Poems by FlamingoCroquet, by newest first

• Let's write a song

  by FlamingoCroquet 24 lines, on Oct 22 6:30 AM. In Personal
• Watching the news.

  I'm seeing lots of red and not much green
  go scrollin' by on the television screen

  by FlamingoCroquet 24 lines, on Oct 6 10:34 PM
• Blog poetry snippets.

  Autumn's always dying season, and winter's always dead
  and during this crumbling time of year, there's chaos in my head.

  by FlamingoCroquet 53 lines, on Sep 30 11:29 PM
• Beauty

  by FlamingoCroquet 16 lines, 1 comment, on Sep 18 7:58 PM
• These are our times.

  by FlamingoCroquet 27 lines, on Sep 7 9:43 AM. In Society, Humanity
• Empty Orange Light

  Different places reflect light in different ways, and my grandmother's house reflects orange. This light is dim, barely illuminating the old white walls and clean brown carpet, tinting everything with that yellow-red glow.
  

  by FlamingoCroquet 6 lines, on Aug 29 7:25 PM. In Death, Loss, Family, Personal.
• ELA Group C: Part 2

  Maddie
  

  by FlamingoCroquet 21 lines, on Aug 19 11:01 PM
• Breathing poetry.

  Poetry feels like the breath
  of someone you love, while they are sleeping

  by FlamingoCroquet 35 lines, on Aug 19 8:20 PM
• ELA Group C: Part 1

  Sydney
  

  by FlamingoCroquet 82 lines, on Aug 14 9:16 PM. In Friendship, Dedication
• Freewrite

  So its raining outside and I'm warm and dry for right now
  But I'm sitting alone at this screen with the lights out

  by FlamingoCroquet 10 lines, on Aug 12 11:04 AM. In Lost in thought
• Old journal entries

  I found some old journal entries that I really liked. They weren't dated. Some of the things my friends said were really poignant. I shake

  by FlamingoCroquet 18 lines, on Jul 29 5:52 PM. In Personal, Journal
• Generation

  We're looking for some turns of phrase some new and different words and ways

  by FlamingoCroquet 46 lines, on Jun 27 5:02 PM
• Atoms (Homage to Walt Whitman)

  I bequeth myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love.
  Life again in a different form

  by FlamingoCroquet 27 lines, on Jun 27 4:50 PM
• Freewrite May 21

  When it all comes down to it, All we'll ever be is men

  by FlamingoCroquet 32 lines, on May 21 9:13 PM
• WORK IN PROGRESS (not completed)

  A nighttime rider gallops, shadows on his tail
  and nothing lighting his rough way on the narrow, winding trail

  by FlamingoCroquet 42 lines, on May 20 11:05 PM
• To friends.

  Were you looking for God today? Looked like you needed to pray.

  by FlamingoCroquet 44 lines, 2 comments, on May 13 10:34 PM
• Freewrite -- Mist Over a Stumbling Empire

  The threatening air settles in, first sliding into the low places,

  by FlamingoCroquet 20 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 25 11:15 PM
• Shores of Battle

  And so, forward,
  called by the war-drums of our hearts,

  by FlamingoCroquet 19 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 9 10:39 PM. In History, Culture
• Old journal entry, undated.

  I see fingers tapping anxiously and pacing back and forth in the restless hall

  by FlamingoCroquet 25 lines, on Feb 16 11:39 PM
• Wishing (freewrite)

  I'm still wishing on the stars at night what about you?

  by FlamingoCroquet 23 lines, on Jan 29 8:31 PM
• Mesurer la Vie (Measure Life)

  Francais:
  Commet peut je mesurer

  by FlamingoCroquet 32 lines, 8 comments, on Jan 16 11:05 PM
• Pour un ami très loin de moi (For a friend very far from me)

  by FlamingoCroquet 21 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 1 8:31 AM. In Foriegn language, Personal, Friendship, Love
• Let me be your hero

  I can be your hero, I can save you if you'll let me your safety belt, your diary, your sad song and your therapy

  by FlamingoCroquet 44 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 26 2:37 PM 2007
• The Back Room

  Tension.
  Muscles tightened and emotions numb,

  by FlamingoCroquet 23 lines, 7 comments, on Aug 5 11:14 PM 2007
• The Anatomy of Love

  by FlamingoCroquet 19 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 24 2:05 PM 2007
• Friends, you MOVE me.

  You move me in that / heart pounding, skull bursting, voice screaming / way. / You move me delicately, forcefully, / unknowingly. / You move me like goosebumps and poetry, / and music and freedom, / and anything

  by FlamingoCroquet 26 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 16 7:11 PM 2007. In Love, Personal, Thoughts, Life, Contemporary, Dedication
• The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

  Act I: / Whispers plauge the streets with secrets and / Seeds of doubt, expertly sown, / Begin the ending of an era / The speak of Caesar's

  by FlamingoCroquet 58 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 12 7:43 PM 2007
• Lightning

  I'm left alone underneath the tree / Where I should have taken your hand / Thinking about mornings I wasted / And everything that I learned

  by FlamingoCroquet 28 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 4 11:55 PM 2007. In Personal, Sad
• Old freewrite I found...Smiling at Fate

  It's not optimism, it's spite / Smiling at Fate's evil deeds / There's no use dwelling on tragedies / Move on and keep grinning / It will only hurt as much as you let it / Cut off the circulation to the wound / D

  by FlamingoCroquet 14 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 24 10:18 PM 2007
• The Unnamed Malady (clinical depression)

  I'm playing hide and seek with / the voice that's in my head, / trying to avoid it's echoing reminders / of my faults and mistakes. / There

  by FlamingoCroquet 35 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 24 6:28 PM 2007. In Thoughts, Personal, Weird, Contest, Depression
• (rough draft) A Composer to his Lost Love

  If there were a song I could sing / That could go back in time and change everything / I'd compose it for you just to let you know / That I loved you...before you decided that you had to go / If there were a poem

  by FlamingoCroquet 18 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 17 12:49 AM 2007
• Any part of me...

  There's this girl and she's thinking about you / She's wishing on stars and pulling off petals / Filling pages and pillows with liquid regret / And faking acceptance as you forget her / You're just a boy so you p

  by FlamingoCroquet 23 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 15 12:02 AM 2007. In Loss, Teenage thinking
• Freewrite 3

  God is plauging me with / The quest for the holy grail- / Knowledge. The compulsion to / Search my mind for the answers / What is right and

  by FlamingoCroquet 31 lines, on May 29 8:18 PM 2007
• Freewrite.

  I'm looking for a poem to make me whole again / I'm searching for words in empty lockers / Turns of phrases in lunchboxes / and ryhme inside pockets, love inside / your lockets, minds, and hearts / Down the hal

  by FlamingoCroquet 50 lines, 4 comments, on May 21 10:29 PM 2007. In Teenage thinking, Freewrite, Thoughts
• Sans des étoiles (Without Stars)-- Bilingual poem

  Version française: / Une belle nuit / me suffoque dans l'obscurité / Je ne peux pas voir que des étoiles / En raison de la fumée de ville

  by FlamingoCroquet 19 lines, 2 comments, on May 5 9:58 AM 2007. In Thoughts, Freewrite, Goodbyes

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