Upon the precipice of an abyss
...Upon the precipice of an abyss
I stand able, eager, & ready to jump
impossible mission to swallow lump
muscles primed analogous to pump
prayer for soft landing on mine rump
bereft this johnny ...
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Categories:
whomp, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
Jesus Please Save Me
...My car was flying in the air upside down
Off the freeway, headed toward trees
I had never heard of black ice, had no idea about it
I was only twenty-eight-years old
But I knew I was going to die
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Categories:
whomp, jesus, religion,
Form: Narrative
my dreams make life pale
...My dreams make life pale
I am more alive
My surroundings more vivid
I would relish dreaming forever
There are colors I cannot describe
For they are unknown on earth
Am I in heaven?
Would it ...
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Categories:
whomp, dream,
Form: Free verse
Ring Around the Rosie Rivvit Dribbit Drosie
...Ring around the rosie
Ribbit Dribbit Drosie
They secret the mucus.
Hookus, Lookus, Doofus.
Three frogs at play
In my field today
Straight from the swamp
Eating flies with a whomp!
Ring ar...
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Categories:
whomp, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Smiles Didn'T Make Ah Sound
...Shall I turn to my audience and sing
To ah world who wishes to hear me
Sing
From intros to prechorus
They will excite or bore us
Does this world wish me to sing
I have sang many bridges
Carrie...
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Categories:
whomp, confidence, film, guitar, leadership,
Form: Ballad
Barking Dogs and Screaming Kids
...Barking dogs and screaming kids
Can drive a person to drink
There's nothing so disconcerting
Worse than loud music methinks
Hard to control a barking dog
They'll bite you and rip off y...
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Categories:
whomp, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Kelp At It
...You know the story.
Some called it mis-
management, some
said it was original.
We know one thing
it was mirror to create
an effective strategy.
When management
changed they keep the
same for...
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Categories:
whomp, health, motivation, music, myth,
Form: Concrete
My Dream
...Violet elephant with the enormous empathetic blue eyes
Woke me up landing on my stomach with a whomp! No big surprise.
I don’t have time to play today I say but the tiger gives a roar.
So I pay at...
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Categories:
whomp, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Barking Dogs and Screaming Kids
...Barking dogs and screaming kids
Can drive a person to drink
There's nothing so disconcerting
Worse than loud music methinks
Hard to control a barking dog
They'll bite you and rip off y...
...
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Categories:
whomp, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Divine Intervention
...Divine Intervention
I was supposed to die.
More than once.
In a car, driving too fast
or erratically.
It is my race car driver foot.
And my cavalier attitude.
My impatience and my devil...
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Categories:
whomp, god,
Form: Prose Poetry
Doorway To My Soul Development
...Mystical doorway to my soul development opens up during REM sleep
I do not always see the steps, but I recognize they are there
Ready to help me sever the silver cord and meet my spirit guides
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Categories:
whomp, dream,
Form: Free verse
Ethereal Spirit Guide and Me
...Ethereal spirit guide at the helm,
traveling on my faithful dreams
showing me an astral realm
Where heaven is lurking beyond her seams.
Entities of helpful creature
giving me truths as my bod...
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Categories:
whomp, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
I Leapt To My Death
...From an eight story high rise building
I leapt to my death, but land on top of a moving bus with a thump.
People scream. I laugh, because I am still alive.
My purple cape flies out behind me.
I s...
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Categories:
whomp, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse
She Knows She Has Me
...My fingernails are hanging on by a thread.
I can feel myself slipping
I know I will drop to my death
I scream all the way down.
WHOMP!
I hit my chest hard.
My eyes flutter open.
Bad dream? My ...
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Categories:
whomp, muse,
Form: Free verse
Do Not Blame Me Trixie Said
...I had heard that the professor from Xanadu was a bit eccentric.
Try eclectic, pink kangaroo corrected me. I screamed for my muse.
Trixie did not arrive right away. She has a distorted sense of humo...
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Categories:
whomp, muse,
Form: Free verse
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