Tag: challenge
member name: Barbra L.
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April 19, 2008 07:48 PM EDT --
Gossip
Round and round it goes;
Where it stops, nobody knows.
Rampant, vile, vicious lies,
Roll around tongues, pretentious in guise.
Circulate within a domain . . .
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August 27, 2007 08:05 PM EDT --
Carl whiffled through life like a novice careener of the seas!! He was as reckless as an inexperienced gambler who played the baccarat game for fun instead of money. The carapaces from which he . . .
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October 18, 2007 09:05 PM EDT --
Courtesy Encarta ® World English Dictionary:
*paranomasia; pun: a play on words, especially a pun [Late 16th century. Via Latin from, ultimately, Greek paronomazein , literally “to name differently,” . . .
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November 08, 2007 12:49 PM EST --
“A Prayer for Grace”
I pray for gr ace from thee, O God;
For sol ace in times of pain.
Displ ace from me ace rbic thoughts
Whereby there’s . . .
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November 15, 2007 07:21 PM EST --
“AIR FORCE ONE”
© Barbra L.
Cl air e and Montcl air Stevens were on their way to LaGuardia . . .
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November 21, 2007 09:18 PM EST --
“The Menu for Tomorrow”
By Barbra L.
It is Thanksgiving Eve! What is on the men u for tomorrow?
A men ities of yesteryear
From which our souls . . .
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November 25, 2007 07:34 PM EST --
“Nana’s Fur row ed B row ”
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Barbra L.
Katie excitedly wheel bar row ed Nana’s special dirt to the flower . . .
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January 12, 2008 12:02 PM EST --
*The message I'm hoping to convey with the senryu duo, is the battle of the mind that can ensue, once our suspicions are aroused. Betrayal is a great nemesis, and one of our greatest . . .
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June 28, 2008 08:43 PM EDT --
"Parting"
How striking our ties,
our quickened senses;
our broken hearts,
our recompenses.
We'll add to the waters
a floodgate . . .
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October 25, 2008 12:44 PM EDT --
" Memories of Apple Butter Making" - A Short Mémoire
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November 10, 2008 09:51 PM EST --
A Wrapped Refrain style of poetry by Jan Turner @ shadowpoetry.com consists of:
2 or more stanzas of 6 lines each
an 8,8,8,8,12,12 - syllable count per line . . .
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December 11, 2008 04:50 PM EST --
WE WHO SANG...
Ring around the rosy
A pocketful of posies
Ashes, Ashes
We all fall down...
Recall the imagery of pigtail plaits, missing . . .
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April 30, 2007 05:47 PM EDT --
“Suspended Arrest”
“Okay! Stick ’em up, Fred! said the assailant.
The feisty little man lifted his hands above his shoulders. He felt the elasticity of his . . .
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May 23, 2007 10:18 PM EDT --
My poem is about a mighty ship and its crew who come up against a horrific storm at sea. I’ve used the term ‘tar baby’ throughout because it means a very troublesome situation, . . .
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July 05, 2007 05:05 PM EDT --
…‘Nellie’s’ Phone Conversation
“Hello! This is Ellen.”
“Hi! Glad I caught you!” Nellie zealously said . . .
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March 22, 2008 06:29 PM EDT --
If I could ,
I'd like to lay out my memories for you, on a vast table,
And sort through them, like pictures.
I would choose the ones I loved,
And discard . . .
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May 21, 2008 09:06 PM EDT --
"WAR IS SELDOM WITHOUT LOSS"
S oldiers
of daring boldness, intrepid . . .
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September 24, 2007 11:28 AM EDT --
Truth: Life’s Richest Claret
© 2007 Barbra L.
Life’s ensnarements
rarely bring us the rarefied joys
for which we long.
Instead they bring us tares ~
that . . .
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January 21, 2007 11:28 AM EST --
“Elusive Shadow”
Time lurks in shadows.
Portraying itself as elusive
Hard to find, track down
And limited!
Like my own shadow.
Hard to catch!
I turn around
It’s . . .
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August 29, 2007 04:12 PM EDT --
“At the Carrefour”
Rhythmic clip-clops from the carriage horses
Bedazzle my careworn senses.
I turn round at the Carrefour’s juncture
To peer through the row of quinces. . . .
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