Coast of Maine
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A QUIET RETREAT: PART ONE
I retreated to the edge of Maine,
To a beachside estate where thoughts remain
Unsettled, swirling with cloud and tide
A love poem’s seed buried deep inside.
A h...
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Categories:
thrashed, allegory,
Form: Couplet
Peace of Mind
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In the mere blink of a nightmare, I found myself rechained
and trapped where my peace of mind had once before
collapsed.
The die has been cast, an old challenge from the past, one
I ...
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Categories:
thrashed, anger, anxiety, endurance, faith,
Form: Free verse
Raggedy Army
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Raggedy Army
As morning bathes in spring sunshine
A raggedy army stands in line.
Unkempt and ragtag, oddly sized,
Unarranged, disorganised.
Red, a splash among the gre...
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Categories:
thrashed, flower, military, remember,
Form: Rhyme
What Was I Thinking, O'Yes
...My arrival landed where I began my flight and journey
Sunny San Diego y e s, I was back and how I missed it
Oh-h-h-h, let me count the ways—rather days spent
in a border town, oh what...
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Categories:
thrashed, character, love, sweet, sweet
Form: Free verse
the night’s hours
...The day’s hours were worn down and a sudden sunset, that
resembled a master’s painted glimpse of Valhalla, was upon
us, its majesty of deepest blue, blood red and black.
From our tenth-floor ske...
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Categories:
thrashed, education, gothic, humor, school,
Form: Free verse
If He Turned Away From You
...If he turned away from you,
What a sudden goodbye can do
for a dedicated woman who put
her trust in a guy with no insight.
What really made you fall for him?
Was it his charming smile or bli...
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Categories:
thrashed, absence, adventure, betrayal, break
Form: Lyric
4 Chickens: A Survival Story
...It seemed to happen in a flash.
Our movements were rash.
Behind the breakfast bar
With scraps of potato hash.
Our webbed little feet
Stuck in a muddy mash.
Scores of us slip-slapping up the all...
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Categories:
thrashed, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Did I Wake?
...Eventually got my final sleep
tapping my soul miles deep.
Drift into the dream unknown,
where the mysteries of the past are sown.
Can't withstand the view I saw,
grasping my chest as regret cl...
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Categories:
thrashed, anxiety, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Attack of the 70ft Super Ego
...INT. SCENE 1 – THE AWAKENING – DAY
FADE IN:
It was born in a test tube,
Twitching organic mass, form skewed.
They fed it chaos and it grew.
More tests ordered. More data due.
They poked it ...
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Categories:
thrashed, birth, film, health, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Backward is forward
...Wake
The ever present enemy
Overbearing and oppressively
Shadowing expectantly
As forethought always secondly
Two minds hang suspended be
Interrupting thoughtlessly
Relentless and attentiv...
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Categories:
thrashed, conflict, depression, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
The Story Of My Life
...A 5-Liner on your Life Poetry Contest
Andrea Dietrich
The Story Of My Life
When my husband's infidelity thrashed
Into a lit dumpster our marriage dashed
A storybook is blackened
And the pag...
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Categories:
thrashed, divorce, lost love,
Form: Limerick
Implosion
...The universe grows with such momentum,
galaxies go where the big bang sent 'em -
expanding forever.
Bully for the universe,
but I feel I'm going in reverse,
fearing something worse
with no ho...
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Categories:
thrashed, depression, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Grumpy Gnome Gets a Reward
...Brownie, elf, faeries, pixies and small root sprout
In this meadow are twirling, whirling, and dancing about
Showing the green dragon a magical escape route
Leading him to freedom, without a doubt...
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Categories:
thrashed, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
We Fall in Love and They Have No Mercy
...{"You mugged out all of the resonant voices whispering in your head, you summoned them to go noiseless against your cranium. You beseeched not to be an overthinker, nor to forge as one of them. It wa...
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Categories:
thrashed, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Honey On Asphalt
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In the crevices of a tired town,
roaches scuttle under moonlit sighs,
their dinky bodies torn by shadows
that shroud the crumbling edges of life.
A cat lounges, indifferent,
i...
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Categories:
thrashed, allusion, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse
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