precious advice
...And if finally, instead of opening your new phone,
You looked at your garden calmly languid,
You stroked the broad leaves of the green fig,
Listen to the hot rhododendron song,
If you took the ...
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Categories:
vert, garden, happiness,
Form: Free verse
writing poetry is my mistake
...Sometimes writing poetry is my mistake,
Better to embark on a large cargo ship,
Which will take you to Tahiti or Honolulu,
Better give candy to a blue-eyed schoolgirl,
Sometimes writing poetry ...
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Categories:
vert, appreciation, missing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Sadness of the Brazilian Forests
...I write the sadness of the Brazilian forests,
About modern centuries and glass cities,
Tattooed Indians who are murdered too,
For a handle of gold or green diamond,
I write the greatness of Br...
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Categories:
vert, nature, sad, society,
Form: Free verse
Magpies Comunicate With the Dead
...Do magpies communicate with the dead?
It is not uncommon to see magpies in a cemetery
Silent and calm, watch over the graves,
The flowery tombs and the so dogmatic crosses
I often see them in ...
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Categories:
vert, bird, death, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Dad Is My Hero
...He was such a beautiful soul
That left too soon for me
His laughter always came through
He reminded me of Santa because
He always jiggles when he laughs
And he would give you his last dollar
He...
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Categories:
vert, family,
Form: Free verse
Les Perce - Neige
...Je vois partout de beaux bouquets
de clochettes blanches à l’air fragile ;
Ces petites fleurs aux têtes courbées
feuilles vert-foncé et tiges graciles.
Sur une pelouse forestière
un tapis blan...
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Categories:
vert, appreciation, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Lost and Found
...Lingering longingly, lost love laments
Obstreperous outrage, overintense
Sorrowful solitude, sad, sluggish since
Tumultuous tantrums, terrible, tense
Amorous ...
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Categories:
vert, love,
Form: Alliteration
Memories of High School Dances
...We girls, dressed our vert best!
Curled our hair, a tad of makeup.
Clothes, must most modest be.
Skirts, well below the knee!
Boys had to wear suits.
To respect us with utmost chivalry.
An...
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Categories:
vert, dance, high school, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Tomorrow, At Dawn- Demain, Des L'Aube
...French Version -
Demain, dès l'aube by Victor Hugo
Demain, dès l’aube, à l’heure où blanchit la campagne,
Je partirai. Vois-tu, je sais que tu m’attends.
J’irai par la forêt, j’irai par la mo...
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Categories:
vert, grief,
Form: Verse
Where Are You Now
..."Where are you now?"
Where were you when l needed perspective from the perception of imperfections?
Where were you when l fell of the ledge trying to be like Lil Uzi Vert pushed to egde cause all...
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Categories:
vert, betrayal, blessing, break up,
Form: Free verse
La Fee Vert
...La FEE VERTE
One of those muggy summer evenings in New Orleans– the heat, my god, the heat! The air almost stifling– humidity so high the damp clung to your shoulders and you felt you were walking...
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Categories:
vert, angst, appreciation, character, culture,
Form: Prose Poetry
Mask
...L-et
Y-our
M-ask
A-vert
R-espiratory
S-ickness
O-nce
R-abid
I-nfection
A-ttacks
N-ose
O-ffensively
Topic: Birthday of Bro. Lymar Soriano (April 08)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...
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Categories:
vert, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Sneeze of Nasal Jeopardy
...J-ust
A-vert
S-neeze
O-f
N-asal
&
J-eopardy
A-nd
C-ough's
K-iller
I-nfection
E-vading
B-arbaric
A-nd
S-preading
A-ntagonist
Topic: Anniversary of Jason & Jackie Basa (April 07...
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Categories:
vert, anniversary,
Form: Acrostic
Conversationing Vogon-
..."Vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvzz!
Volicious vress visitations ver virtuous Virgo visits ver veux venomous visitation velocity voice vorest vert volatile velocities vert Vivid ver variations velocity vorgan voic...
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Categories:
vert, engagement, proposal, space, spoken
Form: Vogon Poetry
Translation With Commentary of On Est Les Oublies By T Wignesan
...Translation of « On est les oubliés » (They/We are the neglected and forgotten lot)
by the songster-poet Gauvin SERS
(For the last two years, this young unassuming Frenchman, full of verve and d...
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Categories:
vert, 4th grade, anger, children,
Form: Free verse
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