Wideawake Poems | Examples


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Premium Member Desert Island

beneath circling clouds
in the depths of the ocean
with little nearby
lies a speck of an island
of but thirty-five square miles

green mountain rising
from which hot lava once flowed
most toward the west
where the people live today
in modest isolation

not quite as busy
as during the Falkland War
a remote haven
for whale and turtle watchers
and those not easily bored

the Two Boats village
an airfield called Wideawake
the days are long past
when lookouts stood chilly watch
so 'Lil Boney' wasn't freed

amid the high seas
and the bluest of waters
a little island
not so much as forgotten 
as never really known

Njc Apricoot Wraughtspill

Nichtian glossery, aprioric roots 
aposteriorious tongues- 
Joyce smelts hisewn twoowts!
Cutanddry grammarand goahead plot,
wideawake language; jester's gestures our knot.

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