Best Ball Of Wax Poems

Welcome friends, I know you will be most excited
with tonight's special guest that we have invited.

So, let's give a round of applause and a cheer.
Punctuation's star, Exclamation Point, is here.
  
Welcome.  It's good to see you, Exclamation Point.
Yes!  Let's do it, Johnny!  I just got out of...

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Defined By Idioms

Naked truth, bent nails
dead men tell no tales
bad Apple, broken mirrors
burnt out light bulbs, crocodile tears
spilt milk, goose chase
two cents worth, rat race
rotten egg, bad to the bone
eagle eye, no place like home.
bat from hell,
pulled punch
big cheese, 
no free lunch
can of worms, bleeding...

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out of sync the wheel
squeaks, too many little 
brown mice with big mice ears
have chewed my bearings

a sunbeam sits on my 
dislocated shoulder
and the cat's in the cradle
sleeping with the whole ball of wax
(what a yarn that is!)

i sharpen my nails and
dig in the posthumous...

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BETWEEN THEN AND NOW
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 Let's find eternity in a day 
it's here, right here in this fluid moment , 
an hour, a day, a week, a month 
ignore all these intervals 
for they're really all just a heartbeat long.

They say,
so often now that it must...

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sweet sound of bells ringing


she was his big ball of wax
her wick dipped in oil
he lit her flames to the max
for his nightly spoils

their love steamed to a boil
candle light so bright
every single night
the rocking bed sang
lullabies so right
until their bells rang

connie pachecho

1/20/19...

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Ghostly spirits from deadly arsenal spell haunting annihilation

With mighty mouse and Hercules height 
tried to retrieve sanity spread loose;
a faded unpleasant memory - even enlisting
decades old cartoon characters: 
Natasha squirrel and Bullwinkle moose
flow of electrons the best-concocted juice
since the convection 
of white bread or couscous
for...

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What is the power that is found in prayer?
   That is the question I asked all through our little town square.
And the answers would range from cynical to prophetic.
   It wasn’t hard to tell those who believed and those who were...

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   Why is it when my parliamentarian 
     speaks of 'the whole ball of wax'

   He thinks he's so noble
     for raising my tax...

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