Unkind
...Once upon a time it was you who was meant to be mine,
But I know better now how we were unusually unkind
To each other, even when we were on each other's minds....
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Categories:
unusually, break up, sad love,
Form: Sijo
milliseconds
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earth and moon conspire
to shorten the days
will we even notice
Earth is expected to spin more quickly in the coming weeks, making some of our days unusually short. On those days the posi...
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Categories:
unusually, nature,
Form: Haiku
Hyena too Squirrely for his Siblings
...Most hyenas are not predictable but Squirrely was the weirdest of all
So strange, he was thrown out of the pack when he was a cub
He’s just so unusually and blatantly odd, said his sister, Maul
Sq...
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Categories:
unusually, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Chaucerian Acrostic
...Can anyone accuse you of pretence?
Are you inflicting pain for pain’s own sake?
So little can be said in your defence –
Unless you have some argument to make,
Apart from spitting venom like a sna...
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Categories:
unusually, lost love,
Form: Acrostic
Panhandling the Panhandler
...Met an eager charming panhandler today
His smile was unusually bright and gay
Hi he said with friendly eyes and big smile
I was on a jog, had gone about a mile
Hi yourself I sang out in a voice...
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Categories:
unusually, humor,
Form: Rhyme
ARTIST
...{For 5x5x3 Poetry Contest
Sponsor : Miranda Hawley
Date submitted: 20/4/25}
ARTIST
They shone daring green avocado
in dark adverse period swearing
guilt ridden heart vanquished...
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Categories:
unusually, art, character, color, emotions,
Form: Free verse
A Tough Nut to Crack
...Violet Smith lived in Center Kingdom. Her neighbors were Jack and Jill;
Like orange sun, of a pink morning, when it's just peeking over blue hills.
With Mother and Father and sister, Ava,...
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Categories:
unusually, fantasy, farm, imagery, magic,
Form: Couplet
elegance means many things
...Elegance means fashion and style
A car, a dress, a man’s business suit
A tuxedo, a blouse, a shirt, a jacket
Graceful lines, sophistication, something chic
Classy, not gaudy or garish
Elegance...
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Categories:
unusually, life,
Form: Free verse
sitting on my porch in Kansas
...It is over sixty degrees today
Unusually warm for pre-March Kansas
I sit on my porch, sunbathing
Wearing corduroy slacks, a jacket and tennis shoes
A swift breeze gives my face a bit of a chill
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Categories:
unusually, life,
Form: Free verse
I tapped into the Flow State Oh what a marvelous day
...I Tapped Into the Flow State
I tapped into the Flow State today
Oh, what a marvelous day.
I tapped into the Flow State today,
Step aside make way!
I tapped into the Flow State today,
Every...
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Categories:
unusually, beautiful, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Lightbulb
...The air writhes for a funnel.
The wind tunnel is unusually special.
Quick sell a landfill a prequel.
Befell death knell in a clam shell.
The lightning bolt on a beach.
Thin glass forms from th...
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Categories:
unusually, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Fck Digital it was real
...digital, it was real
Whenever I went online,
I felt happiness down my spine.
Profile picture and name was fake and stuff,
first they started accusing me for it rightfully, but they must've ...
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Categories:
unusually, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
...Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
as does yours truly,
whose ecological ethos
goes out the window
into the cold freezing iceland
prompting the following balderdash.
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Categories:
unusually, abuse, adventure, anger, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Tale of Lee Ann
...Lee Ann had never tried alcohol before
Had a little sip, then four bottles more
Her sense of humor seemed unusually high
Made friends with a stranger, a handsome young guy
Her judgement was now...
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Categories:
unusually, abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Save Me From The Bare Darkness
...{"I wish somebody, some entity would’ve told me, even warned me with the intuitiveness that lies within the motherly instincts, the nature of humanity without malevolent reluctance.
That lying in t...
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Categories:
unusually, absence, abuse, addiction, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
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