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Smoke It Out
Categories:
language, meaningful, relationship, word
Form: Monoku
Crystal-clarity
If what was becomes what is becoming what was becomes what is...
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Categories:
future, language, light, today,
Form: Monoku
Mind BlowingPlaying your fingers
On keyboard is mind blowing
Heart rhyming the soul....
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Categories:
heart, language, motivation, music,
Form: Haiku
Summer’s returnSummer- embraced, like a returning friend-
from a distant land. Here warmth descends-
here, she’s standing at the green fence.
Listen- Summer’s chipping off her snack-
rain and leaves crunched, with the cracks,
incessantly- stirring a...
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Categories:
language, desire, dream, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
LanguageLanguage not a gap
Learn by adapting to it
Bridge to any race....
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Categories:
culture, engagement, language, race,
Form: Haiku
BabelDo you believe in faith,
enough to have faith in your belief?
Do you know enough to know
that you do not know sufficient?
Do you listen or merely talk?
Are there really several radios on the table -
all saying...
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Categories:
conflict, emotions, language, mental
Form: Free verse
The ProfessionalSports Wresting
They sought a style of wrestling
Something legend were made of
Crisp moves showing each combatants
Abilities
Move for move
Move and counter move
Submttive and non submissive
Contestive rule enforced grappling
Blow for blow showing ahworld each
Competitors stance
Allowing to...
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Categories:
analogy, engagement, integrity, language,
Form: Bio
The Magic of MusicThe Magic of Music
Bring to mind your favorite song. How does it make you feel? Where do those feelings originate in your physical body?
Think about the lyrics,...
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Categories:
emotions, inspiration, language, magic,
Form: Free verse
Silence is GoldenWitness the folly of the yammering crowd
Those that speak smugly and those that speak loud
Spitting out syllables the live long day
With nothing to show and nothing to say
A chorus line of mechanical mouths
A bevy of...
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Categories:
language,
Form: Rhyme
Since English language my mother tongue, no surpriseSince English language my mother tongue, no surprise...
etymology encurtains, encompasses,
and encapsulates healthy fixation
why I can spend countless hours
engrossed with printed material
courtesy select magazines or books,
plus aiming to craft satisfactory
poems or prose as an avocation
to share...
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Categories:
language, addiction, analogy, books, dream,
Form: Free verse
Alphabet Soup
Are for R and Pee for P
Em for M and D for Dem
T for Two and Toe and Tim
G...
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Categories:
fun, language, love,
Form: Couplet
Call Me What You WillHideous heathen heretic!
Dangerous deadly derelict!
Blasphemous bellowing bunk!
Scandalous scheming skunk!
Rambunctious riotous rascal!
Devious as Eddie Haskell!
Cancerous countywide curse!
That's ok, I've been called worse....
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Categories:
language,
Form: Rhyme
The LingoLawyers have a lingo
That’s like gibberish to me.
The same is true for those who have
A medical degree.
I guess with any specialty,
The lingo is unique
And understood by colleagues,
Yet to others sounds like Greek.
When language is exclusive,
It’s...
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Categories:
language,
Form: Rhyme
Thought I'd wite a song for you coloraturaInspired by fiction
nevermind the details
I wrote a song
I thought you'd
want to hear
ah song
all without controversy
sumthang pleasant to hear
sumthang to sing
to your lover
so they'll know
you are sincere
ah sweet sweet
simple tune
everyone would
like to hear
I just thought
I'd write
a...
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Categories:
culture, dance, film, language,
Form: Couplet
Put Your Best Foot ForwardLately when I speak
I put my foot in my mouth
It's hard on my shoes...
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Categories:
language,
Form: Haiku
Specific Types of Language Poems
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arts, barrier, culture, different, figurative, identity, learning, sensory, songs
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