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EVERYBODY SHOULD WRITE POETRYI believe everybody should and can
Write poetry or at least one or
A few poems every now and then.
You should begin with reading poems
The more you read the better you
Will write. The more you write....
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Categories:
absence, allusion,
Form: Free verse
My ballet shoes
My ballet shoes have a name,
undisguised among a multitude.
They dance free all over,
without a name.
My dancing shoes are old,
great enough for the right feet
to keep on dancing.
My ballet shoes only fit my feet to be...
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Categories:
absence, adventure, allusion, culture,
Form: Free verse
Who started?One day I decided a book I wanted to write,
,,Waiting on the back of the line"
- pushing myself backwards.
But everything has to need sense set me of,
writing structure is though.
It isn't natural...
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Categories:
allusion,
Form: Alexandrine
race riotRace riot
I went to a dancing competition, little did I know
it was naked dancing by grotesque old people
the young in the audience laughed till their faces
became a mask of horror, looking
at their future
someone pointed at...
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Categories:
adventure, allusion, write,
Form: Blank verse
a barron coastlooking into the horizon
I see things as they once were
all drawn in sharp colors and defined lines
now fading as time travels
from one point to the next
I see all in my dusty history
images tattered and bled...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, angst, creation,
Form: Free verse
Blooming
Light finds its way to come through,
after a nightmare at night
heart beats fast.
My dog is lying next to me,
I open the blinds
another morning to see.
Sadness invades me,
you are not with me.
Alone in the bed,
clouds and...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, best friend,
Form: Free verse
DREAMSWritten by owen hamalala
All copyright to H2O
Why should I dream when all
My dreams are a land were nothing ever grows or a
place that is hopeless,
Were dreams are regarded
As fantasy and nightmares
As we smoke our
Dreams to...
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Categories:
allusion, thank you,
Form: Acrostic
NO PLACE FOR POETS
There is no place for the poet...
We are all lost
In our last stages,
without having time
To leave...
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Categories:
allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
the order of the day
the most direct line to heaven ~ is to circumvent hell on the way
but will they admit you ~ for seeing the devil and swerving away
said the millionaire to his driver ~ who...
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Categories:
allusion, irony, perspective,
Form: Monoku
KALI MAA: THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU SCREAMI swear to tell you the truth
Nothing but the truth
But your heart is so feeble
And your spirit so brittle
A whiff of it will make you syncope
A little tyrant I am glad...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, dark, emotions,
Form: Free verse
DelphicThe forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The tow’ring trees with their branches widespread
Sift light which falls like a golden shower
(As when Zeus to Danaë’s chamber came)
Reaching the moist...
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Categories:
allusion, fantasy, mythology, nature,
Form: Free verse
THIS LOVE BETWEEN USWhat is love between two People?
What can it ever be equal? It is, is it
Unspeakable unthinking unthinkable?
Can you think about it before the FACT?
What is the AFTERMATH? After after
You have loved enough? You have enough
Love....
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Categories:
africa, allusion, corruption,
Form: Free verse
THIS SPACELook at that here ooh hey look
There how beautiful to see all
Around me surroundings astounding
To be here in this vast forever. Look
Over there endless never every where!
All there is was it always ever every
Time...
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Categories:
allusion, deep, devotion,
Form: Free verse
I Am FearlessI am becoming.
I am shedding skin to
Divest.
I am developing.
I am no longer preparing
For something.
I am depending on myself
To know when it's time
To cut the string
And let the end
Become not an elusive thing
But a...
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Categories:
allusion,
Form: Free verse
The Wounded HeroYesterday's heartaches fade away,
but their memories tend to stay.
And though love has no guarantee,
it's the key to setting you free.
Clinging to unreconciled fears,
you blame fate for your years of tears.
And erect emotional walls,
discouraging love when...
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Categories:
allusion, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Allusion Poems
Definition | What is Allusion in Poetry?
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