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Two roses
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beach Happiness
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whale, baseball,
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a War
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C Evans
| Free verse |
whale, creation,
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BLIND DATE - NOW A COLLABORATION
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JAN ALLISON
| Limerick |
whale, best friend, humorous, relationship,
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Lust
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Rico Leffanta
| Limerick |
whale, gender, humanity, lust, political,
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rent
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colin heavingham
| ABC |
whale, freedom,
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Covered Dishes Part 2
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stark hunter
| Free verse |
whale, literature,
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My Kind of God
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Roof Missing
| Rhyme |
whale, faith,
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My Door Swings
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Jerry Hackett
| Enclosed Rhyme |
whale, confusion,
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I Am Just What I Am
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Gary Smith
| Personification |
whale, humorous, longing,
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A Marry Time Tale
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Rico Leffanta
| Limerick |
whale, betrayal, desire, food, marriage,
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Short Ribs W: Common Denominators
by Jim Slaughter
A walrus, a whale, and a wildebeest
Have a few things in common to comment on:
They've never read Byron, or Shelley, or Keats,
They don't like asparagus,...
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Categories:
whale, animal, humor,
one night at Skipper Dan's Lunchtable
by Allan Terry
she stood in the window and sung
this to the world
"I am a walrus
the fish in the sea
I am a walrus
ruh1, ruh !
you see
I am a...
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Ballad |
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whale, adventure, beach, courage, fish,
Unfathomably So
by J.W. Earnings
I know I can’t write down
All I feel these days tonight
But, I believe you all get what I mean
When I say that I feel...
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Categories:
whale, angst, appreciation, deep, faith,
Toxic Relationship
by Paris-Maree Boreham
Both of them name-call each other,
never seems to end...
It's food to them; they feed on it,
this heedless, thoughtless trend.
You are so fat just like a...
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whale, abuse, baby, growing up,
Blitzkrieg : A Kookaburra Laughs
by Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
“Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and...
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Categories:
whale, dark, destiny, dream,
Fat
by maddie macleish
Inspired by “Dinosaurs in The Hood” by Danez Smith.
Let’s make a movie. About a fat girl. But in this one, she isn’t bullied all her...
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Categories:
whale, 11th grade, how i
Barren Solitude
by Emile Pinet
I'm out of my element, a beached whale
that can't breathe, drowning in a world of air.
A torn palm tree frond caught up in love's gale
surfing...
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whale, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Aboard the Pequod
by Jesse Rowe
I would tell you a sea-farer's sad tale
About a captain who chased a white whale
To the depths he condemned
All but one of his men
And alas...
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whale, sea,
Sea theme limerick
by Wendy Watson
I sat in a boat on the sea
Feeling blissfully happy and free
My eyelids were drooping
And shoulders were stooping
The last thing I saw was the quay.
Imagine...
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Limerick |
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Categories:
whale, funny, sea,
In The Belly Of A Whale
by Curtis Moorman
IN THE BELLY OF A WHALE
There was a young man named Jonah
Who thought that he was a goner
But he lived to tell
How a huge grey...
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Limerick |
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Categories:
whale, death, fish, sick,
A Mermaid's Tail
by Rico Leffanta
Davy Jones was clearly immoral
When he ruled all sex must be oral
But one mermaid's tail
Excited a whale
And his fluke just shattered the coral!...
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Limerick |
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Categories:
whale, fish, lust, myth, ocean,
Robinson Crusoe
by Dia zafar
Blue sea blue sky
That was my destination
Having encounter with blue whale
That was my destination
Inhaling blue water, finding blue pearl
That was my...
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whale, 5th grade, blue, boat,
Animal attraction
by David Willey
Be aware of the Cougar, the big mountain Cat
Now I know you like mounting, but your just a Pussy Cat
I sometimes think you’re Horsey, and...
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whale, animal, rude, sexy,
Soultrain
by Tim Parry
The Soul-train was leaving the station,
Believers were gathered on board.
Their hands were all reaching for heaven,
And happily praising the lord.
But someone was left on...
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Categories:
whale, funny, hilarious, humorous, religious,
The Fish that Wasn't
by Gershon Wolf
Ha, ha! Fooled you. … This one's about a fish.
Well, ... almost, ... not really ... It's about a whale ...
They say a whale's a...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
whale, animal, drink, fish, ocean,
obese
by roger turner
Now, I am not a huge man
I'm not large by any means
In fact it is surprising
I still wear normal jeans
My pants don't have elastics
I still...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
whale, age, funny,
Prisms And Masochism
by Christopher Goss
Escape the shade
Evade the thought police
Slip into the shadows
So cool
Oh so cool
Fenced in, fenced out
Got you trapped in doubt
Don't believe me?
Rip away the veil
See the...
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Categories:
whale, america, meaningful, political, spoken
what time has done
by doug pederson
I was all curled up, warm and asleep
someone...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
whale, grandson, life,
Opinion and the Grapevine
by Okanagan Bell
An Opinion blindly thinks, but
Boldly speaks out loud
Judgment of...Perspective on...
Doesn't matter to the crowd
As quick as it leaves the lips, it's retold with words anew
Snowballs...
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Categories:
whale, allegory, humor, parody, perspective,
Our Fated Selves
by Kurt Philip Behm
Folding in to convention
Sealed in creases of acceptance
Maligned and misled
By the false promises
Of a stolen heart
We chase the white whale
Of validation
Into waters of denial…
...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
whale, lost love,