Categories:
bessie, in memoriam,
Form: Acrostic
Bessie the Cow's New Year Message
Do the crickets in the trees
welcome a breeze
Can a frog on a lily pad
ever be sad
Would a fish choose to swim
if it were molasses he was in
Does a
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Categories:
bessie, animal, giggle, new year,
Form: Couplet
Old Bessie
Old rusty Bessie just drove her last mile
Went with a sputter instead of a smile
No more brakes slipping
No more gears ripping
Think I'll relax with a horse for a while
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Categories:
bessie, car, change, horse, recovery
Form: Limerick
Bucket Shop Bessie
Halloween Bessie had a bucket shop.
Where people traded stocks without a stop
Some were fraudulent, made up and wild.
I’m here to say it was crazy, child.
Halloween Bessie had a black cat with a twitch.
This familiar went by the name of Mitch.
Sold stocks and bonds and sometimes made a switch
Swindling investors without a hitch
Halloween Bessie had a
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Categories:
bessie, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Sidecar Bessie and George
Sidecar Bessie was always ready for a ride.
Her new husband George steering at her side.
They will travel west in a day or so.
She rides like a trooper, her hair all a glow.
She paints it red, thinking it makes her young.
The smell of the country brings a bit of cow dung.
They travel up hills and down
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Categories:
bessie, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Ole Bessie
Oblivious she lay
on her bed in soft hay
Ole Bessie snores the whole night away
While I twist and turn
as my heart and pulse churn
at explosions that rock my stairway
Perchance I awake
before next the ground shake
Let me please be a cow ~ I do pray
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Categories:
bessie, animal, fear, night, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Pancake Batter Bessie
Pancake Batter Bessie
She makes flapjacks so fine
Avoiding corn syrup
With Tabasco, liver and onions sublime.
We try to stop her
But she is obtrusive and a ghost
Where we make our own batter
We hide it with our toast.
For Bessie will take that batter
And add extra stuff galore.
Peanut butter and sausage
Corn, pickles, oranges and more.
Bessie empties
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Categories:
bessie, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Bessie the Cow
Bessie the cow
a prizewinning specimen,
has sadly relinquished
her gold rosette
Ruby red ribbons
of congealing blood
coat the floor
of the abattoir
The silly cow
ignored the bull,
farmer Fred’s freezer
will be full!
Ribbon Contest
Sponsored By Line Gauthier
3/25/19
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Categories:
bessie, animal, death,
Form: Free verse
Bessie M Good 1890-1913
Bessie M. Good
1890-1913
By the time I was 21 years along,
I had given birth to two girls,
Nadine and Ruth, my precious babies.
Both had eyes of tea green,
With perfect fragrant cheeks,
Softly redolent of sweet-smelling spice-
That special baby smell- Heaven’s spice,
And both were loved completely,
By a strong soulful love,
Immensely deep and earth-real;
Only women who have dutifully dropped
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Categories:
bessie, mother,
Form: Epitaph
Bessie Trissell 1891-1914
Bessie Trissell
1891-1914
Alas my friends,
I finally know the truth now,
So here it is, straight out,
The real truth, which resides in a world,
Brimming with insidious lies.
My dear friends, come,
Come to this aged receptacle of the truly alive.
Shh! Sit still, here in the leafy shadows,
And just ponder for a spell,
Disquiet yourselves,
Meditate calmly and know this-
Know that this restful
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Categories:
bessie, death,
Form: Epitaph
Messy Bessie
Bessie, out hiking, had to pee,
She glanced about, choosing a tree;
To her distress
She made a mess:
Windward, she’d squatted, not alee.
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Categories:
bessie, humor,
Form: Limerick
My Car Bessie
I love my car called Bessie
Although she really is quite messy
All the doors are pretty rusty
Interior it is so dusty
Once she was a lovely blue
But now she's just a faded hue
The tyres are right down on their tread
And when I stop I feel such dread
One day a guy he came on by
My Bessie he did
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Categories:
bessie, age, car, care, color,
Form: Couplet
Calving - As Told By Bessie Cow
He comes so faithfully when called,
our veterinary doctor friend,
to our dear family of cows;
upon his help, we do depend.
The birthing of our calves amaze
him more than ever, and it seems
so many of us cows need help
when labor turns into extremes.
The labor process on
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Categories:
bessie, animal, birth, farm,
Form: Personification
Bessie Boo!
The Zoo keeper fussed, he cried and he cussed!
For the Elephant, gone astray!
“She was there last night!” He said in distress!
But isn’t in there today!
He looked on high, and he looked on low,
The elephant where?
Had she to go?
She would soon be found, because of her size?
No one could miss her, nor believe
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Categories:
bessie, children, funny, loss, me,
Form: Rhyme
Bessie
My comrade -
was
a candy apple red steed.
I would admire
the way the sun
would catch and sparkle
across her bars,
marvel over
the grand Ferris wheel
in proportion
to her two small children.
Some days
we would don
the sound
of my sea foam flip flops,
galloping,
I would let
the rough
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Categories:
bessie, childhood, imagination, life, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
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