You Can’t Take What You Can’t Give
...I’ll handle the rejection as a merit in my spirit, as I did once when I was a kid.
The townspeople will turn all of the sprinklers on when spring has made its arrival apparent on April Fools.
The...
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Categories:
townspeople, absence, abuse, addiction, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Dont mess with Arkansas
...Small Arkansas town had tolerated enough
Deceased bully is now not so tough
Lots of guns blasted the square that day
They did not give the brute time to pray
Gunshot came from every direction a...
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Categories:
townspeople, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
The Ballad of Barley Pettigrew - in Three Parts
...I - Barley Pettigrew
I'll tell you a story, outstandingly true,
of the young lad called Barley Pettigrew.
He was born with nine fingers on his hands.
For how high he could count, it met his de...
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Categories:
townspeople, bird, flower, love, silly,
Form: Rhyme
I Can No Longer Fight You
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{“You can’t fight for what’s left in you,
You cannot fight against the waging war that disrupts within you.
You can’t be against it, it was fulfilled with nature, the nature of you with every i...
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Categories:
townspeople, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Boo!
...In the chill of night, when shadows dance and sway,
A tale of Halloween, I'm bound to convey.
A story woven from the threads of scare,
Beware the whispers in the haunted air.
In a quaint old...
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Categories:
townspeople, halloween, horror, scary,
Form: Rhyme
The Balangiga Bells
...The whole of Eastern Samar
Is commemorating its historic
Battle joined by local patriots
Of Balangiga and neighboring towns
On September 28 1901, the only battle won
By fighting Filipinos ag...
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Categories:
townspeople, culture, freedom, history, people,
Form: Narrative
This banks in the tank'
...Is Mc'quarie bank loosing the plot? as it dreams gray digits
And attempts in fact a blot.! To remove the lifelines of cheuqe and cash, that bedrock.' Australia this is like a sneak attack smash grab...
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Categories:
townspeople, courage, encouraging, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Does the Gog and Magog war happen during the tribulation part seven Q and A
...Q: Immediately after the Gog and Magog war what does the Sovereign LORD
instruct the townspeople of Israel to do pertaining to Gog? Ezekiel 39:9
A: "Then those who live in the towns of I...
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Categories:
townspeople, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Beardacious
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There was a man who was quite weird
With a chunk sticking from his beard
So I helped myself
And pulled out an elf
Which wasn’t as bad as I feared
But when we thought that his strange beard
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Categories:
townspeople, fantasy, fun, hair,
Form: Limerick
Demon Radio
...Embroiled in
Pre-dawn delusions
Assuming the
Cloud covered moon is
Destroying its symbolism
For my own amusement
As the parking lot becomes
Mystical, enlightened
Full of
Ambient apparitions ...
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Categories:
townspeople, crazy, dream, heaven, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse
The Opulent Bird of Peace
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12/22/2023
In the softest, snowflaked, winter moonlight she walks
The townspeople peered out their frosted windows fora
chance peak.
Not a precious fe...
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Categories:
townspeople, allegory, change, peace,
Form: Rhyme
robot man protects me from aliens
...Robot man I bought back in sixty-nine
Looks scary, ominous, totally ultra-fine.
When the invaders came, I put him in my yard.
They terrorized others, but thought he was a guard.
These spaceship...
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Categories:
townspeople, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
La Ferme
...It was a cool, overcast and windy Sunday afternoon in March 2014. We were about 50 miles from Paris, at my Grandmère’s (grandmother’s) farm. She lives in Paris, but she owns a Château and surrounding...
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Categories:
townspeople, 4th grade, easter, family,
Form: Free verse
The Showdown
...'Twas an ominous moment when rode into town
To its marshal defy and outdraw and gun down
A notorious, murderous varmint named Slade
Who had widows and orphans throughout the west made.
The ...
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Categories:
townspeople, adventure, history, humor, parody,
Form: Quatrain
Twits Terrible Nitwits
...past knoxville and idaho city there are a pair of adorable nitwits.
townspeople refer to them as kooky oddballs, a couple of twits.
their name is easy to learn. she is backward ditz; he is fritz.
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Categories:
townspeople, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
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