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Tricky Maneuver

...Which is trickier, slipping or sliding?
The ice out there is a hard quarter inch. 
Which is riskier, gripping or gliding?
  
  I'm digging down deep in the workroom bench;
  I remember they are ...

Categories: trickier, 11th grade, winter,
Form: Terzanelle

A Plea With Nature

...The blizzard is gaining strength,
the frozen pond is turning white,
trees bend and frightened shallows hide;
I put a yardstick into the freezing snow,
bend forward and measure its length:
ah, it...

Categories: trickier, bird, silence, snow, solitude,
Form: Rhyme

Inventing a Video Game

...First of all a spider falls out of the sky
Landing on your head 
Which is not funny because it is a heavy spider!
So you fall down into a potted plant 

Wood ticks begin crawling up your arms no...

Categories: trickier, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

A B C D E F G Etcetera

...Awful avocados always
Breathe bitter blue breaths
Craving cardinal’s Christmas carols
Ditching deliberate dungarees during
Elusive extraterrestrial escapades.
Forsaking fitful Floridian flamingo...

Categories: trickier, words,
Form: Abecedarian

Trixie Hates Symmetry

...My desk is lopsided. Everything has slid to the floor.
I am working on it any way; it is a new perspective.
I have to keep on my toes – catch things as they slide.
It used to be I would just put a...

Categories: trickier, art, muse,
Form: Prose Poetry

My Pure Love For Math

...Mathematics used to be called Arithmetic.
I was the last one to know they had renamed it.
I was in sixth grade, and furious when I discovered no one had told me.
Addition. Okay. No problem.

Sub...

Categories: trickier, parody,
Form: Dramatic Verse

All I Have Is Time

...Through chasms of dust and flame Wrought by thunder, fire, rain There be I; the observer. 
Throughout the ages, countless names they did prescribe; The harvester, the one who guides, a prince, time....

Categories: trickier, death, feelings,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Feb 14

...chocolate hearts and candies in boxes
play their part in having me nauseous 
passion a project for the masses 
roses in package, romance the passage
red, white and pink, fed right in the link
bed tim...

Categories: trickier, funny, humorous, lonely, love,
Form: Rhyme

Who Is My ' Not-I'

...It’s a tough  , tough  call
Too..too many things to recall
A few sticking on as remembrance.
Too horrid or huge or humorous
A bundle of points  ponderously fall,
While I try encrypting  into my scraw...

Categories: trickier, life,
Form: Free verse