Best Connell Poems
Drawing Blood: Join In
...There's a pesky mosquito hoverin' around our ears
If he keeps it up he'll soon be splattered in smears
T-Buzz tries to draw our blood
When he gets hit with a THUD!
We'll celebrate ......
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Categories:
connell, humorous, insect,
Form:
Limerick
Seeking the Divine
...impermanence of youth upstaged every time by purity of heart
Published in my 24-page photo/anthology ~SUNLIT RIPPLES~ 2019
AP: Honorable Mention 2022
Submitted on November 13, 2019 for c......
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Categories:
connell, age, beauty, god, heart,
Form:
Monoku
How Sweet It Is
...One year I spent Halloween in New York City.
O Henry was the name of my taxi driver. I told
him to Take 5 while I stopped in a candy store
for some favorite candies to give out for t......
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Categories:
connell, candy,
Form:
Narrative
How Sweet It Is
...I was walking on the heath near Rocky Road with Mike and Ike, we’d been pals since our college days and called ourselves The Three Musketeers. We’d just had our pay day......
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Categories:
connell, fun,
Form:
Narrative
- What Is Beauty -
...~ As water reflects the face, so one's life reflects the heart. ~
~ Proverbs 27:19 ~
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Categories:
connell, beauty,
Form:
Monoku
Swap Meets Peace--
...SWAP MEETS PEACE--
Now reciprocal, is just the thing;
Separation divides it just bring;
War mixed with peace hysterical
Is just the thing now reciprocal?
War in peace makes pe......
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Categories:
connell, analogy, confusion, inspiration, peace,
Form:
Quatrain
Wednesday S Child
...Wednesday's Child
seeds sown in the womb of a barren field
despite repeated failure
hope is the last to die
following heartache, realization
blessed with an alternative:
the gift o......
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Categories:
connell, baby, child,
Form:
Kimo
Forgiveness - Sq
...
"And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins" (Mark 11:25)
The air was still, the morning mist......
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Categories:
connell, forgiveness,
Form:
Quatrain
How Sweet It Is
...As I went with my friends MIKE and IKE
Like THREE MUSKETEERS we went for a hike
Down a ROCKY ROAD we watched for birds
Down 5TH AVENUE...we all looked like NERDS
To find a DOVE - it paid 10......
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Categories:
connell, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Anyone Game
...Like a gentle summer breeze
She blows into my dreams
Always leaving me a clue
Before she disappears from view
Each night she arrives on moonbeams
To whisper to me in dreams
She ......
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Categories:
connell, dream, night,
Form:
Rhyme
Anyone Game
...
Guess who the mad gab is all about
It's us, a well known pack of old geezers
Old grandpas that are in trouble no doubt
Now most of us are coughers and weezers
It was a <......
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Categories:
connell, addiction, grandfather, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
Thornbush - Pm2
...thorns ahead ~ a swift-footed and sober sage passes by in silence
24.10.2019
Proverbs 26:7, 9
Like the useless legs of one who is lame
is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
Like a th......
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Categories:
connell, silence, wisdom,
Form:
Monoku
Danger Ahead
...beware the thorny brambled track ~ trespassers risk entanglement
Proverbs 4 verse 14 (New King James)
'Do not enter the path of the wicked, And do not walk in the way of evil.
......
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Categories:
connell, conflict, sin,
Form:
Monoku
Inspired By Fellow Man
...I live my joy, my heart is clear.
So many people that I hold dear.
Truthfully this is no ploy.
My heart is clear, I live my joy.
Inspired by my fellow man, I give a prayer
There is Godliness i......
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Categories:
connell, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Quatrain
Save Yourself
...Please get away from those who have no conscience or sense of Godliness.
Written 11-4-2019
Contest: Proverbial Monoku 2 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Carol Connell
Inspired by Proverbs 1: 10
“M......
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Categories:
connell, bible,
Form:
Monoku