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Tag Archives: School
“feels like Sunday”
Written for: The Twiglets #238 – “feels like Sunday” Carvel should have their 2-for-1 sundaes on Sundays not Wednesdays. Shelves stocked with school supplies brings to mind how I hated Sunday nights. studies painting Saturday afternoon Sunday in the Park … Continue reading
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Tagged Haiku, ice cream, limerick, Micro-poetry, painting, School, wedding
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School
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – July 21: School days – favorite subject Easy pick, English get the prize. Assignments of writing– bring them on. No numbers please. My eyes glaze over. https://poeticbloomings2.wordpress.com/
Odd Child Out
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads: (posted by Marian) Just One Word: Gormless Me again, Toads! Just one word to inspire your poems this weekend: gormless Dunce cap in corner under blackboard of chalked letters and numbers which all … Continue reading
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Tagged cruelty, misunderstood, punishment, School, Written from one word
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Fears Of A New Kid
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #388 Words: stalls, chance, mouse, round, story, emerge, vents, clay, puddle, hinge, pulses, chain New kid in school has a round clay-colored face. Mousy strands of hair emerge from his scalp. He knows his … Continue reading
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Tagged encouragement, Fears, kindness, new kid, School, surprise, Wordle
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Hurting Heart
Written for: Poetic Asides #424 – Write a sick poem. One school shooting after another Each time new horror sickens my heart when I see their faces–father, mother. One school shooting after another Anxiety for our safety hovers, pall shrouds … Continue reading
The New Kid
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #312 Words: play, push, stone, answer, bag, band, back, agent, laugh, smoke bare, reflect Bullies laughed after pushing the new kid onto the stone floor of the playground. Easy target, they thought. Kid carrying … Continue reading
Spanish Test
Written for: Poetic Asides April 2017 Challenge – Day 12 Write a guilty poem. Giggling girls copied each other’s answers on test. Sage Spanish teacher wrote, “Roving Eyeballs.”
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Tagged cinquain, Funny, School, Written for Challenge
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Team Chant
Written for: dVerse Poets, I’ll Say It Again (and Again and Again) (Posted by Victoria C. Slotto in Meeting the Bar: Critique and Craft) Our team is the best, it beats all the rest. High school colors black and red; they … Continue reading
Flame
Written for: dVerse Poets – Quadrille #19 – Exactly 44 words (posted by whimsygizmo) For today’s Quadrille challenge, I want you to include the word spark. Use it as a noun, or a verb. Make sparks fly, or spark an … Continue reading
Total Count
Written for: Poetic Asides #366- Write a “plus one” poem It could be a math poem. Or a poem about including a guest (or “plus one”). Or a poem about doing something just “one more time.” Or the new person … Continue reading
