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61Is Poetry Useful
I admit I'm a bit miffed about a comment I read today in passing. It was referring to another author and it said something to the effect that "at least she writes useful things, not like poetry".When hearts...
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63Poetry: Balloons
Last night I laid down to go to sleep when I got the idea for this balloon poem. So I hopped out of bed and grabbed a notebook and wrote it down. By morning I had forgotten all about it, but when I logged...
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59Meet Mr. Crabworthy
Hermit CrabI bought some hermit crabs on Ebay My thought was petstores get their hermit crabs in the mail so it must be okay So in the mail they came The seller had just tossed them in a box with some balls...
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64Ouch_ a poem about heartbreak
blue heartsMy friend was talking about her broken heart and it made me think of a time my heart was broken. Maybe this poem will be cathartic, but the hurt never goes away completely, does it? Life is like a...
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61Poetry: Fog
On the morn of wispy fog I stood in the chill dawn I watched it feather it's way up the sign posts Curling like bony fingers around trees and busses and traffic lights I watched it pouring over the...
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60Black Cat Song
It's a black cat kind of night Her leather pants zipped so tight She gave me the eye And fondled my tie And ask if I wanted a bite * Now Lucinda has long red hair And Natasha has legs up to there ...
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60Appositives: Gypsy Camp
I was reading about Appositives in the Everything Writing Poetry Book by Tina D. Eliopulos & Todd Scott Moffett and I thought I'd try to use some in a poem. "Appositives are structures that repeat something...
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60Gaia's Song
< Go to sleep my children Go to sleep and dream Dream of a world where no one starves Where there is no word for peace Because there is no other way to live but in peace Do fish have a word for water? Or is it...
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55Ode to a Blowfish poem
One day you are swimming in the sea Pretty happy-go-lucky and carefree And the next thing that you know Into a fishing boat you go I bet you never saw that coming That a new tune you'd be humming Now look at...
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61Library poem
The whole universe lives in the library Countries real and imaginary Peoples mundane and unusual All the food you could ever hope to consume in a lifetime And you I found you in the stacks on the third floor...
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