A Mammoth Mistake?
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"Sam Dumpty here for National Geoplastic Magazine. I am surrounded by the most prominent scientists and archeologists in the world. The occasion? The unveiling of the de-extincted wooly mammoth. To...
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Categories:
aahing, animal,
Form: Narrative
Iris Garden
...Aunt Bonnie’s garden showcased showy orchid-like irises --
beds of “flags,” a feast for the eyes, produced rainbows of color
yellow, purple, orange, bronzes.
She did not know her iri...
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Categories:
aahing, flower, garden, image,
Form: Imagism
I Cant Write Nuttin On a Full Stomach
...I can't write nuttin' worth a damn on a full stomach!
Hunger pangs fuel mine poetic juices,
yours truly moost best be famished
resembling lovely bag of bones
beyond irreparable damage
wrought ...
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Categories:
aahing, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Lockdown Humour
...TED
A cheating farmer called Teddy McClure
Thought that his wife knew but he wasn't sure
Oh boy she knew alright
Cos when he took a bite
Of his sandwich it contained pig manure...
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Categories:
aahing, humor,
Form: Limerick
Mom's Apple Pie
...When it comes to the aroma of mom’s apple pie
Even the windchime outside tingles with glee
My lips quiver as I take my first bite
Fondling my fork in anticipation
Exuding its tantalizing fruity...
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Categories:
aahing, appreciation, celebration, food, fruit,
Form: Free verse
Hair of Red
...Born in 1947
a delicate post war child
So shy was she
and nervous too
a flimsy fragile flower
who when her mother took her out
began to scream
began to shout
Her hair drew great ...
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Categories:
aahing, child, hair, red, true
Form: Free verse
Navigating Outward Bounds of Relationships
...Volition, orientation familiarization aahing
and oohing within restrictive paradigm molding
inviolable honorable gentility -
flagrantly, desirously, clearly boyz abandoning
willfully skirting, pa...
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Categories:
aahing, friendship, hyperbole, joy, love,
Form: Free verse
Valentine's Day
...My friends have always hated Valentine's Day.
They ridiculed the pimply-faced boys
Whose hormone-infused offerings
Smell of Axe cologne and sweaty palms.
Greater the mocking of pubescent prince...
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Categories:
aahing, cinderella, february, heart, love,
Form: Prose
It Wouldn'T Be Christmas Unless----
...It wouldn't be Christmas unless there's lots of snow,
Nor would it be Christmas without sprigs of mistletoe!
What would Christmas be without jolly old Saint Nick,
And Ralphie's "A Christmas Story"...
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Categories:
aahing, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Cherish This Time
...( CHERISH THIS TIME )
So your baby is here,
what joy and what pleasure.
Now your life is expanding,
to make room for this treasure.
A darling newcomer,
to have and to hold.
Her (His) smile...
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Categories:
aahing, baby, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas In My Home Town
...I peer back through the mists of time to muse and ponder,
Christmases when a lad, giving my mind free rein to wander.
'Twas a simpler time when life moved at a slower pace.
Wonderful memories floo...
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Categories:
aahing, childhood, holidaytime, time,
Form: Rhyme