Chella
...The home where Chella grew up, in the ghetto of Liberty City Florida, had beige carpets so old that pieces of the tuft and twirl would come out of the backing under-foot.
The apartment window shade...
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Categories:
tuft, childhood, feelings, friend, history,
Form: Free verse
I Wandered Weightless as a Feather
...after “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth
I wandered weightless as a feather,
a muted plume from mourning dove.
A tuft afloat in breezy weather
connected now to ski...
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Categories:
tuft, beauty, freedom, joy, nature,
Form: Lyric
Clinging To My Brow
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Veiled by clever branches, limbs
silken strands, protecting me
from the eyes who’re like pseudonyms
beckoning with iris’ clever and wild
secreted beneath gossamers, flowing
in ...
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Categories:
tuft, hair,
Form: Other
Hair Cut
...My hair used to be all black
Later, mostly black tuft with white wisp
Now, a bunch of white
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Categories:
tuft, hair,
Form: Other
Heir
...The house of my life
Is rotted and cracked.
The floorboards are warped,
And all of my broken windows
Welcome wind.
But from the rubble,
I’ll piece out a coat,
Made from my very best pieces ...
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Categories:
tuft, loss, love, parents,
Form: Free verse
My cat can’t be happy
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Ok God hear it is
I spent eons perfecting an animal that cares about nothing I call it a……Cat
Gabriel beams as he places it gently in Gods lap
Could you please remove it
It is making a weir...
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Categories:
tuft, poems,
Form: Free verse
An Old Factory in Footscray
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It has stood abandoned for years,
the toxic soil too costly
for developers to clean up.
It's vast, dark, gutted interior
echoes an absence.
And yet a tuft of grass
has pushed up through t...
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Categories:
tuft, age, poems, time,
Form: Free verse
The Gift
...The Gift
By – Roger White
Each year, there is moment when I must sit alone in the dark dread of a cold winter night before I gather with family in the glow of a toasty fireplace. It is a mo...
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Categories:
tuft, 12th grade, celebration, christmas,
Form: Free verse
tabby in winter
...Tabby in winter, with a tuft of snow on your head
You got slammed when they came down on that sled
If you get buried, it may be quite a little while
Before we can save you, St Bernard said with a ...
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Categories:
tuft, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
in the nature
...Well, I must say that I did not want to walk two hours, some days I am downright tired of diabetes
So I drove to Logonna Daoulas after a visit to the Kerdrein strike for the view of Brest, days it...
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Categories:
tuft, animal, nature,
Form: Prose
the dove
...just then,
a dove descended
to a branch, of mountain ash
growing in my yard.
as it fluttered to gain its footing,
its wings brushed the leaves.
a small tuft of feather
was torn from i...
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Categories:
tuft, break up, first love,
Form: Free verse
Dust Bunnies
...Dust bunnies are angry today.
They don’t want to be swept away.
When spring appears, it is dangerous.
It’s when the dust bunnies hiss.
When the outdoor bunnies come about.
The dust bun...
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Categories:
tuft, spring,
Form: Rhyme
A Lovers' Heartbeat Anacreontic Verse
...Timeless lyrical,
compassionate dance,
a shifting effect
of light and color,
the glowing full moon
conducts in folk tune.
Indispensable
distant humble stars
spring a russet, sign.
White unfo...
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Categories:
tuft, silence,
Form: Lyric
tabby in winter
...Tabby in winter, with a tuft of snow on your head
You got slammed when they came down on that sled
If you get buried, it may be quite a little while
Before we can save you, St Bernard said with a ...
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Categories:
tuft, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Wisp of Rags to Riches
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Wispy, you stop it, stop being so cute,
adopter-of-warrior-orphanry spokesKitty.
Little miss adapter to Life on the road
with your beautiful hearted...
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Categories:
tuft, love,
Form: Ode
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