Music Box Pops
...Baby blue balloon,
looks like a globe,
topped
with a girly, pink bow.
It’s floating up
with pop music;
with key tines,
our hearts dropped.
The dulcet d...
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Categories:
tines, imagery, music,
Form: Verse
I got
...I got to have a shoulder to rest
My head when
I am tired
I got to grieve
The loss of my sister
That past away
I got to say thanks
To my friends for
Supporting me all through the
Years
I got...
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Categories:
tines, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Ear-Splitting, Liver-Bellied Bullying
...plink, plink, water in the sink
sinks slowly into budding suds
torturing the pans and fork tines
who want cascade - show on the road
plink, plop, hands over ears, now stop
but slowly the spatter...
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Categories:
tines, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Plagued By Memories
...Memories of whip-lashing words
steeped me deep into a roil of rancid oil
my soul a weeping blistered sore
my heart a gangrene amputee
pus-green-memories rupture to plague me
infection still...
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Categories:
tines, abuse, dark, memory, pain,
Form: Free verse
Kalimba Notes Drift Out
...Kalimba notes drift out
To my delighted ear
As if the Matobo plains
Were conveyed from afar.
The tines - reverberating -
Complete an ethereal bar.
Each bar - artfully plucked -
Speaks kindly t...
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Categories:
tines, africa, heart, music,
Form: Rhyme
The House that, Eli the deceased priest, built for the LORD, part seven NIV
...1 Samuel 5:8- part seven God's judgment upon the Philistines and Dagon, their
false god, for their oppression of Israel continued.
So they moved the ark of the God of Israel. But after they had...
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Categories:
tines, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Why Raindrops Drip and Drop in Time
...Why raindrops drip and drop in time,
not timorous; divine.
A splash, playful
in a pond of koi brass.
Tines of Sankyo, priceless precipitation;
A plink and plunk, Chopin;
“Till the End o...
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Categories:
tines, rain,
Form: Free verse
The Gun Shop
...The gun seems gun-shy in this space;
where deer hides hang on rustic walls
and granddad-tick-tocks beat, instead
of hearts in hollowed skins. The gun
a “trophy-bagger” in its rack,
a loud-m...
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Categories:
tines, animal, conflict, death, life,
Form: Quatrain
Little Red Riding Hood
...
She sewed all day and she sewed all night then gave her daughter a red cape, some bread and a brave warning, "Grandma needs you so remember, don't dilly dally in the forest Ruby. Wolves are sniff...
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Categories:
tines, funny, smart,
Form: Haibun
Why I stopped going to Denny's
...It's because of the bacon.
Yeah, it looks good on the menu, sitting there at the rim of the plate. Glistening. Archetypally ridged and ruffled. Positioned perfectly next to the eggs over easy, the...
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Categories:
tines, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Loved By You
...'His Love'.....is a Love we can Depend upon, it feels good to know this, Amen.
Feels so good to be Loved by You…
faith’s mirror reflects ‘us’ in its view.
Awesome You! …whereby befo...
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Categories:
tines, 11th grade, appreciation, christian,
Form: Rhyme
The Proper Utensils
...The Fork said to the Spoon,
I want you for my wife.
The Spoon said to the Fork,
I just got married to the Knife.
The Knife said to the Fork,
Best keep your tines to yourself.
The Fork said to...
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Categories:
tines, humor,
Form: Rhyme
A Rakish Tale
...Once the “go to guy”
I linger, ever hopeful
Of a need to fill.
Long for the
Tickle
Of long grass
Crackle
of fallen leaves
Scent
of the garden.
I am older
my handle
slightly splintered
my...
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Categories:
tines, age, dedication,
Form: Metrical Tale
A Fork In the Road
...It was the best of tines; it was the worst of tines.
It lay, distraught, in silence on the road.
He came around the curve, saw it too late to swerve;
the puncture caused his front tire to ...
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Categories:
tines, destiny, meaningful,
Form: Metrical Tale
Doggerel Artist
...It was some hours of purgatory,
Self imposed, but all the same,
He thought of it as purgatory as
He listened to them declaim
Their long strings of words with
No apparent rhyme or reason,
As if...
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Categories:
tines, culture, spoken word, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
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