Best Dotty Poems
Going DottyMy elderly auntie named Dot
her memory’s going to pot
For she served me raw food
and was totally nude
A dinner I’ve never forgot
7/27/18...
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Categories:
dotty, age, clothes, food, memory,
Form:
Limerick
Dotty DoolittleThere once was a lady of Celtic descent
Who cosseted canines wherever she went.
The birds in her garden would sing forth her praise,
And stray cats salute her, their tails duly raised.
Grey squirrels would gleefully zig-zag all day
For here they had no need to cache nuts away.
And...
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Categories:
dotty, animal, death, sweet, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
dotty, art, funny
Form:
Ekphrasis
Dotty Doggy DuoDotty doggy duo, daily derring-do,
descending leaves decorating yard,
Beau-black as coal,
brown-eyed batty Gus,
barking brazenly, bounding,
both bonkers?
a boisterous, "You betcha!"
Kings of calamity-
canines of chaos,
squirrels scurry for sweet sanity,
scolding silver September
acorn gatherers,
sedulously seeking sedatives!...
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Categories:
dotty, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form:
Alliteration
Gertrude and Dotty
She is known as Dotty,
her actual name is Gertrude,
that secret she will take to her grave.
Powerful people have always sought her out.
Edison visited in the summer months,
he proposed many times,
but a man that would electrocute an elephant
just to make a point
could never have turned her...
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Categories:
dotty, poetry,
Form:
Free verse