poem

LIGHTNING

LIGHTNING FLASHES

LIGHTNING STRIKES

LIGHTNING CRASHES

LIGHTNING SPIKES

LIGHTNING BASHES

WHAT IT CATCHES

SOMEONE YELLS YIKES

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES

 
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THUNDER

THUNDER RUMBLES

THUNDER ROARS

SOMEONE GRUMBLES

AND IMPLORES

HURRY UP LET'S GO INDOORS

SOMEONE MUMBLES

YES OFCOURSE

 
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THE SOUND OF RAIN

PITTER PATTER

RAINDROPS CHATTER

ON MY WINDOW PANE

THAT'S THE SOUND OF RAIN

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SUBJECT TO INTERPRETATION

SUBJECT TO INTERPRETATION

WILL AFFECT APPRECIATION

YOU GET OUT WHAT YOU PUT IN

MAKES YOU FROWN OR MAKES YOU GRIN

BRINGS YOU DOWN OR FILLS YOU UP

YOU KNOW WHEN YOU'VE HAD ENOUGH

UP TO YOU TO SEE THAT STUFF

IS THERE SUBSTANCE OR JUST FLUFF

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A GENTLE WIND

A GENTLE WIND

BLOWING IN THE AIR

WITHOUT A CARE

MESSING UP YOUR HAIR

BLOWING THINGS AROUND

MAKING GENTLE SOUNDS

RUSTLING THE LEAVES

IN AND OUT IT WEAVES

SENSE MEMORIES

 
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TO BE OR NOT TO BE CONCISE

IT'S HARD TO BE CONCISE

WITHOUT LEAVING THINGS OUT

IF YOU WANNA BE PRECISE

YOU CAN'T GO THAT ROUTE

SO IS THE GIST ENOUGH

GOTTA THINK ABOUT THAT STUFF

 

 

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PINK SHOELACES

 PINK SHOELACES

CAN'T ERASE THIS

SHOWING TRACES

OF WEIRD PLACES````````````

MY MIND GOES SOMETIMES

WHEN SEARCHING FOR RHYMES

Author's Notes/Comments: 

THAT LINE OF WEIRD PLACES THAT HAS THOSE CHARACTERS NEXT TO IT ARE COMPLIMENTS OF MY CAT MAGIC WHO STEPPED ON THE KEYBOARD AND MADE THEM...AT FIRST I ERASED THEM BUT THEN WENT BACK AND UNDID ERASING THEM CUZ I THOUGHT IT ADDED AN INTERESTING CREATIVE TOUCH TO THE LINE...SO THANKS TO MAGIC MY CO WRITER ON THIS ONE...WELL CO WRITING WITHOUT WORDS...WHAT A CHARACTER...HA HA

OH YA...DISTRACTED BY THE CAT'S CONTRIBUTION...WHEN PINK SHOELACES FIRST POPPED INTO MY HEAD THAT OLD FIFTIES SONG ALSO WAS PLAYING IN MY HEAD A WHITE SPORT COAT AND A PINK CARNATION...NOT SURE IF THAT IS THE TITLE JUS THAT LINE POPPED INTO MY HEAD AND I WAS THINKING IT WAS PINK CARNATION NOT PINK SHOELACES...OK TOO MUCH INFORMATION HERE...

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JACK IN THE BOX

WHAT IS IT ABOUT

A JACK IN THE BOX

THAT MAKES IT SEEM

SO SINISTER AND SCARY

WHEN IT PLAYS BY ITSELF

EVEN WHEN YOU CRANK THE HANDLE

YOU KNOW IT WILL EVENTUALLY POP OUT

YET WHEN IT DOES IT STILL MAKES YOU JUMP

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JUST ME

JUST ME

BEING FREE

WRITING PLAYFULLY

 

LET'S SEE

WHAT WE'LL BE

CREATIVELY

 

SHALL WE BE THE SEA

SHALL WE BE A TREE

MAYBE A MONKEY

 

JUST IMAGINING

MANY DIFFERENT THINGS

FLYING WITHOUT WINGS

I'VE DONE THAT IN DREAMS

RUNNING, JUMPING IN THE AIR

I TAKE OFF FROM THERE

NOT TOO HIGH AND NOT TOO LOW

 I JUST FLY AND AWAY I GO

 

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