Teetering On a Teeter Totter
The Word Teeter Totter
He used the word teeter totter.
It surprised me, because I never hear it any more.
I said, “Where did you learn that word?”
He did not know which one I meant.
I said, “How do you know about a teeter totter?”
He said, “I was born on a teeter totter.”
An interesting visual for sure.
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Categories:
teeter totter, age,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
teeter totter, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
teeter totter, happiness, love,
Form: Free verse
Teeter Totter
Teeter totter
This is my voice, writing from within too without
For a long time, I wasn't listening to my soul.
I was wearing shoes to protect
From the stones and the mud and the bugs in the grass.
I was afraid of feeling feelings
I want to tell you something
If we crossed on the street I will smile and
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Categories:
teeter totter, love,
Form: I do not know?
Teeter Totter
I washed myself, I watched myself
I've cleaned hurts so deep.
I told myself, I mold myself.
I've lost the balance of my feet.
Teeter, totter, teeter, totter
Where do you stand?
Drinks Saturday nights
Sunday Bible in your hands
Teeter, totter, teeter, totter
Where do you stand?
I lost myself, I stopped myself
I finally came clean
I want myself, I love myself
I found the
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Categories:
teeter totter, bible, blessing, gospel, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Teeter Totter - Unfccc Cop15
[Written in December 2009 while at the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen]
The plank is of a long, strong wood
With edges round for measures good
Small steady steps the toddler walks
While politicians stall the talks
Three fifty steps the child takes
He still is safe despite mistakes
But stands around the tipping point
The world is lacking efforts joint
Teeter toddler on
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Categories:
teeter totter, community, earth, environment, political,
Form: Free verse
Teeter Totter
Birth. Life.
Reliant. Trust.
Wonder. Bliss.
Rules. Unsurety.
Rules. No meaning.
Rules. Punishment.
Realization. Carefulness
Realization. Why
Why.
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Categories:
teeter totter, birth,
Form: Concrete
Teeter Totter
From grief.....................closure grows;
From pain......................experience grows.
The shadows of the grotesque.............highlight the beauty;
The shadows of loss ............................highlight the value.
Blood is the fire of both destruction............ and creation,
From the ashes of death..................new life will be born.
Fear is irreconcilable,
Don’t let it wreck the balance.
08/04/14
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Categories:
teeter totter, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
Teeter Totter Poem
Teeter totter poem
Standing on a razor sharp edge,
Just like balance that has a wedge,
Swaying on either of two sides,
Positive and negative, life is a teeter totter ride!
It's sometimes love, other times sorrow,
Some humble words, some harsh ego,
Immense pleasure , at times great horror,
Peace in world, more of hostility and terror !
Whenever tried to live a
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Categories:
teeter totter, feelings, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
teeter totter, america, freedom, patriotic, rights,
Form: Shape