In The Waiting Room
...Let me introduce myself
My name is suicide
I live in the shadows
Just at the back of your mind
You’ll probably never meet me
Sometimes I'm on posters
Usually in your doctor’s waiting room
You ...
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Categories:
trial run, anxiety, dark, suicide,
Form: Free verse
OPEN AIR TRIAL RUN
...potato pancakes heavily buttered
cheese grits heavily buttered
leftover corn on the cob heavily buttered
the best buttermilk biscuits ever made not heavily buttered
laughing at things that i wa...
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Categories:
trial run, growing up, growth, how
Form: Free verse
Bad Blood
...the hole in the street
is a gaping wound
it’s been here
for two months
now
the walls in the house
groan and ache
as the front yard
hides in shadows
the night is an ocean
set in front of me
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Categories:
trial run, allegory, community, dark, loss,
Form: Verse
Trial Run 15
...The glossy fur and full body that Grunt
had taken on was put down to the care showered upon her.After realizing she was in fact a female
for a moment she was referred to as Gruntessa
but quickly ...
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Categories:
trial run, birth,
Form: Narrative
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 71
...The preparations were almost complete when Lumi reappeared down stairs. He seemed preoccupied and burnished an all encompassing smile across his face.
“Lumi... Lumi,” Joulupukki had to repeat ...
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Categories:
trial run, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Scalar and Vector
...now we come to the taboo part of our presentation
in which the secret of all time will be revealed
to those who wish to understand understanding
characters arranged in uncharacteristic sequence
a...
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Categories:
trial run, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Older Than Dirt
...Older than dirt, 1932 in May
long before I saw the light of day,
The Moon Rocket was published, stellar piece.
staccato was its mark of expertise.
I was three in 1947.
At the top of the stai...
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Categories:
trial run, 11th grade, me, mom,
Form: Quatrain
You Killed Someone
...How does it make you feel knowing that you killed someone emotionally? How do you live with yourself and go on, now that you’re free?
Are you that selfish and cruel as to not even give them a second...
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Categories:
trial run, anger, heartbreak, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Sweetheart Pretense
...Sweet-heart
Can fool you
To really think
What they will be like
One year is not enough
Trial run okay?
Sounds like self-doubts
No pressure
Please choose
You...
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Categories:
trial run, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Ninette
Would You Hire Me: a Resume
...I am applying for the consultant position
of Office Manager for which I will audition.
I am undeniably qualified to deal with nitwits
and idiots I will immediately classify as 'twits.'
My solut...
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Categories:
trial run, business,
Form: Rhyme
Dead Air
...The DJ shuts the fader by mistake,
yet speaks his words in slick and practised tones,
but doesn’t hear them coming through his ’phones,
berates himself: That’s quite a gaffe to make.
That’s five ...
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Categories:
trial run, satire,
Form: Sonnet
May Peace Ring New
...The bell does toll the death of one,
yet, extols the birth of the new.
Within a blink, it has begun,
the joyful cries, sung out on cue.
May coming days be full of virtue.
The days gone by, a trial r...
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Categories:
trial run, holiday,
Form: Quintain (English)
Test the Heart
...I may not understand all the time
But I know people see it plainly
The feelings that others share
Coincide with mine
When it really matters
I see the heart, the center of it all
I desire hers truly
A...
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Categories:
trial run, love, feelings, love, may,
Form: Free verse
' State of Grace '
...There is no State of Grace
Let The MapQuest Show
There is no State of Grace
If Found Too Far Below:
The Country on The HighWay
The Continent on The Hills
Or Kingdom in Clouds of Heaven’s Ba...
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Categories:
trial run, faith, inspirational, life
Form: I do not know?
Trial Run
...Trial run
He said
I said
We tried
He couldn’t
I didn’t
Goodbye...
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Categories:
trial run, funny, life
Form: I do not know?
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