Reason A. Poteet Poems

I hear the voice of Genesis
speaking words of creation…

Let it be – light, shine in darkness,
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Little girl child,
let me sing you a melody
a song to last
from now throughout eternity.
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sestet, ABCBDB

It is well-known that caterpillars
must gobble more and more each day
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haiku series

chill in the air
newly naked branches
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dectina refrain

My
unseen
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7/5 trochee (see below)

Doubt tries hard to take the scene.
Great Selene shines new
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B.C., seven hundred seventy-six
was the date of the first Olympic picks.
They spanned (these sportsmanship pioneers)
one thousand, one hundred, sixty-nine years.
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a pantoum

Some sixty years past my Paw owned a store.
A penny case held tiny toys and balloons
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canzonetta

Sweet great grandmother stitched history on cloth;
on samplers she published family events.
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Sicilian quintain ABABA

Subtitled: The Bully
'Who, What, When, Where, and Why'
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