Monotonal
...Listening to a poem recited
in your head as you read it
can become a monotonal drone,
lacking verve, color, context and texture.
So much better to hear it read aloud to you
especially by the au...
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Categories:
underdone, poems, poetry, voice,
Form: Free verse
Under Do It
...A life spoken of too much
locks the museum door behind it.
If you write it all down
eyeballs will skate over the
rambling litter.
Many claim to have a book in them
one worth telling to all....
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Categories:
underdone, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Fooled Forever Fooled
...My man’s veiled message unclear
I’ve dallied for four long years
Sis, have I ever been
Fooled!
Turns on the charm on a whim
Parades what you saw in him
Just a tad so you are
Fooled
There’s no...
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Categories:
underdone, song,
Form: Lyric
P Q R S T U
...Playful pony promenade
Quietly quizzing querulous quail
Respite regulated regimented rabbits
Studiously steering sterling striped starlings
Tricking trinkets, trunks and tributaries
Undervalued,...
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Categories:
underdone, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: ABC
Expression
...Running on the ocean of life
Swimming in the desert of wind
Walking on the ramp of feelings
I drink the glass of liquid milk from the eyes
Youthful winter touches the prenatal chamber
The raw ...
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Categories:
underdone, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Spartenatte
...American beauty
grass is greener on all sides
the power of denial
Angela left underdone
structure and discipline home...
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Categories:
underdone, anxiety, endurance, games, introspection,
Form: Tanka
Legacy of the Green Monster
...Legacy of the Green Monster
An odd green monster
Resides within the corner
Of my kitchen sink –
Mouth open,
Stomach rumbling,
Whispering feed me – feed me now -
Ready to receive scr...
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Categories:
underdone, environment, garden,
Form: Free verse
Night of Memories
...On my walls still drips our night of memories
Donning underdone hues of love's shambles
Fingers running through through it tastes silent stories
I see dense darkness refracted on...
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Categories:
underdone, anxiety, sad, sad love,
Form: Rhyme
Try This Won
...speak it as it was to be
something for a world of
people to love and admire.
delicious and special.
she wanted something that was flavored naturally.
we determined that a sweet fruity flavor wou...
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Categories:
underdone, food, french, science, sweet
Form: Ballade
And How She Tried
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The scent of underdone eggs
Reminds me of my mother
And how she tried
To make my life possible.
Something is bringing back
The smile on my face again,
Something grand is happening
I...
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Categories:
underdone, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Dear God
...DEAR GOD,
why must I see the road blocked--
and make the about-turn?
I want to know something--
why must all my dream become oblique
and blatantly bare?
your generosity stills stands--
wait...
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Categories:
underdone, devotion,
Form: Epic
Books I'Ve Read - * the Catcher In the Rye *
...School was crummy. Classmates mean.
Holden Caulfield, aged sixteen
dropped out to the New York City scene.
There he wandered, Sorrow's Son,
overgrown but underdone.
Seared by girls, it wasn't fu...
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Categories:
underdone, education,
Form: Rhyme