Waking Up In a Supermarket
...I go to the supermarket
to buy some mangoes.
I’ve had five coffees
And spent hours on detangling
computer wires.
Reciting a poem I remember
from fourth grade
I opened another three colle...
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Categories:
thinly, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Nightly Shadow
...The shadow in the night beckons.
I slowly rise from my warm and cosy bed
Only to follow the urge that drives me mad
Into spectral half-fledged woodland,
That spreads beyond my lonely tower.
W...
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Categories:
thinly, dream, fear, night,
Form: Free verse
Lemme regale you with splendid and fabulous exuberance
...Lemme regale you with splendid and fabulous exuberance
Despite being an amateur
paperback writer wannabe,
whose storied protagonist
stars colporteur wannabe
(thinly veiled cover as yours truly...
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Categories:
thinly, adventure, age, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Ink Weeps
...Over ink-drenched pages shadows crawled
Filled with tales of the broken who dared to fall
Tears thinly coated the weak and weary lines
Blurring the edge of truth with pain and glory intertwined ...
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Categories:
thinly, emotions, hurt, poetry, sad,
Form: Couplet
The Bitter Bite of Night
...The Bitter Bite of Night!
Night creeps in sotto voce
melding with the mellowing village life.
Night, a seemingly mischievous cat,
slips along incognito in its prankish mood,
teasing any light ...
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Categories:
thinly, imagery, night, winter,
Form: Free verse
Consciousness
...I once could feel the stars align,
Their whispers wound with threads of time,
A quiet hum, a tender plea,
The echoing pulse of eternity.
But now the golden cords unwind,
The sun retreats, the ...
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Categories:
thinly, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Poetic letter Putin the electric kool aid acid test results into action
...Poetic letter Putin the electric kool aid acid test results into action...
when president elect Donald John Trump
sworn in vowing to accept the following pledge.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm...
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Categories:
thinly, 12th grade, abuse, america,
Form: Rhyme
Poetic letter Putin the electric kool aid acid test results into action
...Poetic letter Putin the electric kool aid acid test results into action...
when president elect Donald John Trump
sworn in vowing to accept the following pledge.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm...
...
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Categories:
thinly, 12th grade, abuse, america,
Form: Rhyme
Poetic letter Putin the electric kool aid acid test results into action
...Poetic letter Putin the electric kool aid acid test results into action...
when president elect Donald John Trump
sworn in vowing to accept the following pledge.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm...
...
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Categories:
thinly, 12th grade, abuse, america,
Form: Rhyme
Love Speaks
...1&1/2cups of chopped mushrooms
1/4 cup of drained chopped spinach
4 tablespoons of minced turkey liver
1 cup of chopped cooked bacon
1/4 cup of yellow bell pepper minced
1/2 cup dried parmesan c...
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Categories:
thinly, art, culture, food, music,
Form: Bio
Confit?
...Affirmation of there desire
to be together
where what moment
causes others to demysterfy
such togetherness
evidence of a wedding plan
a detailed relationship
us together
through everything
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Categories:
thinly, engagement, film, food, french,
Form: Bio
old man from the harbor
...After midnight, an uncle
was born a newborn.
In the center of the Buddhist room where incense smoke lingers
He was born sitting on his haunches
He stood up, his legs trembling
“I really wanted t...
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Categories:
thinly, break up, death, sea,
Form: Free verse
HIDE AND SHRIEK
...A whispered shhh hung in the air
Tall grass rustled nearby
A slight sniffy, snorty snout sound
Preceded the crinkly crunch of dry grass
Sweat slithered across my brow
A large head appeared
Vio...
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Categories:
thinly, fun, imagination, onomatopoeia,
Form: Free verse
Black Veiled Wolf
...Old means sudden pain of unknown origin
fluency of mind becomes like a foreigner.
Old means the circle has shrunk to a point
Old is ignored, like a newly minted orphan.
Old is when the glitter ...
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Categories:
thinly, age,
Form: Free verse
The Tattered Handkerchief
...The white statue rested above the dying woman's head,
A ray of light shone thinly onto the old talisman.
Carter watched silently at the old gaunt wrinkled woman.
He would be brave, prepare his las...
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Categories:
thinly, fantasy, humorous, magic,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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