Garden Tree
...I didn’t plant that garden tree
But thinking, I just let it be
I knew I should have cut it out
But felt within to let it sprout
And so, as seasons came and went
I pruned this tree, its bole I ...
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Categories:
beets, age, appreciation, garden, tree,
Form: Quatrain
An Interview with the Color Purple
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Hello, everyone. Today we welcome the famous color Purple to our show.
Hello. I’m so happy to be here.
So, tell me, Purple, Why do people refer to prose sometimes as purple?
Ha!...
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Categories:
beets, color,
Form: Narrative
Contrarian Challenge
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‘Tis NOT MY challenge to PROPERLY eat
I have mad cravings for BEETS, not for sweets ~
When I TRY to refrain
Something rattles my brain ~
Once addled, I t...
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Categories:
beets, confusion, food, health, humor,
Form: Limerick
my food choices
...Mounds of mouth-watering double mashed potatoes
Decreases my desire for a carrot or tomatoes
You can take the celery and beets back to the kitchen
Carbohydrates and starches are for what I’m itch’...
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Categories:
beets, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Special Drink
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Special drink
All frothy green and pink
Only cost ten dollars
Cheap don't you think
Three or four a day if I had my way
Can someone drive me to the store
I just need on...
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Categories:
beets, 10th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
A Place Not Meant To Be: Part II
...A Place Not Meant To Be
PART: II (699 of 1487 words)
#9: Days of Paper Roses
Do the numbers--dogs don't count--just survives!
Then everything, be as close enough, still,...
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Categories:
beets, analogy,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Sales Fifteen Dollars
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I like a special drink,
All frothy green and pink!
Three or four a day,
If I had my way.
Can someone drive me to the store?
I just need one more.
Momma said, "What is...
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Categories:
beets, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Will Your Heart Betrays You
...I thought you would never come; my heart is on the run, I thought you would never come; I will wait until the day is done.
Daylight is screaming in my face and the rats have infested the human rac...
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Categories:
beets, beautiful, blessing, bridal shower,
Form: Narrative
Critterature: Common Denominators
...A walrus, a whale, and a wildebeest
Have a few things in common to comment on:
They've never read Byron, or Shelley, or Keats,
They don't like asparagus, broccoli, or beets,
Or waiting in line to...
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Categories:
beets, animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse
A Place Not Meant To Be: 13
...#13: Close One, & Cigars
To the accords of The Book of Life ... cheers,
loose ends of the created stoic string
crisscross a heedless sea of empty tears.
In the facade of guilt, all ...
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Categories:
beets, change, forgiveness, friendship, hope,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Cantelopes Can't Elope
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I've heard that cantaloupes can't elope
It's against their moral code
And rhubarbs are NOT allowed to argue
Lettuce entertain you
I've heard that people sometimes turnip and pea
Not ...
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Categories:
beets, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Oh Captcha Squares
...Oh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
What are these objects in your frames?
Oh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
Why must they gotta be the same?
Cars and busses, traffic lights
Bi...
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Categories:
beets, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Refurbished Nursery Rhymes: Quite Contrary Mary
...The thing about Mary that was extraordinary
Was her parents on her pulled a fast one.
They gave her a first name, multiplied it by two,
But neglected a middle and last one.
And so Mary Mary was ...
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Categories:
beets, humor, nursery rhyme,
Form: Light Verse
FRUITS MATTERS -
...Oranges encased in Orange
Grape clusters gather together
Minions purple encasement raisins
dancing in the sunlight dried out
from lack of rain
Red apples sweating crying tears in ...
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Categories:
beets, analogy, feelings, how i
Form: Free verse
Bread, Butter, Bacon, Burgers, Brownies and Bananas
...#A Nod To My MOTHER Who LOVED Her BLACKEYE PEAS. "So Do I", If Cooked GOOD..."YES PLEASE!" A GREAT "B" LETTER FOOD...
BROCCOLI
BOK CHOY
BERRIES
BEETS (THESE ARE THE TYPE OF "BEATS" I LIKE...SA...
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Categories:
beets, food, humor, poems, poetess,
Form: Rhyme
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