MONA LISA : Leonardo da Vinci : 1503
... enigmatically enlightened
embodied essence of
o__live imperceptible
darkly moon-fragrant purity a__live
still knowingness of rippled
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Categories:
wheelie, allegory, allusion, art, color,
Form: Ekphrasis
autumn
...cars sound the alarm
autumn delivers it's storm
night time is shattered
window faces watch
our world of broken branches
wheelie-bins gone rogue
when tomorrow comes
boys will collect their ...
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Categories:
wheelie, 10th grade, autumn, boy,
Form: Haiku
Motoring the Backroads
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no helmet
it could be the end
of his wheelie
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Categories:
wheelie, travel,
Form: Senryu
Findings
...Your bones are scattered in a boggy field -
it happens all the time.
Time is your pocket handkerchief,
your shattered wristwatch,
your best evening pants,
all reduced to insect dust.
Hundre...
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Categories:
wheelie, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Meegees Conversation
...It is the grand pubah, Meebow Durchee herself.
Twenty Meegees of tar got excited and fell off the shelf.
You better button your lip I said to Bolo Scopey that day
The tornado took out Mary Booger’...
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Categories:
wheelie, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Driving In the Dark On My Birthday-Oct 7
...Thirty minutes til pickup - leaving home before crack of dawn
A slew of police cars and orange cones blocking the exit
Reading mailboxes with old eyes - not owl eyes
My friend and I exchanging gif...
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Categories:
wheelie, dark, travel,
Form: List
Tooth Extraction
...Common American Phrase: Suck it up, Buttercup
I shudder and shake with epinephrine as the needle stings inside my cheek, like a bee stings. I’m not a child, I’m a buttercup. The shaking r...
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Categories:
wheelie, pain,
Form: Prose
Life Could Not Be Better
...You came into our lives a spark.
A blur of chestnut red,
Igniting us with canine love,
And nestling by our bed.
Chasing swallows in the park
That teased you in their flight,
Relentlessly ...
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Categories:
wheelie, dog, friendship love, pets,
Form: Rhyme
No Go
...6/1/22
Been in a chokehold
This world can be so cold
Lucky if you can grow old
Often things shook up like a snow globe
Do you know what it's like to have no home?
On the population a governme...
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Categories:
wheelie, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
A Strong Wind Blew
...A strong wind blew and the whole town knew
This storm intended trouble
A crashing sound upon the ground
My chimney stack was rubble
The daffs by the highways were all growing sideways
And I he...
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Categories:
wheelie, humorous, storm, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Resolution Graveyard
...It's the resolution graveyard
for those good intentions, cursed,
opening hours from New year's day
to February first.
Here's a pile of treadmills,
dumbbells stacked up near the gate,
abandoned ...
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Categories:
wheelie, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Ice Cream Gran 3 - Testing Speedy
...Watching from the corner, in her ‘Speedy’ ice cream van
While armed and hooded villains carry out their wicked plan
They rob the bank and make off just as quickly as they can
But Speedy does a whe...
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Categories:
wheelie, grandmother, hero,
Form: Rhyme
I Decided To Stay a Bit Longer
...I screwed it on and it went right up the bank.
Hey! Said Crankden Cramden, was that mink named Hank?
The one who lost his head and needed a new one? I asked.
I think so said Bogland Bagomire, as h...
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Categories:
wheelie, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Exile On a Whim
...Doors slam, windows crack, letter flap inhales a fatal
wind.
Breastplate rusty dragon bearing scars.
House keys, credit cards, raybans close to hand.
Faux fur on the rack for noble bounty,
footn...
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Categories:
wheelie, art, august, birth, care,
Form: Narrative
The Bubble That Didnt Pop
...Timmy blew some bubbles and he watched them Pop! Pop! Pop!
But one went higher than the trees and right over the top
That one big bubble floated high as though it couldn’t stop
And just before it ...
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Categories:
wheelie, boy, girl, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
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