The evil laugh of Arthur
Descended down the stair;
It made the night seem darker,
And warned me to beware...
Lest craziness engulf me,
Consuming all my brain:
And nothing then be left me,
Save conscience gone insane.
The evil laugh of Arthur
It fills this house's halls,
When he's up late, much farther
Than wisdom e're allows.
His friends will moan, thus pleading,
"Oh, Arthur, please, forbear!
Cease and desist thy leading,
Of all unto despair!"
I don't know whether this really, really counts as poetry...but oh well!
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You step on the ice gingerly
Onto unsolid ground
Ooh slippery
Foggy
Exhilarating
You grab the railing
Afraid to fall
Yet deep deep inside
Wanting to fall
To gain the feeling
You sigh wistfully
Why can’t I glide upon the ice
Naturally
With ease
Like them
Should I let go
Move my feet
Try to glide upon ice
Naturally
Like them
Glimmering chandeliers cast light around the open room,
While the shiny wooden floors were polished perfectly smooth, and soon,
The musically inclined enter with a flurry of skirts and shoes,
Their instruments, into the dance hall they were moved.
Hear the voices rise and fall as excitement fills the night air,
The anticipation, twas almost too much to bear.
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Gone are secrets, sorrow, and shyness,
When I was your age we used video tapes
TVs were square and fat
We had to rewind after every viewing
You should see how long it took to do THAT
You'd say the video games were primitive
DVDs were strange and new
Cell phones didn't have all those neat gadgets
Kids your age who owned them were few
iPods hadn't shown up yet
But Furbies were all the rage
The cool kids played with Polly Pocket
Gameboy was a fave
Cherry cheeks and flushed faces,
Scarlet scarves and loose laces.
Chocolate drinks and a snow flurry,
To the hearth the children scurry.
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Sopping socks and muddy mittens,
Flickering flames and cuddly kittens.
Chocolate drinks and a snow flurry,
To the hearth the children scurry.
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Glories of stories and roars of laughter,
This is an assignment that I did using all the new vocab words I learned…..
The pacifist held the commanders’ attention. His words swept the room in thoughts of a lucrative outcome, a banishing of larceny; this duplicity was soon broken.
*I don't know what made me think of this today, but here's what came of it...*
It was green, I remember,
fields stretching long,
and bushes hunched together
blackberries
It was stone, I remember,
statues, steps, path
grass growing through the cracks
and the pool full of our reflections
and tadpoles
It was damp, I remember
on a cloudy day under sweeping trees
reaching high with rustling leaves,
and the little house in the shadows with cobwebby sills
chasing, running
The rain starts to pitter-patter every house's rooftop. Pit-pat, begins the steady rhythm. Then it begins to grow to something loud. Something frightening.
Snow, snow,
from the gray, gray
sky
white and glistening
where rooftops blend
into smooth gray sky
and blackbirds sit
on the wires overhead
crisscross stark
against gray, gray
like bark on the maple
out behind the fence
reaching up, up, up,
like reaching hands
stretching fingers
tring to catch the big, thick flakes
as they fall, fall
and there's so much world here
my boots crashing through
silent steps
cries of delight
ringing through gray, gray
sky