Best Criss Poems

Criss-Cross Apple Sauce
One memory I thought I lost
Alphabets and one two threes
First grade and go mimis
Kiddie snacks and juice boxes
Cookies full of chocolate chips 
Playing kitchen and building blocks
Stolen crayons in my socks
Eating glue off snowmen in class
Teacher yelling we're laughing
Time-Outs and secret codes
Pee pee...

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You telling me this
You telling me that.
Let me sit back and let you in on a fact.

I saw you with a guy that wasn't me
Kissing and hugging in my Disbelief.
In your defense, I was the one to blame
You played at both ends, but you lost...

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Criss-cross, what a loss
                         "Their baby girl is dead" the devil gladly said.
        ...

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Criss-Cross Acrostic*: Ai My Eye !

I  Was  Saw  Eye

Eye  Saw  Was  I

Eye  Was  Saw  I

I  Saw  Was  Eye


   *Construe as “words”  not as “letters”:
Lines 1 and 3 read alike reversed;
Lines...

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criss-cross is criss-crossing the future
the future is a criss-cross of a future
the future is the future of a criss-cross future
time is time criss-crossing of a future
time is time’s time criss-cross
time is timing of a timing criss-cross
time is time of a timing criss-cross
	
the future is the...

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Criss-Cross Acrostic: Ai My Eye 

Criss-Cross Acrostic: 

Note: *Construe as “words” not as “letters”: Lines 1 and 3 read alike reversed; Lines 2 and 4 read alike reversed; likewise vertically and diagonally from up-down or down-up mode. 


"Ai Ai My Eye !" 

I Was Saw...

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Variegated azaleas, long brown stems,
  criss-crossed in a tall glass vase.
    Such a rush!  I planted that bush....

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CRISS-CROSS 

           Hill was criss-crossed on net- work of tea plants.
            While walking, I observed long queue of ants.

     ...

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The path of life is criss-crossed 
with many intersections:

A fork in the road forces you 
to choose a diversion:
Ahead Left or 
Ahead right.

A T-junction has a Stop Sign.
Look Right, Look Left, 
No way forward,
Choose one or the other.

The U turn offers a way back
to unwind...

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Information superhighway bumper to binary bumper. 
Stark contrast versus deserted macadam thoroughfares.
Magnification rendered visualization coronavirus
alias covid 19 courtesy electron microscopy plus

sundry computer technology yours truly (popeye
Olive Garden variety generic layman) breathtakingly
held spellbound, née utterly transfixed vibrant
spectacular design regarding inexplicable dynamic
forces wrought creation (albeit - alluringly...

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     Criss-crossing the skies and land
     From mountains to meadows 
     From rivers and lakes to sand

        Trains, cars, buses, planes ~
    ...

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Halfway along a train of thought
a single passenger, just you,
as nimble as a soft-pawed cat,
stepped out onto a deserted platform.

Out of my heart,
a great rocket of desire raced away
into a half-dressed sky.

It may have been your floppy hat.
and your pink shoes that caught my attention,
yet...

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