A Tough Nut to Crack
...Violet Smith lived in Center Kingdom. Her neighbors were Jack and Jill;
Like orange sun, of a pink morning, when it's just peeking over blue hills.
With Mother and Father and sister, Ava,...
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Categories:
all thumbs, fantasy, farm, imagery, magic,
Form: Couplet
Like Peter Pan and Tinker Bell Nursery Rhyme
...Hand in hand two sprites on a magic flight
with wings of crystal glass and fairy light
they flew, inside an abstract sky of white
wing to wing, one was nimble one was bright
Wearing ...
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Categories:
all thumbs, appreciation, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Dark Nursery Rhymes
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Porgie George, Little Jack Horner
Kissed a girl off in a corner
They were all thumbs and made her cry
Offed in prison, absent mourners.
Peter Piper, Peter Peter
Killed a girl and tri...
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Categories:
all thumbs, dark, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rubaiyat
The World, Unnoticed
...The world, unnoticed, passes by:
Their noses in the screens.
Real-life, in acts, before their eyes,
Obscured by smaller scenes.
All thumbs, rough-shod communiques,
Emojis in between;
Their me...
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Categories:
all thumbs, community, technology,
Form: Quatrain
The Beat
...Boom boxes can help you to share
Whatever comes over the air
But Milton hates drums
So don't be all thumbs
Or you'll learn why life is not fair!...
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Categories:
all thumbs, humor,
Form: Limerick
To Touch You
...Oh, how I long to touch you
it’s just that “I’m all thumbs”
and you deserve much more than just
a few remaining crumbs!
“An arm and a leg”, I...
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Categories:
all thumbs, humorous, senses, sexy, word
Form: Rhyme
Effortlessly
...So effortlessly do musicians play
Concerts at night, rehearsals by day
Woodwinds, strings, brass or drums
Why, when I try, do I come up all thumbs...
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Categories:
all thumbs, humorous, me, music,
Form: Couplet
Monkey With a Peanut
...This is for all you trampled and forgotten
freezing in a hell not of your making
inching your way up the ethereal gangway
jockeying for rank and recognition
among the heavens the aristocracy
the...
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Categories:
all thumbs, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Focus On the Thumb
...Some focus on hair, on legs, on muscles or on lips
on feet, on shoulders, on arms or on hips
Yet though you may think it a bit odd or dumb
my sole focus here will be on the thumb
Is the...
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Categories:
all thumbs, body, silly,
Form: Light Verse
All Thumbs
...There once was a sailor from Saskatoon
Who recklessly wielded his new harpoon
He impaled himself
Accusing an elf
Crew replaced him by a smarter baboon
AP: Honorable Ment...
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Categories:
all thumbs, change, fun, humorous, silly,
Form: Limerick
I Stand Alone
...When I call out, no one hears me,
When I laugh, no one joins in.
I go out, but have no place to be.
I watch the game, not caring who will win.
I cook for two, only one will dine.
I have a funn...
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Categories:
all thumbs, future, life, loneliness, sad,
Form: Quatrain
Sonnet 20 'she Could Not Be Less Than My Love, My Friend'
...She could not be less than my Love, my Friend,
She broke open each fiction I’d believed,
She touched my hands like Time would never end,
And, in the end, we were the more deceived.
She was the ra...
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Categories:
all thumbs, appreciation, death, devotion, friend,
Form: Sonnet
Losing Touch
...Between Velcro
And touch screen
We are losing touching
Feeling and doing
Thumbs made us
All thumbs we will be
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Categories:
all thumbs, body, society,
Form: Light Verse
The World Around Us
...Awaking blithe each morning,
with eyes upon the World,
I wonder, are we mourning
with ebon flags unfurled –
or are they but a warning,
some draped like snakes and curled,
stray stars and stripe...
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Categories:
all thumbs, earth, environment, war,
Form: Rhyme
Einstein Rolls the Dice
...Einstein Rolls the Dice
the paparazzi were all over Einstein
after he said make sure where the rope leads
before you kick over the chair
he wrote his own scripts now
Further Adventures in Arch...
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Categories:
all thumbs, crazy, giggle, irony, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
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