who lived in this place
...the whispers were barely perceptible
there was scuffling and shuffling
were ghosts up here then?
I took a peek expecting to see people
there was a steampunk like robot facing the door
his eyes...
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Categories:
verne, poets,
Form: Free verse
If I were a Submarine
...If I were a submarine
I would jump out of the water
Checking to see if other ships
Were doing what they ought-er
Jules Verne would come back
And write lively stories about me
I would be deeme...
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Categories:
verne, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
A Place Not Meant To Be: Part I
...A Place Not Meant To Be
PART: I (810 of 1487 words)
#1: A Day Begins
Sand grains station elevated for want
in the cool starless relics spell of dark
a sun behold horizo...
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Categories:
verne, analogy,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
A Place Not Meant To Be: 03
...#3: Tis Twilight Time
Goal hour is here ... the spirit joins the soul,
ephemeral or twilight ... or two worlds,
dreams; exchange facts for fiction ... a black hole,
furtherance, ly...
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Categories:
verne, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Colonoscopy
...Colonoscopy
Colonoscopy,
strikes dread. It’s not too bad - when
Colon trouble free.
Jules Verne-like travel,
up your ****, spelunking through
strange, pink-ridged caverns.
Hunting for ...
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Categories:
verne, endurance, farewell, humanity, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Creative Cerebral Craftiness Coaxes
...Creative cerebral craftiness coaxes...
Childhood campy chimera curtain call
subsequently hinting (based on accuweather)
the approach of blizzard squall
so burrow under quilted cover y'all
unti...
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Categories:
verne, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Rhyme
How New Is Steampunk
...Excited steampunk creators
Designing in dastardly studios and attics
Working with fascinating gears and copper levers
A whole new world envisioned in a collective remembrance
Jules Verne watches ...
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Categories:
verne, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Syracuse Departure
...SYRACUSE DEPARTURE
Twelve degrees at seven AM
and the weather a sharp bitter
force off Lake Ontario
The daybreak is luminescent
gray, the bright star rising, the
cloud cover glowing like the
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Categories:
verne, journey,
Form: Free verse
Origami Kiss
...Dragonflies impossibly maneuver,
defying aerodynamics.
Obviously, there is something wrong with our
calculations,
even bumble bees behave like U.F.O’s.
Da Vinci, sketched flying machines
ever...
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Categories:
verne, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Fog of the Altar
...To Jules Verne
A man feeling drowse at the top of the mountain, fell asleep.
He dreamed dreams
emanating from floods of seas.
In remote droughts,
he gave his fruit of smoke
o...
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Categories:
verne, change, faith, flower, gospel,
Form: Epyllion
Noisy Cat
...You have the hysterical look of mutes
that roar through narrow straws.
I see in your yellow eyes – a Jules Verne winking moon.
Soon that ribbed pink cave will release
another flock of demented co...
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Categories:
verne, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Going My Way
...We're on a journey of exploration, a long-deferred vacation
There's room for you too … Come with us, and your essence renew
We've been so busy surviving, striving, never quite thriving
It...
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Categories:
verne, africa, sea, travel, universe,
Form: Rhyme
From My Lips To Santa's Ears 'Crowned 3-Piece Sonnet'
...Hello Santa, Nice to meet you this year
I've been very good, come rain or shine
I know what your thinking, you have your fears
But I don't want anything big this time
I just want some books (ten ...
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Categories:
verne, christmas, fun, holiday,
Form: Sonnet
Our Mother
...'Our Mother'
Our Mother - a sophisticated lady
Always destined for the top
You'd never see her walk on by
A top designer shop
So impeccably presented;
Amazing handbag, clothes and shoe
Ev...
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Categories:
verne, death, funeral, mother, mother
Form: Rhyme
A Side of Fries
...A Side of Fries
Verne had never had the nerve before.
He stood before her, looked into her eyes
asking “you gonna eat all of those fries?”
Hunger’s hands holding hollow hope.
12/20...
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Categories:
verne, hope,
Form: Verse
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