Pixie within the pink
...Pixie within the pink
let me swirl your tyranny into the high-octaved melody of my earliest endurance
Right as the clock ticked to six, the creaking sound of my mother’s war cry made me bury myself...
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Categories:
trampolines, 10th grade, children, color,
Form: Lyric
July Daydreams
...Summer heat fades away.
The crisp nip of an Autumn breeze
brings in skeletal trees without leaves.
Soon comes the icy winter night;
the gnawing frostbite.
Spring provides a moment of warm peace...
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Categories:
trampolines, america, firework, july, sunshine,
Form: Rhyme
trampolines
...jumping fun for kids
adults can join in also
we don't bounce like kids...
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Categories:
trampolines, fun,
Form: Haiku
Stoicism is the Key
...In silence, when darkness
envelopes the sky,
unlock the glass windows
of your mind,
forgive the stars
that veiled their silver,
for it is in times of
confusion and calamity,
we paint ...
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Categories:
trampolines, feelings, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Beside Behind Water and Fire
...In the hot A-Ga-Ming night
My wife and I skip the July 4th fireworks
At the sandbar down south on long Torch Lake
Start our own shoreline fire
Count the red electrified dorsal fins
Of the mo...
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Categories:
trampolines, age, love, marriage, moving
Form: Free verse
How To Take Care of a Woman
...Give her teeth. Women like teeth
Women like attention. Give her babies
Marry her but only once
Drive her to the cliff but never over it
Hold her hand because holding her feet looks ridi...
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Categories:
trampolines, appreciation, care, devotion, education,
Form: Free verse
A Bus Full of Books Please
...We have won the lottery, but we do not want to spoil you
Mamma Sandwich said to her daughter, eight-year-old Lou.
Your papa says we will buy you one thing that you want badly.
If it is within reas...
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Categories:
trampolines, books,
Form: Rhyme
Dilly-Dally of Dandelions
...The base word “dally,” from old French used to mean to chat idly.
dilly-dally of dandelions - seeds on fire, blown
downward. inspire
molten icing— erupting,
disrupting th...
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Categories:
trampolines, angst,
Form: Free verse
Airborne Extreme
...Arriving for my first visit, not knowing what to expect
Instantly awestruck at the plethora of trampolines
Ready to jump feet first into a new adventure.
Bouncing up, d...
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Categories:
trampolines, adventure, appreciation, boy, childhood,
Form: Acrostic
Shadow Man
...walks with trampolines on his feet
Cracks jokes with the mortician
Reminds you of drunk uncle Todd at any wedding ever
Chops oak trees with a single swift swing
Smartest in the room full of docto...
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Categories:
trampolines, birthday, drug, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
Enthusaistic Looking Religous People
...[the Egyptians are extremely interesting to us today
for various reasons. How science today wishes to
understand the secret ingredients where that the Egyptians
used when they wrapped up dead p...
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Categories:
trampolines, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hoppity Hopper
...It seems I really loved to hop around,
to have my feet come off, then back on ground.
I got a pogo stick I used all year
and wore out quickly once I learned to steer!
At 15, I was not the s...
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Categories:
trampolines, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Our First Crush
...There was a time when I was young,
My cousin Glenn and I,
Did fall in love with one young man,
Whose face and form were fine.
He had a twinkle in his eye,
A movie star like smile,
And it was ...
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Categories:
trampolines, childhood,
Form: Quatrain
The Haunting Dirty Blonde Knight-Where Are the Avalanches
...Stars are at their peak
Giving each other pecks on the cheek
Telling friends watching in fantasy land what they speak
How wonderful it is
Being in television movie making biz
Having a Bah c...
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Categories:
trampolines, adventure, film, marriage, snow,
Form: Rhyme
A Kansas Tornado
...No escapees from this tornado
July and August so busy
Disheveled yards and faces
Trampolines blown over
Wind chimes blown to bits
Tearing things up
Ominous
Kansas
Wind...
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Categories:
trampolines, natural disasters,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
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