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THE WRONGS OF SPRING - GLOBAL WARNING
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JAN ALLISON
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warning, confusion, flower, garden,
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TRAPPED
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DIANE PERNA
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warning, animal, anti bullying, anxiety,
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Jaded And Hoping
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Kurt Philip Behm
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warning, hope,
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Introducing, tha Jesta,Warning: Do not read if you like To kill a mockingbird
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Word Awl
| Free verse |
warning, america, angel, discrimination, fairy,
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a good point
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Roof Missing
| Haiku |
warning, nature,
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Same old dream
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Greig Turnbull
| Free verse |
warning, dream, i am,
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Increasingly Palindromic Seasons
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Jesse Rowe
| Rhyme |
warning, word play,
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Is Your House In Order
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Milton Robertson
| Prose Poetry |
warning, blessing, change, confidence, dedication,
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New Neighbors, Part I
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Rhona McFerran
| Free verse |
warning, community, humanity, humor, humorous,
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Dead Man's Prologue
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Kevin Shaw
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warning, death of a friend,
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InterGalactic Love Story
by Caren Krutsinger
It was no cosmic coincidence that a persnickety intergalactic wise guy named Hub
with an arrogant swagger morphed into the center of a crowded fast-moving...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
warning, fantasy,
Thoughts At A Faculty Meeting
by Caren Krutsinger
A Meeting after an eight hour day
Should include jubilant jiving,
Exciting conversation,
Lively chatter,
Not a speaker who drones on and on and on and on and on...
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Prose Poetry |
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Categories:
warning, teacher,
Dancing Desire
by Eileen Manassian
Only a glance, and
her image seared my mind.
Promise stained lips in coy little smile...
voluptuous hips stretching her skirt
A hint of a cleavage drew my eyes
Beguiling,...
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Categories:
warning, desire,
THE UNPLANNED JOURNEY
by John Arribas
THE UNPLANNED JOURNEY
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JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I had a great breakfast gave a nice tip to the girl
I was late, had to swerve to avoid hitting a...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
warning, allegory, allusion, death, destiny,
Pshaw
by Rhona McFerran
“Pshaw!” My grandmother said
as she thumped and bumped about
her crowded kitchen
steam rising, having
heated conversation with herself
Rankled by my grandfather's
latest excuse for not helping
around the house
Thwack!...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
warning, emotions, feelings, grandmother, humor,
The Black Hills wept for Thee
by Quoth TheRaven
The Black Hills wept for Thee
East of the Black Hills of South Dakota,
On the Pine Ridge Reservation,
Live a proud tribe of Oglala Lakota.
Part...
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Ballad |
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Categories:
warning, betrayal, december, fate, loss,
Refurbished Children's Stories: Goldilocks, but just barely
by Jim Slaughter
Not much about Goldilocks
Is really well known,
'cept she liked to hang out
In the woods all alone.
Of other customs and habits
We have just a splintering:
She was...
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Categories:
warning, humor,
Still i am
by CHRISTOPHER QUIGLEY
I hate me
More than any of you could
Still i am
The man who stood
Gravity couldn't pull me down
Looking through space
From the outside in
Taking each pain with...
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Categories:
warning, poetry,
Farrago Go Again With My Gallimaufry
by matthew harris
A nascent hodgepodge
of gobbledygook from me,
or alternatively yours
nada soo true lee,
this incipient harm
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Lyric |
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Categories:
warning, 10th grade, 12th grade,
A Zulu Warrior
by Jack Ellison
Do you sometimes see a Zulu Warrior
Staring back from the mirror in the morning!
A nasty fierce looking bad-tempered dude
Obscenities flying out without warning
Crabbing bout having...
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warning, morning,
Five Stories For A Pen
by Earl Schumacker
Black ink cartridge dead and empty
Once fed blank paper onion white
It was a canon while it lasted
All good copies come to an end
When it ran...
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Categories:
warning, appreciation, confusion, identity,
The warning
by Paul Warren
One day she appeared
And hasn’t since disappeared
She gave a word of warning since repeated
In a manner that was not well greeted
Some laughed it off...
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Categories:
warning, science fiction,
The Eggshell Waltz
by colin mitchell williams
It’s a ballet of carefully choreographed mistakes
a tiptoe dance through a delicate maze
a sudden splinter to catch a thorn
barefoot floor where the eggshells are...
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Categories:
warning, hurt, trust, truth,
Age Four Is Coming
by Caren Krutsinger
I run around frantically, grabbing up anything that could be used as a weapon.
I forgot those scissors were down there, next to the bath tub.
Suddenly...
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Categories:
warning, grandparents,
Dynamic Re Flexion Within The Restless Earth
by matthew harris
Dynamic Re: Flexion Within The Restless Earth
Blame Neptune for unleashing
Indonesian tragic phenomena
just by his innocent...
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Categories:
warning, 11th grade, adventure, atheist,
Rose Hips
by Maurice Rigoler
Like small rosy-skinned apples
they entice like artfully arranged
fruit in a painting by Severin Roesen.
Beneath the appealing rose-dawn
skin, a potent sourness waited
to shock my unsuspecting...
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Imagism |
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Categories:
warning, truth,
love cannot heal me
by jazmine Alcaraz
i had a therapist tell me once, that it is ironic of how much love i gave out cause i didn’t give much to myself....
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ABC |
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warning, 12th grade, art,
love cannot heal me
by jazmine Alcaraz
i had a therapist tell me once, that it is ironic of how much love i gave out cause i didn’t give much to myself....
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ABC |
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Categories:
warning, 12th grade, art,
Black Heart
by Catelyn Meeker
I don’t think you know what you’re in for when you fall in love with me. I’ll have to show you my disease and all...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
warning, break up, character, conflict,
Gomorrah Toys
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
Military maneuvers,
conducted by starship troopers,
make a Lot of king Chedorlaomer noise
Earhole space
penetrated by the Pentagon puffing pace ...
stealth sound of smoke signals
Warning drumbeat signs...
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Alliteration |
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Categories:
warning, truth, violence, war, wisdom,