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the Golden Talus
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Allan Terry
| Chant Royal |
wrestling, analogy, anniversary, art, business,
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A Wrestler Named Billy
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Caren Krutsinger
| Limerick |
wrestling, funny,
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The boy who played with Barbie
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Alex Duffy
| Free verse |
wrestling, child abuse, childhood, inspirational,
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My Name Is Okie
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Sandra Haight
| Personification |
wrestling, cat, dog, friend,
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Confession And Prayer Of One Derelict In Duty
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Carol Connell
| Rhyme |
wrestling, cry, gospel, prayer, spiritual,
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2012
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darren risden
| Rhyme |
wrestling, sports,
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A Gigilo
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Jack Ellison
| Rhyme |
wrestling, memory,
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NOT TO AWAKE THE GIANT
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Allan Terry
| Didactic |
wrestling, appreciation, business, clothes, confidence,
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Wrestling With God
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L. J. Carber
| Free verse |
wrestling, allusion, analogy, appreciation, faith,
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Kick the Bucket-List
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Gershon Wolf
| Rhyme |
wrestling, adventure, endurance, family, how
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The Impermanence
by Dawa Zangpo
Our lives curtains open with infancy ,
Adorned with beauty and sense;
Life often bound by cruelty and clemency ;
Some as prosperous,some tense
Garden's blooms,and droop with...
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Ballad |
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Categories:
wrestling, 10th grade, age, allusion,
To Kissing Poetic Limbo Good-Bye
by millard lowe
To Kissing Poetic Limbo Good-Bye
Because Silence Is No Longer Welcomed
Sitting here
in igneous space
wrestling with naked thoughts
finds me face to face
with sad beauty:
the navel of...
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Prose Poetry |
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Categories:
wrestling, allegory, analogy, beauty, imagery,
Brain Falling
by Robin Carretti
The beauty summons us to see
But it pushes us back to where
we want to be
So let it be I don't think so?
And if its just...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
wrestling, deep, destiny, feelings, imagination,
Weekly Circuit Rodeo
by David Welch
After a long week it is Friday,
and that means it’s time to go
to a corral twenty minutes off,
the weekly circuit rodeo.
Get there early ’cause they...
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Cowboy |
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Categories:
wrestling, animal, celebration, culture, fun,
An Asian Outing At The Beach
by cheryl hoffman
Next day after the nightly match they hatched a plan
with the six of them piling into their van
arm wrestling going on in the back seat
the...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
wrestling, beach, humor,
STORM
by Laura Hay
Rippling energy
pacing skys
wrestling clouds
spark and boom
pushing thoughts
around my head
to clear the path
for brighter days...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
wrestling, inspiration,
Plumb Line Hoisted Deep
by matthew harris
Brainstorm cometh, damning frontal hemisphere
jamming lookout, noggin perched, roiling thinking
uber wayfaring zealot, drills legendary phalanx.
* * * * * * * * * * *...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
wrestling, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Oh Jerusalem
by arthur vaso
Remember
Israel of three thousand years
expulsed at times
enslaved by the Romans
gassed by Europe
persecuted by Saudi-Arabia
murdered by Iran and Iraq
shackled by Egypt
attacked by Jordan
robbed by Syria
sold out...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
wrestling, allah, bible, god, gospel,
Victor the Wrestling Bear
by charles messina
Years ago when I was a lad
I'll share with you a memory I've had
Every year at the end of July
The Iselin fair...
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Narrative |
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Categories:
wrestling, memory,
OUT OF REACH
by Kim Rodrigues
OUT OF REACH
grabbed my grandson from my arms
holding him way up high
like the lion king
as his father’s eyes waxed like a dazed moon
a stranger lifting...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
wrestling, baby, blessing, sports, tribute,
The Orchestra And Me
by curtis johnson
...
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Prose Poetry |
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Categories:
wrestling, anxiety, christian, dream, god,
Palindrome Panic
by Reason A. Poteet
A dog! A panic in a pagoda!
A teen named Bob, a can of cream soda.
With one eye shut, he shook and pulled the tab.
The boob...
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Quatrain |
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Categories:
wrestling, 10th grade, adventure, dog,
Friends like you
by Vijay Pandit
Misery on your face
Used to be mine
Till you walked away
Wrestling my pain
Offering me comfort
When I needed solace
Leaving with me
Your secret to happiness
And now it's...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
wrestling, friendship,
Theater of Utter Charm Part 11
by Walter Alter
Part 11
if you want to be stupid
there is absolutely nothing to stop you
absolutely nothing
it's the free fall zero obstacle zero investment
no push no pull just...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
wrestling, how i feel,
Ode to the Earthling
by Robert Warlov
Ode to the earthling addle the atom
Ode to the shrieking neutrino bloom
sing to the crack in the hole of the blandon
the wrestling angels are restless...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
wrestling, creation,
GEARS SPIN OUT A PROVOCATIVE QUESTION
by Kim Rodrigues
spending time, charmed by all the goodies
...a weight room, pool and foosball tables and
a padded room with a wrestling mat and dummies.
a kids paradise. ...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
wrestling, child, fun,
For The BoyChild: finding home
by john chizoba vincent
We are lost cities finding reasons
to join our broken aspirations together,
a lost elegies uprooting tubers of yam planted by our forebearers,
dreams seeking for home...
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Blank verse |
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Categories:
wrestling, abuse, africa, anger,
The Old Old-West Town
by David Welch
Weeds and grass grow in the cracks
of sun-faded, crumbling pavement,
a parking lot that once was full
of stressed parents and cowboys nascent.
A grand sign over the...
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Cowboy |
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Categories:
wrestling, appreciation, childhood, eulogy, history,
Wrestling A Buffalo
by Jack Ellison
Seems my age is finally starting to show
More shaky recently since wrestling that buffalo
Wifey reminded me
You're nearing eighty-three
As bones stuck out somewhere below
...
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Limerick |
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wrestling, pain,
CareGiving Stories Reprise
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Wounded Sacred Dementia: Part Two
Dementia's derelict WinLose SocialWorker
suboptimizingly hesitates
when I tell her
I have not changed my mind
about not adopting Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
into my vulnerable home
with...
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Political Verse |
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Categories:
wrestling, caregiving, culture, earth, health,