Hope nailed to the cross
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"After Auschwitz, there is no poetry" - Theodor W. Adorno
hope nailed to the cross
mankind at its darkest hour
there's no forgetting
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
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Categories:
theodor, abuse, evil, hope, men,
Form: Haiku
Aunty and the Mind Caves
...Aunty lost three pounds of memory,
it happened slowly, the clock on her mantle
ran faster, the rain began to fall slower.
Her cat was a stranger, then an ex-lover.
1300 grams of her vanished in s...
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Categories:
theodor, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Aunty Lost Weight
...Aunty lost three pounds of memory,
it happened slowly, the clock on her mantle
ran faster, the rain began to fall slower.
Her cat was a stranger, then an ex-lover.
1300 grams of her vanished in s...
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Categories:
theodor, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Thabnk You Doctor
...Happy birthday and thank you Theodor Geisel…for it’s so easy to deduce
all the things you helped to teach us…not as Theodor…but Dr. Seuss.
You taught us how to count…at least to the number two
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Categories:
theodor, thank you,
Form: Rhyme
Aunty and the Lost Caves
...Aunty lost three pounds of memory,
it happened slowly, the clock on her mantle
ran faster, the rain began to fall slower.
Her cat was a stranger, then an ex-lover.
1300 grams of her vanished in s...
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Categories:
theodor, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Freddie the Frog
...Okay, I'm unserious today, no...in all seriousity I was daydreaming about bullschitt and wondered if it was 'produced' by bulls or bull frogs or even bull sharks and realized that it was magnificentl...
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Categories:
theodor, funny, life,
Form: Quatorzain
10 Poems That Define Me
...10 Poems That Define Me
Yvonne’s Swan Song – Narrative poem dedicated to all victims of bullying, including girls and boys of all ages, sizes, and backgrounds, including me!
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Categories:
theodor, anti bullying, fun, life,
Form: List
Brain On Hold
...brain on hold
bare-footed in a hurry
heading nowhere
Theodor Seuss Geisel - Dr. Seuss - Oh the Places You'll Go.
Here's my favorite page
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your sho...
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Categories:
theodor, journey,
Form: Senryu
A Letter To Theodor Geisel - Aka Dr Seuss
...Some get hooked on poetry
By reading Robert Frost
Or Dickinson or Poe
Or others whom their paths have crossed.
In college I read Coleridge,
Byron, Shelley,Whitman, Pound,
T.S. Eliot and Wordsworth,
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Categories:
theodor, poets, thank you,
Form: Rhyme