,
wondering if you've given me
this stairway with the gold curls.
Who changed her name to Stacy?
Later in my throbbing red heart,
you were forest green and lush...
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Categories:
tartness, love,
Form: Sestina
Little Green Apples
...Little green apples,
where you were hiding,
in the blossoms on my tree.
Hummingbird hovered,
bees kissed the white blossoms,
promised little green apples.
Little green apples,
who would ta...
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Categories:
tartness, fruit,
Form: Free verse
Propane
...At the heart of this art there’s a tartness that fits like a harness/
Put those pieces and bits together to finesse and furnish/
I’m breathing in the flesh here I go out of my mind in a flash/
I’m...
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Categories:
tartness, absence, abuse, addiction, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Summer Sundaes
...Summertime, a wonderful time full of nostalgic teenage memories
I spent many weekends with my best friend Tina at Bear Pond Park
Memories of packing our swimsuits, towels, music and bagged lunches ...
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Categories:
tartness, friendship, nostalgia, summer,
Form: Free verse
It Is
...It has death in the title but I can't think of it
It has the glow of the moon but I can't see it
It has the rustle of the leaves but I can't hear it
It has the fragrence of roses but I can't smell...
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Categories:
tartness, confusion, farewell, grief, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Wabbling World
...The task begins with awareness, and freedom without it is harmful. So let us not look back in fury or forward in panic, but rather around in awareness. By Poet
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Categories:
tartness, analogy, angst, inspirational, war,
Form: Narrative
Wild Raspberries
...Sticky luscious kiss,
wild raspberries on your lips;
Your hands in my hair
warm from a day in the Sun,
it must be Summer magic;
Wet temperature,
soaking Florida rainstorm;
Your magnet...
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Categories:
tartness, dream, emotions, feelings, longing,
Form: Free verse
The Orphan
...Entertained by flickers on a screen, cosseted between giants. Suited with slicked-back raven hair, snow-white starched shirt, an innocent tie.
Mother smiles at his sky-blue eyes. Father pats hi...
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Categories:
tartness, hero,
Form: Haibun
Ive Taken My Licks
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I’ve Taken My Licks
Written: by Tom Wright
1/19/2013
Our lives are like a Sugar Daddy Sucker,
Where each new day we get one lick;
Most days are sweet but oft we pucker,
Finding tar...
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Categories:
tartness, life,
Form: Lyric
Come Round Six We Eat At Four
...THEY RECONFIGURED THE FORMULA
BY MAKING IT MORE FOR A TARGETED AUDEINCE.
TARTNESS AND SWEETNESS GO HAND AND HAND.
SOME PEOLE LIKE THEIR SWEETS THAT WAY.
1/2 CUP OF STRAWBERRY LIQUER
1 AND ONE ...
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Categories:
tartness, appreciation, art, drink, encouraging,
Form: Ballad
My Eyes Raining Salty Tears
...You took your sunshine smile with you
when you left me with my eyes raining salty tears.
My mind is clouded in shades of gray,
recollecting memories of our past happy day...
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Categories:
tartness, sad,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
The Wet Progress
...Like a fire placed before her,
Serving as a source of tommorow's shower
Sweat and wail can never be eluded,
As she proceed through the narrow
hotbed
Body disrupted, as unexpected scene erupted...
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Categories:
tartness, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Party
...Deep moments trip oomph's party line,
Urge taste to know sweet-sour punch;
Kind flavours grip sure tartness fine,
Use funds our flow of blissful crunch.
Fruits of a kind where tropics fling,
Rus...
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Categories:
tartness, blessing,
Form: Sonnet
Apple Pickin' Time
...It is apple pickin' time in Georgia
Come get them while they're crisp and not quite ripe
Bite into apple's delicious tartness
From the tree's garden of Eden a few swipe
Down where the appl...
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Categories:
tartness, funny,
Form: Rhyme
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