Unseasoned Shoes
...What was he thinking when he dropped
by shoelaces his unseasoned shoes?
Did they splash or plip-plop land on lake?
Did they sink like a pirate’s treasure or
was this considered treasonous, by...
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Categories:
unseasoned, child,
Form: Free verse
Stepford Ice
...‘Normalcy’
has its
depression
built in
Mundane
and ill formed
life hiding
from sin
Each day
like the former
unseasoned
and bland
With time
in the freezer
hope frozen
— and canne...
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Categories:
unseasoned, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Untitled
...My life is untitled
Maybe because I have no direction. I am always stressing to keep with the group in fear of abandoning the safe shield from opinion. Shielding me from the choice of a goal in a ...
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Categories:
unseasoned, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
My Future Self
... “looking back, I’m ashamed of what I was
I’m different now, though not without flaws
Each crest becomes a trough, as we move on
God slowly steers soul towards a new dawn” Unseeking Se...
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Categories:
unseasoned, muse,
Form: Free verse
Generalizing People is Ignorant and Unkind
...Inez is haughty and stuck up said they
I did not care, decided to meet her and stay
Having heard their strange ideas before
They stereotyped people forevermore
All Africans are this, all Irish ...
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Categories:
unseasoned, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Tempest's Flail
...Epigraph:
When Sailors go to Sea,
and seek distant lands.
As every man Knows,
The Reaper's at Hand.
So, that's how it Goes
and that's how it stands.
When Sailors go to Sea,
And seek Distant...
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Categories:
unseasoned, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Replete With Colonial Army Spirits
...Though I posted the following poem
(B)efore (C)ovid, a sense
of glee donned my being
the notion arose to trumpet anew
said literary handily crafted endeavor.
Not far from here – Perkiomen V...
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Categories:
unseasoned, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Weight of Love
...If asked, what could I live without?
Love would not make my list – up to
my ears in years of loveless hearts,
cold to the touch, insensitive to the
word...life without love seems deathly
absurd!...
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Categories:
unseasoned, death, emotions, heartbreak, love,
Form: Free verse
The Pond Gulls
...The Pond was drained,
revealing umpteen minnows;
they wriggle in the residual water
turning in silvered arabesques
choregraphed by a water-rippling wind.
Large ocean-going gulls descend out of...
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Categories:
unseasoned, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Foundations
...The house I wrote in
became an apartment for the ocean,
then a zoo for the innocently maladjusted,
then a garden for dreaming cats,
then floor-space - just floor space
to walk back and forth on....
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Categories:
unseasoned, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Vagabond Dreams
...Amidst reality of my life two single things remain
inflection of your voice and glow of your tender eyes
held safe by this memory we become transparent rain
wild as the tidal waves of Bri...
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Categories:
unseasoned, appreciation, love,
Form: Quintain (English)
The Kiss
...That kiss is still moving,
lips pursed, migrating in time
until my own lips pucker
sensing bubblegum lipstick.
That unseasoned taste of young lips
now wayfaring and rekindled
within a hun...
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Categories:
unseasoned, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Saluting Salt
...Sprinkle of grit in the creases of faces terrestrial
Depravity aided by YouTube love advice tutorials
Doll eyes gloss lips curvaceous torso ubiquitous
Entices spiceless meat frozen with unhappine...
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Categories:
unseasoned, angst,
Form: Couplet
You Were My First
...one after the other
all my mistakes i did with you
took life for granted
i was unseasoned and naïve
yes i should have known better
but i was young and foolish
it’s been a long time coming
i sh...
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Categories:
unseasoned, relationship, sorry, youth,
Form: Free verse
Younger Rooms
...The house I wrote this poem in
became an apartment for the ocean,
then a zoo for the innocently maladjusted,
then a garden for dreaming cats,
then floor-space - just floor space
to walk back an...
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Categories:
unseasoned, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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