Crowdown
...I stepped outside, feeling low.
There, before me, stood a crow.
He cooly looked me up and down
as he wore a beaky frown.
I wondered, would I lose my blues
if I could wear this birdy's shoes?
W...
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Categories:
beaky, animal, humor, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Goosey Lucy
...In a humble hamlet, not so grim or glum,
Lived a goose named Lucy, quite the funny one.
With feathers fluffed and waddle wide, she'd roam about,
Her honks and hijinks would make the townsfolk s...
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Categories:
beaky, animal, funny, humorous,
Form: Alliteration
Monochrome
...A band of comrades rather strange I think you will agree
This oddball bunch together shared a commonality…
The panda didn’t pander to the niceties of style
He wore his usual coat which he had ...
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Categories:
beaky, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Roosters From Another Creek
...Urban jungle roosters,
born-again scarecrow,
to untutored city eyes,
tawny pipit stonewall nester,
jet black Inca dove bereft,
of dovetail on a croque monsieur,
idle bone grub crawl,
mother h...
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Categories:
beaky, art, beautiful, beauty, environment,
Form: Ekphrasis
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Noisy Parrot
...I.
Among twenty different brightly colored toys,
The only moving thing
Was the beak of a noisy parrot.
II.
I was of three family members,
Like a family tree
In which there is a noisy parrot...
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Categories:
beaky, bird, cute, funny love,
Form: List
A Curates Tale
...I used to be a curate in, and Beaky
named a North York’s town
while taking a sip of his beer
and eying the company round.
We knew there was a story coming.
We could tell by the look on his face...
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Categories:
beaky, funeral, humor, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
Flying High
...Poor Patsy had Pigeon's toes,
She also had a Beaky nose
Crows feet around her eyes
Eagles wings so she could fly
Up in the air, she would go
Nobody noticed her Pidgeon's toes,
As higher and h...
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Categories:
beaky, 10th grade,
Form: Limerick
A Murder of Crows
...Late commers snap beaky throats,
mug with angry complaints.
A gathering
of de-frocked preachers strut
and preen, a tussled foraging,
hustle, and riot.
Up in the branches brothers caw and j...
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Categories:
beaky, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Beaky Man
...There are ghosts, ghouls, and gargoyles out tonight.
They could all give you a scare, maybe even a fright.
But the one that terrifies me the absolute most,
Is not a ghoul, gargoyle, gangster, or s...
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Categories:
beaky, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
She Can Dish It Out But
...You have a weird head she said. What is wrong with it?
I don’t know I admitted. No one told me this ever before I met you.
She smirked. Her blue eyes were glowing; I thought she was being funny.
S...
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Categories:
beaky, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Cheesy Beaky and Squeak
...Three tombs stand by the beaten path
among the dry and trodden grass,
not hewn in stone that they would last
but corrugated cardboard
each bearing felt-tipped epigraph.
The left in lower case...
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Categories:
beaky, children, death, grief, pets,
Form: Rhyme
Passion Without Rein
...Let us chase each other‘s urge on scalding heaths,
Like ponies on the gallop without rein,
A deep seat harness cast into oblivion in the spurt to sea green passion‘s cosmic haze.
Equidistant red c...
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Categories:
beaky, art, beautiful, beauty, care,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Mystery Code
...The Mystery Code.
She is tapping on the glass with her finger nails. The sound is like pins dropping on a tiled floor. Their eyes meet through the hazy glass door, as she enters the bar, no words...
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Categories:
beaky, adventure, imagination, london,
Form: Free verse
Zinc Adulating
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Abominable holiday season greeting to the have-nots me and you
Bombshell tabloid sleigh bells got those ear holes ringing
Cut the tax gift wrap ribbon, only good cheers for the wealthy f...
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Categories:
beaky, metaphor, parody, slam, word
Form: ABC
Pigeon Farm
...There once was a pigeon
Who lived in a cage
Its fluffy exterior
All tormented with rage.
The beaky beast ruled
The entire place
Scaring it's fellow creatures
Venom scribbled all over its fac...
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Categories:
beaky, animal, bird, community, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
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