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looking for wordsLooking for words.
Pink and blue billows on the poetic sky drip of eager words
Alas, towards dawn, a westerly wind blew cleared the sky
In the morning blank screen lit up when the sun shone.
But the sun...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, age, allusion,
Form: Blank verse
NOTHING MISSING, NOTHING BROKENNOTHING MISSING, NOTHING BROKEN
With your head, roll out drums,
Mighty trumpets in their stead,
And like Eagles soar higher in the sky,
The skies of your mind,
Do not crumble on vain things,
And do not hijack your...
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Categories:
allusion, anxiety, break up,
Form: Free verse
hopes
blue or pink beats fast
~magical wrapped hopes growing~
life will open eyes...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, baby, birth,
Form: Haiku
Categories:
allusion, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
BE A SOMEBODYWrite! Anything. Be a dream writer
Write poeticly. Be about a spree! Take
Vacation from mundane. Be
Astounding! Astonish YOURSELF!
HAVE WORD WEALTH! I am LONELY
COME AND SEE. Visit me! Be just
Like me! This me....
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Categories:
absence, africa, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Jamais VuJamais Vu ~ "The feeling of being unfamiliar with something that is familiar. The opposite of deja vu."
These days, life is shroud in a fog so vivid
I’m forgetting what it was like before
I’m feeling saner...
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Categories:
allusion, growth, introspection, journey,
Form: Rhyme
as homily toolife the main blessing
despite pain, grief or stressing
seems worth professing
what we haven't got
drives many human's sub-plot
until being caught
unthinking chatter
caustic words maim and batter
reactions matter
may not bring relief
to become what we believe
ethos can deceive
immense sense of...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, confusion, emotions,
Form: Haiku
BIG IDEAS? THESE WORDSIt's my words if I start to play I will
Too sing for this. My piano
Assist and shift. I will also linger
In the midst of it. How will I say?
Mention a meaningful statement
The linguist...
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Categories:
absence, allusion, beach, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
THE POWERA leaf
A tree
A flower
All of nature
A stream flowing
Rain heavenly pouring
A woman
A man
PROVOCATIVE
A child crying
All in nature
A sunshower
Notice the rain
A RAINBOW full of sun!
A day full of rainbows!
The POWER!
Notice a furious FIRE
Hear...
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Categories:
allusion, color, fire,
Form: Free verse
EVERYBODY SHOULD WRITE POETRYI believe everybody should and can
Write poetry or at least one or
A few poems every now and then.
We all HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO WIN!
that essential within.
You should begin with reading poems
The more you...
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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
Specific Types of Allusion Poems
Definition | What is Allusion in Poetry?
Poems Related to Allusion
quotation, connotation, remark, inference, suggestion, innuendo, citation, insinuation, imputation, mention, charge, indication, statement, intimation, denotation, implication, figure of speech, play on words, casual remark, incidental mention,