CHOICES
...We make our own choices
In life and no one's perfect
But when you decide to have kids
It's your responsibility not
The grandparents, the children now
Have excessive energy, don't listen
Throws ...
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Categories:
babysit, feelings, grandparents,
Form: Free verse
The Curious Coif
...Enigmatically stubborn to style, the coif
Some days it can be easily pulled off
Other days it requires an exorcism
Like Zoolander it can look like ‘Magnum’
Hides my receding hairline like a cha...
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Categories:
babysit, fashion, funny,
Form: Other
he was puffed up and persnickety
...He was puffed up, persnickety, proud beyond most female’s belief.
Loving his rainbow colors, showing himself off to his wife’s sheer grief.
She was a plain brown peahen, who did not show off or boa...
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Categories:
babysit, animal,
Form: Rhyme
In Spring
...In Spring
In spring water troughs
fart all the
musical notes, butterflies go to
Collage school, four-leaf clovers babysit
bulldogs, placemats collect bits of
string to
make balls, lich...
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Categories:
babysit, humor,
Form: Free verse
My Cousin Jer has a Story to Share
...My cousin Jer had a story to share
Said first, let me sit in my favorite chair
He combed his almost non-existent hair
On his bald head I saw a shiny glare
I sat down with my chocolate éclair
A...
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Categories:
babysit, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Fairy Granny's Fantasy
...Tired Fairy Granny did sit
Upon the sunflower's brown seed.
As dragonfly round her did orbit,
Then from her small hand did feed.
As darkness overtook the sky,
Fairy Gran needs to b...
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Categories:
babysit, age, child, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Blush of the Blossoms
...I cherished time walking through Cherry Blossoms,
And when it is to turn pink, it’s mind-blowing.
It’s like a pink rug situated on both sides in Kyoto,
Experiencing the Promised Land while having ...
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Categories:
babysit, 10th grade, adventure, beauty,
Form: Narrative
Speculations
...I know there's something you wanna say
'Cause you ain't the same as yesterday's yesterday
You're far more distant from me then you used to be
Something's wrong - stopping you from being free
You'...
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Categories:
babysit, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Kelley
...
there were his baseball cards
collected in a shoebox,
his model submarines, and planes.
he paced in a restless waddle
from corner to corner in our bedroom.
he could beat me at any game
and al...
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Categories:
babysit, allegory, brother, for him,
Form: Narrative
the poem of a tired daughter
...I have to deal with Noah when I wake up.
When I sleep.
In the middle of the day.
Where's my rest?
I have to deal with him when I'm with Roland.
When I'm with mom.
When I'm with Grandpa.
When d...
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Categories:
babysit, child, childhood, depression, family,
Form: Free verse
DP6-- DIONDRA POSH DIARIES: The Job
...July 2051
Hi Diary!
Okay diary! Today was the day I got
Thee JOB diary! It's with a new company
Stellar Star Corp. I start in 3 more
Days. I had a second interview with
Bosses. And they l...
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Categories:
babysit, angst, birth, black love,
Form: Prose
Mt Blanca
...trademark green on white
"Welcome to Colorful Colorado"
me and the Sangre De Cristos
march across the border
and Mt Blanca rises to greet us
smooth and elegant
as a wedding cake
draped wit...
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Categories:
babysit, home,
Form: Free verse
His words
...I was going on a blind date, hoping it would be fate. I heard him before I saw him,I wasn’t sure what it was he said but it meant a lot to me.
Just to hear his voice made him seem so hot to me. Dark...
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Categories:
babysit, absence, appreciation, crush,
Form: Rhyme
When we think of adoption
...When we think of adoption,
We seldom see it through the eyes of a child,
Too often blinded by our own egos,
Too often carried away on cloud nine,
Expectations galore,
Plans already in place,
O...
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Categories:
babysit, age, analogy, appreciation, august,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
I Need You to B Babysit Kyle
...Dragon is stopped by a creature with a child.
He has a bad temper, has never been mild.
I am a monster he tells her, wild, wild, wild.
Creature with the child gives him a smile.
I need you to b...
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Categories:
babysit, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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