Best Grinned Poems
New Menu at Milton Creek's Aces Restaurant
...*** Notice to the residents of Milton Creek ***
Tom serves as mayor. never complaining, so he gets what he requests
No blood in his steak, apple pie with sweet cream. Aces cooks that meal
to pe......
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Categories:
grinned, people, places,
Form:
Rhyme
A Rum n Raisin Special - Seeking Milton
...Their human ma and pa were spark out in reclining chairs
But Rum and Raisin watched the TV with enraptured stares
The western had just ended with the credits rolling past
And Raisin said, “That gu......
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Categories:
grinned, cat, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Farmer Joe
...On the banks of the mighty Skagit,
where the rushing waters flow,
sat a fisherman of merit,
the one known as Farmer Joe.
Long he sat there, long he fished there,
always waiting for the day
he w......
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Categories:
grinned, fishing, old, time,
Form:
Narrative
The Mushroom Cloud
...Fires at a blue pills lab threw up a cloud
Settling over the town like a great shroud
And this gigantic mushroom
Created a baby boom
Because all of the men were very proud...
Tom ......
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Categories:
grinned, humor,
Form:
Limerick
The Guy From Quebec
...Beneath his coal-black forelocks, flirty eyes
kept meeting mine when I allowed my gaze
to fall on him. As if I were a prize,
he grinned at me. He'd put me in a daze!
When he approac......
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Categories:
grinned, first love,
Form:
Sonnet
Echoes of a Silent Night: The Christmas Miracle of 1914
...In a hellish nightmare pit, soldiers stand...
Along the Western Front's cruel, jagged land,
Where blood and tears paint the earth's sad lore,
They mourn their fallen with bitter taste, hearts torn......
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Categories:
grinned, christmas, friendship, hope, love,
Form:
Narrative
Baseball In Heaven
...A young boy that loved the game
Would always practice and never rest
Because he always wished someday
To play with the very best
Dad and son played together
Bonding with games of catch
Both ......
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Categories:
grinned, angel, baseball, heaven,
Form:
Blank verse
Cruisin' the Drag
...Sipping cherry limeade, driving in the car parade,
we're cruising in the Lone Star state.
Didn't want a bucket seat; the thing it couldn't beat,
was sitting up close to your date.
One hand on t......
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Categories:
grinned, car, funny, growing up,
Form:
Rhyme
50 Words For Poe: Witch
...
"50 Words for Poe: Witch"
She liked driving fast
The number plate in the dust
Read DOT.OZ.LimaLimaBrava
Their destination was Wichita
Fo......
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Categories:
grinned, adventure, mystery, romance,
Form:
Free verse
I Am the Wind
...I am the wind, I am the breeze
I can move really fast with nothing but ease
I can move any cloud while crossing the sky
I can send it down low, I can send it up high
And, when I'm happy I'm c......
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Categories:
grinned, child, childhood, children, fun,
Form:
Rhyme
The Girl of Light and the Fly People
...a collaborative work with Alfred Vassalo
The Stars sparkled in her eyes
As light interlaced with her shadow
Causing her to question her senses
Even though she closed her eyes
light continued......
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Categories:
grinned, beautiful, depression, desire, dream,
Form:
Epic
Talking Trash
...The alarm clock brushed my teeth and then forced me to drink orange juice.
As I looked out the window, a cement sky was pulling down the corners of my mouth.
The newspaper on my front steps was wette......
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Categories:
grinned, retirement, me, me,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Lumpy Rumpy and the Rotten Egg Gas
...Lumpy Rumpy, now a high school lad,
I'm afraid is still acting very bad,
In his school laboratory he did amass,
Some stinking, self-made, rotten egg gas.
He corked it up in a chemistry vial,
T......
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Categories:
grinned, children, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
The Cyber Nymph
...The Cyber Nymph
Loch David Crane
August 18, 1997
Lie back--expose your belly ring
up unto the sky. . .
I just hope when I get down close
it won't put out my eye!
That summer I was 48
a......
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Categories:
grinned, funny, funny love, internet,
Form:
Ballad
Lust
...Last league of March, after spring had reached its peak,
I opened my doors to abeer.
And sunshine.
She grinned,
Wished,
Ran,
And shrieked in delight when I caught her.
The saffron on the......
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Categories:
grinned, allusion, celebration, color, lust,
Form:
Free verse